I don’t have a lot for you tonight….but it is Friday and I wanted to share something for you to help you get after it this weekend before I run out the door.
Basically I trolled DJ Primitive’s soundcloud feed and cherry picked a couple. He’s such a stud.
Happy Friday and go with yourself.
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Co-fronters Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis from the Toronto rock & roll band July Talk were in Vancouver today in front of their second sold out show at The Commodore Ballroom.
July Talk have been piling on fans and praise since the release of their 2012 self-titled debut. The band’s live show is something people talk about, they scored a Juno Award in 2014, and in 2016 they followed up July Talk with Touch.
The record has already smashed out two Much Mega hits in Canada. “Push + Pull” and now “Picturing Love.” “Picturing Love” is an interesting song that talks about human relationships, sexuality, and how they are influenced by our addiction to screens and pornography.
Before July Talk, Peter ran a video production company in Toronto called Vulture Culture Films with Josh Warburton (he is the bass player in July Talk). They worked with other bands like Arkells, Born Ruffians, and Tokyo Police Club on their music videos. With July Talk, Peter and Josh (and the rest of the band) were able to really put their creative vision into play. The music video for “Picturing Love” is an interesting music that is diving into the themes of screens and male gaze.
Peter says the video for picturing love came about “at a time where Black Mirror had come out and we were really talking about a lot of technology and how a lot of technology is meant to bring us closer together but sometimes it pushes us further apart.”
Leah adds, ” the song is also about pornography, westernized Hollywood pornography and how it is effing up the way people sleep together and relate to each other. ”
The song and video have a dark edge to it, but in the end I felt that it ultimately has an uplifting message.
Go with yourself.
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St. Catherines, Ontario hardcore band Alexisonfire is dusting off their Vagrant Records debut and highest selling album, Crisis, for a 10th anniversary edition.
Alexisonfire had been smashing out melodic hardcore on two previous albums, 2002’s self titled and 2004’s Watch Out. In 2006, the band signed with the US record label Vagrant to try and help grow the group in the US. In the summer of that year they released Crisis. The album would debut at number 1 in Canada and eventually sell over 100,000 copies.
The 10th anniversary edition can be pre-ordered tomorrow from Alexisonfire’s website.
Here’s what the deluxe version of this record re-release is all about.
The deluxe Anniversary Edition will be a one time pressing of 1000 copies and feature a new o-card, illustrated by acclaimed illustrator Richey Beckett. Inside the package you’ll find a new colour pressing of the 2×12” vinyl (180g Clear with White Swirl), a 7” featuring 2 bonus tracks recorded during the same session, a lyric insert and a digital download card. A limited edition bundle of 200 will also be available, including a four-colour silkscreened 12×24” printed version of the Beckett illustration. Beckett created this piece after learning of the album’s references to the blizzard of 1977 that hit upstate New York as well as Southern Ontario, where the band originated.
TRACKLISTING:
Bonus Tracks 7″
My God Is A Reasonable Man
Thrones
Go with yourself.
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The sun comes out in Vancouver in November and EVERYONE is outside. My walk into the radio station station passes a plaza/fountain on Dunsmuir. The place was packed for lunch break. Good energy.
I roll into the studio and got an email from our bros out East in Wet Paint. Jami sent out this bright cheery indie jammer from PEI’s Paper Lions.
We don’t get to hear too many from the birthplace of Confederation so let’s hit play on their single “MY Number.”
And we all love a hot remix right? Here’s Ramzoid spin.
Happy Monday!
This sun is nice. Here’s a pic from yesterday when I took the kids to the park!
Go with yourself.
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What are we calling this sound? Future Bass? Sounds like dubstep to me….
Happy Friday! Here’s Wet Paint with Apriskah doing a song called “Miss You.”
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Go with yourself.
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When I’m not music blogging or playing Battlefield 1 on the Xbox (DJBOULANGER add me up!) I work at a radio station in Vancouver called CFOX.
For funsies, me and the imaging producer Jamie (aka Jello) produce an occasional craft beer show called Sip and Spin.
Last week, Jamie and I hung out with Jack from Vancouver’s Main Street Brewing. Jack was pulling their Stag & Pheasant Imperial Stout out of bourbon barrels, where it had been aging for a year!
Maybe you’ll take a second to watch. Hey, maybe you like craft beer from Vancouver and you’ll consider sharing. Maybe.
Go with yourself.
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Swedish duo Shpresa and Cole are Flora Cash. They describe the style as akin to Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver. I’d buy that.
Their song is called “Sadness Is Taking Over” and as Cole said in an email the song, “seems pretty fitting for this week after this gutpunch of an election.”
They say the song is “attempting to express inner thoughts and inner feelings in a way that feels less like dialogue between two people and more like eavesdropping on the private voices of their psyches.”
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The song is dark, but they seem fun!
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It was pouring rain in Vancouver last weekend (what else is new right?).
I dragged my daughter up the Coquitlam Crunch…she didn’t love it the whole way. At one point she was fighting off crying and I pulled a Dad power move… “don’t cry, fight it off.” But then checked myself and went all newage 2016 Dad…”no, cry it out.”
She did, and was all smiles for the walk down the mountain. huh.
Go with yourself.
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The German duo Milky Chance exploded onto the international stage with their Much Mega Hit, “Stolen Dance.” The song charted all over the world beginning in 2013 and was a staple of alternative radio by 2014. The song came form their 2014 album Sadnecessary and the song “Stolen Dance” would become one of the most Shazam’d songs of all time.
The band returns with a new song called “Cocoon” (which came out on Friday but I took that day off….sawry). We’re returbning to familiar territory with Milky Chance. A bright and bouncy alt-folk leaning song.
Clemens Rehbein and Philipp Dausch were schoolmates before forming the band. They explained in their press release that the song came form a period of reflection on the huge success of “Stolen Dance.’ Clemens adds the song is “trying to find a place where you can be yourself and not be distracted; to slow down and reflect on yourself.”
On Triple J in Australia Clemens said, “It’s about making a fall and hurting someone but working with that fall but not in terms of desiring something but embracing what you’ve done and work with it and look forward, trying it back to that cocoon – some time or space where you can be yourself and get rid of all distractions.”
Go with yourself.
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California post-hardcore group Touche Amore put out their fourth album, Stage Four back in September. I read the script for ads we aired on CFOX for it!
I finally got around to hitting play on some songs and I’m obsessed with “Palm Dreams.”
The record was created during the aftermath of the lead singer, Jeremy Bolm’s, mother dying. The song “Palm Dreams” talks about coming back his mother’s home in California and going through her possessions all by himself.
Go with yourself.
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photo credit: Leigh Righton
I am pretty much obsessed with the latest single from JAPANDROIDS.
This and Cloud Nothings have been on repeat at home lately.
The band announced a wold tour today which brings them back to Vancouver. This time for a show at The Commodore on March 20th.
Craig Finn of The Hold Steady fame will open a bunch of the shows including the Vancouver gig.
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In unrelated news…. I decided I want to be a basketball fan. I just need a team to cheer for…so I picked the old Vancouver team…now living life in Memphis. The Grizzlies!
I called the Grizzlies play-by-play guy to learn about the team.Also I find out what happened to a Vancouver legend, Super Grizz!
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Took the little boy on a hike on Sunday. We saw a ton of fish in the Coquitlam river doing their fish thing.
Go with yourself.
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