The Perlich Post

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

B-Side Wins Again: Dave Berry

Check out "Don't Give Me No Lip Child" by Dave Berry – with Jimmy Page on guitar – later covered by the Sex Pistols..

Monday, November 9, 2026

Remembering Pretty Things frontman Phil May on his birthday

Remembering the legendary Phil May with a few stellar Pretty Things performances and his Electric Banana recordings.

Jaymz Bee's epic feature film "MagicLand" screens @ The Fox Theatre, Monday

Jaymz Bee's MagicLand – starring Irene Torres – is screening at the Fox Theatre tonight, at the Royal on Wednesday and The Redwood on November 20.

Here's the scoop...

MagicLand, The first feature film from Toronto’s own Jaymz Bee (co-directed with Jason J. Brown and co-written with poet Robert Priest), is a joyful, all-ages musical fantasy bursting with colour, comedy, and songs spanning every style imaginable.
When Athena, goddess of wisdom, falls for a handsome mortal poet, she trades her immortality for a shot at human love and slides down a rainbow into MagicLand, a whimsical realm full of scheming leprechauns, singing sirens, a grumpy cyclops, a lovable ogre named Oggie, and a kindly wizard. But when she finally meets the man of her dreams, Athena discovers the greatest magic of all is simply being yourself.
Starring Irene Torres and featuring local heroes including Barbra Lica, Denielle Bassels, Lori Cullen, Jef Farquharson, and many more, MagicLand is a homegrown love letter to Toronto’s music and arts community, and a big-hearted adventure for the whole family.
Get advance tickets from The Fox Theatre (2236 Queen St. East) right here. Watch the trailer below. Note: This screening is a rental. Regular pricing and discounts do not apply. For more information about Jaymz Bee's activities, visit his site: https://jaymzbee.com/news/.

Numero Group recirculating more of Zani Diabaté's Super Djata Band

Straight outta Bamako, Mali's fully-amped Super Djata Band explored a wide range of grooves from the Fula & Mandingo traditions. Check it out below.
Here's the scoop from Numero Group...

Our journey into the extraordinary world of Zani Diabaté and Super Djata Band continues with the fourth instalment in our series, Authentique 80 due January 15th but now available for pre-order here.

Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, Senufo pastoral dances, Fula and Mandingo traditions with Western psychedelia, blues and Afrobeat, Super Djata Band forged one of the most distinctive sounds to emerge from post-independence West Africa.

Led by the visionary guitarist Zani Diabaté, the sprawling Bamako-based orchestra channelled centuries of musical heritage through the electricity of the modern age.

Across their remarkable recordings, the band moved effortlessly between hypnotic traditional rhythms, intricate Manding guitar work, relentless funk and psychedelic guitar excursions. Diabaté’s playing was deeply rooted in the phrasing and spirit of traditional West African music, yet fearless in its exploration of distortion, wah-wah and the possibilities of the electric guitar.

Alongside Mali’s great musical institutions, Super Djata Band, A 14-piece powerhouse with a sound as culturally grounded as it was forward-looking, captured a particularly electric moment in Malian musical history. Despite their immense influence and remarkable body of work, much of the band’s recorded legacy remained out of circulation and largely inaccessible for decades.

This series is our ongoing effort to restore and remaster the work of Zani Diabaté and Super Djata Band available to listeners around the world.

Four records into the journey, and the sorcery remains undiminished.

Get the first two volumes of Super Djata Band reissues directly from Numero Group here & here (with 15% off your first order!) or via Bandcamp right here.