Stuart Berman
Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Toronto Star; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
- Just saw a driver hanging a right at Front & Simcoe while typing on an open laptop, it's a minor miracle more pedestrians aren't killed every day
- This week in the stübermania newsletter: a 1996 phoner with Lou Barlow that (fun fact!) took place during a tour with Elliott Smith on the very same day and at the very same Tempe, Arizona club where the cover photo for 'Either/Or' was taken: stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
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- Very cool! I think we all had teenage crises to Sebadoh songs.
- It was a simpler time.
- In other indie CanCon news: the new single from Weird Nightmare (aka Alex Edkins of Metz) is pure power-pop gold: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGJ...
- Our long national nightmare is over, the first BSS album in 9 years is nigh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJoq...
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- Followed by 4 Non Blondes and Seven Mary Three
- On a related note: after playing the new BSS single on YouTube, the algorithm determined that the next thing I wanted to hear was Alice in Chains' "Heaven Beside You," which I guess makes sense if your favourite genre is "bands with three words in their name"
- Today on Commotion, we gathered Baroness Von Sketch/Small Achievable Goals star Jennifer Whalen, Schitt's Creek producer Andrew Barnsley, and writer Paul Myers to pay tribute to the incomprable Catherine O'Hara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZJ...
- Want to bet Trump still tunes into the official halftime show and writes a 1000-word Truth Social post about Bad Bunny's performance?
- Um, did the Grammys forget Sly Stone died this year?
- Also not lost on me that every artist playing the ozzy tribute got a name card on screen and not one black artist got the same
- Yeah, that was very weird
