Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Mindil Beach Markets, Towers and Trees on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Victoria’s Mindil Beach Markets stopped by the radio factory for a liver performance of their song “Love Like Mine.” The times were glorious. Turn it up!
If you’re living on Paradise Island, chekc out their show at Sugar Nightclub on Friday, February 14th. The show features Towers and Trees!
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Slam Dunk, Squamish Valley Music Festival on January 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
There is a lot of excitement ’round these parts for the Squamish Valley Music Festival going down August, 8th, 9th and 10th in… Squamish, BC! Tickets on sale next Friday for close to $300!
Line up looks special, highlights include Arcade Fire, Bruno Mars, Eminem… and then a pretty good slice of what’s new and hot. As always seems to be the case with summer festivals, I’ll be DJing a wedding that weekend in Victoria, BUT maybe my better and prettier half will get a chance to go!
Lots of great local and local-ish acts including a band from Victoria, that to be honest, I am not overly familiar with. A friend of the show from Boston asked me about them awhile ago. So I found out about this local band from a dude in Boston, huh.
The group is Slam Dunk. Check out this song!
I feel like an idiot for not being more into these guys earlier. So good. Like a frantic, weirder Modest Mouse.
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Johnny Galactic on January 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Have a listen to Johnny Galactic performing “San Francisco Babe” live on the Zone @ 91-3.
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Tower of Dudes on January 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Victoria’s Tower of Dudes are a Gypsy punk band. Principles (and married couple) Johnny and Tarah started performing together when living in the Czech Republic. They brought themselves back to Victoria and rounded out the lineup. Now they have a full length LP coming out on March 1st called Make Your Own Culture. Let’s put up the title track.
See The Tower of Dudes rock that washboard at Lucky Bar, Friday March 14th.
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged JP maurice, Maurice on November 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
JP Maurice sent a dispatch from Rome…. his song “The Other One” is getting some love in Vancouver on The Peak, and he was hoping we’d check it out here in Victoria.
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Ellice Blackout on October 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Friend of the show, Josh… is ready to share his band with the WORLD!
The group straight outta Rock Bay is called Ellice Blackout. The band is new, but the cast of characters is populated by guys that have been making guitar driven rock & roll in Victoria for years. They’ll perform their first show on November 22nd at Sugar Nightclub (I might DJ between the bands?). Also on the bill is Aegis Fang and The Harbour Sound.
The band’s ep is called Bad Tattoo and we’ll hit play on track one, “Bad Tattoo.”
Pencil November 22nd into your Blackberry and I’ll see you there!
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged and the raven, Brandon Delyzer on June 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Some dark synth driven music from the Rain Forest Kingdom.
The collective is called & The Raven. At its center, & The Raven is producer Brandon Delyzer. He creates, writes and performs with a fluid collection of artists and singers.
His current record is called In Triangles. The feature cut is “Retreat.”
The music video is a dark and spooky affair.
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Black Tie Social, theset on May 16, 2013| 2 Comments »
I was poking around some old files and found this recording that Black Tie Social did for my old Capital Rock City podcast. The talk was this would be the last BTS show… opening for Theset at Big Fernwood.
Black Tie Social – “Silver Screens” (live)
Just wanted to share because I love them.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Georgia Murray, Lana Del Rey on May 10, 2013| 1 Comment »
Friend of the show Georgia Murray stopped by The Zone Afternoon Show to lay down an amazing live off the floor cover of Lana Del Rey‘s “Blue Jeans.” Murray began her song by layering some vocal loops using a TC Helicon Voice Live Touch 2. I hope you enjoy!
Go with yourself.
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Handsome Distraction on May 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Victoria’s Handsome Distraction are set to release their new record A Mighty Roar today with a concert tonight at Lucky Bar.
HD are a group that have always demonstrated a great energetic rockshow. Their previous record, though good, was not great…it lacked that sonic x-factor you need to pull you through the speakers.
This time the guys tackled that short coming. Their record sounds outstanding with a couple songs that first listen had me engaged. Lead singer Devin told me the focus cuts might be “No False Alarm” or “Promises.” I liked “No False Alarm.”
The Indie Machine wrote about the record and pulled out similarities to the Foo Fighters (I agree) and Queens of the Stone Age (I don’t hear that). But an interesting thread they found was a sound that might remind you of Cursive. O RLY? Listening to some of their songs on A Mighty Roar, you do hear that mid-2000s angular, or jangly indie guitar sound. Especially on the song “Stricken.” With “Stricken” you’re getting propulsive indie, palpitative and sharp drum crack, but with the bigger vocal hooks of today’s modern rock bands. This song was created for a friend of the band Mike Box, who continues a battle with cancer. To me, the standout on the record.
The whole record clocks in at what? 20 minutes? I need three of these for my run Handsome Distraction!
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 