Posted in music, tagged Canada, Download, Free, metal, MP3, Sooke on February 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I have fallen a wee bit off the blog train the past week. Its been crazy busy with work and the stress of life… maaaaaan.
BUT, I did hear something a little different today. The band is called RoTTen Rails. Sooke heavy metallers… check out this demo “Gettin The Pit” that will be mastered and included on their upcoming album.
Download MP3 >> Gettin The Pit
Posted in music, tagged Download, dreams, Fleetwood Mac, free mp3 download, Interview, Maurice, MP3, Noverdubs, radio, Rumours on February 9, 2012| 6 Comments »
Yesterday JP Maurice stopped by the Zone Afternoon Show for a chit chat and live performance. He played his song “Nothing Like a Good Feeling.” Have a listen.
Soundcloud >> Maurice Performs “Nothing Like a Good Feeling” LIVE
JP then put in my palm an ep of 7 songs… or I guess small LP? (does it matter in the year 2012? It DOES TO ME!) for the group Noverdubs.
JP put the Noverdubs together as a project for the Peak Performance Project last season. The session led to a solid 7 songs and a glorious cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic “Dreams.”
I asked JP if I could offer the song as a free MP3 download and he said yes! Nice. Thank you Jean-Paul.
Noverdubs – “Dreams”
Download MP3 >> Noverdubs – Dreams
“Dreams” is a hard song to tackle. You are taking one of Fleetwood Mac’s most iconic songs off one of rock & roll’s most celebrated albums. I think this version does justice. It is by no means a reinterpretation… just a beautiful showcase of talent from Victoria.
Maurice performs this Saturday night at Lucky Bar. Doors at 8PM.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Chillwave, Download, Expensive Looks, High and Dry, MP3, Radiohead, Remixes, The Bends on January 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Its been awhile since I’ve heard a chillwave song to get hot and bothered by. Apparently the scene has moved on… but I can’t exactly fire up Skrillex in the Veneto Lounge on a Friday night.
So I wave the chillwave flag hazily and at half mast proudly!
Pitchfork talked about Expensive Looks yesterday. Had a meh review.. but mostly because I think Pitchfork is meh on the genre right now… not on ONE Expensive Looks song features Azealia Banks soooo…
Trolling the internets and I found a bunch of EL remixes including a remix of one of my favourite Radiohead songs… “High and Dry.”
Radiohead – “High and Dry (Expensive Looks’ Blizzard Fantasy)”
Download MP3 >> Radiohead-High and Dry (Expensive Looks’ Blizzard Fantasy)
Radiohead’s The Bends was #09 on my list of 20 Special Records. Coral and I have the LP hanging on the wall. Back when Coral listened to more rock music… or I guess we listened to music together, this was an album she’d put on.
Radiohead generally remixes pretty good, but it tends to be the later career stuff. Its nice to hear one from my days as a Radiohead fan.
Not sure if I’ll download the whole Expensive Looks album Dark Matters, but I will for sure be seeking select tracks for the playlist at Veneto.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, The Zone @ 91-3, tagged Crucial, Download, k-os, Live, MP3, Sauce Restaurant, Victoria on November 24, 2011| 1 Comment »
k-os came to Victoria today to perform a nooner lunch concert at Sauce Restaurant. Oh the times we shared….
Check out a chit-chat with k-os and the performance of the song “Crucial.”
k-os – “Crucial”
Download MP3 >> K-Os – Crucial
Thank you k-os for coming by Sauce to perform for us.
See k-os live tonight at Club 9one9.
Go with yourself.
Posted in food, music, tagged Baker's Bourbon, Download, EP, Free, Frightened Rabbit, Jim Beam, Scottish Borders, Small Batch Bourbon, Stereogum on October 20, 2011| 1 Comment »
When you listen to a Frightened Rabbit song… you believe, “these guys must live in a cottage.” It was reassuring to read on their blog for the new song “Scotting Winds,” that it was in fact written on the bus to their cottage in the Borders.
My favourite Scottish sad rockers have a new extended play and glorious news, its a free download. That’s the best.
Download The Frightened Rabbit EP HERE.
Waking up, trolling Stereogum and discovering a new FREE Frightened Rabbit really made this Thursday a superior Thursday… compared to say, last Thursday.
Frightened Rabbit – “Scottish Winds”
Frightened Rabbit – “Fuck This Place”
Frightened Rabbit – “The Work”
I hope to take a second to download the EP… then maybe go back in time and listen to the older stuff. Its all pretty magical.
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I helped Ceri over at Vintage Spirits with some music related stuff for her business… and so she set me up with a bottle of Baker’s Bourbon. Thank you Ceri!
My bourbon collection is slowly growing (like hockey jersey’s, its a hard thing to spend money on as it isn’t the most practical use of my limited funds) so barter seems to work well. My Maker’s is all gone, but I still have my Buffalo Trace, Bulleit and Woodford Reserve (that is what I used for my Bourbon Whip Cream on Thanksgiving).
I haven’t had a chance to taste the Baker’s… seriously I got it for the label. Same name as me! SWA?
Can’t wait to crack the wax and give it a sip.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Bloodbuzz Ohio, cover, Download, MP3, Oh Land, The National on October 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
One of my heroes in rock & roll is The National‘s Matt Berninger. He was talking to the AV Club about the measured rise of the band. “We slowly crack; it’s never been a big explosion.”
I love the imagery of that little quote, like how I love almost all the pictures painted in their songs.
The National are great because they write smart sexy music that requires a little investment in time from the fan to appreciate. The band stays pretty consistent and on point with creating new work and has very methodically grown. Really earning the success they have. Its inspiring.
The first single from 2010’s High Violet was a song called “Bloodbuzz Ohio.” (download an MP3 here)
The song is interesting for a lot of reasons to me.
It begins with a sensual scene. The intimate and gritty real sort of life that you get up to when you’re married or in a relationship or basically not a porn star having sex. Getting ready for bed with someone you get ready for bed with everyday. Its mundane, but its also pretty.
The song then delves into the trials and stresses that we all… ok, well I do, you’re probably more financially astute than me.
“I still owe money, to the money, I owe.”
Then he escapes or has a dream where he travels back to the place where he grew up, Ohio. Neat.
On the weekend, a cover version of “Bloodbuzz” bounced around my twitter feed from Brooklyn-by-way-of-Denmark singer Oh Land. (what is it with cover songs lately? I’m really on a kick)
Oh Land’s version keeps true to the prodding pace of the original. But Oh Land has a sugar sweet voice and adds some echoey crashes and electronic bee-boops. When she sings, “Stand up straight at the foot of your love/I lift my shirt up,” its positively adorable… or it might be more so if the picture I found wasn’t some sort of fembot with feathers. Before I saw a picture of her however, I imagined some lithe hipster lovely nerd getting naked and it was a good thought.
Her version soars and is definitely lighter by the simple fact, she has a light female voice singing the words and not Berninger’s baritone saddening it up.
Oh Land – “Bloodbuzz Ohio”
Download MP3 >> Bloodbuzz-Ohio
The National make me happy, this cover makes me happy… OK good talk.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Download, Free, Jon & Roy, Jon Middleton, MP3, V.I.C. Fest, Vancouver Island on April 11, 2011| 2 Comments »
Good times. Jon Middleton (Jon & Roy) sent me his new solo record. Always such a pleasant listen… new Jon Middleton is pretty folky and very Vancouver Island.
Jon Middleton – “Vibrant Scene”
Download MP3 >> 06 Vibrant Scene
Jon and Roy will be one of many great Vancouver Island performers taking part in this summer V.I.C. Fest on June 18th.
hey, never say say I don’t give you anything nice on this here blog.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Deadmau5, Download, Foo Fighters, MP3, Rope, Wasting Light on March 21, 2011| 1 Comment »
New Foo Fighter‘s record Wasting Light has the buzz that it will be the “best Foo Fighters record EVAR” swirling around it.
We’ll get a chance to hear if the substance meets or surpasses the hype April 12th.
The hot jam single is the most excellent “Rope.” And before we even get to hear a single album cut (well aside from White Limo), we get a remix from the Electronic pride of Canuckistan, Mr. Deadmau5.
Pour this download down your ear.
Foo Fighters – “Rope (Deadmu5 Remix)”
Download >> Rope (deadmau5 Remix)
My man across the hall Ryan Awram hopes they use this version in Glee. If only.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Baths, Download, MP3, Plea on March 2, 2011| 7 Comments »
This kid in Baths makes me want to make music so badly.
Will… the brains behind the operation is like 21 or 22 now? Mental. I wish I would have paid more attention to music when I was younger.
The song “Plea” shows up later on his record Cerulean. There are a lot of highlights on this record, but “Plea” is the apex song for me.
I heard this song in the morning with my coffee before Mads and Corj awoke. It is such a pretty and romantic song. Hit me right on the forehead. The theme and loveliness of the song is universal and powerful.
It will end up quaterbacking my next mixtape which I had hoped to have done now… but sadly will need to wait till later tonight or tomorrow. (ugh technology)
I might try actually dubbing this mix to a cassette tape, just for one. Does anyone still have a cassette player? I’ll mail it to you!
Baths – “Plea”
Download MP3 >> 11 Plea
Tonight I am going to meet up with the Wizard to learn some photoshop so I can get better at making graphics for my mixtapes. Fun time.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Download, Future Rock, MP3, Neon indian, remix, Should Have Taken Acid With You, Sleigh Bells on February 23, 2011| 4 Comments »
I want to be the Johnny Appleseed of the Sleigh Bells. The song “Rill Rill” is a current favourite of sexual energy. Not even sexual… more like first date, holding-hands and watching Titanic on the couch energy.
If I made a makeout jams playlist. Side one, track one is Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill.”
When she gets going on about the braces and her boyfriend’s opinion… well I just hope it is more innocent than maybe its intended to be.
I had a pile of excitement when A) we added Sleigh Bells to the feature rotation here at The Zone and B) they are playing in Vancouver at the Vogue on May 25th. I don’t know if I;d be lucky enough to go, but if I do… the opening band also has my ear.
Neon Indian is a group I have played tons during my lounge sets at Veneto. if I remember correctly, they were never a chillwave group my fellow chillwaver Huckdoll could get behind… but then, maybe she DID take acid with you, took her clothes off and jumped int he swimming pool. Sadly, I did not… and so the regret lingers. And that is what makes the Neon Indian song, “Should Have Taken Acid With You” so great (to me). Hipster regret.
Neon Indian – “Should Have Taken Acid With You”
Download MP3>> Neon Indian – Should Have Taken Acid With You
The lyrics are so simple… and yet the story so poignant. Why didn’t you take acid with you ex-girlfriend Alan? maybe she wouldn’t now be an ex?
But then, because you didn’t, you wrote an apology… that apology became a song and now you’re Neon Indian.
Crazy that Alan comes to that fork in the road in life. Path is chosen, or chosen for him… and here we are.
Maybe he does the easy thing but then without the challenge, there would be no art? Maybe he does the art but misses out on something else?
Whoa.
And I love the mighty remix.
Neon Indian – “Should Have Taken Acid With You” (Future Rock Remix)
Download MP3>> Neon Indian – Should Have Taken Acid With You (Future Rock Remix)
Now I might be too old to be dropping some acid… but the sentiment remains… you should probably do it. Sometimes the world calls for bold action… or not… but then write a really good song about it.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 