The Morning After

Talking @WeTheGriswolds, @Thrice, & @AidanKnight

January 19, 2016 by morningaftershow

Happy Tuesday my music blogger friends. The above Vine is a clip of my ECCW Wrestling debut…and possibly my last match? I took part in a small bout between some of the main events on Saturday at ECCW’s sold out Ballroom Brawl5 at the legendary Commodore Ballroom.

My fight was the “15 Minutes of Fame” match against Brady Malibu. An open challenge fight that ended with my head being smashed in by an iPad. Good times.

On to the tunes.

The Griswolds are going back on tour and coming to North America. Looking forward to a show on May 3rd at The Imperial with Panama Wedding and Magic Man. Other Pacific Northwest dates for the Hotling Spring Tour include Seattle on the 4th and Portland on the 5th. Weird, last time I was in Portland, The Griswolds were there and I missed them because I was doddling.

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Thrice is firing it back up! (I used to love Thrice) Tour and a new record in 2016. I am jazzed on hearing what a 9th Thrice record might sound like, sad that there are no Vancouver shows.

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The CBC had a story on Victoria rad duder Aidan Knight. They asked, “why isn’t he bigger in Canada?”

“Knight also explains how the last decade of his life has been like a research period — replete with lessons for his fresh start in Europe.”

RIGHT!

Got my old Versicolour LP in the collection at home.

I’ve been a fan of his work since early Victoria band Black Tie Social. Still LOVE hearing “Silver Screens.” (I hope they don’t mind…I uploaded the song on Soundcloud….eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

And here is a live recording from 2006….just before the band’s final show at Big Fernwood.

Ugh…. nostalgia, you are a powerful drug.

Go with yourself.

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Songs discovered on the toilet in a @Moxies_official // @JRoddyBusiness

January 13, 2016 by morningaftershow

Half way through this week and I couldn’t be happier. Some weeks rage by, others are a grind. This one is a grind. Busy and I feel like I’ve been chasing every day. It is mentally exhausting.

I did turn 36 on Sunday. That was fun. We went snowshoeing up at Seymour with our friends Jen and Bob and their new baby Cameron. Then Coral and I went out with our daughter Madelyn to a Moxie’s in Surrey for a birthday dinner.

After dinner and cake, I had to excuse myself to the washroom. And while sitting on the toilet I shazamed a couple songs. Is that weird? Probably…whatever, I shazamed a couple tracks while on the shitter.

I heard a song from J. Roddy Walston I hadn’t heard before and now all week I’ve been obsessed. It’s either podcasts or J. Roddy pumping on my stereo.

And how about that new The Last Shadow Puppets song “Bad Habits?” It doesn’t suck. My man Stone at CFOX said, “have you listened?”

Sadly I had not, I read the story…and then moved past it. I’m glad Stone made me take a couple minutes.

Go with yourself.

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Check out @VanceJoy performing “Fire and the Flood” LIVE at CFOX’s Ugly Grey Box Studio

January 13, 2016 by morningaftershow

Vance Joy live at CFOX

Vance Joy stopped by the radio factory today in front of his second SOLD OUT show at the Orpheum in Vancouver. He performed his hit “Fire and The Flood” for us.

I also asked him about the stage name, “Vance Joy.” How did that come about? Vance was born James and used to play at a cafe during brunch. He’d perform a collection of covers (like Fuel’s “Shimmer”) and originals. Inspired by a character from the Peter Carey book Bliss, he branded his brunch set Vance Joy and here we are.

I feel like I kept it pretty cool. Too bad I can’t say the same for my colleague Meredith!

Met @vancejoy today. No biggie. pic.twitter.com/pKQUXCb6Au

— Meredith Geddes (@MeredithGeddes) January 13, 2016

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Go with yourself.

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Smashing this new pop blaster from @willa_music

January 8, 2016 by morningaftershow

willa
Willa is putting the bow on a new alternative record and we got the first single the other day. The Vancouver based artist worked with Ryan Guldemond (Mother Mother) on album. Here’s the first single, “Dreamers.”

Solid.

I had a chance to see Willa back in 2014. It was a mesmerizing show and I’m glad that her project is moving forward. It looks like 2016 will be her year.

Go with yourself.

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Listening to some Vancouver fuzzy, hazy lo-fi Cascade Falls and Reef Shark// @RFSHRK @cscdfalls

January 7, 2016 by morningaftershow

me and Bob
My friend Bob (he’s the one putting me in a headlock in Christina Lake…I could’t tell you the year…. we look young so early 90s probably) has a little cousin named Devin. He was posting the other day about one of his Vancouver based musical projects Cascade Falls. I thought, OK, I’ll bite and have a listen. I remember his previous band Reef Shark, saw them play Rifflandia a few years ago, let’s see what this Cascade Falls is about.

And here’s one from Reef Shark.

Go with yourself.

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Back from the Holidays, into a Of Monsters and Men remix

January 5, 2016 by morningaftershow

Happy 2016 intrepid music blog reader.

I hope the holidays treated you right. I spent some time at my in-laws place in Seattle with my wife and kids. I took my youngest Jack to Snoqualmie Falls one afternoon while everyone else checked out the new Star Wars. That was neat.

Found some adventures in Vancouver and DJ’d a New Year’s Eve party!

OK, enough jibber jabber. Tunes!

I love this light remix of Of Monsters and Men. Kinda wish I would have had this for my NYE gig.

I am working mornings this week, filling in for the Jeff O’Neil Show on CFOX…so I really just checked in with ya, time to get back after it with my kids (my daughter took the day off sick so it’s busy around here).

Oh…also we went to Chick-fil-A…I don’t really get the hype America. It’s good, but like Fast food good and not open on Sundays. Maybe someone can explain it in the comments…I’ll take an A&W chubby chicken burger most days of the week and save myself the aggravation of a mondo line.

. @ChickfilA in #Bellvue is so busy, they have a cop stationed there to manage the hordes. #bellvuefacts pic.twitter.com/GDcnt8yBBu

— Jeremy Baker (@Jeremy_Baker) December 31, 2015

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Go with yourself.

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Snowshoeing with Madelyn // @aquilo @mt_seymour

December 21, 2015 by morningaftershow

Me and Maddy Snowshoeing
Happy Monday my music blogger friends.

The Morning After music blog is coming to you from scenic Vancouver. The city sits on a fjord/inlet and at the base of the some mountains. My daughter has been bugging me to take her up into the snow ( she wants to ski but doesn’t know how yet) so I thought we’d try some snowshoeing.

We went to Grouse last weekend to play in the snow but that place is crazy busy and expensive, so I took her to the less insane Mount Seymour (the other local mountain is Cypress where they had some 2010 Olympic events…and Whistler is about an hour and half north).

During our hike I rolled tape…you know for 7, she was a trooper and it was a great afternoon.

Our soundtrack for the drive from the ‘burbs up to the mountain… that Aquilo ep Painting Pictures of a War.

Merry Christmas!

Go with yourself.

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Brand spanking new @SkizzyMars featuring @PellYeah

December 17, 2015 by morningaftershow

skizzy

Skizzy Mars‘ debut album, Alone Together is out on January 22nd. Yeah I’ll buy it….the dude’s delivery is like pouring delicious audio butter down my ear hole.

He just released a song today off the new record called “Crash.” Bro named Pell is singing the hook.

Skizzy skirting the line between insecure and confident. The vibe I tend to get from Skizzy songs is adventures of a man running around Manhattan with the daughters of the New York elite. Is that close?

Last week he shared this cut from the record.

Go with yourself.

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Cliff Martinez and the soundtrack for The Knick // @AtTheKnick

December 16, 2015 by morningaftershow

olden days medicine

Coral has been all over the Cinemax show The Knick. A TV show about surgeons studying and practising medicine in the early 1900s New York City. (and starring one of my favourites Clive Owen)

I’ve been able to absorb a bunch of the show while she binge watches season one to catch up with season two currently on HBO. And it has pulled me in now.

One of my favourite parts of the show is the spooky electronic music they use to heighten tension. Though the show is a period drama set at the dawn of the 20th century, the music is synth based.

That is done on purpose by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Cliff Martinez and director Steven Soderberg.

This is from Rolling Stone last year; But one of the few things that was far too ghastly to replicate was the music. “Oh, it was horrible,” he says with a laugh. “Aesthetically, it’s a really cool period, but the music was absolutely boring and not interesting. Ragtime had just started – and there’s a tiny bit of that in the background of some scenes – but other than that, there was nothing good.”

I had some reservations about it at first,” (Cliff) Martinez says. “You’re trying so hard to place the viewer in this time and this place, and the music is really fighting something that everyone else in the show is trying to achieve. But as the episodes started coming in, and seeing that it had all this electronic stuff that was mine, I realized that it was working. So it gave me the confidence to do it.”

A complete anachronism, the composer constructed a postmodern and curious through-line for the series with droning, minimalistic synthesizer and guitar lines, warbling bass and chimes that seem to swoop down from nowhere. When accompanying images of hustling, bustling turn-of-the-century Manhattan, as well as the occasional blood-sopped aortic aneurysm operating-room scene, it makes for hyperrealism and a sense of urgency that the era’s hits, like “I Want to Be a Military Man” or “Ma Tiger Lily,” would ruin.

I wish I was paying closer attention to one particular song (that got me thinking about the soundtrack) from season two. Sounded kinda like a Theremin in there….but I can’t be sure. All I know is that the song pierced through the TV to me, and then got me thinking about the soundtrack.

I might have to go back and try to find the episode and see if the song is on the season two soundtrack.

The show is brilliant and I love the tunes.