Jenny Charlesworth

Jenny Charlesworth is an arts and culture journalist and online editor at Today's Parent. She regularly contributes to The Straight, Concrete Skateboarding and The Grid. A music and pop culture enthusiast, Jenny has written for The Wire, The Globe and Mail, Spinner, Paste Magazine, Montecristo Magazine, The Block, HUCK Magazine and The Tyee. She lends her expertise to CTV National News. In 2010, Jenny was a member of the Polaris Music Prize Grand Jury.

My interview with Chad VanGaalen featured in Concrete Magazine

It seems in the three years since releasing the acclaimed Soft Airplane, Chad VanGaalen has done some major soul-searching. For his highly anticipated new album Diaper Island, the Calgary musician tackles such lofty topics as unkempt bush in “Shave My Pussy” and moonlights as Romeo on the impossibly sweet love song “Sara”.

“If somebody doesn’t like the song, I have to personally kick their ass,” the singer-songwriter and self-described “hobo dad” tells Concrete with a laugh. “It’s also very awkward to make other band members play a song about your girlfriend. It’s like, ‘Okay guys, now it’s time to play that song about my girlfriend.’ It seems strange on many levels. There are other things to be embarrassed about, though, besides writing a love song.”

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