Today is the day. New Radiohead. The song is called “Burn The Witch.” It’s a stop motion animation that shows a little English village. The people are all a little strange as they take some sort of magistrate on a tour. At the end they build a giant wooden structure and light it on fire! Radiohead have been hinting at a new song called “Burn The Witch” after sending a bunch of flyers out to fans. Yesterday their social media went blank…today, May 3rd, my brother Matt’s birthday, boom.
OK, not exactly BRAND new…last week maybe? New enough for me. I have loved Band of Horses for many years. They are definitely a band that both my wife and I enjoy together which makes them special to me. Coral notice don her timehop that it was on this day, 9 years ago that we moved in together to this hip condo on Yates Street in Victoria. 12 months later we had a little baby named Madelyn and had bought a place. Huh.
Coral and I did a brewery tour on Saturday. (video coming soon!)
Vancouver Brewery Tours showed us a great time….if you’re ever in Vancouver and want something fun to do to get you out in the city, drinks some good beer, and learn a few things you gotta do it.
I am amped on the Game of Thrones being back. It got me thinking about the Dunk & Egg prequels….and I can’t find any of them. Pretty sure I loaned out the first two graphic books and then I accidentally donated the Warriors anthology which featured the the third story.
So I re-ordered it! When I’m finished Pillars of the Earth I’ll reread this. Nice.
I am prepping to DJ tonight at Match in New West and was trolling some remixes and came across this one from ZAYN. Coral perked up and said, “I LOVE Pillowtalk.”
Good enough for me, I’ll add this song to the rotation.
Canada Day 2016….new Blink 182 record comes out called California. Right…Tom Delonge is out, Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba is in and here’s the “Bred to Death.” Sounds like the later old Blink 182….does that make sense?
Beyonce released her 6th album on Saturday night. It began with an HBO special for her visual album. On the record Beyonce is dealing marital breakdown, infidelity, sadness…and then reconciliation, healing and empowerment. There is a lot going on with the record sonically.
One of her songs features the ferocious guitar of Jack White and a sample of Led Zeppelin. Check out “Don’t Hurt Yourself.” It’s a rock and roll jammer.
Trust the machine….well sometimes. I was listening to Thrice on soundcloud and the gremlins dished up an artist I’ve never heard before after. California’s electro popper Bloodboy. Her song “Human Female” sounds great. It made me take notice.
No Liars from Victoria released their music video today for the song “Catalyst.”
The band is in Vancouver tomorrow for a show at Venue and then Friday in Victoria at Distrikt.
Punktastic had this quote from the band: “The song is an expression of betrayal, and all the things that go through your head when you realize you’ve had the wool pulled over your eyes by someone you trusted,” the band explain. “We wanted to capture the raw energy of the band’s live performance in a bourgeoisie estate where our kind of music isn’t normally allowed.”
How cool is this… Blitz//Berlin….the Toronto based band that us West Coast kids will always remember as Theset….had their song “Surfboard Fire” reworked for the Girl on the Train movie trailer.
And that sure does sound like Kanye West from his 2008 jammer “heartless.”
And here’s some banger cover/remix….because it’s Friday.
Big Alt Rock news today… Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam covers the Batman theme with his adorable 7-year-old daughter Harper. Now I’m not saying he copied my son Jack, but I will say he was clearly inspired by.
4/20 and Vancouver are like peanut butter and marshmallows. Yesterday was festive in the Terminal City as the entire suburbs emptied out to Sunset Beach to blaze.
It was a new venue from years past where it was traditionally held at the Art Gallery.
I guess a few folks didn’t check their emails…and went to the Art Gallery anyway.