Don’t Blow No Bubbles

So, I heard about this event of a woman being arrested for blowing bubbles at the G20 in Toronto. And I’m thinking to myself, “Wow, there must be a song in here” and it struck me – Bad Brains already has it covered. Don’t blow no bubbles Don’t blow no troubles There’s got to be […]

Rock Against Racism

RobSlobAnarchy found this flyer for a show we (Speakeasy) did almost 20 years ago – to quote My Dog Popper, “we’re old, we’re fat and we’re slow…” – thanks to Equalizing-X-Distort at CIUT radio for digging this up 🙂 Speaking of My Dog Popper, where can I get a hat like this?

Shiloh vs Avril Lavigne

If Shiloh and Avril Lavigne had a fight, who would win? I’m thinking Celebrity Deathmatch style. I don’t know that it would rank as high as Michael Jackson vs Madonna but it would still be good 🙂 I asked my daughters who was better. They picked Shiloh. Why? Because Avril Lavigne is always singing love […]

Truisms in songs

I was reading an article about Jenny Holzer and her truisms. Her truisms are presented artistically, projected over buildings as an example. It struck me how songs are often built around a truism or a truism steps out of the song for a listener creating that special connection to it.  Here are two cool truisms from […]

Checking out ReverbNation

So far, so good! They build banners for you automagically like the one above 🙂