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As promised last week, this week I’ll take yet another look at an opening band, specifically Fun, who toured with and opened for Jack’s Mannequin in Montreal.
Fun is a straight up well… fun band. I really loved their quirky tracks with the utterly nasal voice that reminds me of pop punk in the ’90s, but [...]

So what I want to tell you about on this week’s Music Mondays column, is obviously, Last.fm
That’s me on Last.fm. I’ve been a member since October 2006 and have listened to just over 10,000 songs. I’m pretty sure there’s more than that, but a lot of my music consumption is over the iPod, which doesn’t [...]

I first discovered the band Something Corporate (SoCo) while walking randomly in HMV, and still remember paying something like $28 for it and to this day, “Punk Rock Princess” is my favourite song of all time.
Much to my dismay SoCo ceased to exist, but front man Andrew McMahon created a new band (though largely it’s [...]

So last weekend was spent East in Montreal for a trip with QSEAC (Queen’s South East Asian Club) and it was pretty fun! I had originally planned to go to Montreal for the weekend anyway because the Jack’s Mannequin concert was on Friday (more on that in Music Mondays this week), so it was a [...]

The work is really piling up this week, but on the bright side, I’m beginning to get the hand of instantly recording down stuff I need to do so that a) I don’t forget it, and b) I can schedule the next action. Combined with this cool weekly schedule task planner template, I feel like [...]