TRON!

That's right, mutherfuckin' TRON! A teaser trailer for the upcoming TRON Legacy movie was shown at Comic-Con last weekend and nerds everywhere jumped for joy. The movie is going to be in 3-D and will be released in 2010. Also, Daft Punk is doing most of the soundtrack for the movie, bonus!

Just Watch for Utter Hilarity

I must shamefully admit that I found this video on perezhilton.com, but let's face it, I think we all need to indulge in the hilarity and ridiculousness of celebrity life every now and then. Basically, this is just awesome. It's a video of the wedding precession of Minnesota couple Jill Peterson and Kevin Hines who decided that ye ol' wedding march was not exciting enough for their wedding. My favourite part has got to be when the music starts...but you'll see. It's the perfect way to start the weekend right.

Under Great Northern White Lights

This is really nothing of consequence, as it is a teaser trailer, but it's exciting nonetheless. The teaser trailer for Under Great Northern White Lights, the film which documents the White Stripes tour across Canada, was released earlier this week. The film will premier at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, as filmed by Emmett Malloy, an American music video and documentary veteran, during their 2007 cross-Canada tour. The documentary follows the band as they play shows in unconventional tour stops like Whitehorse, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Charlottetown. According to Jack White, it was a childhood fantasy of his to tour Canada in its entirety, which gives me hope that Canada is starting to be recognized as a country filled with incredible musical talent and appreciation.

You Keep Me Alive

I have been hearing remixes of "You're My Heart" by Lioness left, right and center these days. Lioness is a Canadian indie dance band, formed in January 2007 in Toronto, with the former rhythm section of controller.controller Ronnie Morris and Jeff Scheven, and No Dynamics singer Vanessa Fischer. They worked their way up through low-key shows played in sweaty electro clubs, to opening for acts such as You Say Party! We Say Die!, !!! and k-os. The single "You're My Heart" is super catchy, although the lead singer creeps me out with her eyes in the video. But considering the video is filled with creepy imagery of all things biological, and on top of that, knights, witches and robots, I guess the crazy eyes were kind of called for.



MP3: "You're My Heart" - Lioness

Dance 'Til You're Dead

Despite many mixed reviews by critics of their most recent album It's Blitz, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs continue to impress me, so as far as I'm concerned, the critics can suck it. I think that an artist or a band should try new styles, whether it seems more mainstream or pop to others or not. The music video for their most recent single "Heads Will Roll", one of my favourite tracks off It's Blitz, is visually brilliant, somehow combining crazed dancing, werewolves and glitter as blood. They may have traded guitar for synthesizer and have gained more mainstream appeal, but, as featured in their most recent music video for "Heads Will Roll", the band and front woman Karen O is still as fierce and strange as ever.

Not to mention, of course, the video pays tribute to Michael Jackson even before his untimely death.



MP3: "Heads Will Roll" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Happy Canada Day!

I am proud to say that Canada is home to some amazing musicians that have changed the Canadian music scene and the state of Canadian music around the world. I realize that a pattern often emerges on my blog, I tend to gravitate towards featuring artists that are Canadian, probably a result of having focused on and finding some amazing artists locally for my radio show last year. Artists like Bocce, The D'Urbervilles and Black Hat Brigade, to name some of my new local favourites, and then of course, more successful Canadian acts like Arcade Fire, Metric and Broken Social Scene, just to name a very small few. I have always known and experienced Canadian musicians as some of the most talented people on the globe, although I am quite a bit biased on the subject. But instead of focusing on the successful Canadian indie scene, I want to focus on Canadian hip hop artist, Drake. I must admit, I was surprised to find out how talented he is, considering Drake is also known as Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation. His most recent album, So Far Gone, was released independently from a major record label, but still features huge names like Lil' Wayne and Lykke Li. Other names that Drake has worked with before include Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Mary J. Blige and Jamie Foxx. Drake just recently signed with Lil' Wayne's Young Money Entertainment label, after a million dollar battle between record labels to sign him. His first studio album, Thank Me Later, is expected to be released later this year.

Drake has yet to make any music videos from his album So Far Gone, so instead, here's my favourite song off the album "Uptown" featuring Bun B and Lil' Wayne. Not to mention it has the best line Lil' Wayne has come up with yet, "I'm so uptown, and mothafucker if you ain't don't go uptown".

Happy Canada Day!



MP3: "Uptown" - Drake ft. Bun B and Lil' Wayne