So many great interviews and performances this week on the Zone Afternoon Show.
Soundcloud: The Pack A.D. perform “Sirens” and “Haunt You”
Soundcloud: Vince Vaccaro performs “Coming Home”
Soundcloud: Miami Nights 1984 talking about his remix of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”
Happy Friday!
Go with yourself.
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Coral follows Jared Followill of Kings of Leon on twitter. She noticed that he is always tweeting at his bro Nick Brown. Coral thinks, “isn’t that neat.”
Turns out Nick is in a band called Mona. And they play their song on Alt Nation.
Lots of buzz stareting to swell as they did the whole… debut in the UK first, then come back to America and release their record here… thing. Isn’t that similar to Kings of Leon? a little maybe. They sure do sound like KOL. Maybe you’ll like this song if you like KOL.
MONA – “Lean Into The Fall”
Download MP3 (low quality)>> Lean into the Fall
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I love Eve 6. Back in the late 90s I was into their debut album. Simply titled, Eve 6. I then was all over Horrorscope. They used to be my walking jams. I particually remember listening to these CDs in my Discman while trolling Commercial Drive in the summer of 2002. They had a good pace.
I moved to Victoria in 2003 and that summer… Its All In Your Head came out and “Think Twice” lived on the Zone for awhile. Soon after… there just wasn’t a lot of mainstream interest and the band kind of fizzled out. I don’t really know the story… maybe I should interview them. They went away.
Briefly tried to re-form in 2007… still nothing. Then the classic power-trio reformed and here we are. New music, new record label and new album in April called Speak in Code.
New Eve 6 finds the band back in familiar territory. Power pop. Traditionally, I am not always a fan of reunion bands. They don’t always craft the best of songs. They tend to lack some punch. This new song… aside from Max’s voice sounding a bit different… reminds me (in a positive way) of the older Eve 6, but with more a sophisticated lyrical story.
I ripped a stream for you… but if you like it and want a higher quality, the single is available on iTunes for $1.29 or whatever.
Eve 6 – “Lost & Found”
Download MP3 (low quality) >> Lost and Found
Go with yourself.
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Just flipping through my issue of Coral: The Reef Aquarium Magazine. Just so much knowledge about creating and maintaining this wonder of the sea in the comfort of your own home.
I thought, Coral… for a name of a magazine, neat. Also the name of a girl.
You guys already know how much I love Coral… and the desert. I am so happy that if I ever make my way to Dubai I’ll be able stay at the Coral Deira Hotal. Wow, located right in the commercial hub of Dubai… you don’t say?
Travel is fun. And going to the desert of the Middle East might be alright… but why stay in one spot when I could cruise through the Panama canal on one or two Princess cruise ships built specifically for that purpose? The Coral Princess is that ship.
Coral is organized! (or at least she pretends to be) Coral makes a software to collect data and organize it. Fun!
OK, not really….
This is also not very interesting.
What is interesting, helpful and Madelyn will enjoy… If Coral is looking a little flustered, a little heated… just cover her in Sea Cucumber poo. That’s just good science. It helps reduce high acid levels caused by global warming.
Whatever, Global Warming isn’t even real. What is real? The undeniable talent of Queer Performance Artist Coral Short! That’s what’s real.
Coral talks about changing the colour of her hair. To add some bright colours to the ends BUT that would require bleaching. Coral bleaching.
I don’t think Coral needs to do that because Coral is the hot new trend in Spring Fashion! Sort it out Hollywood, Coral has been hot since 1983!
If you find yourself in the Central Nevada region… maybe around Crescent Valley…. look for Coral Gold Resources… they’ll be the folks digging the Au out of the ground in one of the lowest cost-per-ounce operations in the State!
Coral and I went out for her birthday on Saturday. Coral was on fire, it was as if a Hurricane Coral devastated the boredom and low lying regions of Victoria… it was like Cyclone Iggy blasted across Coral Bay and forced all the campers to flee… in party rock joy! not terror.
So cute! Nintendo 3DS is gunna come in Coral Pink!
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Since its Coral’s birthday… here is another best of, about Coral!
When I first met Coral, one of my favourite things about her is (was?) her name. Coral.
I never knew a Coral before her.
I did not know there was a colour shade called coral.
If I was scuba diving I’d be afraid of coral.
I never knew that corals coordinate behavior by communicating with each other. Whoa, there is probably a life lesson in there about relationships… maybe near the bottom of the wiki, in the footnotes.
There is a band called The Coral.
One day I will visit Coral Gables, FLA… I might even bring Coral, but then, that might be one hell of a trip and fuck with the space time continuum. Maybe Coral would hang in Coral Springs? then we’d meet in Orlando? I dunno.
I bought Coral a classic 45 single on Coral Records.
One time the…
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I like this old blog post. So it gets a “Best Of” treatment.
What an odd night I was having. I was tired and went to bed fairly early. I was lying in bed thinking about our bedroom and how, of all our rooms it is the one I wish the most different. Its a combination of boring and… well ugly.
Right now, there is a whole mess of miss-matched furniture and piles of CDs. Some work out equipment, a dining room chair? sure.
The room needs a makeover but I don’t have any money to spend on that right now. Then I thought, “what the hell am I doing, I am dreaming about interior design, what happened to my life?” At least it was a Monday and not a Friday or that would cause me to wake the fuck up and start drinking.
But seriously, I’ll need to get creative about the bedroom. Casa La CorJ won’t feel complete until it is…
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I’ve often said that pretty much every endeavor undertaken by man is for the direct (or occasionally indirect) purpose of impressing a woman. Why women create? I am unsure, I am not a scientist, but I am a man… and men do strange, weird and wonderful shit to get laid.
In 1929, two bros named William Lear and Elmer Wavering took their young lovelies to the lookout in their car. What a magical night over looking the majestic Mississippi River. But it wasn’t exactly perfect. One of the women complained.
There was no music. Ergo, no vaginal entry.
And so William and Elmer invented the car radio… (and William would go on to invent the Lear Jet… and they’d help found Motorola with the Galvin Brothers)… but the point is… they invented the car radio (and I have my job in the year 2012) because they wanted to impress a girl.
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Last night I watched the most excellent of documentaries. The film is called Art & Copy and is basically about advertising. If you have the Shaw or Telus on-demand its in the Movie Central.
They told lots of great stories behind the iconic brands and advertising campaigns of our capitalist world. One story that was new to me and interesting was the story of Crocker National Bank.
Crocker was a fairly big bank based out of San Francisco. By many accounts (err wikipedia) it was a good bank, people liked it, they did good… for a bank. Spooky logo though? whoa.
In 1970 they felt that the average age of the customers was too high that in order to continue success, they needed to recruit new younger customers. They went to some San Fran advertising firm and asked what they could do to change the perception of their bank to make it appeal to young families.
The Art Director thought… how about a jingle, not just a silly jingle, but more of a song. And instead of talking about the boring wah wah wah of banking, we’ll just play the song with a video of a young couple getting married.
Tag line: “You’ve got a long way to go. We’d like to help you get there. Crocker National Bank.”
Boom. Looked like this.
Wait a minute… I know that song! That is the iconic 1970 Carpenters hit! And you’re right, because its both. The song was comissioned for the advertising campaign. Richard Carpenter heard the song and knew the song writer. He asked if there was more to the song than just the minute jingle. Turns out there was!
The Carpenters recorded the song and it showed up on their album Close to You. As the third single off the record it would shoot to number 2 in Canada and on Billboard’s Hot 100. It would show up on Rolling Stones’ top 500 songs of all time and became an immensely popular wedding song. They’d win two Grammys for this record.
The popularity of both the commercial and the hit single would prove to be distressing for Crocker National Bank and they had to cancel the campaign. Too many new young customers! People weren’t aware Crocker did mortgages and this being the 70s and not the 00s… Crocker didn’t want to hand out mortgages to young couples that maybe couldn’t afford them.
Crocker would franchise the campaign to other regional banks across the United States.
neat.
Go with yourself.
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Yesterday was Australia Day. A day to celebrate the First Fleet’s arrival to New Holland back in the olden days…
In order to connect with my Australian friends and family in Brisbane… I tried Vegemite. hmmm…. yeah.
Soundcloud: ZAS >> Eating Vegemite
Happy Friday!
Go with yourself.
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Yesterday it was Robbie Burns Day. A day to celebrate the life of the great Scottish 18th century poet. Today is Australia Day… like Canada Day but backwards and upside down… less snow, more Vegemite. (is there anywhere to buy Vegemite in Victoria? huh.)
I have been listening to a few bands form both Australia and Scotland lately and thought… if ever there was time to merge a playlist of these two geographically opposite Nations… its today.
Mixcloud: Mixtape >> North Sea // Coral Sea
01) Frightened Rabbit – “Scottish Winds” Selkirk, Scotland
02) Altas Genius – “Trojans” Adelaide, Australia
03) Biffy Clyro – “Many of Horror (live)” Kilmarnock, Scotland
04) Gotye – “Eyes Wide Open” Melbourne, Australia
05) Twin Atlantic – “Free” Glasgow, Scotland
06) Twin Atlantic – “Crash Land” Glasgow, Scotland
07) Angus Stone – “Broken Brights” Sydney, Australia
08) Angus & Julia Stone – “Big Jet Plane” Sydney, Australia
I hope you enjoy!
Thank you for listening and go with yourself.
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I bought a new hat today. As you can see. Washington Nationals. I used to love baseball as a kid, but for years now, I haven’t really followed it. Growing up I loved the Expos and Cardinals and Mariners. And if the Mariners are winning, I’ll pay a bit more attention.
I wanted to get a Cardinals hat, but the hat store is chronically out of my size… so today I went, “meh, I’ll get the new Expos’ team hat.” So Nationals it is. I looked up their stats on Wikipedia and they are terrible. Like really dysfunctional. Maybe this year will be their year?
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I heard a really amazing song today on the TV show Hart of Dixie (don’t judge me, Coral watches it… sometimes I watch with her). At the end of today’s episode they played a song from Montreal’s Barr Brothers. For some reason the song resonated with me and I had to look it up after the show. The song is called “Beggar in the Morning” from their self-titled debut record. A very perfect folky indie rock song.
The Barr Brothers – “Beggar in the Morning”
So pretty. I like the long intro the best…
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Went to see Steph Macpherson on Saturday night. Great show… Steph has just been signed by Cordova Bay Records and the party Saturday night was very jovial. I saw my man Jason Cook drumming for Steph and it got me thinking about Jason’s old band Black Tie Social. BTS were active in Victoria years and years ago. I can’t really remember exactly but it was early-mid-ish 2000s. Jason with Katie and Aidan Knight and…. hmmmm Chris? They wrote and performed this great song call “Silver Screens” that I still fire up to this day. I really love this song.
Black Tie Social – “Silver Screens”
Download MP3 >> 01 Silver Screens
I find the song very soothing and almost hypnotic. I can always remember being at Lucky Bar, drunk, but a real happy drunk, and they played this song and it sounded so good. I felt really good that night and hearing this song still makes me feel good.
Go with yourself.
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Its been awhile since I’ve heard a chillwave song to get hot and bothered by. Apparently the scene has moved on… but I can’t exactly fire up Skrillex in the Veneto Lounge on a Friday night.
So I wave the chillwave flag hazily and at half mast proudly!
Pitchfork talked about Expensive Looks yesterday. Had a meh review.. but mostly because I think Pitchfork is meh on the genre right now… not on ONE Expensive Looks song features Azealia Banks soooo…
Trolling the internets and I found a bunch of EL remixes including a remix of one of my favourite Radiohead songs… “High and Dry.”
Radiohead – “High and Dry (Expensive Looks’ Blizzard Fantasy)”
Download MP3 >> Radiohead-High and Dry (Expensive Looks’ Blizzard Fantasy)
Radiohead’s The Bends was #09 on my list of 20 Special Records. Coral and I have the LP hanging on the wall. Back when Coral listened to more rock music… or I guess we listened to music together, this was an album she’d put on.
Radiohead generally remixes pretty good, but it tends to be the later career stuff. Its nice to hear one from my days as a Radiohead fan.
Not sure if I’ll download the whole Expensive Looks album Dark Matters, but I will for sure be seeking select tracks for the playlist at Veneto.
Go with yourself.
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