In Monday's What We Learned, Ryan Lambert ripped apart a column by John Steigerwald, columnist for Washington (Pa.) Observer-Reporter that attempted to link Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals to steroids. Among the lapses in fact: Steigerwald connected Ovechkin to a doctor that "treated Tiger Woods" that actually has no connection to Ovechkin.Listen to it here.
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Showing posts with label Radio. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The Best Radio Interview Ever?
I'll make it simple. Quoted from Yahoo! Sports:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Overkill Much?
The most over-rated record of all time reaches a new milestone this September: turning 20. Ironic, considering most of Nirvana's fans reached that age just after 1994, when Kurt Cobain died.
In any event, the remaining members and producer Butch Vig will get together with Jon Stewart for a Q&A session on the 24th, recorded live for Sirius Radio. Of course, if you aren't a subscriber, you're fucked.
You'll also miss out on Nevermind Radio, a short-lived 24/7 station devoted to Nirvana that will run for less than a week, but there's nothing wrong with that. Missing it, I mean.
Come on, how many people still listen to ''the album that changed music forever'', especially in light of all the stupid fucking pop stars flooding the airwaves these days - and for the past decade? Not me, I tell you that.
But I will admit to listening to some In Utero once in a while.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Return Of Slaves On Dope
Tomorrow, Friday, February 5th, will mark the live return of 90s Montréal music darlings Slaves On Dope...
The band started in 1993 and quickly gathered a large following, won competitions (CHOM L'Esprit '94), lost founding members, changed its style (from grunge-inspired garage rock to nü metal) and moved to L.A. to ''make it''.
And ''make it'' they did. They were the first act signed to Ozzy Osbourne's personal label, Divine Recordings, went on numerous ''big'' tours including Ozzfest, and namely only once came ''back home'' to Montréal, to perform a Musique Plus-produced snowboading indoors rock-and-sports day in a football stadium in the late 90s. Nothing else. They then lost their deal with Divine (when the label itself lost its distribution deal through EMI Records) and released their 'Metafour' record with Bieler Bros Records.
Singer Jason Rockman was then said to have left the band - although the group claimed it was on hiatus - leaving guitarist Kevin Jardine as the lone original member to take on the name. Jardine moved back to Montréal to found a recording-studio-come-production-company-come-counseling-firm for acts ''striving to make it'' and looking for ''major label deals''. He also started another band, The Monarchy, which garnered Musique Plus support and toured a bit in dives all across the country.
And now, they're back. As Limp Bizkit announced they had reformed, so have Slaves On Dope, somehow expecting nü metal to make a huge comeback later this year, as both are expected not just to play live, but also release new songs. And they're doing it here, ''back home'', when they had all but forgotten us for the better part of a decade...
Still. They're local boys, and I wish them the best of luck. Below is a picture of them with me, back when there was a real kinship between the City and them - Jardine is on the left, Rockman is the crazy-smiling one on the right.
You can read about their comeback here and here, and there is a short clip of a recent rehearsal here, where you can also learn that the gig will be viewable online.
The band started in 1993 and quickly gathered a large following, won competitions (CHOM L'Esprit '94), lost founding members, changed its style (from grunge-inspired garage rock to nü metal) and moved to L.A. to ''make it''.
And ''make it'' they did. They were the first act signed to Ozzy Osbourne's personal label, Divine Recordings, went on numerous ''big'' tours including Ozzfest, and namely only once came ''back home'' to Montréal, to perform a Musique Plus-produced snowboading indoors rock-and-sports day in a football stadium in the late 90s. Nothing else. They then lost their deal with Divine (when the label itself lost its distribution deal through EMI Records) and released their 'Metafour' record with Bieler Bros Records.
Singer Jason Rockman was then said to have left the band - although the group claimed it was on hiatus - leaving guitarist Kevin Jardine as the lone original member to take on the name. Jardine moved back to Montréal to found a recording-studio-come-production-company-come-counseling-firm for acts ''striving to make it'' and looking for ''major label deals''. He also started another band, The Monarchy, which garnered Musique Plus support and toured a bit in dives all across the country.
And now, they're back. As Limp Bizkit announced they had reformed, so have Slaves On Dope, somehow expecting nü metal to make a huge comeback later this year, as both are expected not just to play live, but also release new songs. And they're doing it here, ''back home'', when they had all but forgotten us for the better part of a decade...
Still. They're local boys, and I wish them the best of luck. Below is a picture of them with me, back when there was a real kinship between the City and them - Jardine is on the left, Rockman is the crazy-smiling one on the right.
You can read about their comeback here and here, and there is a short clip of a recent rehearsal here, where you can also learn that the gig will be viewable online.
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