Posted by James Brotheridge | February 21, 2015 | Music
When Andy Shauf came back onto the stage for an encore, it was to big applause. Foot stomping, shouting, the whole bit. He played “Hometown Hero”, the first track off his latest album, The Bearer of Bad News, on his own, and...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | December 19, 2014 | Music
Piper Burns, member of the Florals and Piper and the Gates of Dawn, is organizing Live at the Tartan, a concert series over at the Tartan Curling Club. Ten bucks get someone curling time, a beer and a couple of sets from a local...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | November 6, 2014 | Comedy
When I get on the phone with Todd Glass, he’s at the gym, ready to work out. He lets me in on the plan: he’s going to to talk with me and use the elliptical at the same time. If you’re skeptical that this could produce anything...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | October 25, 2014 | Music
“Please Forgive My Heart” path to Bahamas live staple is unlikely. The Bobby Womack track came out in 2012, and I swear Afie Jurvanen, the man behind the Toronto, ON-based Bahamas, has been covering it live ever since, even...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | August 11, 2014 | R.I.P.
The Hollywood Reporter has a statement from Marin County police about the death, which they’re treating as a suspected suicide. A W.T.F. with Marc Maron interview with Williams can’t sum up his impact or how beloved...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | July 29, 2014 | Film
As Gregory “G-Beat” Beatty mentioned earlier on the Dog Blog, Talkies is here again. Tonight, Tuesday, July 29, Jayden Pfeifer and guest Credence McFadzean will be talking over, making fun of and generally trying to...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | July 29, 2014 | Music
Wax Mannequin’s music has changed over the years, moving away from conceptual work on records like And...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | July 28, 2014 | Music
We knew early on that the word “jangly” would be showing up a lot in the most recent review section for Prairie Dog. I’m assuming Whitworth was mostly playing along by putting “jangle” in his Jenny...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | July 15, 2014 | Music
As far as I’m concerned, the Polaris Prize people could’ve skipped straight from announcing their short list this morning to saying, “And Shad wins it. We just remembered Flying Colours is the best and nothing...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | June 12, 2014 | Music
Maybe you didn’t notice, but today is the day the new Prairie Dog hits stands. There’s a bunch of material you can read online, including our annual First Nations Report and a cover story by Dave Margoshes. Rad!...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | May 14, 2014 | Sports
I looked around for videos of these two stolen bases and couldn’t find any. Luckily, it’s the fact that these happened at all that’s so wonderful. From You Can’t Predict Baseball’s Twitter feed:...
Read MorePosted by James Brotheridge | April 23, 2014 | Music
I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t actually believe that most music put out within the last year is awful claptrap. But if I did, I’d probably be OK, given how many vinyl reissues labels are constantly...
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