I like making mixtapes… I guess its almost the same rush as someone who plays fantasy baseball or something. I go through my collection and build a setlist.
With some help from Pitchfork, iTunes Genius and my friend James… I found a set of fuzzy electronic off-kilter beats split up by some adorable indie pop.
The set begins with an ominous song from How To Dress Well. A song that is also side 1, track 1 from their album. It rises with some mellow and enjoyable beats, then bogs down with crackling distortion of Hudson Mohawke. Maybe the most most interesting of the songs I included, if only for its spooky weirdness.
A Sunny Day In Glasgow has some of that ethereal-ness of Hudson. Then I jammed out new music from Alexander, aka Alex Ebert aka the dude from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
Something delightful from Kelowna band We Are The City and its a wrap.
01) How to Dress Well – “You Hold The Water” 02) Baths – “Plea” 03) Gold Panda – “Back Home” 04) Teen Daze – “Neon” 05) Bibio – “Ambivalence Avenue” 06) Hannah Georgas – “the national” 07) Hudson Mohawke – “Star Crackout” 08) A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Nitetime Rainbows” 09) Alexander – “Trust” 10) We Are The City – “Time, Wasted”
CRC 91 begins with some new music. A punky one from a band called Class of ’84 then Dan Politano sent a new recording over as well. The second half of the show features a couple BC bands taking part in the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington State. Vancouver’s fuzzy hyper-blogged about Japandroids and Victoria’s ice cool and atmospheric Jets Overhead. Neat-O gang. Thank you for downloading my podcast.
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This party gets started with some new punk rock. Classic sound, straight ahead, new band. Class of ’84.
I had trouble tracking down a website for them (turns out there is an Irish band with the same name). Whatever, Myspace is not punk rock. This picture IS punk rock.
SWAGed from Jono's Facebook page. Class of '84 at the Quadra House.
Dan Politano, its been awhile friendo. After the punk, we calm it down for another alt-lite from the Sidney, VI rocker (are you from Sidney Dan?).
Today (or I guess yesterday) the Ear Candy blogged leaked the Sasquatch festival line-up. Today it was official so I thought I’d include a couple CRC darlings to end the podcast.
Japandroids are Terminal Rock City’s fuzz heroes and one of THE MOST BLOGGED ABOUT BANDS! Whoa, I iz helper them.
Czars totally sucked… but I think history will judge Soviet Russia as worse… so….
They *might* also be talking about the village in Alberta… which would be mighty, but doubtful. (hmmm, now I kinda want to go there.)
This tight little podcast ends with Victoria journeymen (and women) group, Jets Overhead. Jets rocked the Bonnaroo last year, Coachella later and now Sasquatch in May! Our growing little army of Island invaders will all need to make a date to converge at whatever stage they are at when they play and burn one down for them. So great.
Thank you for rocking the Zone and for choosing my podcast. You totally rule and Russian Czars totally suck (but they suck less than Soviet Communism! COLD WAR WIN!)
My staycation be damned! You’re getting a podcast. The reason I was jazzed to come into the Capital Rock City studio so late on a Monday night was to share with you an interesting find. My wife, Coral, was digging through some old boxes and found a burned copy of Vancouver band In Medias Res’ first ever rock show. They performed “Best Kept Secret,” which is a crushingly great song. Vince Vaccaro sent in a demo he is working on and the show ends with some harder rock from Black Hat Villain and new music from Great White Shark. Thank you for downloading my podcast, share it with a friend.
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When I first got into radio many moons ago, I had an indie rocker program on CiTR in Vancouver and my first paid gig was a place called CFUN. CFUN was a groovy AM radio station back in the Paleolithic era, but by the time I was there it was basically the a place for infomercials, Dr. Laura and ghost stories at night. My job was to punch a button or two every thirty minutes and for that I was paid the princely sum of $8 and hour. The best of times.
I did this while attending broadcasting school at BCIT where I knew a guy named Ash Poon. He applied for a job at CFUN and the boss man asked if I knew Ash and if he would make a decent worker… I said basically, “well he’s not meth addict… I don’t think,” and he was hired. It also turned out that Ash was in a new band with a very progressive post rock vibe called In Medias Res and one day he left me a CD of a demo that they put together from a live show to play on my radio show or maybe it was to book a concert at the John B. Pub… either way, that CD survived and you are hearing my all time fave IMR song, “Best Kept Secret,” from their first ever love show… at a church I think? At the beginning of the podcast you hear Ash about to say “all honour to the builder,” but he isn’t sure the mic is hot and yeah, it didn’t start with the bang that I am sure a young Mr. Poon would have liked.
Forestry have recorded a new self-titled long players so they came by the CRC studio for a chit chat and to share some new music. They also play one from one of their favourite Vancouver bands Ladyhawk and reflect on an old Zone Band of the Month called Greatest Explorers in the World. Then we talk about who might have been the greatest explorer in the world? Henry Hudson? SWA?
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Peter and Blake of Forestry came by the studio on Monday night to share with me their new music. I like these guys because not only do they make sweet sounding indie pop, they are also radio guys! Peter jams out on Village 900am and Blake you’ll hear on CFUV.
We talk about things they have to do with trees, wood and wood related professions, some of their fave BC indie rockers, Blake’s sad panda tale about Edmonton, Peter’s love/hate relationship with Victoria, their take on who might have been the world’s greatest explorer and their upcoming shows at Lucky Bar.
Forestry w/ Ladyhawk and Treelines
January 30th, 2010 Lucky Bar :: Doors @ 8PM
Forestry w/ Wooden Sky
February 23rd, 2010 Lucky Bar :: Doors @ 9PM
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My wife Coral has been very hard at work rearranging our apartment and in her organizing, she inadvertently dug up an old CD. In Medias Res’ first ever concert. recorded and put to CD and I got it! So next week I’ll pop it in the CD player here at The Zone and press play and we’ll hear what comes out.
*** HEY BANDS ***
I always need new music to feature on Capital Rock City so if you’re a Victoria, Island, Vancouver or Hinterland BC band, I’d love to have some music to feature. Heck, I’ll even take a Washington State band if you crush.
Lots of great new music this week beginning with a new fave local group, Johnny Tango and their song “Hills.” January’s Band of the Month, Dead Eyes Open sing about the impending Zombie holocaust. Rorschach give a spirited desert/blues sounding jam and the show ends with Vancouver based Beautiful Places and Faces. Thank you for downloading!
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Zoinks, I forgot to put a little sauce on the old vocal tracks and I am feeling sick, so they sound a little far away.
Johnny Tango is one of my new fave Vic rockers. Dave sent me their “Hills” version 2, recorded by Mr. Jason Cook at Adam’s Infinity studio and I think this is a mighty song. A great chorus, already stuck in my head and I sing all the time. “Where I come from, there are no hills.” Total sci-fi nerd alien stuff going on here.
Dead Eyes Open are the Zone Band of the Month for the wet and warm month of January. We’ll get a chance to see them perform their zombie apocalypse inspired rock at Evo on January 28th. DEO are not the first artistic group to use the moniker “Dead Eyes Open” for a zombie product. Check out this comic about a man who becomes a living dead but also has the headache of raising a kid and married life. Oy-Vey!
Also from the land of comics, Rorschach. He was kinda of a big deal in The Watchmen. Or maybe the boys were into Swiss towns?
Rorschach has a sound that reminds me of blues meets desert outlaw rock.
My final selection this week is Vancouver band with roots in Victoria. When my sister used to work at the Whitespot on Quadra at MacKenzie. The hostess was a young lovely named Kelly who we used to always try and hook up with our brother Matt. No dice on the love connection, but Kelly did join a neat dreamy kinda rock band called Beautiful Places and Faces. Lots of audio space, harmonies, pretty.
Lots of new music to start the show. Vancouver band Whitfield told me about their new album Tornado Cutie so I found a cut that has a nice Killers vibe to lead off the show. Jell, a former Zone Band of the Month, still working hard and some new music from them. A demo from Old Man Solie. The show ends with a live performance from The Racoons. Thank you for downloading the show, please please, please take four seconds to search for ‘Capital Rock City’ in the iTunes store and subscribe/rate/comment. Thank you.
01) Whitfield – “Top of the World”
02) Jell – “Nothing Left to Say”
03) Old Man Solie – “Lot 9” (demo)
04) The Racoons – “Room to Operate”
05) The Racoons – “Tangiers”
CRC 84 begins with the theme song to my current fave show, “In The Night Garden.” And why not? I love that little Makka Pakka, isn’t that a pip?
Whitfield is a band I know of because of my Whale watching/Car Selling friend, Brendan. He turned me on to these guys some time ago when he popped by The Mix Tape at the Clubhouse one Thursday. Josh finally sent me an email and here we are, enjoying the opening cut to their record “Tornado Cutie.” Great album title eh? Whitfield would sound great for fans of the Killers or Bravery.
Jell is jamming out a concert on Friday at Sugar with Aegis Fang! Which reminds me, I really show fire up some Aegis Fang again the show.
A couple weeks back, we all enjoyed the LIVE CRC 81 from The Black Stilt. Well, maybe we ALL didn’t, but I had fun. While wandering the coffee shop I ran into a worker there who was also a musician and he put his demo in my hand right there! And you’re hearing it today! Be gentle with your critique, it is only a an early demo, but I love hearing these raw sounds. Very groovy party rock. Might be better suited to summer cocktails then Christmas Rums.
The show ends with one of my fave Vic rockers, The Racoons. They came by the Zone Afternoon Show to perform “Room To Operate.” But I demanded satisfaction and to hear “Tangiers.” So they did both. awwww, I love those guys.
Next week on the podcast, not really working on anything to special so I’ll troll the net for some fine rock & roll. BUT the week after, I’d LOVE to do a Christmas Capital Rock City… any bands have a Christmas song to send me? jeremy@thezone.fm.
Then I’ll do a “Best of” as chosen by me… in 2010, already lining up a couple shows. Aidan Knight will come, and perform and play songs from his favourite Vic rockers (and some Black Tie Social!) and then I am trying to get Forestry in here too for a CD release show. their record is out in January 2010.
It has been almost a week since the last time I blogged! Zoinks, sorry for that. Lets get this thing back on track with this week’s Capital Rock City podcast.
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The podcast starts with a fantastic song serving as my intro music/bed from Edmonton artist The Artisan Loyalist.
Aiden Knight is performing this Friday as part of Rifflandia at the Alix Goolden Hall. I hope I don’t this story too wrong, but my understanding is that he will be playing with The O’Darling from the center of the Universe, Canada, Toronto.
I thought the O’Darling have a very pretty sound.
Steph Macpherson has been working on her new music from quite sometime. I know this because I’ve been bugging her to send me music for what seems like an entirety. It obviously is not an eternity, that would be a long time… but it was awhile. Worth the wait? You bet, she sent me four songs in total and a couple truly stood out. I played one of my faves this week, “Best of Us.” Take the time to have a listen and make you’re own judgment. Reminds me a bit of Sarah Harmer. If I had any critique, its the songs are too short! I want more Steph… Gawd, I am a demanding radio talker eh? I get the songs for free and its not enough.
A gentleman named Peter Gardener turned me on to his new project Forestry. He warned me the band is still in its infancy but I enjoyed the style. Lo-fi indie pop done well. I played “Owl” which I found to be the more interesting of the two cuts sent over. Reminded me of another song but I can’t place it, so maybe that is its strength?… it reminds you of things you like.
The show ends with a chit chat with Gareth and Stephen from The Laundronauts. We know and love the Laundronauts as that band that still presses their find music on vinyl. For their new album they took it to level 17. They traveled to Detroit Rock City to record in an analog studio with some famous mucky muck. Then they went about pressing their full length ‘Come Clean’ on white vinyl! Who does that anymore. This week I played their feature song “Stain.” They are working on a music video which is coming soon and I’ll be sure to post on my blog when its done. There are more than a few songs I love off the record (and its just plain fun firing up the record player in the Capital Rock City studio) so you’ll be hearing more off their LP in the coming weeks.
the boys say its funny. When they are at show they will have the CD master for $12 and the LP on vinyl right beside it for $15 and when someone comes up to buy the music and they see to the two products side-by-side, they almost always spring for the vinyl LP. Better value.
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Any of you fine folks see the movie “Falling Down?”
Michael Douglas’ character gets stuck in traffic and starts to lose his mind. At some point he abandons his car and begins the travel home on foot. Thus setting off a chain of events that ends tragically.
I often feel like Michael Douglas in that film and I sure did today. The chain of events began late last night. I was up late enjoying some music on my iTunes when the program prompted me to download the new iTunes 9.
I downloaded the program and the shit hit the fan with my computer. iTunes 9 corrupted my laptop somehow and now I have no iTunes. I’ve lost all my playlists, have no way to listen to my music and when/if I ever get back on… I’ll need to reload all my music again which takes time. And time, I love time and giving it to Steve Jobs is something I don’t want to do.
Holy moly the aggravation. I shouldn’t let this shit bother me so much, but it makes my heart beat. I’ll need to take my laptop into a computer store to see what is wrong and that will cost me money and time. I feel frustrated because there is nothing I can do about it. I am too far in with Apple now, invested too much much time and money, I MUST try and re install iTunes. What I want to do is send the bill to Apple and add some sort of compensation for my time. I am sure that will go over well at Apple Head office, but I think I might do it anyways. I am racing against the clock too as I need my laptop to be able ot play my music by Saturday when I have a Rebels game.
The worst part, this is not the first time that upgrading my iTunes has wiped my work clean or generally fucked me in some way.
If/when I can control my anxiety of losing a ton of my music, I might just wash my hands of iTunes and listen to music some other way… like… I don’t even know another way. I’ll need to google that. Windows Media Player? Is that thing any good? Can I transfer my music over to Windows to play there? Typing blogs in silence really sucks Steve Jobs. Or do I just dive right in and save my pennies and join the cult? If I’m on the inside then my stupid iTunes will stop crashing saving my heart from dangerous palpitations… so owning a Mac could save my life? hmmm, since i put it that way…
I just hope I never run into that Mac TV Commercial nerd. My logical brain knows he’s just an actor… but if I catch him on a “Falling Down” day, we’ll have words.
“My bad day won’t equal his.” – Saul from the song ‘Sunday’
One of these days I will need to hop in into Webmeister Bud’s office and see where Capital Rock City stands on the march to 1,000 weekly downloads. The blogs hits on a Tuesday/Wednesday tend to be strong so I hope that is translating.
01) Saul – “Sunday”
02) Funk Vigilante – “Top of The World”
03) Saul – “Right From Wrong”
04) Reaver – “Corvis”
The boys of Saul came by the Capital Rock City studio on Quadra Street to chit chat about their album ‘All Gods to the Front.’ We fondly remember The Moffatts, talk about full arm sleeve tattoos, recording in a warehouse, going on tour, adding crowd SFX to recorded tracks and play some of Saul’s fave local Vic rockers, Funk Vigilante and Reaver.
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Funny story, I am out at The Station House pub on a Friday night. Meet a couple rad Zoners and we get to talking about the “podcast where I lay down some sick beats.” Oh Capital Rock City?
That’s the one. The one guy tells me he downloaded it once and loved the music bed I used… OK, nice and the other guys says he follows it every week… but has never heard it! He reads about it from my blog, Facebook, The Zone dot FM.
I wonder, are there others out there that follow Capital Rock City from the blog/facebook but don’t actually download the show? Hey! You’re the guy I need the MOST to take the next step in our relationship, I’m ready, you’re ready, let’s take this to second base and actually download Capital Rock City.
And since we’re both feeling really sexy tonight, maybe you’ll consider subscribing using this handy dandy RSS feed or searching ‘Capital Rock City’ on iTunes and having the podcast delivered to your computer every week.
Right, so this week I was supposed to have Saul on the show… pushed them back to next week. This week I start by saying “Said the Wheel” instead of “Said the Whale.” Ha, I talk for a living.
Miranda of The Paper Cranes comes on CRC 72 chit-chatting about the BREAKING NEWS that the pride of Esquimalt will now be a duo. whoa.
Uh oh, I have to fire another fact checker here at Capital Rock City. I asked for bands on Facebook and Jessica McCool sent me a link to one of her faves. I assumed the dude was from Vic (or maybe Van or something) and included his music, which I thought was pretty good. Turns out the man is from Toronto! Zoinks, not very 100 mile audio diet of me. My bad. Talented song writer, very cordial in the emails we exchanged, so whatever. Free song on a podcast.
* fun fact * Jessica McCool used to be a weekend announcer on The Zone circa… hmmm, 2003? 2004?
Said the Whale are great stuff…we did a show in the Sault! All the great West Coast music is making it really tempting for me to move back west.
4 minutes ago
Tyler from Said the Whale came on the show to talk about the character in his song “Camilo.” He is a real dude and he performs magic card tricks at parties.
Look for Said the Whale in Victoria on September 24th playing in Element as part of the Rifflandia Festival.
We call CRC 72 a podcast with an acoustic ditty from We Are Seven. cool band name, based on an olden days poem.
“I’ve been alive/2005 Victoria/I laid a lot of high fives”
I remember that! The guys have always had a special place in their heart(s) for our Island city because they do some of their biggest crowds outside of Calgary here. They too will be part of Rifflandia. A Zoner called into the show letting me know about that. thank you mystery Zoner person.
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I like making mixtapes… I guess its almost the same rush as someone who plays fantasy baseball or something. I go through my collection and build a setlist.
The Morning After 