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Juno 2024 Rap Album Picks
Canada’s biggest night in music happens this weekend; the 53rd Annual Juno Awards. This year the event is being held in Halifax, a place that has birthed some of Hip Hop’s greatest artists. But as you can see from this list, there is pretty much no representation of that. Here are my thoughts on each […]
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Juno 2024 Children’s Album Picks
The Juno Awards are the biggest night in Canadian Music and they happen this weekend. To prep for the big event, I did a deep dive into a few categories. The Children’s Album nominees run quite the gamut of styles, genres, and moods. Here are my thoughts on each of them. ABC SingSong – Big […]
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10 Years, I miss you Dad!
It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since you left this mortal realm. I still think of you often and miss you terribly. You were a great dad and inspired me to always follow my heart, to leave it cleaner than I found it, and to just be an all-around good person. I […]
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Word is Bond Rap Radio Live (Recorded at Hoop Fest)
I had the opportunity to DJ at Hoop Fest last month in Victoria Park. It was a lot of fun to be providing music while the 3×3 basketball tournament was in session. Once the games were done, we kept the party rocking with a freestyle session and some live performances. It was a lot of […]
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My Pick for Juno Rap Single of the Year
The Juno Awards are coming up and instead of complaining about the list of nominees this year, I thought I would go through the categories that interest me in detail and make my own decisions about each list. I’ve already covered the Children’s Album of the Year and Rap Album of the Year categories. Now, […]
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My Pick for Juno Rap Album of the Year
At first glance, I was not impressed with the nominees for this year’s Juno Awards. But I thought I would do something different this year. Instead of complaining, I decided to listen to every selection in the categories that interested me. I already wrote about children’s album nominees and how I was pleasantly surprised by […]
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My Pick for the 2023 Juno Children’s Album
The nominees for The 52nd Annual JUNO Awards are out and I thought I would do something different this year. Instead of immediately forming an opinion on who I think should win, I decided to do a little research and listen to all of the albums in the categories that interested me. I started out with the Children’s […]
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Noah 23 Album Release Party – This Saturday
It’s the return of Danny G’s annual Birthday Bash. This one is special because not only is it my first concert of the year, it is also an album release event for Noah 23’s new project. With performances by: Lion Fish Mad HattrSean WhiteStrange BreedShystTempomentalThronethiefTypo Hosted by Danny G and music by DJ Chase March […]
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Word is Bond Rap Radio – Tidal Picks of 2022
Last week, I did a 2 hour show featuring some of my favourite tracks from last year. Those were submissions to the show or tracks that I actually downloaded and stored on a hard drive. However, last year, I also started streaming music. I tried Apple and Beatsource before finally landing on Tidal. It is […]
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Captivated by Sound – The Listeners
The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill As you can see, old habits die hard. I planned to free up some time by not writing lengthy posts about every book I read, but I still did that with the last book and was planning to do it with this one too. The problem is, I have a […]