Ben Rispin of Saint Alvia and singer/songwriter Justin Rutledge join Alan Cross and Jeff Woods on Explore Music this week in a discussion of music streaming, concert revenue, Billy Corgan and Courtney Love insanity, and more!
Jeff Woods hosts this ExploreMusic, featuring Jeremy Taggert of Our Lady Peace, Rip Lip host Renee Paquette, and Brad Lyons of Oceanship! The gang tackle the file sharing debate, check out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Kurt Cobain's legacy.
Sam Sutherland travels behind the scenes into the fabled world of Exclaim! Magazine cover photo shoots with February cover artist K'naan. Cute kids and Bob Marley references abound.
March's Exclaim! cover stars Malajube dish on being the future mayoral candidates for small-town Quebec and why everyone expects them to start singing in English.
Sam Sutherland checks out May's Exclaim! cover artist-of-the-month, Japandroids! This video has cops in it. And loud rock and roll from Vancouver. In Chinatown. And cops.
I.E. builds with Little Brother and gets the inside scoop on their creative process. Watch Beatboxer Scratch Cat create the theme music for Cypher. Find out how a community organization, The L.O.F.T. is connecting with the youth through hip hop.
Video directed by Canadian multidisciplinary artist Gabriel Coutu-Dumont from the Silent Partners collective. Taken from their upcoming album "In Cars We Rust", out May 25 2009 on Mobilee Records.
Directed by Noel Paul and Stefan Moore from That Go. The Seattle based production team won the Grand Jury Prize at the South by Southwest Festival 2009 for this video. Released on Big Dada.
