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Bye bye, Big Bop

December 8, 2009 Danny X 12 Comments

Yet another Toronto institution is closing its doors forever. In January of 2010, the iconic Big Bop will be no longer. Located at Queen and Bathurst, the Bop is the home of Kathedral, Holy Joe’s, and Reverb, and is known to many as a favourite venue for Toronto’s indie music scene. A cold wind seems to be blowing through Toronto’s west end these days. In the past year or so, we’ve seen a major stretch of Queen West’s historic district burned to the ground only to be replaced by a…

Fan Expo 09: Psycho Charger

September 9, 2009 Doug Groves event, Fan Expo 2009, interview, Music, Psycho Charger1 Comment

First time Fan Expo/rgb’er Mona came up from Jersey partially to see the ‘horror rawkillbilly’ band Psycho Charger, who played at the Rue Morgue sponsored Fan Expo event ‘Dance of the Deadites’ Saturday night. Even though we were pretty tired from walking around the convention floor for two days straight, I’m glad we made it out, because the band put on an awesome, blood-soaked show.

rgbFilter’s “OMG the World Is Officially Losing Its Mind” post, or, NAMBLA

June 26, 2009 Danny X 0 comment

So let’s see, what’s going on in the news today. Well, there’s Iran, Iran, Iran, garbage strike, Iran, Iran…Yup, seems like pretty standard fare. …Oh what’s this on the cover? Michael Jackson? Dead? STFU!!

Apple’s App Store: the continuing misadventures, this time through the Downward Spiral

May 4, 2009 Danny X 6 Comments

Sometimes it feels like we here at rgbFilter are just banging the drum slowly when it comes to Apple and the App Store. As we’ve reported time and time again, the App store’s walled-garden app system sports an approval process that makes some people raise an eyebrow and ask “huh” (or in my case, shout out “WTF??”). But now their selection process has negatively affected the very entity Apple has always professed to protect: the artist. Explicit language after the break.

Toronto’s own Enviroman wants Laurie David to curb his something-asm.

March 18, 2009March 26, 2009 Danny X Enviroman0 comment

Could local comedian and writer Josh Rachlis be the next Jon Lajoie? In this video we see Josh’s alter-ego Enviroman put his balls on the interwebs in the hopes of landing an engagement kiss date free dinner with former Larry David spouse and Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David. Apparently, being an environmentalist pays a lot better than being a regular everyday normal guy, if the production value in the video is any indication. Check out Josh’s other videos on his YouTube page here. .

Beatles Go Digital

March 5, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Beatles, harmonix, rock band2 Comments

One of the great rock and roll hold outs in the digital age has been The Beatles. Rumours of the Fab Four hitting the mp3 stores surface every year like clockwork. Surprisingly, all the speculation has been wrong. Finally, Harmonix looks to be on track to be the first to get the Fab Four online, as long as you want to play along, that is. September 9th, 2009 is the scheduled release date of an unknown number of Beatles tracks (albums?) for the popular music game Rock Band. Along with…

Climatology of a Cultural Ice Age, core sample #2

February 17, 2009February 23, 2009 Paul L Apple, canada, MPAA, RIAA1 Comment

A trial is convened in Sweden, in which the co-founders of filesharing directory The Pirate Bay face two years in jail and a €100,000 fine for “assisting copyright infringement”. YouTube begins crippling the audio on all of its content, whenever it auto-pattern-matches with any audio pattern claimed by a record company, sparking fears of the ‘End of Mashup Culture‘ and reports of the first massacres of teenage digital dreams. Then, just weeks later, as if to reassure any who might be in doubt as to whether there is room in…

It’s not TV, it’s NIN

August 21, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Nine Inch Nails1 Comment

According to the LA Times, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor is in talks to bring his politically charged “Year Zero” to HBO as a 2-season series. The story of Year Zero has so far been released in 2 formats; first, as the 2007 Nine Inch Nails album of the same name, and second, as an Alternate Reality Game consisting of a variety of media and forms of communication that expanded upon the album’s storyline.

Canadian Band “The Craft Economy” hates Bill C-61

August 6, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Bill C-61, Craft Economy1 Comment

Toronto indie band The Craft Economy has gotten active in its dislike towards Canadian copyright bill C-61 by taking some of its latest tracks, putting them together on a CD as a single and B-side, and distributing them around the city attached to light poles for people to pick up at their leisure. For free. At least one of the songs on the disc is released under the Creative Commons licence, an action becoming more and more popular, it would seem. Folk artist Johnathan Coulton, who gave up his day…

Making Of: Bjork Wanderlust in 3D

April 22, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Bjork, music video2 Comments

Direct YouTube Link I’m a sucker for sped up ‘making of’ videos. There’s something fascinating about watching distilled creativity itself that I like. The above video is the ‘making of’ Bjork’s newest music video, “Wanderlust”. Wired magazine recently posted this, as well as the video itself on their site. To view the video, you’ll have to go to their site though, as there’s both a high res 3D and 2D version, and the 3D version doesn’t compress too well. Make sure you dig up those old 3D glasses.