Radical. Sub Pop is digging into the vault for a digital reissue of Soundgarden’s debut ep, Screaming Life.
SPIN’s got a nice write up… Youtube has a video!
And since we’re yapping Sub Pop…. how about a cut from their latest singing? Direct from the UK, it’s the Thumpers.
Not bad… I like that song. Good pick Sub Pop.
Go with yourself.
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A record that is currently living in the Purple Minivan is The Replacements’ Tim. The 1985 album is one of my favourites (wait, ALL the Replacements records are one of my favourites…. its one of the Replacements records I have on compact disc!).
The Replacements played their final concert in Chicago on July 4th, 1991.
On November 7th, 1996…. Ella Yelich-O’Conner was born. At 12, she would be discovered at a talent show and signed to a record deal transforming into Lorde.
One month ago, she posted her cover of The Replacements’ “Swingin’ Party.”
Pitchfork reviewed her record Pure Heroine today, and their spin on the Lorde persona speaks to the beauty of this selection for her. They call her style “post-internet.” I liked the line, “(Lorde) has fashioned herself a correspondent on the front lines of elegantly wasted post-digital youth culture and working-class suburban boredom.”
Elegantly wasted?
We go with ourselves.
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Rad guy DJ Neon Steve took on Rudimental‘s “baby” for a remix because “I love the original so much.”
Remember yesterday on the Mindy Project how Casey became a DJ and then The National showed up? It was like an episode written for ME!
Go with yourself.
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The Vancouver punks White Lung are getting ready to release a new 7-inch single on November 5th (Deranged Records). The A-side is called “Blow it South” and its a real shit-kicker.
Pitchfork says the song “is a relentless aural beating laced with loopy metal riffs that bind the quartet’s all-everything-all-the-time rage to Way’s typically predatory melodies.” Spin calls it a “dark and clanging, a moody shit-kicker about power struggles.”
I don’t know who to believe? Can’t they both be right?
Go with yourself.
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Friend of the show, Josh… is ready to share his band with the WORLD!
The group straight outta Rock Bay is called Ellice Blackout. The band is new, but the cast of characters is populated by guys that have been making guitar driven rock & roll in Victoria for years. They’ll perform their first show on November 22nd at Sugar Nightclub (I might DJ between the bands?). Also on the bill is Aegis Fang and The Harbour Sound.
The band’s ep is called Bad Tattoo and we’ll hit play on track one, “Bad Tattoo.”
Pencil November 22nd into your Blackberry and I’ll see you there!
Go with yourself.
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One half of Death From Above 1979…not the half that told me this excellent bear story.
No, the OTHER guy in DFA 1979, Sebastien Grainger, has a solo record called Yours To Discover (November 12, Last Gang Records).
Isn’t “Yours to Discover” the motto of Ontario? That is way better than British Columbia’s “The Best Place on Earth,” because during good or bad times…. you know, you can still discover Ontario…but whenever there is an article negative to BC, some joker always says, “‘Best Place on Earth’ my ass!” We need to take that away from the trolololololols.
The last time I was in Toronto was 2007! And I found an old Ontario license plate in a gross slushy snow bank on Spadina…and I kept it, and its on my book shelf!
Right… Sebastien Grainger’s new song. Pitchfork calls it “a synthy jam that fans of DFA 1979 will most likely appreciate.”
Hey! I’m a DFA 1979 fan… and I DO appreciate this synthy jam.
Go with yourself.
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I received a care-package today from Arts & Crafts at the radio factory (oh I hope my Herschel laptop sleeve comes soon).
The band is called The Darcys and their third record is called Warring (out now on Arts & Crafts).
Groovy people in the know, said groovy things. This blog guy came out of hiatus to write how great his writing the band is!
I’m ready to hit play on a couple cuts. Let’s check out feature song “The River” and noisy freakout “Hunting.”
I like that. Big, beautiful, moody sounds. “Hunting” reminded me a bit of later Bloc Party.
Go with yourself.
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The CBC has a story today about the changing times…. maaaaaan. The Hive Creative Labs are shutting down. Its not all bad… One of the Principles, Colin Stewart is moving part of the operation to Victoria!
Many a quality record was recorded at The Hive including the Japandroids most excellent Post Nothing and Celebration Rock. And for that, my heart will always be fond of Hive.
I never knew the guys. My band never got too far into the recording realm before we called it quits… and my days at CiTR ended in 2003…right around the time that Hive had settled on a mailing address in Burquitlam.
My first memories of The Hive is when I found out that P:ano were recording out in Burquitlam…. and like, nothing interesting ever happens in Burquitlam. That was neat to this suburban snot nosed kid from Coquitlam (get it… Burnaby + Coquitlam = Burquitlam). Their earliest stuff was out on Hive-Fi Records (which I think is Hive). As the story goes, back then, Hive wasn’t a physical place, Colin Stewart recorded wherever, like his basement… The later stuff, like Brigadoon (Mint Records), I think was recorded in the lawless border region between Coquitlam and Burnaby, but I don’t have the liner notes in front of me.
Here’s a P:ano cut from 2002’s The Den (Hive-Fi & Zum Records).
and the notes to this 2004 cut credit Colin Stewart and Hive Studios.
The studio is closing after a long list of BC’s notable and less so artists have passed through. Colin Stewart is moving his production to Saanich and Jesse Gander is off to Rain City Records in Vancouver.
Go with yourself.
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So how about that Breaking Bad finale last night?
I was reading in Spin about one of the songs used…a sorta forgotten gem from the British group Badfinger.
One of the final scenes involved a song called “Baby Blue.”
It was a nice song. Fit the vibe. The band themselves have a tragic story. I think that back story adds to the gravity of the final episode of Breaking Bad.
OK… so “Baby Blue,” Blue Sky meth, I get it….but in Spin they were talking about using other blue-ish type songs on the soundtrack, like Tommy James and The Shondells‘ “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” Now there is a 1969 song I can get behind!
It didn’t take long to find this beauty cover by Morcheeba.
and here’s the original for you. YOUTUBE
Go with yourself.
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Alternative pop continues its string record releases. Today is both Lorde AND Haim.
The Californian sisters’ album Days Are Gone is getting some positive hype. Here is the single we’re featuring on The Zone right now.
Go with yourself.
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