Rich Aucoin had another spectacular show at Sneaky Dee’s last night. Rich set up his keyboard and mic not on stage, but on the dance floor—how cool is that?—and had a Happy Birthday sing-a-long with accompanying birthday cake for someone in the audience. Bent By Elephants were on before him, and they were really good. [...]
It was a Steel Banana party at The Rivoli a few fridays back. Yours truly shot the Rucksack Willies, but couldn’t stay late for The Darcy’s or Hemingway.
I hung out downtown last Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday night for this year’s Canadian Music Week. Despite all the rain, the cold, being sick, and the occasional lack of media access, it was still a great week. The highlight for me was definitely my saturday night. It started off with a let down after not [...]
Steel Bananas 17 just went live! Check it out here: www.steelbananas.com
So the first-ever Medium Magazine came out this week, and let me tell you, am I ever happy that its out. It’s been a long two month production period, and it’s really great to finally see it off of the confines of my little macbook screen and out onto campus newsstands.
We went through the possibility [...]
And finally, some steel bananas.
We’re publishing my photoshoot I teased about a few weeks back with the Canadian Band Mother Mother.
I did the photoshoot at The Cookbook Store in Toronto just off of Yonge and Bloor. I thought it would interesting to put Mother Mother in a situation that was sort of ‘Motherly.’ What better than a Cookbook store [...]
I did a photoshoot last week at The Cookbook Store in Toronto on Yonge Street. I can’t give away just yet who it was, but it was for The Medium and they weren’t a local band. Here’s a teaser:
I know its a bit late, but here’s the November Issue of Steel Bananas – Number 13. I’ve been pretty swamped with school. But now its all finished for the term, so I can breathe a sigh of relief. T’was a great Issue.
I think this is one of our best covers. It was such a [...]
Ridiculous Synergy Seeker
“Ash Buchholz and Jason Parsons aren’t afraid to admit that they tend to be overly-energetic.
“You know what would be really challenging for me?” asks Buckholz. “To be in a room of ice skyscrapers — you know, skyscrapers made of ice, like models — and try to have a conversation surrounded by them.” “I [...]