This Dashboard Confessional meme came up on my instagram feed, so I’ll revisiting 2001 The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most.
But I *feel* like there was a different version of that “Screaming Infidelities” music video from an old Vagrant music video compilation DVD.
Whatever, it was a bunch of years ago…I might be confusing videos.
Happy Friday!
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Atlanta’s Starbenders popped up on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify today (after MONA…nice).
The band reminds me a little of Ottawa’s The Balconies. Mostly because you’re getting the powerful front woman belting out a style of power pop-rock with a vintage 80s bend to it.
Starbenders put a little more of a glam rock sheen on it. They even remind me of 70s Brit glam rockers The Sweet.
This might be a sound you can get into if you’re looking for a new sound that built on some traditional foundation of classic rock.
And lets punch one of from The Balconies. The title track from their album Rhonda which came out last fall.
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I’ve been on a bit of Dungeons & Dragons kick lately. Bought the start box set to play a game with 9-year-old and teach her. The quest that comes with the box set is set in the Forgotten Realms on the Sword Coast….so I had to buy the source book of that too. Had to. Then read on an article in Rolling Stone of all places about a new graphic novel about the co-founder of D&D Gary Gygax.
And here we are. Someone needs to take my credit car away from me.
Go with yourself.
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I first heard the 888‘s “Seattle Rain” and had to hit play on the song…as geographically I can relate.
The Denver band has a few other decent songs….
track one from their Critical Mistakes ep.
and track 2.
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Now I don’t live in Seattle…. I live 229 kms north in Vancouver. And it doesn’t rain all the time… just most the time.
Go with yourself.
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Call me old fashioned, but I only trust surf rock from sunny places. Melbourne is sunny enough eh?
Paste magazine posted their “20 Best Songs of the Year (so far)” listicle…. A bunch of favourites made their cut, a reminder of a few I maybe skipped, a few new to me jammers….like Sub Pop’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.
The song Paste featured is called “French Press.” They said, “at it’s core, “French Press” is a surf rock jam, but vastly different from what we’ve accepted as such on the American mainland.”
I like how Australia is an Island to America. But wouldn’t it be the mainland to like Tasmania? I dunno…maps, how do they even work?
Paste also said they were “stand outs” at SXSW back in March. I’m not cool enough to go to those things, so I have to take their word.
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Hey it’s Tuesday, let me share a cocktail with you.
It was a drink I first had in Victoria when I DJ’d at Veneto made by Simon Ogden. It’s a gin based cocktail called the 20th Century. The drink is named after an express train they chugged between New York City and Chicago during the first half of the 20th Century. It was a red-eye from NYC and could get you to Chicago in 16 hours!
You’re classic recipe says,
Shake in an iced cocktail shaker, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist
Simon makes it…. equal parts (an ounce)
Shake shake shake with ice, strain…. and no twist? Simon you’re crazy! You could screw around with a garnish or presentation. Don’t be shy.
Go with yourself.
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I have another for you from BLU J. The Toronto production duo has a song for us called “Light.”
Catch BLU J in a nightclub or festival.
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It’s Provincial election day today in British Columbia. Get after it.
Go with yourself.
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I’ve always liked Rise Against. The Chicago melodic punks have a new record out on June 9th called Wolves.
Tier 8th album took the band to Nashville to record. “Living in Nashville drove home that we can’t just focus on our differences,” Tim McIlrath says. “If we can stop and talk to each other, face to face, we might realize our common ground. We are all wolves in the same pack, circling at the gates.”
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I went out with my boss from Match last night. Jason took me to some weird subterranean suburban bar. Possibly one of the finest dives in the Lower Mainland.
Happy Friday! See you tonight at Match Pub if you’re going out tonight. I DJ after 10PM till last call. Bangerang.
Go with yourself.
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Rag’N’Bone man released a few remixes of his Much Mega Hit “Human.” Let’s have a listen!
Here is the remix from Rudimental. There is a choice one from DJ Kue as well, but they haven’t posted it anywhere, so I can’t find you a stream. vasco da lame.
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Happy Friday!
Tracked down a lobster roll in Vancouver. It was good…but I saw a bunch of their chowders come out in the bread bowls. Yeah, I’ll have to go back. With my daughter Madelyn!
Go with yourself.
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It’s a pretty nice day. Better cue up Circa Waves’ “T-Shirt Weather.”
Whenever it gets like this in Vancouver, it feels like I’m on holiday…even though I’m taking the train downtown for work. I think it is the smells in the air….the mixture of people wearing sun screen, humid air off the ocean breezing through all the flowers and trees, mixed with your normal city smells.
This tropical pop jammer was blasting over the PA while I was using the bathroom.
My man DJ Primitive is always reposting this beauty disco edits and remixes. Gets me thinking about some future patio sets. I’ll be (probably) moving my Thursday DJ night from Match to Personas in Burnaby.
And I think the workers at Match will jive on this one! A modern twist on a 90s classic always plays well.
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On my walks to boxing back in the winter/spring…training for Beer Wars, I’d always walk past this bartender store for home hobbyist (like me!). BUT it was closed at that time of evening. I went the other day. I LOVE IT!
Can’t promise that my next adventure after radio will be opening a bar (or bartending!)…but I enjoy it. Maybe I’ll just open a little tiki bar on my deck this summer. ha
I’ll leave you with one more lifted from DJ Primitive.
Happy Thursday! I’m done at Match on Thursdays….see you on the weekend though.
Go with yourself.
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I am obsessed with Sorority Noise right now.
The Connecticut band’s album You’re Not as ____ as You Think was recorded with producer Mike Sapone (Brand New, Taking Back Sunday). And maybe that is why I like the record so much because it has those bones of older 2000s alterna rock.
Lead singer Cameron Boucher says, “no matter what I feel, it’s going to be OK. Things are going to be tough, but it’s going to be fine in the end – and you have to keep going because you just have to. This is how it’s going to be. You’ve just got to do it.”
They released a music video for their standout track “No Halo.”
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And let’s a have a listen to another great Sorority Noise song called “Disappeared.”
Go with yourself.
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Hey look at that, it’s May! And the rain even stopped in Vancouver. Dig it.
Wes sent over this beauty cover of X Ambassadors Much Mega Hit, “Unsteady.”
The group is called Cosmos & Creature. The progressive pop duo is based out of Toluca Lake which I guess is a neighbourhood of LA or Burbank?
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I don’t know if I was telling on this blog about the amateur boxing match I was in last weekend? Anyway, if you care, I won! And you can watch two bros closer to 40 than 30 try not to get murdered right here!
Go with yourself.
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