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I also wish I could back in time @WorkDrugs
Posted in music, tagged Work Drugs on May 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
New music from @High_Ends, Montreal’s Ought, and another feature from Bastille
Posted in music, tagged Bastille, Dine Alone Records, High Ends, Ought, Yukon Blonde on May 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Possible future band name for my 80s-inspired dance dark pop/chillwave project: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Don’t steal it….
Email from Dine Alone Records, sharing the new solo music from Yukon Blonde’s Jeffrey Innes. he calls his new project High Ends. The email did say, “a mix of ‘80s-inspired dance pop as Innes croons tuneful hooks over a slithery backdrop of electronic syncopations and spooky arpeggiators.”
That “80s-inspired” line is sadly turning into the worst cliché in modern alternative. Lucky for me the song leans more toward the “spooky.”
Pitchfork had nice things to say about the song “The Weight.”
“(…)more akin to American weirdos of various unseemliness from Ariel Pink to Jim James, tapping into a bygone era of retro-futurism and resulting in something so out-of-time that it sounds timeless.”
This song by a group called Ought keeps popping up on my Soundcloud feed, and I oddly dig it.
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Lastly… another cut from Bastille. Thinking of featuring this next on the radio.
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Listening to chilled out remix of @The1975 by @SebastianC_ch
Posted in music, tagged Sebastian carter, The 1975 on May 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Sebastian Carter sent over this beauty chilled out remix of The 1975’s “You.”
The Swiss producer is just 19-year-old. Let’s see what he has for us.
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Tune in to the new @ArkellsMusic single “Come To Light”
Posted in music, tagged Arkells on May 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The pride of Hamilton, Ontario, Arkells…have released a new single to generate some excitement for their third album, High Noon (August 5th).
Arkells are one of the better live rock & roll experiences caravanning across the Great White North, check ’em out some time.
I had a chance to yap with Max Kerman from the group and asked him about the new single and the cover art.
And sure… a cover song… let’s go!
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I heard it on the radio: @glundstromjams covers The Killers and @johnnygalactic
Posted in Capital Rock City, music, tagged Brazil, Geoff Lundstrom, Johnny Galactic on May 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Last week, both Geoff Lundstrom and Johnny Galactic stopped by The Zone (and Michael Wood Band) for live performances.
Geoff put down a nice cover of The Killers “When You Were Young.”
Before Johnny Galactic performed a song, Jon told this insane story of his girlfriend and the jungles of Brazil.
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Catching up to RAC’s “Let Go”
Posted in music, tagged Bloc Party, MNDR, RAC, Sir Sly on May 12, 2014| 1 Comment »
There are just too many songs. I JUST heard RAC‘s “Let Go” for the first time yesterday and the song came out last September.
The song came on yesterday and I thought I recognized the male vocal as that dude from Bloc Party. When I got home to a computer I was able to see the song does in fact feature Kele Okereke. The song also has a female vocal provided by Amanda Warner of MNDR.
The song is very bright, until you dive into the lyrics. And now… a Sir Sly remix.
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Checking out The Kooks new song “Bad Habit” and a group called Jungle
Posted in music, tagged Jungle, The Kooks on May 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The Kooks deliver a new record on September 1st called Listen. NME had a chance to hear 5 new songs earlier in may when The Kooks performed at Liverpool Sound City. NME said the new songs are “a less anthemic, more minimal, jagged sound.”
The NME article also talked about some other performances at Liverpool Sound City including a band called Jungle. let’s check out their 2013 electric soul jammer, “Platoon.”
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Hot Tub Time Machine: Taking Back Sunday
Posted in music, tagged Taking Back Sunday on May 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been on a ferocious Taking Back Sunday kick lately…. the song A Decade Under the Influence came on the satellite radio the other day. When I got home from driving around I had to dive into my old CDs to find Tell All Your Friends and Where You Want to Be.
and a few from Tell All Your Friends.
This is an exert from an old blog post I wrote about this song: “One of the oddest experiences in my life involved a trip to Bob’s cabin at Christina Lake one summer. We had just arrived on the property and were unpacking. I had climbed up the stair in behind the cabin and around the side where there was a clearing looking out over the lake. It suddenly began to pour rain very heavily. The song “You Know How I Do” began to play loudly, inside my head… but the sound seemed to me to be originating from outside my body. It was very surreal, like I was engulfed in sound. It was loud and drowned out every other sound. A magical moment that has never replicated itself in my life, but I hold out hope that it will again one day.”
And here is another old blog post about that time me and Matt went to see them at Richards.
“And the time me and Matt saw them at Richard’s On Richards.
I can’t remember what summer it was, but we headed down for a snazzy quadruple bill of the hottest emo bands of the time, all headlined by The Used. When we got there, there was a sign on the door that said 3 of the 4 bands couldn’t make it over the border. FUCK. We came to see TBS!
Turns out, the one band that got to Vancouver, was Taking Back Sunday. They offered a refund at the door (sweet) then TBS played as the only band that night. They played an “extended set” which was their whole first album. and that was it. One of the best shows I’ve been to.”
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checking out Broods – “Bridges’
Posted in music, tagged BROODS on May 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
BROODS is a duo from New Zealand. Their ep BROODS came out at the end of January and their single “Bridges” is starting to climb the radio charts. Already a hit in their native country, the brother/sister team of Caleb and Georgia are seeing some success in the US.
The song has seen some huge love on Hypemachine having been posted on Earmilk.
Check out BROODS May 9th at the Media Club in Vancouver.
Produced by Joel Little, the same man that worked with Lorde, let’s get familiar with their cut “Bridges.”
Now, everybody bounce!
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hot tub time machine back to 2001! My Buddy Dave and Darryl’s Grocery Bag
Posted in history 101, music, tagged Darryl's Grocery Bag, My Buddy Dave, Said The Whale on May 5, 2014| 1 Comment »
Back in the day I was in a band called Smut Peddling Sam, and I had a radio show on the University of British Columbia’s CiTR that played predominately Canadian punk, rock, metal, indie….that sorta thing. Living in the world put me in contact with a bunch of bands of the era.
My band released just one song and it showed up on the 2001 Spawner Records/Hourglass Records compilation Give Us a Break II.
Spawner collected a couple hundred bucks from a ton of bands, packed a compact disc full of tunes, then gave the discs away for free at Warped Tour stops.
The disc is full of great (mostly) Western Canadian bands of the early Oughts. I think a song that might be of interest to modern rock fans today would be this cut from a group called My Buddy Dave. The band featured a young Tyler Bancroft who would go on to form Said The Whale. US readers to the blog might recognize “I Love You” which charted on US Modern Rock Radio last summer and is featured in this Samsung Galaxy commercial.
OK, Said The Whale… hot band in the year 2014. Now let’s travel back to 2001. Can you hear Tyler singing?
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One more off that record because I still love the song to this day. Calgary’s Darryl’s Grocery Bag and the song “Do You Like My Van?”
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The Morning After 