The music festival is hardly a recent creation. People have been gathering in fields to hear music for centuries. In some cases, those original festivals are still happening. Ever hear of Fiera Della
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[This is from GlobalNews.ca. – AC] The Backstreet Boys are playing sold-out shows across Canada this week and their latest album “DNA” topped the charts when it dropped earlier this year. The recent
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During ’67’s Summer of Love, anything seemed possible. Civil rights issues were finally being addressed. There was a feeling that the Vietnam War could be stopped. Drugs and free love were in the
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In a less-enlightened time, women were barely tolerated by the rock’n’roll establishment. They could sing, maybe shake a tambourine and look pretty, but that was about it. In retrospect, the sexism and misogyny
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Writing history takes a very long time. Sure, you could write everything down as it happens, but that’s only really like writing a diary. You only have a record of events, which is
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Before 1971, there really wasn’t much of a Canadian music industry. Sure, there were record labels, recording studios, promoters, and agents but overall, we lacked the resources to be a first-world music power.
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The music festival is hardly a recent creation. People have been gathering in fields to hear music for centuries. In some cases, those original festivals are still happening. Ever hear of Fiera Della
Read More
During ’67’s Summer of Love, anything seemed possible. Civil rights issues were finally being addressed. There was a feeling that the Vietnam War could be stopped. Drugs and free love were in the
Read More
In a less-enlightened time, women were barely tolerated by the rock’n’roll establishment. They could sing, maybe shake a tambourine and look pretty, but that was about it. In retrospect, the sexism and misogyny
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If you were a teenage obsessed with pop culture in the 90s, there are certain things you just remember. You remember numerous lines from numerous episodes of The Simpsons. You remember the first
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It took me a few days to wrap my head around the death of Chris Cornell last Thursday. This is an excerpt from a longer post originally published at Scholars and Rogues. I’m
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