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Nick Mulvey and Propaganda Coffee // @NMtwitter @pprgdacoffee

Posted in food, life or something like it, music, tagged , on February 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Still learning and exploring Vancouver. Last night I went on a journey after work. Walking around Gastown and Railtown in the rain. Found a great beer joint, the Alibi Room. Wanted to find Propaganda Coffee in Chinatown (it was closed) but made the promise to myself to hit it today.

Here we are.

Since moving to Vancouver, I’ve had y share of Starbucks and Tim Hortons, but I knew Vancouver was a coffee COFFEE town, so I decided to start making the effort to find a place. Propaganda on East Pender in Chinatown (just east of Main) was exactly what I was looking for. Chill, clean, simple space. The crew knew their coffee. I had a latte, and it was what I expected. And an important part of any groovy space is the soundtrack. I am a nerd for that so I spent some time trying to pick out the sounds…I liked the Nick Mulvey that popped up. They played “Alisa Craig.”

But that is just a sample cut…so I’ll also post the feature cut from the Londoner’s record First Mind.

So pretty.

Enjoy the subtropical rain storm. I am!

Oh and ratings came out at CFOX…my first book…and yeah they were really good. Thank you for supporting CFOX and listening to FM radio.

Go with yourself.

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Road To Sasquatch: Manatee Commune // @ManateeCommune @SASQUATCH

Posted in music, tagged , on February 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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The Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington State will once again be amazing. I wish I could go, but sadly it is not in the cards for me. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy playing along and discovering new bands. Personally, I love listening to the small-print bands. Today lets hit play on Seattle chillwavers, Manatee Commune. Yes I searched them out 100% because of their band name.

Manatees are taking over!

Go with yourself.

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You’ve heard the new Death Cab song yeah? // @dcfc

Posted in music, tagged on January 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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You’ve heard the new Death Cab For Cutie song “Black Sun” right?

Rad…OK, just making sure.

Go with yourself.

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A long distance rumination from @SeafritOfficial + @listen2howard & @SnowPatrolBand

Posted in life or something like it, music, tagged , , on January 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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“Feels like there’s oceans between you and me.”

Ugh… sometimes a song comes up on the music stream that just nails it.

“I want you, from somewhere within.”

I heard the Seafrit song “Oceans” today…what a perfect song for a grey day living across the Salish Sea from Coral and the kids.

I know the Georgia Strait is not that great a distance and I’m being dramatic. Still, this song is a gem.

Hey how about this Snow Patrol song about love and distance?

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Since we’re hanging out in folktown, let’s have a listen to the Folktronica stylings of Howard. The dude is from Brooklyn. His record is called Religion. Sounds good like the type of song you’d hear in a Zach Braf movie.

Happy Tuesday! Off to Hindenberg again tonight to check out CiTR’s Shindig. If you’re in Vancouver and going out, see you there!

Go with yourself.

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Listen to Death From Above 1979 perform “Virgins” acoustic

Posted in music, tagged on January 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Death From Above 1979 is currently on a Canadian tour. They spent the past couple days in Vancouver. yesterday they stopped by CFOX for a little chit-chat and an acoustic performance of their current single “Virgins.”

Sebastian Grainger says that the song “Virgins” is “kinda like a ponderance on innocence.  My own Innocence. It’s not me fetishizing being a kid. It’s me going like, “damn, I screwed up a lot” you know. And learning lessons.”

Go with yourself.

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Loving Glaswegian band PAWS // @wehavepaws

Posted in music, tagged on January 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Made it down to Hindenberg last night for the Shindig semi-finals. Turns out there was a mis-communication and they didn’t need me to judge. No worries, it was fun showing up at a dingy live music bar on a Tuesday night to see some indie bands shred.

I enjoyed Abbotsford’s Malk. And Poles really channeled the spirit Kurt Cobain. Sadly I didn’t stay for eventual winners, Skim Milk…but I’m an old man and wanted to get home while transit was still doing its thing.

One part of the show that I got into was the tunes between the bands. I think they had a person from CiTR playing music off his laptop? Inbreds, Ladyhawk, Paws…all showing up.

I fell in lust with the song “Catherine 1956.” Then I saw this tweet while trolling their twitter page:

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And it was love.

from their 2014 album, Youth Culture Forever, here is “Tongues.”

Go with yourself.

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Shindig Semi-finals tonight! // @CiTRradio @malkbc @thesamdavidson #Poles

Posted in music, radio, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Shindig is CiTR’s annual battle-of-the bands adventure. Tonight is the semi-final at a club called Hindenburg.

One of the judges hurt her ankle, and so she asked if I’d judge. Super duper! I haven’t been to Shindig since the early 2000s. Hopefully that gets sorted out and I’ll see you tonight.

The bands tonight are:

Malk

Skim Milk

and Poles

Fun ATTACK!

See you out there.

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They say nice guys finish last // @SkizzyMars @danmanganmusic @thebottlemen

Posted in music, tagged , , , on January 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Email today from the Skizzy Mars folks…new song. CRUSHING on the Hype Machine.

Not may favourite Skizzy song, but I have insatiable lust for this kid, so beggars can’t be choosers.

The song is called “Be Lazy” and like the title, a hazy lazy cut. Skizzy talking about a mundane date idea. Netflix, maybe some sex, some pills, some weed. Pretty much the opposite of my life.

“working all week, no breaks it was crazy. Deadlines, deadline, they will never trade me.” Oh, I feel that line. OK, maybe I can relate a little to the 20-something rapper from NYC.

Also a new music video. The east coast rapper takes the party out west for a Hipster Woman/Desert fantasy sequence.

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Record label rep stopped by the Radio Factory today. Dropped off a few records.  Amped to check out the new Decemberists album, even though the reviews were not great.

Catfish and the Bottlemen….I can get behind these Welsh rockers.

And finally, Vancouver’s Dan Mangen + Blacksmith.

Go with yourself.

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Check out the Rococode music video for “Banks” // @ROCOCODE

Posted in ...this is your father speaking, music, tagged on January 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Back to the grind after an amazing weekend in Victoria with my kids (and I guess my wife too, but I barely saw her as I was either working or she was dealing with a baby shower for her friend).

I received an email today from Vancouver based Rococode. The band released a video today for their single “Banks.”

The band used creative team Fivethousand Fingers who wrote and directed the video. They took the show on the road to Montreal for the look of the clip. The video does look cool and compliments the dark-pop song.

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Occasionaly I like to share a clip of my radio show on the old blog. Here is a bit from last Friday. I ask my 6-year-old daughter Madelyn what her favourite part of the new show is.

That’s all I got for you. Go with yourself.

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90s style fuzz rock love fantasy // @JEFFbrotherhood

Posted in music, tagged on January 13, 2015| 1 Comment »

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Fired up SPIN today. New JEFF The Brotherhood song today. Nice.

The Nashville duo has a new record out on March 10th called Wasted on the Dream.

They said on SPIN,  “We’re more proud of this record than any record we’ve made before. It’s the most time we’ve ever spent writing songs, the most time we’ve ever spent in the studio, and it’s definitely the most fully realized JEFF The Brotherhood record we’ve ever made.”

I could listen to this all day. Pencil March 10th into your Blackberry.

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It’s been a great first week in Vancouver. Week two began with Meredith and myself filming a music video! I can’t wait to share it with you? Lots of crawling around on a the pavement in a parkade. I am covered in dust.

Go with yourself.

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