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Mo Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
I mostly recently finished the first musical biography I have read in a long time, Mo Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. It was a very joyful read. It didn’t flow like normal biographies...
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Cooking Toronto!
My sister gave me this fantastic cookbook for my birthday that features recipes from famous restaurants around Toronto. She also bought me a stainless steel pan that I can stick in the oven (which...
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A Journey Through Food With Michael Pollan: Cooked
I just finished Michael Pollan’s book Cooked (also part Netflix series) which delves into the wonderful magic of cooked food through the four basic elements: water, fire, air and earth. I now have a...
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Toronto Women in the Music Industry
As you know, I’ve been proudly involved with meeting with other women in the industry! In celebration of International Women’s Day TWIM got a feature in Noisey that I think is worth a read. Finding a...
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Vinyl Me Please- March 2016 Edition
March’s Vinyl Me Please pressing is my favourite so far. It’s an exclusive white vinyl edition of Lapsley’s Long Way Home, which is one of my favourite non-Canadian albums this year. Plus she’s only...
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I’m A Polaris Music Prize Juror
I’m happy to announce that I have made the Polaris Music Prize jury! I’m excited to represent Ride the Tempo and promote well-deserved Canadian records who I think should be eligible for the prize.
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Fooled By Randomness
I just finished Fooled by Randomness, a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. For some reason I didn’t expect it to delve so deep into stock markets but I gained a lot of interesting perspectives on...
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Ride the Tempo Presents Partner @ CMW
I am proud my second Ride the Tempo show! This time in partnership with NeXT and The Silver Dollar at Canadian Music Week. The show will feature Sackville’s Partner as the headliner along with all...
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Mmmbop Turns 20
Omg! Can you believe Hanson’s Mmmbop turned 20 today? I remember as an 8 year old I would sit religiously in front of the TV on Friday’s to watch the music video on Hitlist. 20 years later the band is...
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The Rest Of Us Just Live Here
I liked the general themes of Patrick Ness’ The Rest of Us Just Live Here, more than the execution of the story. In this book, as crazy events unfold in the background by Indie Kids (yes there are...
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Vinyl Me Please- April 2016 Edition
This month’s Vinyl Me Please pressing celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Fugees’ The Score. It is printed on beautiful orange and black vinyl and includes a bonus gold 7″ with tracks that were...
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Record Store Day Haul
Yesterday was Record Store Day and I went to support my local record store Dead Dog Records. I wasn’t interested in many Record Store Day exclusives but I did dig through and pick up a few cool...
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Nowhere With You
I recently finished Josh O’Kane’s Nowhere With You, a biography of Canadian singer Joel Plaskett. I read it swiftly as it was very easy to pick up. It beautiful romanticized the East Coast and I have...
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RIP Prince
There’s a Simpsons gif for everything pic.twitter.com/7ZWQRdPLW6 — Tiana Feng (@tianafeng) April 21, 2016 I was shocked when I found out Prince died. News travels fast when you live your day through...
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5 Bands to See at CMW
Canadian Music Week is approaching and I partnered with Do416 to suggest 5 bands I think you should go see. I subconsciously chose all female acts but there were so many awesome things to choose from!
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Photos: Tough Age, Century Palm, Germaphobes, Long Branch @ Monarch Tavern
I shot Tough Age, Century Palm, Germaphobes and Long Branch with my Fuji X100T on Saturday. Here are a few of my favourite shots. You can catch the rest here:...
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CMW Show Next Week!
5 more days until my CMW show! I’m super excited. It’s also got featured in Now Magazine’s 10 Must-see shows. It’ll be a busy week but totally worth it.
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Lumino City
Lumino City – Official Trailer from State of Play on Vimeo. I’m terrible at completing games, but I finished Lumino City recently. I enjoyed that it auto-saved my progress so that I never had to...
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Vinyl Storage
I started heavily collecting vinyl last year when I invested in a new record player. Records tend to take up a lot of room and the top two square shelves I was using started to fill up so I looked for...
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Photos From My CMW Show!
I’m still super excited about how well our show at Canadian Music Week went! A lot of friends and Ride the Tempo fans came out to support and we had a decently packed house on a Wednesday night. Here...
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