By: Sheena Lyonnais

It’s busy times for Caribou drummer Brad Weber. The multifaceted musician is gearing up for an international summer-long tour with music gods, Radiohead kicking off in Mexico next month. But first, some DJ sets in Germany. And then, somehow the debut release of his other and equally impressive project Pick A Piper. Caribou visits home with a gig at Downsview Park on June 16 (buy tickets now, drugs later). And while he should probably be packing, he instead grants us insight into his brilliant, rhubarb-laced mind with 20Qs.

Dudebox, dubbed Toronto’s socially conscious party people, are a group of rad dudes who throw raging parties in the name of a good cause. Each event is held for a specific charity, people go out, enjoy the night and give something back to the community in a way that inspires people to do what they love most in a socially acceptable way.

There will be another Dudebox rager this month so keep in touch and check out the Dudebox Facebook and Twitter feeds for the announcement of where it’s going down and what it’s going to be for.

In the meantime, Said Yassin of Dudebox was kind enough to fill out our 20 Questions this week:

Not to sound snobby, but Girl Talk is SO 2006.  Since then many have hopped on the mash-up genre but have been unable to do it well.  However, The Hood Internet (a duo composed of Aaron Brink -aka ABX and Steve Reidell – aka STV SLV, pronounced Steve Sleeve from Chicago) have done the unthinkable.  They have done mash-up in a way that would make Mr. Gregg Gillis (aka. Girl Talk) proud.  The epic mix tapes they have created fusing hip-hop, indie rock, dubstep and downtempo are enough to get any party started. Sure enough, they are taking on a party of epic proportions: Camp Bisco in Mariaville, New York taking place from July 7-9, 2011. and prior to them rocking the festival crowd out, we decided to grill them with our usual 20 Questions.

1. What is your dream of happiness?

STV: To be able to travel anywhere in the world and live there for as long as I feel like. Also, talking animals.
ABX: Grilled cheese with five types of cheese served with tomato soup that never gets cold and never burns your tongue.

2. Blonde or Brunette?
STV: I don’t discriminate.
ABX: Blonde

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?
STV: Sincerity
ABX: Open-mindedness

4. What do you fear most?
STV: BEES
ABX: Bearsharktopus

5. 808s or 909s?
STV: LOLs
ABX: The 626 rimshot sound is underrated

6. What’s your biggest regret?
STV: Not going to see Nirvana in 1993 when my friend Andy had an extra ticket.
ABX: Not being able to play a whole bunch of musical instruments really well. I like that in Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character learns to play the piano. I would do that, but with a whole bunch of instruments.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?
STV: Tie between First Avenue in Minneapolis and Metro/Smart Bar in Chicago.
ABX: The Hideout in Chicago and The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
STV: Google Maps on a smartphone. I have terrible directional sense.
ABX: Breakfast. I’m worthless if I don’t eat.

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?
STV: Buddy Holly, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G
ABX: The Clash, Queen, Otis Redding

10. What is your favorite decade in music?
STV: Lots of cool things happened in the 1970s.
ABX: I really enjoyed the 1990s.

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?
STV: Blind. I’ve seen lots of things and could approximate images, but not hearing new music would be a drag.
ABX: Definitely blind. I use my ears more than my eyes on a daily basis.

12. How old is too old?
STV: That’s a relative notion.
ABX: Too old is always someone else’s age. Don’t know what happens if you are the oldest person in the world. Maybe that’s too old.

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
STV: Chillin with a bunch of talking animals.
ABX: Test driving a hovercar. Doing things with holograms. Watching the 37th season of The Simpsons and complaining that it used to be so much better.

14. Who’s your hero?
STV: Danger Mouse
ABX: Barack Obama

15. What’s your favourite colour?
STV: Pantone 7593 C
ABX: Blue

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?
STV: Right now I’d have to say Ke$ha “We R Who We R”
ABX: Splack Pack “Give Us Your Cash, Bitch”

17. Metallica or Madonna?
STV: Metallica all day
ABX: Madonna all night

18. What’s your most hated vice?
STV: Fast food. (is also “most loved”)
ABX: Dick Cheney

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?
STV: Eeyore
ABX: Jimmy from The Shangri-Las’ “Leader of the Pack”. If only he had listened to Betty.

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?
STV: Daft Punk, Prince, David Banner
ABX: Radiohead, Weezer, The Flaming Lips

Alright people if you don’t know who Jillionaire is, get familiar.  With over fifteen years of experience, Jillionaire has a unique sound which mashes indie dance with big room house, caribbean rhythms of soca and dancehall and moombahton. He is signed to Mad Decent.  He is good friends with Paul Devro and Toddla T.  Makes incredible mixes that make you long for the beach (as seen here) and he is playing at Camp Bisco in Mariaville, New York taking place from July 7-9, 2011. If none of that convinced you, then check out the hilarious answers he gave to our 20 Questions.

1. What is your dream of happiness? LITTLE CHILDREN RIDING BIKES IN THE STREET PAST SUNDOWN. CHOCOLATE COVERED GOLDEN RAINBOWS. EDIBLE EVERYTHING. STAR SHAPED SUNBEAMS. NON-FAT, YET DELICIOUS. LASAGNA FLAVORED CANDY CANES. AND VICE VERSA.

2. Blonde or Brunette? REDHEAD

3. What is the quality you like most in a person? I LIKE YOUR SMILE. NO TEVIN CAMPBELL.

4. What do you fear most? I’M IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. IT’S A COLD, DARK NIGHT. I DON’T HAVE ANY LUGGAGE. HOW DID I GET HERE? I CAN’T FIND MY PASSPORT. OH WAIT. IT’S A DREAM. INSIDE A DREAM. I’M OK NOW. THE SUN IS COMING OUT. I’VE CONQUERED MY GREATEST FEAR.

5. 808s or 909s? ROLAND TR-606. WHAT A CUTE LITTLE BOX.

6. What’s your biggest regret? I WORE SIZE 9 INSTEAD OF 9.5 FOR YEARS. DYING TO LIVE. LIVING TO DIE. OH TO BE A FASHIONISTA AGAIN.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world? THE CORNER BAR. YOU ARE NO MORE. WE HAD FUN TIMES. REST IN PEACE.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without? THOSE USB CABLES YOU USE TO CHARGE YOUR PHONE. CHARGE YOUR IPOD 1ST GENERATION. CONNECT YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. WHEN WILL IT END.

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform? AMADEUS ON KEYS. MARLEY ON VOCALS. MIKE JACKSON DO THE DANCING. SUPERGROUP.

10. What is your favorite decade in music? RNB HIP-HOP OF THE MID TO LATE NINETIES. RZA. DJ PREMIER. PRINCE PAUL. SAMPLE TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT.

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why? CAN’T WE JUST CHOP MY LITTLE FINGER OFF AND CALL IT A DEAL?

12. How old is too old? ONCE THEY GET TOO 25 IT’S A WRAP. NAG NAG NAG.

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years? I’M ON A BEACH. NO. BUT IT’S SOME SORT OF WATERFRONT, WAVES GENTLY LAPPING AGAINST THE ROCKS. THE SUN HAS JUST SAUNTERED OVER THE HILLS, SPREADING A RAY OF LIGHT THAT WILL LAST SECONDS, IT’S WAVELENGTH AND INTENSITY LETTING YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE ALIVE. YOU ARE FREE. THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF BREAKFAST. THE SMELL OF EGGS. THE SOUND OF OIL CRACKLING IN A CAST IRON SKILLET. PROSCIUTTO EGGS BENEDICT ON A HOUSE MADE PASTRY. THIS ISN’T YOUR REGULAR ENGLISH MUFFIN. NO MORE COFFEE IN YOUR CUP? HAVE SOME PROSECCO. WELCOME TO THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.

14. Who’s your hero? MY MOTHER. MY FATHER. AUNTS. UNCLES. GRANDPARENTS. THE ONES THAT CAME BEFORE THEM. SURVIVED THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE SEA. TOILED IN THE FIELDS. TAUGHT THEMSELVES TO READ. PUT YOUNGER GENERATIONS THROUGH SCHOOL. ACCOUNTANTS. LAWYERS. POLICE CONSTABLES. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. THE GENERATIONS THAT RAISED ME. THAT MADE ME WHO I AM.

15. What’s your favourite colour? MONDAY – RED. TUESDAY – WHITE. THURSDAY – BLACK. FRIDAY – BLUE.. A POP. JUST A HINT. A BREATHY WHISPER OF GOOD TIMES TO COME. NOT TO OVERWHELM THE SENSES. BUT TICKLE THEM THEM OUT OF THEIR SLUMBER.

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again? I HAVEN’T FINISHED IT YET, BUT I SUSPECT THAT IT WILL BE A MAGNUM OPUS OF ANNOYANCE. AN ANTHEM OF POPULAR CULTURE THAT WILL TRANSCEND BOUNDARIES OF RACE, CLASS AND RELIGION. AN ARIA THAT WILL HAVE US QUESTION TIME ITSELF. A SUPERBOWL COMMERCIAL, JUDD APATOW MOVIE THEME AND TWEEN FAVORITE. ALL AT ONCE. NO PLEASE, PLAY IT AGAIN, I GET A DOLLAR EVERYTIME IT RUINS MY EARS. I’M READY TO ANSWER QUESTION 11 NOW.

17. Metallica or Madonna? I’M LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLD.

18. What’s your most hated vice? THESE LONG NIGHTS. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE. ABU DHABI. LIVING ROOM JACUZZI. CHAMPAGNE – WE NEED MORE CHAMPAGNE. THE VIEW IS RIDICULOUS. ARE THOSE THE ALPS? MOUNTAINS OF COCAINE. DEEP IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE. COMMERCIAL KITCHEN. THE FINEST CUISINE. ON A BOAT. NO, IT’S A WALLY. IS THIS A DREAM? THIS CASTLE IN THE SKY? I PINCH MYSELF. THE NEEDLE GOES SLOWLY. EXHALE. RONALD REAGAN.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history? AT THE HEIGHT OF OUR EXISTENCE WE WERE THE LARGEST NATION ON EARTH. OUR CONQUEST OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE WAS MY MOST IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN. I WAS AMONG THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTIONARIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION. I WAS A CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY. POET. SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIST. POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL LEADER. SATYAGRAHA. THREE BULLETS IN THE CHEST. MY STORY HAS BEEN TOLD, THEN RE-TOLD, TO THE POINT OF AMBIGUITY. NOW TELL ME YOURS.

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life? STEVIE WONDER. TITO PUENTES. I GOT KICKED OUT OF PRINCE BECAUSE I BOUGHT BOGUS TICKETS. WAMP WAMP.

Meet up and comer, Lindi Ortega. Her unique voice and token  red boots will be making an appearance at Dakota Tavern on the 7th to celebrate the release of her first full length album (signed with Last Gang Records). Her first EP received critical success, and we have a sneaking suspicion this Torontonian has much more in store for us in the future.

1. What is your dream of happiness?

Happiness itself is a dream and rarely a constant in the human existence. I am most happy when I am creating and performing. I dream about touring and bringing my music to the people and hopefully connecting with them on some level. Music is a universal language with which I hope to converse with as many people as possible. That is my dream of happiness.

2. Blonde or Brunette?

I think both are beautiful!

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?

Sense of humour

4. What do you fear most?

Fear itself. Letting fears get in the way of goals and aspirations. I do my best to not let that happen by facing my fears when I can.
5. 808s or 909s?

We talkin old school Roland drum machines?  I’ll go with 808s just for fun!

6. What’s your biggest regret?

no regrets

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

I’m not a club type of gal. But any bar in Amsterdam suits me just fine.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

Food, water, oxygen… everything else I can live without… although I’d be real sad without a singing voice,  a guitar, and some little red boots.

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Dolly Parton

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

oh man .. how to chose… I love music that spans the 50-60′s-70s. I can’t pick a fave.. I guess I’d take a bit of 60′s mixed with a bit of early 70s. Is that allowed?

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

I’d rather go blind. I can’t imagine how I would get by without being able to hear music.

12. How old is too old?

For what exactly? To have babies? to wear hot pants?  If it’s with regards to making music, I don’t think there is such a thing as too old so long as you’re good at it! Look at some of the old blues cats still kickin it.. they are like fine wine that gets better with age!

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

I am of the moment.  But in a dream existence I will be touring with Willie Nelson, recording a record with Jack White, be the proud owner of 25 pairs of custom red cowboy boots… and hopefully I won’t have to worry about how to pay my rent and feed myself every month!

14. Who’s your hero?

Frida Kahlo

15. What’s your favourite colour?

Why Red.. of course! Naturally!

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

Friday by Rebecca Black

17. Metallica or Madonna?

zing… er.. MADONNICA!

18. What’s your most hated vice?

smoking. I use to smoke when I was stressed out but hate how it effects my voice and I always feel gross if I break down and have one.  Don’t take up smoking kids.. it’s a nasty habit.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

Martin Luther King.. tragic in that his life was cut short.

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?

Band of Skulls, Jakob Dylan with Neko Case on backing vocals, and Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros.

Were feelin’ Socalled aka Josh Dolgin these days. He/they’re playing the Big Smoke on May 19th at LuLu Lounge. Hailing from Montreal, it’s sexy and geeky and quirky and really nice on the ears all at the same time. And of course, ironic-chalk full of that shit. Anyway, he took the 20 Qs.

1. What is your dream of happiness?
Good health, constant inspiration, balance of bombast and tranquility, financial security, love, friendship, peacefulness, more even distribution of wealth.

2. Blonde or Brunette?
Brunette.

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?
Drive.

4. What do you fear most?
May 21, 2011, the end of the world.

5. 808s or 909s?
Both. And Linn.

6. What’s your biggest regret?
That I didn’t buy the incredible old Italian coffee machine from Club Social when they got a bigger one installed.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?
Alchemia, Krakow, Poland.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Viatnamese soup.

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?
Tom Waits, Sidney Bechet, Om Kalthoum

10. What is your favorite decade in music?
40′s

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?
Blind, ’cause I like hearing a lot.

12. How old is too old?
99

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
Probably the same shit-hole apartment. With a Lexus parked out back.

14. Who’s your hero?
Fred Wesley

15. What’s your favourite colour?
Yeah right!!! Chartruse.

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?
That soccer-chant Black Eyed Peas joint with Usher.

17. Metallica or Madonna?
Metallica

18. What’s your most hated vice?
The magazine.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?
Mordechai Gebirtig

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?
Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, the Alkoholiks, David Krakauer and Matt Haimowitz’ performance of Messian’s Quartet for the End of Time

Magnetic Man, self-titled debut out October 2010. Click here to buy on iTunes.

As dance music enjoys a rejuvenation, its heartwarming to see such creativity taking place with artists.  A great example of this is the dubstep ‘supergroup’ comprised of Artwork, Skream and Benga who have released their self-titled LP “Magnetic Man”.

This fourteen-track disc brings along female MC/vocalists Katy B and Ms. Dynamite for the ride. You’ll hear lots of, you guessed it, big heavy bass and furious break beats. The first single with Angela Hunte, “I Need Air” is big stadium dubstep.  Picture it at a football game (yes, I’m talking about soccer) rather than a dingy rave mosh-pit.  The rest of the album doesn’t alienate the real “heads” or rave roots from which they came. Serious hints of Massive Attack and Roni Size all through out this disc.

This album is fierce.  Which can take on constant replays in your iPod.  ‘Nuff said.

Album Review by Amanda (Ama) Scriver

20 Questions by Magnetic Man (completed by Artwork):

1. What is your dream of happiness?

For someone to work out a way where no-one ever has to work

2. Blonde or Brunette?

Blonde

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?

A sense of humour

4. What do you fear most?

Earwigs

5. 808s or 909s?

808s

6. What’s your biggest regret?

Not playing the correct lottery numbers last week

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

Plastic people – Curtain road in East London

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

Air – I need air

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

Prince

Jimi Hendrix

Bill Evans

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

70’s

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

Blind
I couldn’t live without being able to hear music

12. How old is too old?

Dead is definitely too old

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

In 15 years time I see myself in space

14. Who’s your hero?

My dad

15. What’s your favourite colour?

Puce

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

I could live without hearing the new J-Lo record

17. Metallica or Madonna?

Metallica

18. What’s your most hated vice?

Smoking

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

Tony Blair

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?

Basic Channel at lost

Arctic monkeys on their European festival tour

Magnetic Man – I watched it on video

We’ve already been loving up Rusko for a while on Knee Socks Beat Cleavage. After a year of trying to get him to take the 20 Qs, we finally got him to take them and we’re over the moon happy about it!

1. What is your dream of happiness?
A room full of puppies

2. Blonde or Brunette?
Ginger

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?
Nice smelling hair

4. What do you fear most?
Birds

5. 808s or 909s?
909 snares every time

6. What’s your biggest regret?
Having to cancel my last uk/europe tour because of my back….that sucked

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?
Room 1 in Fabric. Great memories and killer sound system

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
cookies

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?
Squarepusher (again) , Jean michelle Jarre, Roger Troutman with the full zapp band

10. What is your favorite decade in music?
90′s

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?
Blind, obviously…..Music is my life

12. How old is too old?
Dead

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
Breeding and showing dogs

14. Who’s your hero?
Squarepusher. He is an absolute musical genius

15. What’s your favourite colour?
Green

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?
under the bridge by the red hot chili peppers. Ive heard it too many times

17. Metallica or Madonna?

Metallica, every time

18. What’s your most hated vice?
I love all my vices

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?
Jedward

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?
Squarepusher at Glade festival,Irration Steppas at the West Indian Center in Leeds, and Fat Freddys drop at Good Vibrations festival in Australia

Jay Joliffe is one half of 84.85 who have a news project coming out called “Good Problems” March 16th, followed by a show on March 18th at Wrongbar. His solo stuff as Lucy ‘Lo attempts to reconcile this musical poly-amour, invoking hip hop’s love of 70’s soul samples, and interpreting it in the form of modern house. He also took our 20 Qs below.

1. What is your dream of happiness?

A bottle of whiskey, a pack of belmonts and a stack of Capitol Records LPs from the 1960’s

2. Blonde or Brunette?

Brunette

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?

Integrity

4. What do you fear most?

Living life based on someone else’s expectations.

5. 808s or 909s?

I’m a 707 man.

6. What’s your biggest regret?

I was supposed to go to New Orleans for the first time in the summer of 2004 and canceled for reasons I can’t remember. That was two months before Katrina, and I feel like I’ll never understand why it was America’s last great (live) music mecca.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

Paris Social Club

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

My blue polo oxford cloth

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

James Brown (’71-75)

Lou Rawls (’64-’67)

Rakim (’86-’88)

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

1980’s —> the downfall of disco in the late ‘70s opens the creative doors house and hip hop in the ‘80s

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

Blind. Music and the fact that I hate texting.

12.How old is too old?

You’re too old when it doesn’t feel good anymore

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

Refer to question 1.

14. Who’s your hero?

My dad. Work ethic like a motherfucker (no pun intended).

15. What’s your favourite colour?

“My favorite hue is Jay-Z Blue.” Psych. My favorite colour is black.

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

The Eagles – Hotel California

17. Metallica or Madonna?

Madonna as long as Nile Rodgers produces

18. What’s your most hated vice?

After hours. Also, TUMS.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

I always found Leon Trotsky’s narrative to be pretty tragic.

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?

Citizen Cope (2005 – Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto)

Gonzales (2009 – Toronto)

JB Boogie- (2006 – Bilbouquet in Paris)

Young Galaxy’s third, and most recent album, “Shapeshifting”, is pretty damn gorgeous. It reminds us of so many other artists we love but in a new way where it sounds entirely their own. There’s a distinctive “album” feel throughout, which is to say you can just press play and let it go. It’s got all the airy ethereal stuff we like about Bat For Lashes, but it’s also got that sunny Sunday morning omelet making feel that early Phoenix albums had. If that makes any sense at all. In any case, we think you can listen to this album while you study, at your mom’s place for dinner, or in bed with a lover. It’s hopeful enough that it sounds upbeat and happy, but not so up-tempo that you can’t listen to it at the office. It’s gonna sound great outdoors on the concert circuit this summer for sure. Shit, we’re even digging the cover artwork. Just go buy it. You won’t regret it. Besides, you can say you were one of the firsts when they’re up for the next Polaris. Oh, and band mate Stephen Ramsay took our 20 Qs. Look at that, fun.

1. What is your dream of happiness?
Pantless afternoons full of Ayahuasca, Pimm’s and Ginger, and lawn bowling in pristine white suits

2. Blonde or Brunette?
Rodent

3. What is the quality you like most in a person?

Killer abs

4. What do you fear most?

Tied for 1st: death and eternal life

5. 808s or 909s?

606s!

6. What’s your biggest regret?

Not becoming a professional athlete

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

Tied for first: Cafe De Dokter, Amsterdam and The Angel’s Share, Manhattan , NYC

The Crow and Gate, Nanaimo , British Columbia

Some crazy bar in Tokyo with a bar shaped like a triangle that sat something like 4 people and had a tiny deadlocked japanese girl playing devastating dub reggae

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

The front door key to my apartment

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

John Bonham

Syd Barrett

Jesus

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

September 1973

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

What a horrible question! I guess blind, seeing as I’m a musician

12. How old is too old?

Me

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

See question one

14. Who’s your hero?

No more heroes

15. What’s your favourite colour?

‘My favourite colour is gold’

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

What’s playing on commercial radio this moment?

17. Metallica or Madonna?

Madallica, the perfect rock beast. Less effeminate than Metallica, less manly than Madonna

18. What’s your most hated vice?

I don’t hate my vices anymore. We have an understanding. Is eating too fast a vice?

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

Poor Billy Mumphry, who died from ‘unbridled enthusiasm’

20. What are the top three live shows you have ever seen?

The Verve, 1991, Vancouver – Space rock is amazing when done well and you happen to have eaten hash brownies

Spiritualized, 1995, Vancouver – Space rock is amazing when done well and you happen to have eaten hash brownies
Tindersticks, 1995, Vancouver – Art rock is amazing when done well and you happen to have had 25 glasses of red wine

Who doesn’t love the sticky sweet pop beats and rap hooks of Toronto native, Diamond Rings? No one we’ve met. Well his debut full length album is coming out on October 25th, and in celebration of this joyous occasion we asked him the 20 Qs.

1. What is your dream of happiness?

Touring the world and hanging with my friends.

2. Blonde or Brunette?

Bleach blonde brunettes.

3. What is the quality you like most in a man?

Um? Whether or not they like basketball?

4. What do you fear most?

Fear itself.

5. 808s or 909s?

909s actually. They’ve got a better snare sound.

6. What’s your biggest regret?

No regrets, coyote.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

Club Med.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

Peanut Butter.

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

PS I Love You, Grace Jones, Nirvana.

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

The here and now.

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

Third eye blind. The singer was way cute.

12. How old is too old?

Old enough.

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

Keeping fit and having fun.

14. Who’s your hero?

Anybody who follows their heart.

15. What’s your favourite colour?

Violet.

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

I don’t talk trash other bands.

17. Metallica or Madonna?

Madonna covering Metallica.

18. What’s your most hated vice?

The magazine.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

That’s way too heavy for me right now. Let’s come back to that…

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?

Devo at SXSW in 2009, Fever Ray in Montreal last fall, and PS I Love you every time I see them.

Charles F of Winter Gloves took the 20 Qs leading up to their badass tour from Montreal (Sept 4), to Montreal again (Sept 25), then New York (Rochester, NYC and Brooklyn), Baltimore (Oct 4), and even Orlando (Oct 10). Alas there is no scheduled Toronto Date at this time, but Montreal is a nice weekend get away. Think about it.

1. What is your dream of happiness?

Sugar.

2. Blonde or Brunette?

Brunette, not many blondes in Montreal. Oh wait… Blonde, not many blondes in Montreal.

3. What is the quality you like most in a woman?

Negotiation skills.

4. What do you fear most?

My mom.

5. 808s or 909s?

808s !

6. What’s your biggest regret?

I should have answered “There’s nothing like a real drum kit” at question 5.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?

It was the Master Mariner (Brighton, UK) before the manager robbed the place and ran away.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

My glasses

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?

Julian Casablanca, Elliot Smith, Jimi Hendrix

10. What is your favorite decade in music?

2000′s for the rebirth of Garage music and Indie culture. The Strokes saved the world.

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?

Blind, couldn’t live without the music!

12. How old is too old?

When you’re not impressed anymore.

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

Producing my favorite bands in the south of France.

14. Who’s your hero?

Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks).

15. What’s your favourite colour?

Red !

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?

Kings Of Leon, Use Somebody

17. Metallica or Madonna?

Madonna. Better taste in clothes.

18. What’s your most hated vice?

Asking for directions to systematically not follow them.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?

Really ? Oedipus or Kurt Cobain ?

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?

1-Beck  4-Radiohead  3-Spoon