Random music news for Monday, July 20, 2020
I’ve had the same three twenty-dollar bills in my wallet for six weeks. I have no loose change in the house. This virus has not been friendly to using cash. You? Here’s music
Read MoreI’ve had the same three twenty-dollar bills in my wallet for six weeks. I have no loose change in the house. This virus has not been friendly to using cash. You? Here’s music
Read MoreAbout 15 years ago, William Shatner (with help from Ben Folds), had something of a hit with his version of the Pulp classic, “Common People.” The next step is to take the song
Read MorePlutonium was isolated on this day in 1940. As for music news on December 14, 2018… Nominations for the 2019 Juno Awards will be released January 29. Peter Murphy–yes, the Goth god–was thrown
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] In the pantheon of most-ridiculed albums of all time is William Shatner’s Transformed Man from 1968. Recorded while Star Trek was still on the air, Shatner’s concept was
Read MoreTuning through satellite radio channels the other day, I chanced upon the season’s first play of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.” And so it begins. Once we hit Halloween
Read MoreWilliam Shatner’s latest music project is a Christmas album. Yes, he’s Jewish, but that doesn’t mean he can’t get into the spirit of the season. The album, Shatner Claus, features guest appearance from
Read MoreBack in 2011, I was won a gig to be William Shatner’s on-stage straight man in a production called How Time Flies. The show tour ran for six shows across the country before
Read More[It’s Star Wars Day, so the Law of the Internet requires that something related be posted. Punishment may extend to exile on Lothal. Thomas Demmett has seen to it that this does not
Read MoreCaptain Kirk turns 87 today. Happy birthday, William Shatner. One online meme says that since Donald Trump loves appointing TV people to government positions, it’s just a matter of time before The Shat
Read MoreAs cultural icons go, William Shatner is a pretty gigantic. Even the Wedding Present was been taken in by the Power of the Shat and therefore included a song about him on their
Read MoreI just heard that my favourite sci-fi novel (actually, it’s part of a trilogy) of the last two decades, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, is being made into a movie. How the hell are
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