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Archive for December 26th, 2010
Line Up: Broken Social Scene Chromeo Stars Kaskade k-os Dragonette Major Lazer Shout Out Out Out Out Freezing Man Festival 2011 is the first ever Great Northern Cities Winter Festival of electronic & alternative music in Canada. Taking place at the Northlands Expo Centre in Edmonton, AB, Freezing Man Festival will combine live music, DJs, [...]
Ben Kaplan: We’ve been doing a round-robin of the year’s best records and we’ve finally narrowed it down to four: Robyn’s Body Talk, The National’s High Violet, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. We want you guys to help us decide which of the four is the year’s best [...]
1. Song title: “Keep Shining” – Shad Album: TSOL Lyric: “There’s no girls rappin’ so we’re only hearin’ half the truth/What we have to lose? Too much/Half our youth aren’t represented, the better halves of dudes/So we don’t hear about your brain, just your brains/How you rock a fella, Stacey Dash dames/We just need your [...]
CitR: Did you have to make many sacrifices whilst you were at university in order to pursue a hip hop career? Shad: Yeah but it was always fun, I did what I had to do, I played a lot with some friends, and would have late nights than would have school really early in the [...]
4. Shad – TSOL The perfection that was The Old Prince primed TSOL to be a bit of a let down. But Shad actually ended up making an album more accessible than its predecessor. He used the status garnered from his last album to build a list of collaborators (like Kamau, Brendan Canning, and Justin [...]
1. Shad Born in Kenya of Rwandan parents, Shad cut his lyrical chops while growing up in London, ON and funded his first album, “When This Is Over” (2005), with winnings from a rap contest on a Kitchener radio station. His self-deprecating, jaw-droppingly clever lyrics have launched him to the top of the Canadian hip-hop [...]
