Liisa Ladouceur
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Liisa Ladouceur writes, talks and dances about music (or is that architecture?). You may have disagreed with her views in places like Eye Weekly, CBC Radio or MuchMoreMusic. Her interests include sad songs, asking questions and pointing out typos in her hate mail.
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Art Gallery of Ontario
Patti Smith knows how to commune with the dead. She can even bring them back to life.
Arthur Rimbaud to Allen Ginsberg, Amy Winehouse to her late husband Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5 -- throughout her two sets at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario last night, Smith paid homage to the many artists who've inspired her, ...
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Michael Stipe
Successful touring musicians often live fishbowl lives -- the center of attention, gawked at, photographed.
Now more than ever in this age of camera phones and instant uploads they rarely escape the public's gaze. Some of them turn the tables, picking up their own cameras and looking back-at their audiences, at the ...
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Kevin Winter, Getty
Patti Smith, punk pioneer and unlikely art photographer wants to make one thing crystal clear.
"I don't consider my photographs blurry," said Patti Smith. "I think they are atmospheric."
Smith was speaking at a press conference this morning about the black and white images in Camera Solo, an exhibition of her ...
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Jeff Pachoud, AFP
Sometimes you can forget that Moby is a musician first.
His prolific tweets and online journals are filled with his striking architecture photography and outspoken rants on social issues. His calendar is filled with gigs like "Presidential inauguration party" and political fundraisers (he's hosting one for Los Angeles ...
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Dine Alone
When Alexisonfire announced they were splitting up last Friday with an official band statement by singer George Pettit, the Canadian punk band's other singer, Dallas Green, was doing what he's so often doing of late: Touring solo under his other moniker, City and Colour.
It was precisely this dual life and schedule that led him ...
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Daniel Boczarski, Getty Images
One of the most unique aspects of a Lollapalooza main-stage performance is the sight of American Sign Language interpreters at the front of the stage, signing the lyrics live with much rock 'n' roll attitude. Canadian duo Death From Above 1979 put one ASL worker to the best use on Saturday afternoon, ...
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Roger Kisby, Getty Images
There was a British invasion on the opening day of Lollapalooza in Chicago on Friday, headlined by Muse and Coldplay and featuring a killer set from UK MC Tinie Tempah. As the sun went down over Millennium Park, young people not even yet born when the festival launched 20 years ago rushed the new Google+ stage to ...
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