Maybe you saw these guys at Sasquatch, maybe you just heard them on the Zone @ 91-3?
The band is called Hockey and they are from Portland, Oregon.
Archive for May, 2009
Hockey – Too Fake
Posted in music, tagged Hockey, Too Fake on May 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Victoria Seals Home Opener Tomorrow
Posted in Dave Babych, tagged Baseball, Kelowna Ogopogos, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria Seals on May 28, 2009| 1 Comment »
Just got back from taking some swings and shagging some fly balls at Royal Athletic Park. Our brand spanking new expansion pro-baseball team, Victoria Seals, are back from their rough season opening road trip. Their first home game is tomorrow at Royal Athletic Park vs. Long Beach Armada.
I won’t be able to make the game sadly, maybe I can find some time on Saturday or Sunday. I know David Eleanor will be there as the man informed me he already has season tickets!
Here are some upcoming games this weekend. might be a challenge to find some time, I know Grandma is coming to visit, maybe I’ll wait till Grandpa comes too and we’ll hit a game.
- May 29, 2009
- vs Long Beach @ 7:05pm
- May 30, 2009
- vs Long Beach @ 7:05pm
- May 31, 2009
- vs Long Beach @ 1:35pm
David Eleanor and I were talking about how rad it would be to own a minor-pro baseball team. Gotta win that lotto 649 $50 milli jackpot first. We were thinking of putting our squad in Kelowna and calling the team the Ogopogos. Play out of a stadium that we’d build specifically for minor-pro and it would need to be either as in downtown or as on the lake as we could muster. And like anything Dave and I would do… the best BBQ’d stadium food in all the land…. Now I know what you’re thinking, “own a baseball team? keep dreaming!” but I think it is more likely that Dave and I own a baseball team before Dave’s other dream… Center Field for the Boston Red Soxs! ahhh, the dream.
Go with yourself.
Top of the Pops 01
Posted in playlist, tagged Bat for Lashes, Dave Clark Five, Flo Rida, Four Seasons, Katy Perry, Madcon, Phoenix, Sirius Hits 1, The Beat 94.5 on May 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Inspired by Sirius Hits 1, The Beat 94-5 and this article from Sean Ross, here is a fun mix of some top 40 tracks (and a couple poppier indie rockers, for the audio fibre) to soundtrack a summer drive, a run, or drinks with friends.
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Download my Playlist off iTunes (or don’t I don’t get a nickel… maybe I should see if I can have my own iTunes store?)
01) Madcon – “Beggin”
02) Kristina DeBarge – “Goodbye”
03) Kid Kuddi – “Day n Nite” (Crookers Remix)
04) Phoenix – “1901”
05) 3Oh!3 – “Don’t Trust Me”
06) Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom Pow”
07) Cobra Starship – “Good Girls Go Bad”
08) Rehab – “1980”
09) Katy Perry – “Waking Up in Vegas”
10) 3Oh!3 – “Starstrukk”
11) Flo Rida – “Jump”
12) Kelly Clarkson – “I Do Not Hook Up”
13) Linkin Park – “New Divide”
14) Kevin Rudolf – “Welcome to the World”
15) Pitbull – “I Know You Want Me”
16) Sean Kingston – “Fire Burning”
17) Soulja Boy – “Kiss Me Thru the Phone”
18) Bat for Lashes – “Daniel” (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix)
19) Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks” (Fred Falke Radio Mix)
20) Passion Pit – “Sleepy Head”
21) Flo Rida – “Right Round”
22) Shiny Toy Guns – “Major Tom”
23) Lady GaGa – “Lovegame”
24) MC Joe and the Vanillas – “Africa”
25) Flo Rida – “Sugar”
26) Does it Offend You, Yeah? – “Dawn of the Dead”
27) Passion Pit – “Moth’s Wings”
28) Deadmau5 – “Not Exactly”
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DJ Notes
The first couple tracks Coral and I like because they sample or feature some fine classics. Madcon has some Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons going on, and Kristina jams out the Dave Clark Five. Nice. Just the other day I was thinking that DC5 would make the base for a fine modern dance song. I guess I was not the only person to think it.
Phoenix is so hot right now. The hipsters like it, The Zone is jamming it and the record is a gorgeous spin.
I heard a fairly in depth interview with Katy Perry on Sirius Hits 1 on our drive home from Sasquatch that made me like this chick a little bit more.
Coral loves Bat for Lashes and trolling the internets the otherday I found some remixes of her fave BFL track. The EP also had a cover of the Cure’s “A Forest” which would be worth your time if you’re a fan.
Go with yourself.
Capital Rock City #58 // Goodbye Beatdown, CFC, Blue Violets, Rabbit
Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Blue Violets, CFC, Daniel Wesley, Goodbye Beatdown, Rabbit on May 27, 2009| 1 Comment »
Back from the Sasquatch Festival and I’ll be sure to blog about that more completely when I get a chance to sit down and write.
Right now, its time for this week’s Capital Rock City.
Click and Listen to: Capital Rock City #58
Please share this link with your friends on whatever social network floats your boat. You can SUBSCIBE via The Zone’s RSS feed or from the iTunes podcast section. Just search for ‘Capital Rock City’ and subscribe, throw me a comment and rate, rate, rate.
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DJ Notes
01) Goodbye Beatdown – “Whatchagwando”
02) CFC – “Taste Beats”
03) The Blue Violets – “Desire”
04) Rabbit – “List of Secrets”
CRC 58 starts with a chit-chat with Mark. He was the bass player of Daniel Wesley and now works with his new project The Goodbye Beatdown.
JP Maurice mixed down a new one for the CFC and sent it over to me.
The Blue Violets perform the Zone Band of the Month Showcase this Thursday, May 28th @ Evolution. This song ‘Desire’ has real wicked vintage sound. Almost Doors-esque?
Rabbit wins for best “worst band bio ever.” I think the boys have since updated their website, thank god… but a simple google search still brings up this gem.
The members of Rabbit were born on the planet Krypton and rocketed
to Earth as infants by their scientist parents, moments before the
planet’s inevitable destruction. The rocket landed on Earth where
an elderly farm couple found and adopted the boys as their own.
Over the years, the boys grew to be timid and unpopular amongst their
peers but remained exceptionally bright, showing extraordinary prowess
in judo, building small robots of little destruction, photography,
magic, and teaching crochet to children in third world countries.
While working in the fields early one morning, the boys were bitten
by a radioactive rabbit (a really big one). Unbeknownst to them, the
rabid rabbit had given the boys an array of rabbit-like powers,
including the ability to engineer really cool software, play music,
and most importantly, an extra-sensory “rabbit-sense”. Unfortunately,
while still growing into their new found powers, an innocent night at
the movies proved fatal. A mugger gunned down the boys’ parents in a
dark alley leaving them orphans. With vengeance in mind and the vast
fortune willed to them by their adopted parents, the four boys honed
their skillz to peak rabbit perfection… becoming dark avengers of the
night. Now as adults, realizing that criminals were a superstitious,
cowardly lot, and that with great power comes great responsibility,
they formed a band simply known as Rabbit, and resolved to only use
their new found powers for entertainment.
Music sounds sharp and it looks like the boys have updated their website.
That’ll do it for Capital Rock City this week, thank you for finding the show. Please share the link with a friend.
Go with yourself.
Grizzly Bears, Sasquatches, Oh My!
Posted in music, tagged Grizzly Bear, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Sasquatch Music Festival, Two Weeks on May 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Wonderfully weird new video from Grizzly Bear. Can’t wait to see them at Sasquatch!
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This guy is not jamming out Sasquatch, but I wish he was… I just like this song. It is happy.
Blog again on Tuesday or Wednesday. Have a great weekend.
Go with yourself.
Wedding Photos
Posted in Wedding, tagged Boneyard, Las Vegas, Visit Las Vegas on May 21, 2009| 3 Comments »
What do you think? The Las Vegas Boneyard?
And I am going to be trolling this site over the next couple days: Visit Las Vegas
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There has been some talk of booking somewhere other than Mandalay Bay, but whenever we start thinking about it, I’ll get an email from a family member or friend with the latest deal (which so far has never been for early October) that makes MB affordable. When Coral and I get back from Sasquatch, we’ll make the invites but where we stay will still likely be undecided.
I wish there was a website where I could post my plans and the hotels compete or bid on our business. That would make this process so much more fun!
In other fun and exciting news… The Wedding weekend also happens to be Tyson Yerex’s birthday! And Ryan Rae’s is also in early October, so there will be a birthday celebration thrown into the weekend!
FAQ: Puscifer
Posted in music, tagged A Perfect Circle, Arizona, Arrested Development, David Cross, Dazed and Confused, Maynard James Keenan, Milla Jovovich, Modern Rock, Mr. Show, Passenger, Portia de Rossi, Puscifer, Ronnie Dobbs, The 5th Element, The Deftones, The Mission, The Zone @ 91-3, Tool, Verde Valley, Vineyard on May 20, 2009| 1 Comment »
“Hey, can you play that ‘what do you know’ song?”
and thus is how half a dozen phone calls on the Zone begin for me each and everyday.
The majority of people that rock the radio every day only half listen to what is going on (heck I work on the radio and I only half listen!). One of the most popular songs in modern rock right now repeats the line “What do you know?” a whole bunch so you can be forgiven to think the track is called “What Do You Know?”
The song is actually called “The Mission” and it is from Puscifer.
Pus-a-what?
AKA: Maynard James Keenan
SWA?
I know right… the same guy that brought us so many fine rock songs from Tool and A Perfect Circle and even provided the vocals to best song off The Deftones White Pony record, “Passenger.”
Now Maynard rocks a vineyard in Arizona’s Verde Valley (verde means green in Spanish!) and has a Puscifer store on top of some tattoo parlour in Jerome, Arizona.
Hang on a second, Puscifer sure don’t sound like Tool! there is some chick singing!
Oh you bet… that lovely is none other than Milla Jovovich. She’s an actress best known for playing the hot one in The 5th Element and the hot one in that video game movie. But I’ll always remember her as ‘Michele’ in Dazed and Confused.
Puscifer? … that sure is a funny name.
It IS a funny name. Maynard lifted it from the first episode of Mr. Show, a funny show.
fast forward to the 3:36 mark.
Holy Moly… Ronnie Dobbs… that’s… that’s…
Yeah that’s that guy from Arrested Development. The Blue Man group guy…
Oh right, he was married to Ellen’s hot wife! What is her name again?
Now where were we?. Puscifer is the band playing the “Ronnie Dobbs” song and Maynard plays the lead singer guy.
But how come it isn’t that easy for me to steal the song off the internet?
Good question, maybe your goggle-fu is weak?
Go with yourself.
Capital Rock City #57 // Doc Currie, Aegis Fang, Saul, and The Racoons
Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Aegis Fang, British Columbia, Couples for Christ, Doc Currie, iTunes, Japanadroids, Modest Mouse, Ontario, Podcast, Saul, Sugar Nightclub, The CFC, The National, The Racoons, The Zone Afternoon Show, Victoria on May 20, 2009| 3 Comments »
Click and Listen to: Capital Rock City #57
Thank you for finding my Victoria rock internet show Capital Rock City. Lots of great music this week (just like every week right). Find Capital Rock City in the iTunes store for a free weekly subscription or use the Zone’s handy dandy RSS Feed.
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DJ Notes
01) Doc Currie – “Eastern Shore”
02) Aegis Fang – “Ghetto Man”
03) Saul – “Too Quick To Judge”
04) The Racoons – “Secret Song”
I met the boys in Doc Currie last week at Logan’s opening for The CFC (not to be confused with the Couples for Christ). DC is just two just guys doing the drums and guitar thing. Lots of audio weirdness. Two was thinking they sounded like Modest Mouse, I disagreed and pulled some threads of Japanadroids out. But listening to “Eastern Shore” again on Capital Rock City… it is a little more noisy and experimental.
Aegis Fang! Lets do it, this Thursday at Sugar for Beats and Babes 2!
The good kids in Saul asked me a couple weeks ago if they could use a clip form the Zone Afternoon Show in an intro to a song on their new record. I said, “yuppers!” And now you’re hearing it on Capital Rock City. man, those were some good oranges. I still remember them. And to tie CRC 57 in to The Paper Cranes, Miranda went to Save-On and bought some oranges too.
The Racoons are on tour right now… Ontario maybe? They’ll be back in Victoria for a show at Sugar on June 12th. new ep, “Islomania” is out in Early June as well.
The “secret song” at the end of the “I’d Rather Be Sailing with” ep is a song that lead singer Matt describes as their “National sounding song.” The National are taking FOREVER to follow up Boxer, so the Racoons will have to scratch that itch for me.
That’s all I got. Thank you for downloading Capital Rock City. If you like the show, please share the fine music of Victoria with your friends and pass the link on your social networks.
Go with yourself.
I Turn My Camera On
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, tagged Blackberry, Camera Phone, Madelyn on May 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Everything is going to the beat
Posted in music, tagged Chunk of Change, Fred Falke, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Sasquatch Music Festival, The Airborne Toxic Event on May 19, 2009| 5 Comments »
Looking forward to the Sasquatch Festival this weekend. A couple bands that I will be seeking.
The new song is called “Two Weeks” and in the couple days I’ve had it on the laptop I have developed a minor obsession. The Fred Falke remix will get some love tonight at The Clubhouse. I don’t really know how to explain the song, probably best if you just click the link above and listen. Indie rock? I guess that’s what it is all called these days. I like the remix a better.
Maybe a little on the bizarre, but there is something about this guy’s style that captivates. “Sleepyhead” so far has been the stand-out off his recentish ep Chunk of Change.
hmmm, someone told me I’d like this alt country duo, but I can’t remember who… so if it was you, thank you. I do like them.
Pitchfork hates this band, I love them. I missed ATE at Pemberton because they were on some side stage early in the day and I didn’t get over to the stage very often (or maybe they were mainstage, or late, or…). I was weighed down with my baby in tow and it was hard to move about from stage-to-stage all day and still keep the baby Rampage saited.
Sasquatch, Corj and I are leaving Mads with Nana and I’ll be bringing my walking shoes and thermos of Vodka/red bulls.
Speaking of the baby Rampage… she awakens and I must go.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 