Last fall, during our Advanced Radio class, I mastered a delightful procrastination technique. This is how you do it: when working on a 10-minute radio-documentary, spend hours thinking about, researching, listening to, and editing music that may or may not appear in your final piece. For unclear reasons, I had decided to do a piece [...]
Choc-quib-town is an Afro-Columbian hip-hop crew repping Columbia‘s (mainly black) Pacific coast communities. Columbian music is still largely associated to its Caribbean styles (Cumbia, Mapalé, Fandango, Gaita) and with all things Cumbia being so hip these days in Montreal, it’s refreshing to hear some of what is popping on its West Coast. And it looks [...]
Until recently, I thought the universe’s quota for Eleanor Rigby covers was totally maxed out. There were the rather faithful classics at one end – Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin – and the happy mish-mash of “innovative” forays – Elevator Suite’s British electro-pop version, Pain’s Swedish industrial metal version, Junior Reid’s reggae version – [...]
A while back I stumbled upon this music blog from Sweden called First Up! It is run by Felicia Alexandersson, a witty 27 year old Swedish girl who describes her musical tastes as “basically anything that moves my cute little behind.” Her blog is dedicated to archiving beats she likes (every song she mentions is [...]