Friend-of-the-show Justine sent this one up from her life in Sydney. The group is called The Rubens. Fun, easy-breezy, Aussie bro, modern rockers. Their album, Hoops, came out in the summer and went platinum in Australia.
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Checking out Aussie rockers @therubensmusic
Posted in music, tagged The Rubens on February 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Check out this cover of “Wicked Game” by @VinceVaccaro
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged 1989, Chris Isaak, cover, Vince Vaccaro, Wicked Game on February 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Victoria’s Vince Vaccaro posted this nice cover of Chris Isaak’s 1989 cut “Wicked Game.” He writes on his instagram, “I’ve always loved this song, and today I decided to sing the shit out of it.”
Let’s have a listen…and is Vince’s way, free download if you dig it.
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Savage abrasive rock from @headwoundcity / also atreyuofficial
Posted in music, tagged Atreyu, Head Wound City on February 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Came across this record on Noisey the other day. The band is called Head Wound City and features members of The Blood Brothers, Yeah Yeahs and The Locust.
The single has some harsh sounds, chanty vocals, and dirgey guitar riff hammering away like a chisel.
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My internetting had me searching radio charts. I saw Atreyu had one lonely spin somewhere in the States last week.
The new video came out just the other day.
So down the rabbit hole we go and here’s a music video from last fall.
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Loving the new @TheZolas song “Swooner”
Posted in music, tagged The Zolas on February 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Hey That was fun. This morning I was invited down to the Global BC morning news program to yap Grammys. Neat.
Listening to the new Zolas single “Swooner” today. Great fun song from a record by the same name that comes out on March 4th.
Go with yourself.
Check out this bouncy cloud-house cover of Coldplays “Adventure of a Lifetime” // @officialKoni @gabriellalab
Posted in music, tagged Cloud House, Coldplay, cover, Gabriella, Gryffin, Josef Salvat, Koni, remix, Sebastian Dittrich on February 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Sebastian Dittrich is a German producer under the brand Koni. He took a cover of Coldplay’s “Adventure of a Lifetime” by a singer named Gabriella, and turned it into a bouncy cloud house song (like the sound Gryffin says music blog Yaqui.co). Sounds pretty great.
I’ll have to take advantage of this cover for a DJ set.
Making Of the #Coldplay #adventureofalifetime Remix 🎹 Listen to the full track on Youtube: https://t.co/jxAsiqsf5x 🎥 pic.twitter.com/pfGiqDNIM6
— Koni (@officialKoni) February 11, 2016
Oh sweet…then I hit Gryffin’s feed and he has a song featuring Josef Salvat! Love it. Happy Friday.
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Here’s your nature moment of Zen…I went for a hike to Jug Island Beach on Monday in Belcarra…and along the trail I found this rock with water bouncing down it.
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Friend-of-the-show @MikeFerguson21 has a new ep, let’s have a listen
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Aegis Fang, Jesse Roper, Mike Ferguson on February 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I first met Victoria’s Mike Ferguson when he was part of band called Aegis Fang (and part of the Amalgamated Zone 24-Hour Relay Team? I think it was back then….).
Aegis Fang is no more,(The fang is still a thing but it’s all good we barely gig anymore. – MIke), but Mike has been busy performing around Victoria at various pubs and drinking holes. He has a new solo EP called Hard Luck. Has a bit of an alt-country vibe to it.
This one here features homeboy Jesse Roper!
And I like this one…bluesy.
One more…. a pretty one (and sad one).
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and how about that rain today in Vancouver? It rains a lot here in our corner of the Pacific North-West…but today was tropical jungle rain!
I took my daughter to school…eh, it’s grey out, a little wet. Come home and rally my son for daycare and the walk down it was torrential!
As one friend tweeted…you know it’s raining when Vancouverites are commenting on it.
@Jeremy_Baker You know its bad when everyone from Vancouver is actually talking about the rain. Usually so used to it, but not like this
— Jason Bjerke (@JasonBjerke) February 12, 2016
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New music out of Victoria, checking out LABS
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Adam Sutherland, LABS, Lindsay Bryan on February 2, 2016| 1 Comment »
photo by Amee Nijjar
Adam Sutherland send me over the project he is working on with Lindsay Bryan (and Matthew Longpre & Keenan Murray).
Electro-pop-alternative? The group is called LABS. They are The Zone’s February Band of the Month and the song we have to check out is called “Down.”
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I still love @Beachslang’s cover of Dramarama. And a @Charli_xcx oldie
Posted in music, tagged Beach Slang, Charli XCX, Dramarama, Two Night Stand on January 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Coral and I watched the romantic comedy Two Night Stand the other day. The movie was alright….it ended weird.
But there was one great standout moment during their “two night stand” where Analeigh and Miles are jamming some records and Dramarama’s “Anything, Anything,” came on. Damn I love that cut. Analeigh Tipton trashes around for a bit and the movie carries on. But after the film, I couldn’t help but positively reflect on Beach Slang‘s most excellent cover.
Another song from the soundtrack that caught our attention was this oldie from Charli XCX. “Nuclear Seasons.”
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Looking forward to a new record from @CloudNothingsHQ
Posted in music, tagged Cloud Nothings on January 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
(Photo: Pooneh Ghana / Life of Death PR)
Still one of my favourite records, bands, shows…Cloud Nothings have been a bit out of the spotlight.
I read all the fallout from their hype company Life or Death PR and Cloud Nothings name came up, and there is a singles project. But what abotu a new record?
Denver Post had a story about a one off show where they caught up with Dylan Baldi.
The explained that the band is recording demos in Cleveland and hope to have a record out at the end of 2016.
Whether or not the next Cloud Nothings album sounds anything like that, Baldi doesn’t worry about disappointing anyone other than himself. “People can be fickle,” he says, “and opinions can change without you feeling like you’ve done anything differently anyway.” Nothing matters except for the thing of making music.
They also talk about making a tape label of experimental electronic music. Huh.
(…) he and the band have been on an electronic kick in recent months, to the extent that Cloud Nothings’ drummer Jayson Gerycz and bassist TJ Duke are starting a tape label aimed at putting out Cleveland’s nuggets of experimental music. “We’ve been making a lot of minimalist techno jams lately,” Baldi adds.
new tune pic.twitter.com/SgiU6N7Eo7
— CloudNothingsHQ (@CloudNothingsHQ) January 7, 2016
I do like that his awkwardness is real, and it just wasn’t me….
From the day after their Victoria show where i got to meet Dyaln.
I even got to meet Dylan Baldi, though it was a pretty awkward encounter. I don’t think we’re best friends. Still I’m as happy as tits I got to meet the man.
Looking forward to some new Cloud Nothings!
Go With Yourself.
Be still my 2000s alt-rock loving heart: Modest Mouse and Brand New to co-headline a tour
Posted in music, tagged Brand New, Cannon Beach, Modest Mouse, Portland, Seattle on January 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Kowabunga! Modest Mouse is teaming up with Brand New for a co-heading tour.
No Vancouver date (WHAT!?!) but they will play Seattle and Portland at the end of July. Let’s cross our fingers for a rebound in that Canadian dollar.
But maybe….they keep the partnership together long enough for Squamish in August?
Brand New are talking about a new record in 2016. Last year they released this single, “Mene.”
This is my all time fave Brand New song.
Modest Mouse’s latest record was 2015 Strangers to Ourselves…a record we had on heavy rotation during our family roadtrip last summer.
I remember our drive from Portland to Cannon Beach, cutting though the hills and forests to the ocean and blasting through Strangers to Ourselves.
The record and that time are always linked for me now.
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The Morning After 