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Medasin shares a Khalid remix and Mickey Kojak has a song for us called “Get Out”

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We’re staring a long weekend right in the face. It’s Canada Day in the great white north and the forecast calls for …. rain? WTF Vancouver?

Medasin shared his remix of the Khalid & Normani song “Love Lies.” If the twitter is to be believed, Khalid loves it!

My first spin of Mickey Kojak’s “get Out” I didn’t like it. But I gave it another chance and now it is stuck in my head. Catchy jingle.

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Took my kids camping LAST weekend.

While up at the campsite there were two other families. On eof the Dads was telling me Manning Park’s heather trail is the place to check out so this weekend we’ll scout it out. Maybe a future camping trip. Or I’ll try to get a spot at Cheakamus in Garibaldi Park.

I hope it doesn’t rain too much on Saturday!

Go with yourself.

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Loving the new Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever record ‘Hope Downs’

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Melbourne three-headed singing monster band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released their debut Sub Pop record today, Hope Downs.

Continuing to channel the “it’s summer and the livin’s easy” vibes, Rolling Blackouts give ten jangly guitar driven tracks. Every song is a beauty.

Do you have a favourite? They’re ALL my favourite.

Looks like I’ll need to take a Friday off at Match at the end of August!

Thu. Aug. 30 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
Fri. Aug. 31 – Vancouver, BC@ Fox Cabaret
Sat. Sep. 1 – Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot

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Father’s Day is this weekend and the sun is finally back in Vancouver! Talk at my house of a return to the Othello Tunnels and my wife talked about hitting a brewery tasting room in Abbotsford. Somewhere in there I’ll need to hit a MEC to get one more backpacking sleeping pad. Going to try to carve out the time to take Madelyn camping AND Jack. You know RBCF will be soundtracking the adventures.

Go with yourself.

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Friday tunes from Eighty Ninety and Justice Skolnik

Posted in music, tagged , on June 15, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Brooklyn based indie dream-popsters Eighty Ninety shared a new song today called “Dream.”

From the press release: Combining Abner’s signature hazy vocals, with introspective lyricism and forward-thinking production, Eighty Ninety‘s newest offering, “Dream,” is an instantly catchy pop tune that is sure to delight listeners. Ones To Watch premiered “Dream” yesterday and described it as “a shimmery, intoxicating sound that will easily melt into a playlist of summer vibes.”

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Hunter sent me the new Justice Skolnik jam, “Seventeen” featuring Nevve. Here’s another bouncy, uplifting summer vibes song.

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Happy Friday!

Go with yourself.

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Smashing out the new Coheed and Cambria – “The Dark Sentencer”

Posted in music, tagged on June 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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Coheed and Cambria released their latest sci-fi prog rocker, “The Dark Sentencer.” It’s seven minutes and 45-ish seconds of Coheed shred action. Add a couple more minutes for that prologue.

The Prologue sets the scene. A narrator talks about an Earth almost destroyed by a cataclysmic cosmic event. A romance between a pair of unheavenly creatures. The five houses of the star supremacy. A great crash!

Here we go!

It begins with them but it ends with me…their son…Vaxus!

Happy Friday!

Go with yourself.

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