archive for September, 2009

In this past Saturday’s Globe & Mail, Robert Everett-Green talks to Johan about the pedal powered show and how it got started. Read the article in its entirety here

Toronto’s hottest new magazine Dandyhorse writes about “Toronto on two wheels” or, in other words, about bike culture in a city dominated by cars. For their latest issue, they did a nice feature on Mr. Something Something.

In an article entitled ‘The Movers and Shakers’ Johan explains how the SoundCycle concept came about and how the band tries to use music as a vehicle for activism.  Pick up your free copy of Dandyhorse here

The good folks at CitizenShift produce inspiring and enlightening media for social change. Under the CitizenShift umbrella, our friend Paul Baines has made an excellent podcast that we highly recommend. Paul talks to respected food policy analyst and author Wayne Roberts (pictured here riding a bike to power our sound system at a street festival earlier this summer)  about the role of food in connecting environmental and social problems and solutions. Torontonians may know Wayne for his NOW Magazine columns, generally on themes that link social justice, (more…)

The latest issue of Penguin Eggs, Canada’s leading magazine devoted to folk and roots and world music, features a very positive review of Shine Your Face. Here’s the album write-up in its entirety:

Mr. Something Something
Shine Your Face
(Independent)

From way out in left field comes this superb release, their third, spreading wide  the gates of listener-friendly world music, but based out of Toronto. From a first listen, it grabs you with its busy rhythmic pulse and stop-on-a-dime horn section (more…)

The track “Di Bombs” from Deep Sleep – our 2007 collaboration with Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet – is included on the soundtrack of an award-winning new documentary called Kassim the Dream. Produced by Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker and directed by Kief Davidson, Kassim the Dream is the moving story of Kassim Ouma – born in Uganda, kidnapped by the rebel army and trained to be a child soldier at age 6. After a decade of warfare, Kassim defected to America, and soon became the Junior Middle Weight Boxing Champion of the World. Watch the trailer here.