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2008 was an awesome year professionally (or as professional as you can get as a student), but I’m not sure the same can be said of my personal life.
The first six months were pretty crappy. Between trying to keep a club on its feet despite some members who were an absolute chore to manage, dealing [...]

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 [...]

Surprising as it may be, I’m actually going to review a country artist this week! Truth is, I personally think a lot of Taylor Swift’s music counts as pop, but she is “classified” as country, and a lot of her album sounds like country, so country it is.
I first heard Taylor’s music probably the same [...]

Unless you’ve not switched on the radio or tuned into MTV this entire summer, you’d probably be very familiar with the highly infectious hit “Shake It” by Metro Station. I was, and actually picked up the cd in Kingston (for all of $11) and was hooked on the album literally within the first two listens.
What [...]

Yesterday, after numerous conference calls and dragged out meetings our minds were kinda frizzled so I wrote this on our “board”, much to the amusement of my two colleagues in the “control room”.

Incidentally the skull isn’t drawn by me, but the “fire” is. Yes, I’m artistically challenged, I know.
And no, it’s not like hell at [...]

Just got back from my first day of work back at MTV. I started the day at 10am and ended at 8:45pm.
“What?” you say? “So late?” you ask?
The truth is I hardly even noticed that it was so late because
a) MTV is a truly comfortable place to be and hang out
b) I had so much [...]