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Capital Rock City #59 // Crown the Wolf, Japandroids, Jets Overhead, Acres of Lions

June 2, 2009 by morningaftershow

Click and Listen to: Capital Rock City #59

Thank you for finding Capital Rock City from The Zone dot Fm slash Jeremy, not too much in the new music department this week and I have little time for DJ notes… so here’s the set. yeesh, not really selling the sizzle with that opening pitch. Trust me, it sounds better than I can describe.

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DJ Notes

01) Crown the Wolf – “Primer Ride”
02) Japandroids – “Sovereignty”
03) Jets Overhead – “No Nations”
04) Acres of Lions – “Entertainment”

Sorry I don’t have more time for DJ Notes… its 3PM, time to make some radio magic on The Zone @ 91-3. Here is what I wrote on the RSS Feed:

CRC 59 begins with the dramz. Did Pride Tiger’s bass player quit moments before their show this past Friday? I dunno if that’s true or what, but I do know Crown The Wolf showed up and did their thing. Japandroids from Vancouver have a trend of canceling shows whenever I am able to go see them. I don’t take it personally, I keep on keeping on. Jets Overhead is the Zone Band of the Month for June! and back from China! Nice. And the show ends with one of my fave Vic rockers, Acres of Lions. if you love the show as much as I do, please share a link with a friend and you can find out more always at http://www.thezone.fm/jeremy (Tuesday, June 02, 2009)

Go with yourself.

Posted in Capital Rock City | Tagged Acres of Lions, Broadcasting, Crown The Wolf, indie, internet show, iTunes, Japandroids, Jets Overhead, Podcast, Pride Tiger, radio, rock, Vancouver, Victoria | 4 Comments »

Glen Campbell is a Treasure

June 2, 2009 by morningaftershow

Oh Victoria, remember when you used to have a world class Folk Music Festival? Ahh goodtimes… if it wasn’t for Nick and Dimitri and Piers and Coral at Atomique putting on Rifflandia (plug in 3,2,1…details this afternoon on the show) we4’d having nothing fun to do…

Now this festival looks like something I could get into more than any damn Stampede!

Now part of me thinks that Coral, Mads and I will be in Deadmonton in and around these dates. Is Calgary an arduous ordeal from the Champion City? I mean, Glen Campbell?

I’d see him in Vancouver or Victoria, you know… if either city had a reason for the hero of Galveston to come, but sadly, there are more pressing concerns in Medicine Hat and Spokane.

Time to head to the show… go with yourself.

Posted in music | Tagged Calgary, Calgary Folk Festival, Edmonton, Festivals, Galveston, Glen Campbell, Witchita Lineman | 2 Comments »

its strike two for you, and strike three, for me

June 1, 2009 by morningaftershow

I cut my finger today. I wasn’t paying attention while taking the dishes out of the dishwasher machine and a knife slipped. Coral and I were having a “discussion” about my job and about how I need to be the bad guy with Madelyn sometimes. She is entering the terrible two’s about half a year early and I’m not so good at the serious face. A knife slipped and my reaction was to grab it all slick like before it hit the ground… but its a knife and it sliced my finger. Then Madelyn started mashing the buttons on the TV and needed a time out… and wouldn’t you know it, after the tears it worked. She came out of baby jail reformed! Maybe her stuffed Quatchi cell mate helped her find Islam?

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I live life with a fairly hefty level of stress at all times. I tell myself its a healthy stress, keeps me hungry, but now I don’t really believe that. It took a bloody TV commercial and this article today and remembering this blog post for me to realize it. The TV commercial was for Kashi and showed these people hiking through the bush on some sort of trek. I thought, “man, I’d like to do that.” But I can not. Sadness. I also want to visit Greenland some day, that would be pretty cool.

Well, maybe I could do a trek… its not like it requires much. Time I suppose. And two working legs and I have those.

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Blogging about Coldplay’s new live record LeftRightLeftRightLeft generated a comment on Facebook from someone talking about the Konami Code. But when I think Konami Code, I think about this old band i used to listen to all the time called Up Up Down Down (and all the rest of if).

What a perfect song, and what a perfect minute-and-a-half of music video. And only viewed 9,000 times… for shame.

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I think I’ve made my final decision on school. I know I’ve been dragging my feet on making a call for some time, but I just wanted to weigh some pros and cons and make sure that I can afford the prospect of school and still keeping the bills paid and the baby fed.

I think I will try to get myself accepted to BCIT’s Technology Management degree program. Sadly, this program doesn’t seem to contain any graphic design courses… but the job will hopefully allow me to step up and find a leadership role in broadcasting or another business all together.

Nothing is set in stone yet, but I like BCIT better than Royal Roads because it is cheaper, less application hurdles, less money, no on-campus requirement and teaches practical management skills. So unless I find something better in the next few days, BCIT it is.

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Goodness, all this Up Up Down Down I’ve been jamming out has me nostalgic for more Up Up Down Down music. I used to have more but I guess all the transferring of files over the years has had me lose a couple albums. Oh well, Perris, CA was always my fave and its the one I got. Too bad its just 5 wonderful songs.

Go with yourself.

Posted in ...this is your father speaking, neat-O gang | Tagged Greenland, Kashi, Perris CA, Quatchi, stress, Up Up Down Down | 4 Comments »

First Listen: Coldplay – LeftRightLeftRightLeft

June 1, 2009 by morningaftershow

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To Download, click the link and follow the directions: Coldplay – LeftRightLeftRightLeft

Track List

01) Glass of Water
02) 42
03) Clocks
04) Strawberry Swing
05) The Hardest Part / Postcards From Far Away
06) Viva La Vida
07) Death Will Never Conquer
08) Fix You
09) Death and All His Friends

I don’t know if you’re planning on hitting the Coldplay show(s) in Vancouver June 20 and 21st, but this free live record should get you in the spirit.

Singer Chris Martin says on FMQB, the songs on LRLRL are songs “that you might not hear if you didn’t go to a concert, but things that we really love playing. And also songs we think the audience sing really well.” (…) “In a way it has to be free because there’s so many backing singers on it. There’s no way we could afford to pay them all… Our crowd make Bohemian Rhapsody sound like a two-track demo.”

Oh Chris Martin, you know how to bring the lolz.

The song “Clocks” always sounds dreamy, but you get a great understanding of this song’s power on the live recording. That early piano noodling gets the fans amped up and you can hear them singing right away and then during the whole song.

Of course the hits are definitely the songs that get the crowd fired up. “Viva La Vida” is another high point on the record and I have always been a sucker for “Fix You.” Sara hates that song, but I think its one of their best. Most of “Fix You” is sung by the audience.

For the low low cost of free, this is a pretty easy recommendation for me to make. Hit the link already.

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Swim Until You Can’t See land

June 1, 2009 by morningaftershow

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Hockey – Too Fake

May 28, 2009 by morningaftershow

Maybe you saw these guys at Sasquatch, maybe you just heard them on the Zone @ 91-3?

The band is called Hockey and they are from Portland, Oregon.

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Victoria Seals Home Opener Tomorrow

May 28, 2009 by morningaftershow

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Just got back from taking some swings and shagging some fly balls at Royal Athletic Park. Our brand spanking new expansion pro-baseball team, Victoria Seals, are back from their rough season opening road trip. Their first home game is tomorrow at Royal Athletic Park vs. Long Beach Armada.

I won’t be able to make the game sadly, maybe I can find some time on Saturday or Sunday. I know David Eleanor will be there as the man informed me he already has season tickets!

Victoria Seals

Here are some upcoming games this weekend. might be a challenge to find some time, I know Grandma is coming to visit, maybe I’ll wait till Grandpa comes too and we’ll hit a game.

May 29, 2009
vs Long Beach @ 7:05pm

May 30, 2009
vs Long Beach @ 7:05pm

May 31, 2009
vs Long Beach @ 1:35pm

David Eleanor and I were talking about how rad it would be to own a minor-pro baseball team. Gotta win that lotto 649 $50 milli jackpot first. We were thinking of putting our squad in Kelowna and calling the team the Ogopogos. Play out of a stadium that we’d build specifically for minor-pro and it would need to be either as in downtown or as on the lake as we could muster. And like anything Dave and I would do… the best BBQ’d stadium food in all the land…. Now I know what you’re thinking, “own a baseball team? keep dreaming!” but I think it is more likely that Dave and I own a baseball team before Dave’s other dream… Center Field for the Boston Red Soxs! ahhh, the dream.

Go with yourself.

Posted in Dave Babych | Tagged Baseball, Kelowna Ogopogos, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria Seals | 1 Comment »

Top of the Pops 01

May 27, 2009 by morningaftershow

Inspired by Sirius Hits 1, The Beat 94-5 and this article from Sean Ross, here is a fun mix of some top 40 tracks (and a couple poppier indie rockers, for the audio fibre) to soundtrack a summer drive, a run, or drinks with friends.

Download my Playlist off iTunes (or don’t I don’t get a nickel… maybe I should see if I can have my own iTunes store?)

01) Madcon – “Beggin”
02) Kristina DeBarge – “Goodbye”
03) Kid Kuddi – “Day n Nite” (Crookers Remix)
04) Phoenix – “1901”
05) 3Oh!3 – “Don’t Trust Me”
06) Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom Pow”
07) Cobra Starship – “Good Girls Go Bad”
08) Rehab – “1980”
09) Katy Perry – “Waking Up in Vegas”
10) 3Oh!3 – “Starstrukk”
11) Flo Rida – “Jump”
12) Kelly Clarkson – “I Do Not Hook Up”
13) Linkin Park – “New Divide”
14) Kevin Rudolf – “Welcome to the World”
15) Pitbull – “I Know You Want Me”
16) Sean Kingston – “Fire Burning”
17) Soulja Boy – “Kiss Me Thru the Phone”
18) Bat for Lashes – “Daniel” (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix)
19) Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks” (Fred Falke Radio Mix)
20) Passion Pit – “Sleepy Head”
21) Flo Rida – “Right Round”
22) Shiny Toy Guns – “Major Tom”
23) Lady GaGa – “Lovegame”
24) MC Joe and the Vanillas – “Africa”
25) Flo Rida – “Sugar”
26) Does it Offend You, Yeah? – “Dawn of the Dead”
27) Passion Pit – “Moth’s Wings”
28) Deadmau5 – “Not Exactly”

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DJ Notes

The first couple tracks Coral and I like because they sample or feature some fine classics. Madcon has some Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons going on, and Kristina jams out the Dave Clark Five. Nice. Just the other day I was thinking that DC5 would make the base for a fine modern dance song. I guess I was not the only person to think it.

Phoenix is so hot right now. The hipsters like it, The Zone is jamming it and the record is a gorgeous spin.

I heard a fairly in depth interview with Katy Perry on Sirius Hits 1 on our drive home from Sasquatch that made me like this chick a little bit more.

Coral loves Bat for Lashes and trolling the internets the otherday I found some remixes of her fave BFL track. The EP also had a cover of the Cure’s “A Forest” which would be worth your time if you’re a fan.

Go with yourself.

Posted in playlist | Tagged Bat for Lashes, Dave Clark Five, Flo Rida, Four Seasons, Katy Perry, Madcon, Phoenix, Sirius Hits 1, The Beat 94.5 | Leave a Comment »

Capital Rock City #58 // Goodbye Beatdown, CFC, Blue Violets, Rabbit

May 27, 2009 by morningaftershow

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Back from the Sasquatch Festival and I’ll be sure to blog about that more completely when I get a chance to sit down and write.

Right now, its time for this week’s Capital Rock City.

Click and Listen to: Capital Rock City #58

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DJ Notes

01) Goodbye Beatdown – “Whatchagwando”
02) CFC – “Taste Beats”
03) The Blue Violets – “Desire”
04) Rabbit – “List of Secrets”

CRC 58 starts with a chit-chat with Mark. He was the bass player of Daniel Wesley and now works with his new project The Goodbye Beatdown.

JP Maurice mixed down a new one for the CFC and sent it over to me.

The Blue Violets perform the Zone Band of the Month Showcase this Thursday, May 28th @ Evolution. This song ‘Desire’ has real wicked vintage sound. Almost Doors-esque?

Rabbit wins for best “worst band bio ever.” I think the boys have since updated their website, thank god… but a simple google search still brings up this gem.

The members of Rabbit were born on the planet Krypton and rocketed
to Earth as infants by their scientist parents, moments before the
planet’s inevitable destruction. The rocket landed on Earth where
an elderly farm couple found and adopted the boys as their own.
Over the years, the boys grew to be timid and unpopular amongst their
peers but remained exceptionally bright, showing extraordinary prowess
in judo, building small robots of little destruction, photography,
magic, and teaching crochet to children in third world countries.
While working in the fields early one morning, the boys were bitten
by a radioactive rabbit (a really big one). Unbeknownst to them, the
rabid rabbit had given the boys an array of rabbit-like powers,
including the ability to engineer really cool software, play music,
and most importantly, an extra-sensory “rabbit-sense”. Unfortunately,
while still growing into their new found powers, an innocent night at
the movies proved fatal. A mugger gunned down the boys’ parents in a
dark alley leaving them orphans. With vengeance in mind and the vast
fortune willed to them by their adopted parents, the four boys honed
their skillz to peak rabbit perfection… becoming dark avengers of the
night. Now as adults, realizing that criminals were a superstitious,
cowardly lot, and that with great power comes great responsibility,
they formed a band simply known as Rabbit, and resolved to only use
their new found powers for entertainment.