Nice mix here. Some unexpected choices (especially the wild pick at No. 1 that you won't see coming). More jazz and blues, please.

Bill Frisell goes full throttle with 'In My Dreams', his 5th Blue Note album out February 27. Featuring a stellar new sextet, the title track is live today. This record melds live spontaneity with studio craft for a high-speed collision of talent and vision. zurl.co/FSf77

"consistently moving, funny and breathtaking" and "every single moment is gorgeous or thrilling." Yawn, if you like that kind of thing. Three stars.

Though edits to the manuscript were made at Martin Scorsese’s request, the director’s preference “would be for it not to come out," says Jared Levine, Robbie Robertson’s manager. @bradwheelerglobe.bsky.social on Robertson's posthumous tell-all. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Can’t a single actor at the Golden Globes address the fact that their country is becoming a Nazi state? Shocking that the horrors of ICE have been ignored.

RAE SPOON returns to country roots for new LP, ‘Assigned Country Singer at Birth’ completecountry.ca/rae-spoon-re... | via Complete Country Magazine

Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.

A new book by Mark Ribowsky explores the life, sound, and lasting influence of Chet Atkins, tracing how his guitar style helped shape the Nashville Sound and generations of music. zurl.co/U874y

We were trying to count down the New Year’s in Mexico City by watching the Chicago live feed and instead the screen froze on this poor dude’s face. Is he the spirit of 2026??

That is @ronsexsmith.bsky.social with the Sadies at @horseshoetavern.bsky.social tonight. His interaction with the Sadies involved songs by Cat Stevens, the Kinks, the Who and the Sadies, as well as cuts from his latest album. #TheyCallHimTheSeeker

Real lack of imagination when it comes to laying nicknames on players by the Raptors broadcasters. Collin Murray-Boyles is "CMB" and Brandon Ingram is "BI." Thank god I don't have to hear "Spicy P" any longer. #GetThatGarbageOutOfHere

Christmas Travellers Maud Lewis c. 1960

Hayden was Cameron Winter first. youtu.be/eaElsJE-7D4?...

The mugshot of the Canadians who bootlegged the 60 Minutes tape..

"Kids today" are the ones buying vinyl. Do they have record players though?

Attention, music nerds! We are now accepting applications to join the #Polaris2026 jury. More info: polarismusicprize.ca/jury-applica...

What do we call Lauryn Hill's giant white hat (besides "giant white hat")?

This was in the middle of Gord’s poem about nearly drowning. One of my Top 5 musical experiences of all time.

Ford closed the science centre for no reason, is shrinking it dramatically, and gov’t doesn’t want you to know the truth about this. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

These political "tribute" posts for Rob Reiner are rampant tonight. This one is the worst. The disingenuous "forget that," when he clearly can't, not even for a second.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Here at Crow's Theatre for @healey.bsky.social's Rogers v. Rogers. The Rogers-red staging is so hypnotizing I just upgraded my cable bundle.

Looking forward to Rogers v. Rogers tonight. It is not a play about the Jays' recent negotiations to sign relief pitcher Tyler Rogers. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

Apparently I got a nice shout out in the Globe & Mail today! RS

Daniel Lanois is sitting in with Junkhouse at the Horseshoe Tavern tonight and it is as glorious as you would imagine it to be.

In which Joel Plaskett writes about the recent Neil Young tribute at Massey Hall. thewindowinn.substack.com/p/forever-yo...

This came out last year, but I missed it and maybe you did as well. Cara Delevingne is Elton John in a recreation of the 1974 video for Step Into Christmas. youtu.be/dVptrkqoUDc?...

Wow! @theweatherstation.bsky.social has posted their entire concert from last summer at The Concert Hall in Toronto to YouTube. One of my favorite acts out there right now. Tamara & Co. are freakin' amazing. youtu.be/q1K0U38zz9c?...

Calgary dancer Tate McRae gets cover of Rolling Stone's popular annual swimsuit edition.

The premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 at Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808. (If only to start a slow clap right after.)

Her answers failed the Whereabouts System.

Dana Sipos is good Sunday morning listening. A nice counterbalance to the network news shows. Strange To My Mind in particular is sunshine through the tree leaves and would be perfectly at home on the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack.

My obituary for Frank Gehry: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

They will, they will, schlock you. Here's @aislingmurph.bsky.social on the Queen jukebox musical in Toronto. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

I've never experienced this, actually. What I have noticed is people lining up to the cashiers when multiple self-checkouts are available.

Razor-sharp, entertaining read.

Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.

Stunning concert by Elisapie at Danforth Music Hall tonight. The main set of the meditation on loss and a celebration of music radio ended with an Inuktitut cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.

New Chevrolet holiday commercial and sentimental short film uses the 2007 Cinematic Orchestra song To Build a Home, featuring vocals and piano by Montreal's Patrick Watson, who co-wrote the song. youtube.com/watch?v=NB-D...

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Wow.