The Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington State will once again be amazing. I wish I could go, but sadly it is not in the cards for me. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy playing along and discovering new bands. Personally, I love listening to the small-print bands. Today lets hit play on Seattle chillwavers, Manatee Commune. Yes I searched them out 100% because of their band name.
Go with yourself.
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I had to preorder the new Quarterbacks record yesterday. Well I guess I didn’t HAVE to preorder it. But I am feeling the quirky alterna-jangle of the New Paltz, New York’s Quarterbacks.
I fired up the preview on NPR the other day…and the 22-minutes sailed by. Reminds me of college radio music. And that tends to remind me of being young. And I like that feeling.
S/t is out on February 10th.
NPR brought up some similarities to Waxahatchee. Coral is less a fan of Waxahatchee. Says she reminds her of Lilith Fair music? Sure. I dig it…and new music from Waxahatchee is in the pipe! Neat.
Ivy Tripp is out on April 7th.
And then I traveled down the rabbit hole at Merge…discovered some new Mikal Cronin in the pipe. MCIII May 5th
Happy Tuesday! Hitting a Canucks game tonight. Fingers crossed for a good show from the boys in blue and green.
Oh, can I share a clip from my radio show? This is from Friday when I interviewed a guy on a downtown street corner yelling, “EBOLA is A PLAGUE FROM GOD!”
If radio clips are fucking with your vibe on HypeMachine, let me know in the comments….otherwise, I obviously like sharing my work.
Go with yourself.
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You’ve heard the new Death Cab For Cutie song “Black Sun” right?
Rad…OK, just making sure.
Go with yourself.
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“Feels like there’s oceans between you and me.”
Ugh… sometimes a song comes up on the music stream that just nails it.
“I want you, from somewhere within.”
I heard the Seafrit song “Oceans” today…what a perfect song for a grey day living across the Salish Sea from Coral and the kids.
I know the Georgia Strait is not that great a distance and I’m being dramatic. Still, this song is a gem.
Hey how about this Snow Patrol song about love and distance?
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Since we’re hanging out in folktown, let’s have a listen to the Folktronica stylings of Howard. The dude is from Brooklyn. His record is called Religion. Sounds good like the type of song you’d hear in a Zach Braf movie.
Happy Tuesday! Off to Hindenberg again tonight to check out CiTR’s Shindig. If you’re in Vancouver and going out, see you there!
Go with yourself.
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Death From Above 1979 is currently on a Canadian tour. They spent the past couple days in Vancouver. yesterday they stopped by CFOX for a little chit-chat and an acoustic performance of their current single “Virgins.”
Sebastian Grainger says that the song “Virgins” is “kinda like a ponderance on innocence. My own Innocence. It’s not me fetishizing being a kid. It’s me going like, “damn, I screwed up a lot” you know. And learning lessons.”
Go with yourself.
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Made it down to Hindenberg last night for the Shindig semi-finals. Turns out there was a mis-communication and they didn’t need me to judge. No worries, it was fun showing up at a dingy live music bar on a Tuesday night to see some indie bands shred.
I enjoyed Abbotsford’s Malk. And Poles really channeled the spirit Kurt Cobain. Sadly I didn’t stay for eventual winners, Skim Milk…but I’m an old man and wanted to get home while transit was still doing its thing.
One part of the show that I got into was the tunes between the bands. I think they had a person from CiTR playing music off his laptop? Inbreds, Ladyhawk, Paws…all showing up.
I fell in lust with the song “Catherine 1956.” Then I saw this tweet while trolling their twitter page:
And it was love.
from their 2014 album, Youth Culture Forever, here is “Tongues.”
Go with yourself.
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Shindig is CiTR’s annual battle-of-the bands adventure. Tonight is the semi-final at a club called Hindenburg.
One of the judges hurt her ankle, and so she asked if I’d judge. Super duper! I haven’t been to Shindig since the early 2000s. Hopefully that gets sorted out and I’ll see you tonight.
The bands tonight are:
and Poles
Fun ATTACK!
See you out there.
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Email today from the Skizzy Mars folks…new song. CRUSHING on the Hype Machine.
Not may favourite Skizzy song, but I have insatiable lust for this kid, so beggars can’t be choosers.
The song is called “Be Lazy” and like the title, a hazy lazy cut. Skizzy talking about a mundane date idea. Netflix, maybe some sex, some pills, some weed. Pretty much the opposite of my life.
“working all week, no breaks it was crazy. Deadlines, deadline, they will never trade me.” Oh, I feel that line. OK, maybe I can relate a little to the 20-something rapper from NYC.
Also a new music video. The east coast rapper takes the party out west for a Hipster Woman/Desert fantasy sequence.
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Record label rep stopped by the Radio Factory today. Dropped off a few records. Amped to check out the new Decemberists album, even though the reviews were not great.
Catfish and the Bottlemen….I can get behind these Welsh rockers.
And finally, Vancouver’s Dan Mangen + Blacksmith.
Go with yourself.
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Back to the grind after an amazing weekend in Victoria with my kids (and I guess my wife too, but I barely saw her as I was either working or she was dealing with a baby shower for her friend).
I received an email today from Vancouver based Rococode. The band released a video today for their single “Banks.”
The band used creative team Fivethousand Fingers who wrote and directed the video. They took the show on the road to Montreal for the look of the clip. The video does look cool and compliments the dark-pop song.
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Occasionaly I like to share a clip of my radio show on the old blog. Here is a bit from last Friday. I ask my 6-year-old daughter Madelyn what her favourite part of the new show is.
That’s all I got for you. Go with yourself.
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Vancouver in winter can be a cold, grey place. But the past couple of days have been rather pleasant.
Today I want to share NEW PURITY RING!
The Edmonton dark pop group will have a new record out on March 3rd.
Go with yourself.
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