Frank Gutch Jr: Music On Film— Documentaries For The Music Fanatic, Plus Notes…..

Before I dive into this, I have to take a moment to point you towards one of the best “up” songs I have heard in some time:  No Small Children‘s Might Get Up Slow.  If radio had the impact that it did even 20 years ago, this would be blasting out of stereo and car speakers everywhere.  iThings too, if they had them (my brain is so numb, I couldn’t come close to a year those damn things took over our lives— I can hardly remember a kid without one).  The more I hear these ladies, the more I want to hear more.  Turn it up!  Like they said in the old days— Recorded loud to be played LOUD!  Listen to this!!!

Now, back to our regular programming.

Roxanne Tellier: Brains – Not Just For Breakfast Anymore

So, I’m in my favorite bookstore, and everywhere I look there are books about zombies. Certainly, AMC’s The Walking Dead has revived the franchise, but the sheer volume of books, music videos, television shows and movies is, well, brain boggling.

Apparently vampires are yesterday’s news. Move over, Twilight and True Blood, we want to see Rick and the Governor go mano a mano whilst fending off flesh eating fiends.

Segarini: Mondays, Music, Movies, and Me

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am stumping for a 36 hour day. 24 is never enough. If I could just cut out sleeping, bathroom visits, eating, and having to mix drinks or make the trip to the fridge to get a beer, 24 hours might do, but as it stands, it is just not enough time to get done in a day what needs to get done. Maybe some of you are better at using your time, more organized than I will ever be. My problem is that I am interested in so many things that it is hard to fo…oh look! A bunny!

Cam Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – From The Back Of The Film

I was very saddened, but unfortunately not shocked, at the passing of Mindy McCready. I think we all feared this story was going to end this way with, or, with an overdose. Run- ins with the law, drug charges, custody battles and “Celebrity Rehab” formed the perfect equation for disaster.  I always hoped things would work out for her and she would find the happiness she needed and deserved. The Mindy I saw on TV was not the Mindy I remember.

GARY PIG GOLD: TWELVE YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN 2012

Those Beach Boys and Rolling Stones weren’t the only septuagenarian rockers celebrating 50th (give or take) Anniversaries over the past twelve-or-so months, absolutely not. Just about each and every singer/songwriter/guitarist still standing – well, those with lucratively deep catalogues ripe and ready for recycling, that is – had multiple multi-media packages (and, in the Stones’ case, four-figure-plus concert tickets) competing for what remained of a loyal boomer’s nest egg throughout 2012.

Segarini: Bob’s Best (and Worst) of 2012

As years go (and they all do) 2012 was filled with the usual assortment of win/lose drama, laugh inducing stupidity, Anger inducing stupidity, and passive, meaningless stupidity. There were the usual good things and bad things, births, deaths, highlight reel-worthy triumphs, and sad, disappointing moments of abject, knuckle-dragging, fearlessly brain dead decisions by those who should know better.

JAIMIE VERNON – ALL YOU NEED IS CASH

This week Apple Records/Capitol Records released the 14 album/16 LP Beatles vinyl boxed set. It’s the band’s entire in situ output while they were together (and alive) housed in a monolithic cardboard time capsule that is not unlike a black hole version of the Tesseract cosmic cube seen in the movie ‘The Avengers’. So what’s so amazing about this latest ad nauseam repackaging of the same material previously released as re-mastered CDs in 2009 and 2010? Well, it has bigger pictures…and, um, it’s on 180 gram vinyl…and um…the audio has been tweaked once again to compensate for the limitations of black PVC…and um….that’s it. In other word there is no difference.

Segarini: Happy Halloween and More Murder in E Minor

Halloween shows up again exactly 3 days from today. A holiday enjoyed by young and old alike, it is a great excuse to spend time with your kids, indulge your chocolate and sugar jones, or dress up like Freddy Krueger, Dracula, Nikki Minaj, or Mitt Romney, depending on just how scary you want to be. Here then, are some Halloween diversions, costume tips, and things to do leading up to this week’s celebration of witches, goblins, diabetes, and the undead.

JAIMIE VERNON – The Top 10 Ghoulest Songs of All Time

Well, it’s that time of year again, folks. Leaves fall from the trees, skies turn grey and the NHL cancels yet another season of hockey. But amongst the fall classics comes Halloween where we celebrate the spooky, the haunting, the unnerving, the fun and yet, chilling Halloween tuneage.  I ran this column in 2011 – in fact, it’s one of the first I wrote for DBAWIS and ended up in my book “Life’s A Canadian Blog” – and so I figured that one good 360˚ head turn deserves another.

Segarini: The Weekend Roundup – People City, Queen, CITY TV, and Xprime

It’s no secret that I love Toronto. After growing up on the Left Coast, (San Francisco, Stockton, Los Angeles, and Eureka) and spending five years in Montreal, I found myself living in The Big Smoke. Reluctantly at first, Toronto grew on me until I realized it was my one true home, and though I pine for the Stockton of the ‘50s, the San Francisco and the L.A of the ‘60s, and the Eureka and Montreal of the ‘70s, There is no place on Earth I would rather be in the here and now, than here; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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