I think we say Vancouver band The Matinee… but they’re Coquitlam guys to me. The Matinee put out a record last week called We Swore We’d See The Sunrise.
Their tour has this alt-country-ish sounding band crossing Canada. They are in Victoria on Friday, March 8th at Club 9one9.
They will also be part of the Squamish Music Festival in August!
Let’s have a listen to the first single “Young and Lazy.”
Go with yourself.
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Amazing heads up from my radio friend Madeline over at CBC Victoria. She shared this link from a design blog that posted about a flower arrangement inspired by Band of Horses most excellent 2006 record Everything All The Time.
READ Author SarahB’s Sound Garden: Everything All The Time
Living in the Garden City, many of us dabble in the world of making things grow. How wonderful would it be to theme that patio jungle after a favourite band, album, or song.
SarahB created an arrangement based on a favourite record of both myself and my wife Coral. We love this album and have been fortunate enough to see Band of Horses in concert a few times.
The arrangement is base don the ancient looking forest depicted on the cover. The seen reminds me a lot of what we’d discover trekking through the bush on our Island.
The blog post takes you through a step-by-step process of playing with the colour green, ferns, mosses, and flowers.
What a fun project inspired by and amazing album. Though Band of Horses might not be your pick… I am sure you have an album or band that could shape your garden and personal space.
Go with yourself.
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The movie Drive has a pretty solid soundtrack. The producers have decided to put it out on vinyl and took the time to design a quality looking cover and package.
Pitchfork says that the post art is done by the “legendary” Tyler Stout. If you’re a fan of the movie, the soundtrack, or cartoon Ryan Gosling, you can order the record on March 22nd from Mondo.
Go with yourself.
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Let’s have a listen to Toronto’s Decades. Dark, reverby, fuzzy, melodramatic (their word) pop. Reminds me so much of Vancouver’s Elizabeth.
You might also get down to the track “Tonight Again.”
Go with yourself.
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The Zone Band of the Month, Towers and Trees came on the radio today to perform a couple quality songs.
The first they performed was their local hit, “Montreal.” I had to ask Adrian (the lead singer) if the song was auto-biographical or fantasy. He said it was fantasy, but some of the thoughts (he won’t say which) later became facts after a recent trip to Quebec. Atta boy.
They they performed the first song off their record, Broken Record. The song is called “We’re Not island” and Adrian says its about love. d’aww.
Look for Towers and Trees at VicFest this June.
Go with yourself.
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CERN just collided two of my wife’s favourites. Fun covering Ellie Goulding‘s “Anything Could Happen.”
Recoded by the BBC because that what’s they do… get bands to lay down a cover. And bless them for that. When I ask bands to play a cover on my radio show they say, “uh no.”
Go with yourself.
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A simple edit of the classic Paul Simon jam for the dance floor by Flight Facilities.
Go with yourself.
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An email from my homeboy Matt let me know that Rolla Olak will be opening for Vince Vaccaro on March 15th at Sugar Nightclub.
Zoners of a certain vintage year will remember a band of the month called Grace Nocturnal. Then he joined Boy, a Canadian indie band of the mid-2000s. They had a couple modern rock radio hits including this 2004 jam, “Up In This Town.”
These days, Rolla (who I believe is based out of Vancouver?) is doing a solo thing. I’ve been listening to his latest record Western Heart today and really feeling the song “Rainy Day.” What a perfect sad, raining day song to dream about your crush to (or dwell on a love that went south?).
Go with yourself.
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Victoria rockers Mindil Beach Markets stopped by the Zone Afternoon Show to talk about their new record, It Might Take Long, talk about the dead frog on the cover, and lay down a live take of their single “Smoking Gun.”
MBM perform THIS Friday at Sugar Nightclub.
Go with yourself.
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Sometimes it can feel like a band came out of “nowhere.” But that is almost never the case.
Glasgow’s Chvrches are quickly becoming one of my favourite groups. Pitchfork caught up with the group to get some of their ideas. One part that stood out for me was lead singer Lauren Mayberry talking about women in music and in pop music.
“I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women’s writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used. It’s something that I think about all the time, so I’ve been on the offensive with that from the start. We’ve had a couple of situations where people pitched things to us that we would never do, like individual entries in women’s magazines. It’s nice of them to offer, but I don’t ever want to do that. Not that there’s anything wrong with anybody doing that– that’s absolutely their choice– but it would make it trickier for me to sleep at night. I worry enough anyway.”
She goes on to talk about her lyrics.
“Someone once said to me that no one gives a shit about the lyrics in pop songs, but I find that very offensive because I always listen to them. I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics– like, “baby, baby, the sun is shining”– that’s not something that interests me personally. I’m always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.”
Great article. And band member Martin Doherty performed with the Twilight Sad? Awesome.
Go with yourself.
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