jeff and i quickly took this idea and ran with it. our plan is to draw a name from our music jar each sunday, spending a bit of time reading about the history of the musician(s), followed by listening to a few of their songs during sunday dinner. from there, we will spend the rest of the week listening to various albums, watching music videos, and discussing what we like about them.
we compiled a list of a few more than 52 bands - one for each sunday in 2019 - and we are all eager to get started next weekend.
this is by no means a radically diverse list, though we did try to consciously include a wide range of musical styles, paying attention to ensure the voices of women and people of colour were included. that said, there is always room for more. it is not lost on me that the majority of these bands and musicians are white men, despite our best efforts for that not to be the case. my hope is for diversity and inclusion to be the underlying theme of our sunday discussions, adding to and learning more as we go along.
below is the list of groups/ artists we picked
(it's worth keeping in mind that we let finn add a few names to the list ;) )
| A Tribe Called Red | Neil Young |
| Arcade Fire | Neko Case |
| Bad Religion | Nirvana |
| Beastie Boys | Queen |
| Beyonce | Ramones |
| Bob Dylan | Run-D.M.C. |
| Bright Eyes | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Broken Social Scene | Sonic Youth |
| Bruce Springsteen | Stevie Wonder |
| David Bowie | Stompin' Tom Connors |
| Death Cab for Cutie | Taylor Swift |
| Dinosaur Jr. | The Beach Boys |
| Feist | The Beatles |
| Green Day | The Carpenters |
| Jawbreaker | The Clash |
| Jay-Z | The Cure |
| Jimi Hendrix | The Get Up Kids |
| Joel Plaskett | The Rolling Stones |
| Johnny Cash | The Talking Heads |
| Joni Mitchell | The Tragically Hip + Gord Downie |
| Joy Division + New Order | The Weakerthans |
| Julie Doiron | The White Stripes |
| Kendrick Lamar | Thelonious Monk |
| Leonard Cohen | Tupac Shakur |
| M.I.A. | Weezer |
| Michael Jackson | Wolf Parade |
| Miles Davis | Wu-Tang Clan |
