Results tagged “marthawainwright”

In the year that the popularity of the ringtone might have outweighed the popularity of the single, Toronto-I-S-T comes up with the top ten songs that mattered in 2005.

It certainly seems to be the summer of strike. Be it the avoidance of strike with last minute backroom dealings or the injunctions against hydro workers to stop blocking entry to the gates of power, mediators must be working overtime. And now the CEEB has gone dark. CBC employees have been locked out as of 12:01 this morning. The mainpage has been redirected to a much paired-down CBC News page, And the radio is playing relaxing morning music by the likes of K-os and Martha Wainwright.

- And Torontoist, we drank limeade, as the College Street Dominion was sold out of all ade's of the lemon variety.

The robust, loungey vocals, and the lyrical explorations of male genitalia used to be territory strictly reserved for Rufus. As of last night, officially as of last night, it's now Martha Wainwright's turn to be described as "intoxicating" and "devastatingly beautiful." Last night at the Drake Hotel Underground, however, was not the time for comparisons. A sold-out (didn't look that sold-out though) pro-Martha audience indulged in the woman's every breath, from off-the-cuff jokes to fascinating "Ball and Chain" testicles and penis song.

Some links for tomorrow, some for today, some forever.

time in deliberation, waiting for songs or political situations to present themselves before making rash, gut-reaction decisions? Here's this week's mixtape.

- to entertain the thought that someday Feist and the similarly brilliantly-voiced Martha Wainwright may get together and sing the torch song of a duet to end all torch song duets.