Young Canadians – Hawaii
Can’t tell you how happy I am to post this video of Vancouver’s punk classic Hawaii by Young Canadians. I’ve got a few more to come, which I’ll post later. Read more on Young Canadians here.
Can’t tell you how happy I am to post this video of Vancouver’s punk classic Hawaii by Young Canadians. I’ve got a few more to come, which I’ll post later. Read more on Young Canadians here.
When I made videogames, it was widely written that Sony relied on the success of the Playstation system and game sales to prop up big losses in their movie studios, and flat sales in electronics hardware. The PS2 system was another success, at least as far as generating income for Japan’s most famous brand name. […]
Walk of Fame hardly a fitting tribute to these greats Canada has produced more than its fair share of pop culture relics. There are too many to mention in a single blog posting. But today there are 2 Canucks that seem to be at the top of their game after 40 years as entertainers! For […]
Class. Leadership. Talent. BC Boy. Lots to admire here. That Steve Nash receives his 2nd MVP in as many years is a huge story, but my fellow ‘Nucks are buried in hockey playoffs. Just wanted to take a minute to notice a great athlete and a remarkable person. M-V-P, M-V-P, M-V-P! (sorry, couldn’t resist) (just […]
Don’t say that Shirley Jones has been corrupted by our plummeting moral standards too?? The decadence factory that is MTV networks has recreated Shirley Partridge into a dope smoker who lusts after young men! I’ve been pretty unabashed about how The Partridge Family shaped me. The TV show characters also were the inspiration about the […]
Nettwerk Records Über manager Terry McBride is hot about scalpers jacking up the prices of his $100 benefit concert tickets. “That really sucks because they are basically making a profit then upon other people’s misery, which I think is just a terrible thing to do,” says McBride to CBC Radio. The concert, dubbed Tears Are […]
You, Mr. & Ms. Moshpitter, have become the new norm Today, life unquestionably imitates art. Or more accurately, it imitates advertising and music television. To walk city streets, is to feel like you’ve missed out on a casting session for a Lenny Kravitz video. From Point Grey to Penticton, people are sporting tattoos, or a […]
Zulu Records CD Retrospectives Reveal “Real” Vancouver Most often people are marked by their roots. The same is true of cities. One of the most irksome facts of living in a city bursting with newcomers is that few know from whence Vancouver came. The Newfoundlander’s pride of their home turf is famous. But when I […]
This interview with guitarist Rick Nielsen took place before a Cheap Trick concert in the summer of 1995, backstage at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom. The band was still signed to Warner Music, and touring in support of their record Woke Up With a Monster. The interview setting was extremely relaxed, with Rick lying back on a […]