Panama released the wistful ode to suburban friendship in August as a free download. (actually I don’t know what they’re saying….I thought it said “Stay forever, friends, in the suburbs”…I’m an idiot.)
It took me a while to listen to this song, luckily an old Site of Sound blog post showed up on my feed.
Last night, my daughter and I went to see USS and Mother Mother at the Royal Theatre in Victoria.
A great night of music….USS’s set was criminally short, and they didn’t play Madelyn’s favourite song. She tends to gravitate to the weirdo album cuts, so she is a hard to please fan. I personally loved the tight, hit driven set.
We were planning on catching only a couple Mother Mother songs. It was a school night after all…but Mother Mother were so engaging that I couldn’t drag Madelyn out of there. It took a text from Mom to get us back on-track and heading to bed.
Mother Mother started the show with this dark, moody, synth driven song, “Have It Out.”
And for those keeping score…Madelyn’s favourite USS song.
What is up with Australian bands from Brisbane naming their projects after Canadian towns? First there’s Vancouver Sleep Clinic and now we have Banff. Banff is the brand of BrisVegas musician Benjamin Forbes. IndieShuffle says he sounds like Beruit, Midlake, or #1 Dads.
The music chill. Pretty. Kinda like Banff, Alberta.
When Joel Almand is not shovelling snow in Buffalo…the Upstate New York producer is turning up the thump on Verite’s “Weekend.”
I played “Weekend” last Thursday at my bi-weekly Clubhouse night and a couple college kids came up to me to say, “Verite? Nice, I love her.” And I love you groovy college kid.
Back to the grind my music blogger friends. I have been consumed by boxing for the past few weeks, preparing for the Fight 4 The Cause Charity Boxing Classic. The annual event takes a diverse group of people who have never fought in a sanctioned boxing match, runs them through an intense eight week boxing bootcamp, and has them compete in gala fight. The event was held last Saturday at the Victoria Conference Centre. Over 1,000 crammed into the building to watch the fight.
I was in the 9th fight against a guy named Brayden Leclaire.
It was an emotional time. It is hard to put into words. In the end, all the training boiled down to 2 minutes. Here is the fight.
Looking back, I can’t believe that is me in there. My stress was pinning in the reds leading up to the fight. I am so thankful to my red team coaches, Hal and Aaron, for preparing me for combat. I am also so thankful to my friend, DJ Boitano, for talking me into signing up and then kicking my ass to train hard.
After the fight, there was this overwhelming rush of emotions. It was crazy.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia’s Mo Kenney made the trip to Vancouver Island for a show with Kim Churchill. She stopped by The Zone after getting off the ferry to play a song for us. Check out “I Faked It” from her record In My Dreams.
Back to the blogging grind after letting the MAS blog fall fallow for a bit. Right now I want to share a few songs from my radio show (and I might have some more for you tomorrow from Tokyo Police Club and Said The Whale).
Cool. I really enjoyed that “Shapeshifters” cut. Track one from his 2014 album, Lo-Fantasy.
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Today I was fortunate to have Vancouver’s Head of the Herd on the show. They performed their single “We Could Get Together.”
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Wow. I am about one week and one day from my first ever boxing match! The Fight 4 The Cause Charity Boxing Classic is happening on Saturday, November 22nd at The Empress. I’ve been training every morning at 6AM for 7 weeks…one more week of boxing bootcamp and then its game time. To get this party started… Team Zone joined me to create a video that will play before my fight.
Dylan and Jason hopped into the Zone studio with Sheldon to record a cover of DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win.” Then we all went down to the VIC 42 studio with Webmeister Bud to film a “corporate” video. Here we go.
And no one has asked me…but you know…just in case…our cover song is a free download.
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And lastly… a short clip from my radio show today. Talking about the Rosetta Spacecraft, the comet landing and the eerie sound the lander recorded.
