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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It took awhile to get announced…and even ended with a little drama, but here we are! The 2017 Pemberton Music Festival.
CHANCE THE RAPPER * MUSE * A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
MAJOR LAZER*HAIM*RUN THE JEWELS*MARSHMELLO*DIPLO*BIG SEAN∙WEEN*LOGIC*ALESSO
LOGIC * TEGAN & SARA * MGMT * FUTURE ISLANDS * ZEDS DEAD * MIGOS * CARNAGE * LIL UZI VERT NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS * SLIGHTLY STOOPID
BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS * GRIZ * NELLY
REBELUTION * LIL YACHTY * DEORRO * A TRIBE CALLED RED * MAJID JORDAN * LOCAL NATIVES
KHALID * EAGLES OF DEATH METAL* THE AVALANCHES *BOB MOSES * JULY TALK * JOEY BADA$$ * 6LACK
AMINE * THUNDERCAT * CASHMERE CAT * SHOVELS & ROPE
THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE * NONAME * BROODS * SONREAL * K.FLAY* GRANDTHEFT * ROY WOODS
SAID THE WHALE * PUP*GIRAFFAGE * PVRIS *BOYFRIEND *DIRTY RADIO * TENNYSON
MARCUS KING BAND * KILO KISH * TASHA THE AMAZON *A. CHAL * HUNDRED WATERS
As has become a national pastime…. your mileage may vary with this group of artists. If you’re like, “I Don’t KNOW ANY of the bands!” then this festival isn’t for you. And that’s OK.
Personally I’ll be on the Island that weekend, though I might be able to hit the Friday and/or Sunday depending how the schedule shakes out. There are a bunch of bands I’d be amped to see.
I am LOVING the new Haim song. It feels like a demo or a tease of what’s to come. But it is still a pretty song. I like it.
MGMT will be a thing! Muse, Future Islands, Eagles of Death Metal, Pup…are all bands I haven’t seen live and I’d be done to get into. Lots of hip hop artists I play in my DJ sets…would be cool to get into their live show and see what they’re all about. That Chance the Rapper record, Coloring Book, is great.
There a bunch of acts on here i have seen….I think I saw Major Lazer last year? Didn’t they play Pemberton? I dunno. Current Swell is amazing, Said The Whale, July Talk, K. Flay, Dirty Radio, Rural Alberta Advantage…they’ll all be great.
Nelly? C’mon! I’d ride with that. Dude is a staple of my Match sets.
Go with yourself.
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Ruth from Minnesota sent over the bright vocal driven electronic song, “:Out of My Head” from Axel Mansoor.
Go with yourself.
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The Morning After 