Columns are going to be few and far between for the next five or six weeks as my workload increases, a move on the home front is imminent, there seems to be BBQ’s and events every weekend and there are a lot of shows coming up. Better than not being busy. Music helps me get through the days and nights and here are several songs that I am currently enjoying.
Happy February DBAWIS! It’s been a great start to 2014 so far, aside from a few blips here and there. More than anything it’s shaping up to be an exciting year for music, but new and familiar, and you know how excited music gets me.
For those of you not in Canada, not into music or just not on twitter, the 2014 Juno Award nominations were announced this week. That’s Grammy in Canadian for all of you unfamiliar with the national canuck music awards. And like with any award show, with nominations come controversy, and this year’s Juno picks were not without their fair share. Take a gander at the nominee list here, while I will mosey on down the page to ruminate on a particularly contentious nomination.
When Cam wrote last week about the beauty of the list, I may or may not have stood up at my desk at my day job and given him a cheer. Actually, all I did was smile and say an internal “yay, LISTS!” As you may or may not have noticed in some of my past columns, I like to dabble in a little list making myself. I also like to read other people’s lists (thanks Cam for sharing Now’s list and your own – I’ve got some record shopping to do!), and in my recent list reading adventures, I’ve noticed many people taking a shot at a little fortune telling. The topic at which some writers are gearing their psychic powers towards has to do with what’s NEXT: the “next big thing”.
Well, the year is at an end and everyone has taken yet another, giant step closer towards their final days here on shopping-mall Earth. That moment, when fate grabs us by the ankles and wrenches us kicking and screaming from the only existence we’ve ever known. Every groove in the sidewalk is the fingernail scrapings of some poor lost soul frantically clinging on till the very last. And mass shootings, horrific wars, starvation and unbridled suffering, in its many glorious forms; dog our weary days as we march relentlessly towards our own oblivion.
On the upside, there was a lot of great music in 2012. Not much of it on mainstream radio, but still survives in the shadows. There was also a lot of complete shit, but I won’t bore you with that.
Except for the number one example of 2012 auditory poo.
Bullseye Records of Canada
