14 Giants

Asking for flowers

Do you like Kathleen Edwards? 14 Giants is giving away a gift to three lucky Canadians.  Be the first to redeem one of the three codes below at iTunes in Canada, and you can download a free copy of the song “Asking for Flowers” from Kathleen’s latest album.* 4E7J9K7LTEX9 T9NHWYYRYFHM MTH76LK9EJ7M *Sorry, international readers.  Offer only good through iTunes in [...]

Audience for live classical music, theater and dance is dying

The audience for live classical music, theater and dance is, like, dying.

Live, baby, live!

Matthew Good, a Canadian singer-songwriter I’ve had the pleasure of meeting once or twice, is soon to release his first-ever live album.  Starting October 7th, you can purchase a completely-unaltered (read: no overdubs) recording of an evening he spent at Massey Hall in Toronto back in May. Oops!  He made one little fix. Click here for details [...]

Confusion, dust mar Pemberton festival

Confusion, dust mar Pemberton festival.

The Verve - “Love is Noise”

Kathleen Edwards nominated for Polaris

Kathleen Edwards’s Asking for Flowers among 10 nominees shortlisted for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album.

14 Giants is listening to Christian Rock now

(photo: unknown) I can normally detect Christian Rock a mile away (the songs are so, well, happy. A little too happy for my tastes). But last week this song slipped past my radar and now it’s stuck in my head. Damn you, Jon McLaughlin. I didn’t even pick up on the whole narrative [...]

A better-than-average Friday night

I went to the George Michael concert with my fake ex-wife Ronda. (That’s my cell phone pic above.) It’s perhaps fitting that the tour is called “25 Live” because, as she says, she waited 25 years for this night. And it did not disappoint. I was stunned at how good of a show this was. [...]

Sigur Rós to credit 14 Giants in Deluxe Version of new album

(photo: unknown) About three weeks ago I ordered the Deluxe Edition of Sigur Rós’s new album, með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (loosely translated from Icelandic: “with our ears humming we keep on playing”; or, a bit more literally, “with humming in our ears we play endlessly.”) Details of the set as follows: Housed in [...]