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Torontoist stopped by the Gladstone Hotel last Tuesday for the launch party of two exciting new documentaries airing on the CBC starting this Thursday night. This Beat Goes On and Rise Up chronicle Canadian music's growth in the '70s and '80s, respectively. The films were made by the two key players responsible for 2006's Shakin' All Over, which dealt with the '60s: director Gary McGroarty and writer/researcher Nicholas Jennings. Jian Ghomeshi narrates. Viewers are treated to an impressive collection of clips: concert footage, television appearances, and music videos, as well as interviews with classic and contemporary Canadian pop stars (think rock royalty like Burton Cummings sandwiched between Hot Hot Heat and k-os).

At first it all seemed simple: Billy Bob Thornton, famous actor, goes on CBC's Q last Wednesday and is a total dick to the show's host, Jian Ghomeshi, for hinting at Thornton's Hollywood fame rather than his barely known band, the Boxmasters. And that's how it played out, for a while, landing on Perez Hilton, Gawker, the Star, BlogTO, the Canadian Press, Digg, etc., etc., etc.

Photo by EIFF.

Originally published by Viking Press in 1957, Jack Kerouac's On the Road has been wearing holes in the back pockets and floppy canvas knapsacks of gaggles of come-find-yourself road trippers and college-aged who-am-I types ever since. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of its publication, Wednesday night will see the Gladstone play host to something of a symposium on the life and legacy of their main man, Kerouac. Authors Ray Robertson and David Creighton will be in conversation with CBC Radio One’s Jian Ghomeshi to discuss our ceaseless cultural infatuation with the famed Beat writer.

Photo by bitefight from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

's main man with the microphone, Jian Ghomeshi, though the evidence is purely circumstantial.