posted Friday, February 25, 2022
The Runner follows a strange woman as she travels to a secluded, rural town where her violent compulsions are slowly revealed. The story intertwines with band Boy Harsher performing on a public access channel. Their music scores the strange woman’s descent deeper into the unknown. Featuring break-out performances by musician Kris Esfandiari (King Woman), performance artist […]
posted Friday, February 4, 2022
Kitchener, Ontario’s Courtney Wolfe is proud to release “She” into the world, in honour and recognition of her true self as a bisexual woman. “I’ve been afraid to share who I am in the past, and am so grateful to release the happiest song I have ever written,” she exclaims. This emerging singer/songwriter delivers passionate indie-pop music through stripped […]
posted Thursday, February 3, 2022
Hi Pigeon! Lock down, protests, covid, life has been hard over the last few years, and we must find things to keep us out of trouble, well most of the time. Occasionally, you feel a little silly while talking to a few good friends and you suddenly decide, let’s film what we are talking about […]
posted Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Avant-garde electro-sexual musician Peaches took to Instagram to announce details of her upcoming 2022 Anniversary Tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her ground-breaking album, The Teaches of Peaches. “Wildly excited to celebrate, with you all, 20 years of and reimagine the power that is The Teaches of Peaches album live across North America, Europe, […]
posted Sunday, January 30, 2022
Since its release of Micah Barnes‘ Vegas Breeze album, it has become a listener favourite on Jazz stations around the world. The intriguingly shape shifting lead track on Vegas Breeze, “Welcome to the Club” is more than an enticing invitation, it’s an inspired mash-up of two different, little-known songs with the same title. Nat King Cole […]
posted Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Hey Pigeon! I am so excited today to write to all of you and let you know about Here & Queer! It’s a new show on NewMusicNation that celebrates 2SLGBTQ+ artists from all over Canada and I am the host! Do you remember a while back, I wrote about Ed The Sock, who was starting […]
posted Friday, December 17, 2021
Hello Pigeon! It has been a while since I wrote something about music.. A long time ago, I used to think a DJ would push a button and the music would play, never fully realizing what a true DJ does. They create music and atmosphere, change music, drive the party, and if they are not […]
posted Friday, December 10, 2021
Toronto’s Mouth Congress — friends Paul Bellini and Scott Thompson of Kids In The Hall fame — wrote and recorded hundreds of songs between 1984 and 1988 without ever putting out a proper release. Alongside various cohorts and conspirators, the band drew on their experiences as gay men in the ‘80s to craft hilariously crude punk songs that run the […]
posted Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Billy Idol’s remixed and remastered Christmas album Happy Holidays is out now for the first time on vinyl and streaming platforms via Dark Horse Records. The new edition of Happy Holidays is packaged with new artwork and available for purchase on black vinyl, CD, digital and on limited edition white vinyl. Originally released in 2006, the album features Idol […]
posted Friday, October 29, 2021
Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and records made it possible to reach a wider audience. Intense competition brought new ways to entertain, first with guitars, later with full bands, then with a performance style that would inspire Mick Jagger and a […]
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