Jonathan Dekel
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Jonathan Dekel is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the Amsterdam-based Incendiary Magazine. Since returning to his hometown of Toronto he has waxed and waned poetic for several national and international media outlets while sharing several pints with people you know. He is currently a highly visible and mostly loathed member of the Toronto rock dive scene.
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Who cares about a Saab 900? A whole bunch of people, evidently.
Vampire Weekend discovered this recently when they inadvertently angered enthusiasts of the Swedish car manufacturer by burning two of its discontinued 900 series cars in a promo for their upcoming album, Modern Vampires of the City.
The video, which ...
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Ask the casual music fan what they know of Hamburg, the port town of 1.8 million in the north of Germany, and they'll undoubtedly mention two things: the infamous Red Light district and the Beatles -- whose baptism by fire in the city led them to pop superstardom and, eventually, world domination. But, as was ...
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In 'Pearl Jam Twenty,' director Cameron Crowe sets out to document the often tumultuous relationship between art and commerce that has come to define Pearl Jam and, in particular, lead singer Eddie Vedder. What Crowe comes to find, though, is hardly the inner turmoil that many fans -- and, if ...
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Of all the footage journalist-turned-director Cameron Crowe assembled for 'Pearl Jam Twenty' -- his retrospective documentary on the iconic Seattle band and their struggles with success -- there was one piece that stood apart from the others.
"The 'Holy Grail' was the piece of footage of Kurt Cobain and ...
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It was a typical evening at kickoff of the Toronto International Film Festival Wednesday, Sept. 7. In a secluded basement with a capacity of just 100 souls, fashionably dressed locals gathered to catch a glimpse of Hollywood -- and support a good cause. Adrian Grenier, star of the soon-to-wrap 'Entourage,' was ...
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Three years ago, Death Cab for Cutie lead singer Ben Gibbard admitted he had a problem.
"I looked at myself and I realized I drink way too f---ing much," he tells Spinner. "I'm 31 or 32 years old and hangovers last all day, and I was overweight and feeling like s---."
With Gibbard's band at the apex of ...
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The backstage area at a large-scale rock festival is often ground zero for new musical relationships. Such was the case recently at Montreal's Osheaga music and arts festival when, during an intense moment at the end of Spinner's interview with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer, Flaming Lips frontman ...
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