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BRAND NEW @cloudnothings! I’M HYPER VENTILATING

Posted in music, tagged on October 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Best music news of the day! Cloud Nothings are following up 2014’s most excellent Here and Nowhere Else with a record called Life Without Sound.

The record is due out on January 27th, 2017. In some of the press I’ve read of the band between records, it had sounded like they were experimenting with some new sounds and textures, but hearing the first share track…I am getting that familiar Cloud Nothings song. Pop-forward lo-fi guitar rock? Sure.

In a press release, Dylan Baldi says, “Generally, it seems like my work has been about finding my place in the world. But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn’t realize you were missing until it’s there—hence the title. This record is like my version of new age music. It’s supposed to be inspiring.”

They also announced an “extensive” tour. But I guess the Pacific Northwest doesn’t count as “extensive.” Sad emoticon.

Go with yourself.

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The five records @samrobertsband would spin us at his house party

Posted in music, tagged on October 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Sam Roberts Band‘s 6th studio LP, Terraform, is out on October 26th. We’re looking forward to seeing Sam Roberts Band live in Vancouver on February 7th at The Orpheum. Maybe we road trip to Ballard to see the group at the Tractor Tavern on February 8th?

I asked Sam Roberts, if we were at his place for a party drinking Fin du Monde, what are five records he’d select for the turn table. The dude happened to be beside his LP collection.

The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Men At Work – Business As Usual
The Clash – London Calling
Abba – Greatest Hits
Bob Dylan – Desire

Plus bonus 6th selection…a J.J. Cale record.

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Jamming new music from @thematineemusic feat. red hot praise from my buddy @davesawchuk

Posted in music, tagged , , , on October 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Vancouver rock & rollers The Matinee announced they’ll be releasing their second full-length record in early 2017. The record will be called Dancing on Your Grave. The title and lead single talks about the passing of lead singer Matt Layzell’s grandfather who had recently passed. The song is a celebration on life well lived.

The band members have been friends and making music for many year sin the Lower Mainland. This record comes after some time off from the group. Members of the band celebrated marriages, the births of children and in Matt Layzell’s case, the death of his grandfather and a breakup.

Matt says, “we were all going through big life changes. After a difficult split, I found myself disappearing on solo road trips into the wild with my dog, trying to clear my head.”

Their song focuses on the rootsy side of rock & roll and with an 80s indie jangly guitar sound. Maybe that comes from their producer Jamie Candiloro who has worked in the past with Ryan Adams and R.E.M.

Here’s some praise for the new song from my buddy Dave.

New record Dancing on Your Grave is out on February 17th, 2017 on Vancouver’s Light Organ Records.

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Go with yourself.

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New music from @TheChainsmokers feat. @ph0eberyan “All We Know”

Posted in music, tagged , on September 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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The Chainsmokers sent a new song into Morning After. The band is at the point of their career where they post a song by the time I get it on the West Coast it has 300,000 plus spins on Youtube. They ain’t hurting for hype.

The song reminds me of their previous mega smash “Closer.” Has a similar vibe. Just chilled a bit.  Features the delightful Phoebe Ryan.

Alex and Drew write, “So we are little nervous sending out this next song only because there might be some crazy expectations but we think the song is really beautiful and Phoebe songs incredible on it so go into it with an open mind!

The song itself is about the hardships we often all face in relationships, those moments that seem like you cant possibly go any further together, but regardless you go on always sticking by your ride or die… “

 

Hey Chainsmokers… no soundcloud?

Happy Thursday… Go with yourself.

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Banging out the latest from @VinceVaccaro “Siren”

Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged on September 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Text to 2-80-CFOX yesterday, a listener wanted us to have a listen to Vince Vaccaro.

Vaccaro is a singer-songwriter from Vancouver Island. I’ve personally known Vince for a bunch of years. His style tends to be rooted in guitar rock. But he filters that through a west coast, beach living vibe.

Over the years Vince Vaccaro has had a few songs reach the radio FM airwaves in Victoria and Vancouver. His new song is called “Siren.” A moody slow burn with jangly guitars and female backing vocals from Kaitlin Jasmine.

Recently Vince Vaccaro performed at the Legends Valley Music Festival and Rifflandia.

Go with yourself.

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Listening to Vancouver’s Carpenter

Posted in music, tagged , on September 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Marty sent a tweet to CFOX asking us to check out Vancouver’s Carpenter. Oh man, I used to love Carpenter, and lead singer Dan’s previous band, All State Champion.

https://twitter.com/martyzylstra/status/779406141117698048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I have a warm nostalgia for 00’s post-hardcore. Firing up Carpenter’s new record Lifelines just blasted me with memories of tooling around Vancouver’s East Side dive bars and Logans or Lucky in Victoria.

There are a few songs off this record that first listen stood out for me.

I think I have a Carpenter t-shirt in band t-shirt storage, I better dig it out.

Let’s go back and fire up a beauty from All State Champion too…since we’re hanging out on the music blog.

Carpenter has some shows coming up. October 6th they’re at 333.

Go with yourself.

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Loving this @ATCQ song remixed by @rhythmscholar. nice, nice, real nice.

Posted in music, tagged , , , on September 27, 2016| 1 Comment »

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Tuesday vibes from Rhythm Scholar.

he took on a classic A Tribe Called Quest song form 1991, “Can I Kick It?”

This song will be showing up on the Match DJ set…great lounge beats.

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Go with yourself.

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It’s still summer on the new @MiniatureTigers song

Posted in music, tagged on September 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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It’s fall…technically. Summer continues to barely hang on in Vancouver and I got an email saying I should check out the new, trippy, video for NYC’s Miniature Tigers (I think they’re form New York…their bio lists them as like, bi-coastal…I guess it doesn’t really matter. We all live on the internet now).

My wife Coral loves the song “Oblivious” so when I saw they have a new one, I had to hit play.

The video premiered on Noisey where they talk about the technology used for the clip.

“We got the opportunity from Microsoft to test out their new augmented reality headset, the Hololens; which we used to shoot the whole video as it has a built in camera,” explains one of the video’s directors, Meghan Doherty. “Many of the effects and objects you see in the video are actually from an app within the headset called Actiongram, that has a gallery of 3D holograms that you can ‘place’ in your environment, so to speak. 

“With this technology we built a story inspired by ‘Crying in the Sunshine’ around our hero, the astronaut. It was really fun and mind blowing to be able to ‘place’ this astronaut in the space with us, and shoot around him, just like using a live actor. It feels exciting and fresh to use a new tool to tell a story. It also felt like I was beamed in from the future running around Baltimore with this headset on. I got a lot of curious stares and a lot of questions.”

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Coral is home tomorrow! I am pretty excited to see her.  She has been tooling around the Cheltenham region for about a week…checking out Bath, Gloucester, Bristol and London. She bought Harry Potter wizard wands today. Neat.

Happy Monday! Go with yourself.

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In love with this chill, dark-synth remix of Queens Of The Stone Age’s “Make It Wit Chu”

Posted in music, tagged , , , on September 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Hanging out at Noodle Box for lunch today and I heard the chill remix of Queens of the Stone Age.

My shazam was no use, but a quick search found this remix from Virgin Magnetic Material.

That’s my best guess for what I heard. The restaurant was loud and the music just quiet enough that shazam couldn’t cut through. Shazam also often fails me with remixes….

Go with yourself.

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Late to the @judahandthelion song “Take It All Back”

Posted in music, tagged on September 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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But then Three Days Grace always said “it’s not too late, it’s never too late.”

Judah & The Lion are a band from Nashville. Their style generally gets described as “genre bending.” I’ll say folk. Or at least what passes for modern indie folk these days. Their record Folk Hop N Roll came out in July and the hype has been strong since. Their song “Take It All Back” is a modern rock charter in the US. I’d imagine it’ll start to get some traction in Canada too. The End in Seattle said it could still be the song of the summer!

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Coral is in Cheltanham for a week and a bit…the kids are at home with Coral’s Mom and jack has been cuddling with me in the big bed. Something about a toddler in the bed, I always sleep well.

Go with yourself.

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