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Literature
Required Reading
By Jason Schneider
Ever wonder what book is feeding your favourite musician’s head? Wilfrid Laurier University student Chris DePaul created foundinthemargins.com with a mission to make books cool again. “I got the idea during a time when I was listening to a lot of music that was very lyrically dense,” DePaul says. “I often read books my friends would recommend, and I thought it would be interesting to read the books that have inspired these great songwriters.”
Since launching the site in April 2006, DePaul has received enthusiastic responses from the likes of the Strokes’ Nikolai Fraiture, Tokyo Police Club, Tegan & Sara, and many more. And so far, works by Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, and Kerouac are the page-turners most commonly found on the floor of the tour van.
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Concert Brown Power
 James Brown’s career, like that of so many soul singers, benefited greatly from a constant stream of CD reissues over the years. Now that his deep well of recorded music has nearly run dry, his considerable influence on American music is being examined in other media. I Got The Feelin’: James Bro...Read More
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Reissue Now Hear This
Whether through Coltrane, Ayler or Sun Ra, spiritual exploration was a means to express revolutionary ideas in ’60s jazz. Adding to this tradition is Hear O Israel — A Prayer Ceremony In Jazz (Jonny), which sets a Jewish Sabbath service to a late ’60s Blue Note vibe. Recorded in New York in...Read More
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Contest A Thousand Hockey Songs
 CBC enraged hockey lovers nationwide when a public spat with the author of their famed Hockey Night In Canada theme led to the iconic tune’s departure from the national broadcaster (heard soon on TSN and CTV affiliates), but they’re trying to let the public in on compositions vying to be the ...Read More
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Website Covers of the World
 The Joshua tree itself fell down in 2000, but thanks to Word Magazine’s cool online app you can pinpoint the exact spot in Zabriskie Point, CA where U2’s iconic cover photo was taken. Do the same with hundreds more (Brian Eno’s messy English flat on Here Come the Warm Jets, the Battersea Power Station on Pink Floyd’s Animals) but best of all, submit your own and help boost the list’s CanCon beyond Rush,...Read More
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Crafting their most dynamic album, Arcade Fire explore big concepts from fascinating, impassioned angles, critiquing normalcy on The Suburbs. On Funeral and Neon Bible, the band dealt with alienation and impending doom via songs that were married together, cohering for battle an...
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