I know what you’re thinking… how can “sick shit” ever be good? I don’t know either. It actually sounds rather horrible.
BUT the new Mother Mother single is pretty magical. Its getting ridiculous how every single Mother Mother song is so bloody catchy. One listen of the song “Let’s Fall In Love” and you’ll be singing along. Jenkies!
Mother Mother – “Let’s Fall In Love”
New Mother Mother record will be called The Sticks, its due in the fall. MM plays Rifflandia in September and yeah, Mother Mother is pretty much great.
On Saturday I DJ’d a wedding in Victoria at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Ryan and Emily are a couple from Vancouver that made the voyage to our Island village to celebrate. Ryan happens to be a composer and so during the reception he had a couple performers jam out a song he made for his new bride. Have a listen…
An Ode to Emily: Frustrated Landscapes
by Ryan Trew
Flute: Crystal Yang
Piano: Matty Poon
The song and little concert was such a fun and unique moment in the wedding. I asked Emily if I could share it on my blog and I am happy she said yes. Some classical music MP3s on the old MAS Blog. Good times.
Here is a picture of Madelyn helping me. On Saturday, I hooked the bike trailer up to the bike and took Maddy along as I ran errands for the wedding DJing. We stopped by a venue to scope out how to set up for a future wedding and had to rent lights. She was a great assistant loading the lights into the back of the bike trailer.
Summer is raging in Victoria. Busy as ever with work… and Coral and I are planning on taking Mads on a road trip to Alberta. Good thing there is an oil tanker FULL of new music.
New Bloc Party rolled off the assembly line yesterday. The song is called “Octopus” and you’ll find it on their August 21st release, Four. When I got home last night, I downloaded the song and it immediately got me jazzed on their 2005 record Silent Alarm…which to this day is still an amazing record. I like Bloc Party.
Bloc Party – “Octopus”
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The problem with too much good new music (I know… #HipsterProblems too much good new music?) is that it is hard to focus on any one song or record in the way you might have in the olden days. Its like weekly, or even daily, I get a few new songs across the desk or computer. Diving in and really enjoying music can be hard. I am looking forward to some playlists and long drives to soak it in.
The Killers are back with an album on September 18th… also their forth, called Battle Born. The first single is called “Runaways” and the style is taking you back to Sam’s Town-esque Killers. What did Pretty Much Amazing say….
“If you ever liked The Killers’ unabashed brand of escapism, “Runaways” won’t disappoint.”
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Today twitter earned its keep….a tweet from Band of Horses got me very excited for yet another September release. September 18th will feature the release of Band of Horses’ forth studio record, Mirage Rock.
In the pantheon of BoH records…their latest, Infinite Arms is my least favourite (but I love the album cover the most?…sure). Already, just a couple listens in, and I jive on “Knock Knock.” So here’s to hoping.
Local homeboy and all-about-man-about-town Simon Ogden was telling me to check out the new Dirty Projectors record Swing Lo Magellan. So weird but so hypnotic. I am not saying this is an everyday kinda record… but there are a couple jams on this album that turn the brain crank in new and interesting ways. My first time through I went, WTF? I thought maybe Simon was experimenting with the bath salts… but the second time through (or third, or forth) the album made more sense (kinda). I clearly don;t have it figured out. Who knows, maybe its bad? But so bad it tricks you into thinking its high art?
I heard a couple songs I enjoyed and one of them was the title track.
The Dirty Projectors – “Swing Lo Magellan”
That song has a real cool retro vibe. And I do feel it fitting in at Veneto Lounge. And seeing as Simon is the head bartender/manager there…I can understand how he heard it and maybe thought…. cocktails!
The guitars on the whole album are so pleasantly jangly. Everything is a little off-kilter and unsettling. If you are turned off by traditional pop and want to weird the fuck out for awhile… headphones, low-light and this album.
I don’t follow Dirty Projectors on twitter… so I don’t have a tweet form them, but I do have one from Cloud Nothings that caught me eye…
Sporting a minor sonic crush on Vancouver’s Wake Owl right now. I can’t hear the “Wild Country” enough.
Trolling Alan Cross’ blog the other day (its pretty much a daily read) he talked about how he was into these guys. Honestly, I don’t click a lot of AC’s new music recommendations because his style and mine don’t always jive (I still LOVE AC and the blog) but I guess in a moment of weakness I clicked to listen and wow. So pretty.
AC calls it Ontario cabin country music. He’s in Ontario. We’re here on the coast, so this is coast music. This is camping bonfire canned beer music.
I’ve had the song blasting pretty religiously this morning. If its on vinyl it’ll make a good home record. I find chillwave and folky stuff I listen to the most on vinyl. I guess I am usually in that mood when I’m at home.
I watched the end of a terrible comedy last night… and as the film was wrapping up and the protagonist learned a little bit about honesty and got the girl and magical song plays. After hearing the opening notes my mind immediately raced to the possibilities of the end title song.
I had vague recollections about a couple songs but I needed Coral to actually help me track down the songs… the first idea I had was Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door” but that wasn’t it… no, it was Dire Straits “Walk of Life” that I was thinking of. Turns out it was neither… just some nondescript song.
But the earworm was in my head. I had to find both those cuts. Searching the internet, I found a great cover by Eddie Vedder.
Torquil Campbell and Amy Milan have some new music to share. Already bouncing around the intertron and available from their website is “The Theory of Relativity.” Now I have another jam from Stars upcoming album The North. “Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It” of… “Give It” for short. Punch it.
Stars – “Give It”
I’ve been a Stars fan for many years now, so this song is an easy sell for me. The album, The North comes out on September 4th. Stars will be supporting Metric when they hit the arena in November.
Hai Gurl, where you been at? Cat Power took a few years off of making commercially available music but today Bossman Johnny forwarded this jam from NPR. Also due in September… Cat Power’s Sun features a song called “Ruin.”
It wasn’t the best graphic novel I ever read… it was confusing at times and if you are new to Dark Sun, it might seem weird or hard to follow. But seeing as I try to read everything I can get my hands on that is dark Sun, my mind filled in the gaps and I enjoyed seeing someone draw out what a D&D adventure on Athas might look like. I wish I could draw… it seems like a fun way to create a fantasy story.
It can feel like a challenge, thinking about summer in Victoria in June. The weather has been cold, grey and wet for the most part. On Thursday, I had the chance to DJ on the Rooftop Surfclub for their Solstice party. I was the first DJ up at 6PM and had a 45 minute set before Boitano turned it up and Marshal A and DJ Speedyshoes closes out the night. I posted my mix on Mixcloud if you’re into it.
A few weak mixes in here…but for the most part I think you’ll enjoy the set if you normally listen to modern rock.
Some of my favourite songs on the list… Cloud Nothings. I could listen to them all day. I dig the Passion Pit and Imagine Dragons remixes. Alex Clare is growing on my with every listen.
My next mixtape will be an Osheaga festival mix similar my Sasquatch mix.
I’ve been jamming these last couple blogs out at 5:45 AM-ish as I get ready to go to work. I keep meaning to sit down and take some time in the afternoon, but I get so tired of the computer and blogs and social media… I imagine today will be no different so its another quick one.
On Father’s Day, maddy and I went record shopping and I found Harry Chapin’s Live Record for $7.99. Harry Chapin always reminds me of my Dad and finding the record without even looking for it was kind of surreal, so I bought it!
Woke up at 4AM to walk into the Zone to fill in for Dylan on the Morning Show. Light rain, great light. I was going to listen to music, but I put the ear buds away to hear the rain pitter-patter off my rain coat hood.
The song that did reverberate around my mind was this one from Current Swell.
Current Swell – “Long Time Ago”
A great song about growing up and staying positive.
The Morning After 
