Shambha-Lessons Vol.1 – the hip hop history of EDM with DJ Nu-Mark June 26, 2014July 8, 2014 Blake Morneau Before my first trip to Shambhala last year, I was leery. Not of the EDM mecca itself — legendary in music-loving circles all over B.C. and beyond — but of...
The Fireball spirit of rock and roll April 28, 2014May 8, 2014 Blake Morneau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_kmdmCfEcI These days, the bloated, lifeless corpse of rock and roll is inescapable. Our radios have been given over to mediocrity and dreamless sleep, with very little sustenance for our desperate,...
Music Rags: Defining Canadian rap music January 11, 2014January 14, 2014 Blake Morneau On “The Great Rhyme Dropper,” the first single from Grand Analog’s new album Modern Thunder, MC Odario Williams raps, “I do the damn thing proper/I ain’t a rapper, I’m a...