AZARI & III: DANCE ACT ARE ‘CREEPY NIGHT PEOPLE’ WHO WANT TO BE DAVID CRONENBERG
Posted on Oct 25th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship There was much-excitement awhile back amongst fans of fast-rising dance act Azari & Illwhen British paper The Sun announced the foursome would be opening Madonna‘s MDNA world tour. Unfortunately, that wasn’t exactly the case. Madonna…
Five Things We Learned at Ray Kurzweil’s Immortality Lecture – Feat. in THE GRID
Smug, nerdy, and in full I-told-ya-so form, inventor Ray Kurzweil expounded to an audience of hipsters, futurists, and mad scientists at the Danforth Music Hall last Thursday night. Kurzweil talked about the future of artificial intelligence and a few topics…
Zombie Walk Toronto 2012
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAAAIIIIIIIINS! The Toronto Zombie Walk 2012 was a drizzly, misty affair with many sfx nerds bemoaning their melting spirit glue and corn syrup blood. But patches of dry gray with bits of sunshine came through later in the…
Sapient Announces SLUMP – New Album Feb 2013
A little bit of a shameless plug here. No, I’m not working directly with the Sapient, the artist, but I was hired to write the press release for his new album, SLUMP, thanks to GoLightly Media. It’s actually a…
Forza Horizon comes to the streets of Toronto
Forza Horizon picks up, in a way, where Forza 4 left off, at least graphically speaking. While previous iterations of the series have been simulator focused, Horizon is actually an arcade-styled game with the high end car collector in mind….
Flying Lotus @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Oct 13
With the release of his new album, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’, Flying Lotus is reaching new highs in his spiritual vehicle, vimana, merkaba, or just plain old cosmic chahttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgt, I guess you could say. Inundating our eardrums with a mix…
Wisers That’s Spiced UP! Halloween launch event
Established in 1857, Wiser’s is one of Canada’s oldest whiskeys but the Spiced Up blend is one of the newest kids on the block. I attended a Halloween-themed launch event earlier this week where we got to try the…
WHAT ZODIAC NEEDS: EX-WEEKND PRODUCER GETS SIGNED AND ACCESS TO FANCY STUDIO
Photo: Sean Berrigan Posted on Oct 9th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship A lot has happened to Jeremy Rose a.k.a. Zodiac in the past couple of years. Barely 23, he was (arguably) robbed of some of his most valuable credits for his work…
Boys Noize ft Snoop Dogg – Got It
What? Snoop Dogg and Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize?? I had a sneaky suspicion that the BNR label woudl be up to more celebrity endorsement-style collaborations after they dropped that “Burst” track with Peaches. I actually asked them if there…
Wolfgang Gartner @ Kool Haus
I’ve been meaning to interview Wolfgang Gartner for a while, so I went to see what he was made of this past Thanksgiving at the Guv/Kool Haus Complex. I’m pretty skeptical of this new wave of EDM djs as rock…