Thank you for finding Capital Rock City from The Zone dot Fm slash Jeremy, not too much in the new music department this week and I have little time for DJ notes… so here’s the set. yeesh, not really selling the sizzle with that opening pitch. Trust me, it sounds better than I can describe.
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DJ Notes
01) Crown the Wolf – “Primer Ride”
02) Japandroids – “Sovereignty”
03) Jets Overhead – “No Nations”
04) Acres of Lions – “Entertainment”
Sorry I don’t have more time for DJ Notes… its 3PM, time to make some radio magic on The Zone @ 91-3. Here is what I wrote on the RSS Feed:
CRC 59 begins with the dramz. Did Pride Tiger’s bass player quit moments before their show this past Friday? I dunno if that’s true or what, but I do know Crown The Wolf showed up and did their thing. Japandroids from Vancouver have a trend of canceling shows whenever I am able to go see them. I don’t take it personally, I keep on keeping on. Jets Overhead is the Zone Band of the Month for June! and back from China! Nice. And the show ends with one of my fave Vic rockers, Acres of Lions. if you love the show as much as I do, please share a link with a friend and you can find out more always at http://www.thezone.fm/jeremy (Tuesday, June 02, 2009)
Thank you for finding my Victoria rock internet show Capital Rock City. Lots of great music this week (just like every week right). Find Capital Rock City in the iTunes store for a free weekly subscription or use the Zone’s handy dandy RSS Feed.
I met the boys in Doc Currie last week at Logan’s opening for The CFC (not to be confused with the Couples for Christ). DC is just two just guys doing the drums and guitar thing. Lots of audio weirdness. Two was thinking they sounded like Modest Mouse, I disagreed and pulled some threads of Japanadroids out. But listening to “Eastern Shore” again on Capital Rock City… it is a little more noisy and experimental.
Aegis Fang! Lets do it, this Thursday at Sugar for Beats and Babes 2!
The good kids in Saul asked me a couple weeks ago if they could use a clip form the Zone Afternoon Show in an intro to a song on their new record. I said, “yuppers!” And now you’re hearing it on Capital Rock City. man, those were some good oranges. I still remember them. And to tie CRC 57 in to The Paper Cranes, Miranda went to Save-On and bought some oranges too.
The Racoons are on tour right now… Ontario maybe? They’ll be back in Victoria for a show at Sugar on June 12th. new ep, “Islomania” is out in Early June as well.
The “secret song” at the end of the “I’d Rather Be Sailing with” ep is a song that lead singer Matt describes as their “National sounding song.” The National are taking FOREVER to follow up Boxer, so the Racoons will have to scratch that itch for me.
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and hey… is Josh Van Leeuwen the same guy that fronted The Counting Heartbeats? * turns out he is! And I got an email from Josh saying that his performance name is Joshua Sparrow as it has a little better zip to it and not to be confused with the Van Leeuwen of A Perfect Circle fame.
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That’s all I got for now… I’ll flesh out the notes later with some commentary and links when I have more time. Right now I have to hop on the radio and do my show.
Way to Go Einstein messaged me on Facebook after noticing Fake Shark – Real Zombie on CRC 54. This band is also from the lower mainland but I was like, yup…send me some music! They have a bit of a Radiohead thing going on. I find the song to be very melodic and pleasant to listen to.
Trolling around Pitchfork, I read a review of Victoria’s Immaculate Machine that was not great. Pitchfork was rather “meh” on the whole High on Jackson Hill which would be fighting words of Shaynebo Bright reads the review (he LOVES Immaculate Machine).
Pitchfork might not like their accessible Victorian pop, but they lurves them some Terminal City fuzzy lo-fi rock. Japandroids have an interesting sound that maybe reminds me of Vic due Bloody Wilma? Maybe a little? I should get some Bloody Wilma for the podcast. They also remind me a bit of that band Fucked Up. Right, the song I picked for CRC 55 was the one the reviewer in Pitchfork highlighted as the best… so if you didn’t “get it” then maybe Japandroids are not for you… and in the 6 degrees of the Paper Cranes which CRC has turned into… Japandroids are on the same record label as The Paper Cranes. neat.
I met one of the guys in Flawed By Design a couple Tuesdays ago at The Clubhouse. He was friends with this guy I know named Brenden. We jibber jabbered… one thing leads to another and it turns out as is generally the case… he’s in a band, I have a radio show, we should be friends. An MP3 was sent and I really like it. Maybe a *little* dated with the screamo style, but i miss screamo so I’ll let it slide and give the song a thumb up!
Ended the show this week with another strong cut from Hollydene. Still don’t know too much abouyt the kids in t he Hollydene, we recently became BFF on Facebook, so maybe over time… I’ll learn their 5 favourite records on a desert island and their ABCs off Facebook notes and it’ll be like we went to high school together and used to party every week down by the river (no really, in high school, I used to party down by the river).
The march to 1,000 continues so please take a moment to help me and share a link for the podcast with a friend. Subscribing on iTunes or by RSS feed is huge too. Thank you so much for finding the show. And I am always looking for new music so if you’re in a band or have a favourite indie rocker you want to share, please email me at jeremy@thezone.fm .
I finally get why peolple steal music off the internet. The companies that take your money punish you for the experience.
I am one of the few people I know left that routinely buys my music. I use music a lot for my mental well-being and for work, and I have no problem dropping .99 cents on a song from iTunes. I have multiple Apple products and have spent hundreds thousands of dollars on music in the past couple years. Maybe I am not a HEAVY user but I think I am more than a casual music fan.
iTunes however has DRM on many of the songs I bought. I can only play my music on my authorized computers of which I can only have 5 going at any one time. No worries. Until I hit my five and then got my hands on a new Mac Book for a work project. I went to play some of my music and the computer said that I had maxed out my 5 authorized computers. Dang it. OK, deauthorize all the old ones. One of the computers I have since put into long term storage because it is broken and the other is Boitano’s that I authorized to DJ on it one time last November.
Nope, I can only deauthorize all computer once a year! WTF? why? who cares if I want to deauthorize all computers all the time. My music, my computers, deauthorize please so that I may continue to buy iTunes music on my Mac computer!
On top of that, iTunes has since seen the error of their ways and dropped DRM (digital Rights management) on their music, so let me open up as many computers as I want to be authorized? or remove the DRM off my already lawfully purchased tracks. The bastards are “offering” to lift the DRM off my songs for like $300! O RLY, thank you iTunes. But how ’bout you keep the offer and just work. just work… that is all I want.
Or how about this Apple and music industry, I take back the Mac to the Apple store and download Limewire and cut all of you out my life? I tried finding an iTunes customer service number but good luck on that, had to leave an email. Not acceptable at 2AM when I NEED a laptop to work for my job.
God, I am the last man on earth that buys music and its a Byzantian ordeal.
Sorry for the cry baby rant, but I am upset that I have spent so much money and time doing the “right” thing and I am being punished, but if I’d just ripped off all the music, this would be a non-issue.
and remember kids, SUBSCRIBING to the podcast on iTunes is the only way to fight a wild fire in Australia! The cute little koala bears thank you for it. Or heck, why not RSS Feed this bitch direct from The Zone!
Skies Kill are one of my new favourites. Danny Peters from the group emailed me three songs earlier this week and I gave them all a solid listen. The band is still developing their sound and maybe there are parts I’d tighten up, but the basic genesis of the music is wonderful to my ears. The lead off track that I played on CRC, “Exhaust Fumes” is one of my stand-out picks because a lot happens in less than 3 minutes. It is almost two songs with a long soundtracky end.
Crown The Wolf bring the Fu Manchu fuzz rock to Victoria and maybe you’ll come see them at Evolution Nightclub next Thursday, March 26th!
Adam at Sonic in Deadmonton has to yet to fail in exporting something mighty from the Champion Rock City… the hockey team might suck, but the music is wonderous.
Now Adam might not own a scarf, but I do, so I care what Pitchfork has to say about The Faunts. Actually, I don’t believe Adam doesn’t own a scarf, hypothermia is a clear and present danger in Edmonton any time of the year… maybe I should send him one?
Next I talk to Wynn Gogol. Wynn operates 1 Ton Studios in the Quadra Village. He recorded Something Betters music! Nice.
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01) No-Fi Soul Rebellion – “Lets Pretend” originally from Alaska, now calling one of my fave towns home, Bellingham USA! Thank you Brandon for sharing this band with me!
02) Justin Hewitt – “Close Your Eyes”
Couple things went down for this weeks Capital Rock City. Tuesday, The Clubhouse booked a big party of convention people. Great for business, but I couldn’t record my first live-to-tape Capital Rock City with Acres of Lions.
It will still happen, but the first one will have to be with a different band? Anyone want to volunteer?
Tyson said they’d be down to record one for me in April.
The other plan was to have Miranda and Ryan of the Paper Cranes on the show. But on Monday (when I record the show) I ended up at the Victoria Film Festival. Miranda and Ryan will be next week for CRC 42.
The film festival was very fun. I saw 14 short films! It is too bad that there is no place on this planet for easier consumption of this great art. My favourite films I couldn’t even find websites for, let alone streamed on Youtube. Hey film makers… if you make a film and want people to actually watch it, you have to distribute it. (shakes head).
There used to be a TV show on the CBC called Zed. Do you remember that show? It must have been on TV around 2000? I was living with Paul in Burncouver (or was it Vanaby?) and we smoked a lot of pot. The show was basically a film fest every night. Then it stopped. WTF CBC… Stoners are Canadian tax payers too you know. I like Strombo… but I’d have a nighty time explosion in my pants if my evening went Strombo at 11P then Zed at midnight… or who knows, maybe Zed is still on? I can’t find it and have never seen an ad for it. Anyways… the show was basically a collection of short films, animations, and avant-garde music videos presented for an hour or two every night from mostly Canadian but also world film makers.
The only issue I had with the film fest is a personal one… I was tired and it was along night. I went from The Zone directly to the film fest and sat on a hard chair for 4 hours. Great films… but long night. Like longer than Titanic!
During intermission I was hungry as shit. So I left to find some food, but in the end all I wanted was a coffee.
I wander back into the film fest and the lady taking tickets turns to me and says, “do you know where to get any food around here? I am starving! I had to rush from work to the film fest and I ate no dinner.”
“Me too!” I reply, “I just found this coffee.”
“Did you know coffee is an appetite suppressant?”
“No I did not.” Then I related the story to her about the time time I ate an apple.
“one time when I was doing my show I said on the air that was very hungry and during the commercials I was going to eat an apple because I love apples.
“this lady phones my show and says to me, ‘Jeremy did you know that apples are appetite suppressants?’ and I said really? when I am hungry and I eat some food my appetite is suppressed? who’d have thought of that?”
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All the Racoons songs that you heard on the podcast you can download for free if you click the Racoons name at the top.
Vince is working on a new record and he was kind enough to share a demo from the recording sessions with me.
Check out this crazy email from Lazy of The Matinee:
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—–Original Message—– From: matt@thematineemusic.com [mailto:matt@thematineemusic.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:25 AM To: Jeremy@thezone.fm Subject: a song for you
Hey Jeremy…. here ya go! Bit of a busy weekend, I celebrated both mine and my girlfriends’ birthdays… so yeah….. still hurting a bit. In other news, did you know that Bob’s place in North Van burned to the ground last week ? He lost everything. And the bastard just rolls with it with a shrug. What a guy!
This tune is called San Diego, and it is about an unpaid speeding ticket I got once on a road trip to California. True story. I still haven’t paid it, so now there is a bench warrant for my arrest in Weed County. The fine is up to $1200 and the collections calls me twice a week. I never answer. And never will! Just can’t drive down there anymore.. or I am going to the slammer!
Cheers bud, new tunes to be recorded next month that I will send your way too.
Lazy.
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Bob’s place burned down? SWA? I need to call that cat pronto.
The final band is a Vancouver group that sounds mighty CFOXish called Jet Black Stare. Before Lazy was rocking the Matinee, he was in a group called Ten Ways From Sunday and even before that… The Salad Kings (who I used to play on the Morning After Show on CiTR! so that is some time ago). Lazy played with his friend Jeff. Jeff left Ten Ways to go solo… and his musical journey has taken him into band production and recording. So if you’re in a band and thinking that you liked the style of Jet Black Stare, fire Jeff an email: bwe@telus.blackberry.com
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That’s all I got.
Next week I am working on the first live to tape Capital Rock City.
Capital Rock City #43 :: Live from The Clubhouse
featuring a special live acoustic performance form Acres of Lions
the week after that I hope to have a chance to talk to the Paper Cranes and maybe some music from South Africa. neat.
OH! and you can now subscribe to Capital Rock City on iTunes. Search Capital Rock City in the iTunes store and subscribe please.
Now I get that AC/DC is a wickedly popular band. But holy moly is Brian Johnson out of touch. He slams iTunes with one breath and in his next hands Wal-Mart an exclusive for the new record Black Ice.
There is so much wrong with his logic, it would take me all day to go over it. And I also fully appreciate that most AC/DC fans don’t care, but as a man that:
A) admittadly enjoys the odd AC/DC track and wants the escape to simple musical excess like anyone else
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B) still pays for his music and my weapon of choice is iTunes
iTunes ‘Genius’ has some interesting picks today. I used Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” as the base and somehow P!nk’s new one came up (yes I have P!nk’s new one on my iTunes). We didn’t fight long, I forgave iTunes because she included a couple hits from my fave band The National and one from the Hold Steady.
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I read an article today about Canadians fleeing stress and moving to the Tropics.
The article says that some of us are rejecting this crazy consumer culture for an easier way in the jungle. Maybe eating monkey?
An extensive survey released late last year by an economist at the University of British Columbia found that people overestimate the amount of happiness they’ll get from material things.
So the answer is to run away to a sunnier place. It would be a lie if I said I have never thought of it. Sometimes I get so stressed out and tired. Some guy wrote a book about meditation called It Begins With Silence. Maybe one day I’ll actually read that. I typed “Begins With Silence” into a search engine and I found a t-shirt that says, “Music Begins With Silence,” and I was like whoa…
One thing I used to do a lot more of to decompress and self medicate was listen to music. Listen for the pleasure of listening. It helped that A: I had no baby, and B: I walked an hour a day which was valuable time to listen. Lately, I have been listening more and it makes a difference.
It has been awhile since I’ve heard a song that I love, like L O V E. and finally I have that again. I have a crush on the new KOL track “Use Somebody.” Like a 12-year-old, I fire this thing up on repeat. The song is one of those rare gems that actually makes me feel better just from listening. Sorta like booze, but I don’t puke up any foam. Driving to Hugos last night, I pushed the limits of the Jeep’s stereo with the song. Motivational…
Got me really fired up to spin at Hugo’s. My Tuesday night is coming to an end on October twenty-something… 21st maybe? Is that a Tuesday? Yesterday was pretty slow, everyone kept telling me, “don’t worry Jeremy, EVERYWHERE is slow,” which sorta made me feel better. The night picked up a bit and the people that did come were a good time. I will miss my Tuesday nights… come the end of October I’ll need to find another job. There are a couple plans floating around right now, so we’ll see what pans out. If I end up doing a dance night, I think I want to do something reggae-ish and call my night the “The Tropic of Jeremy.” That makes me laugh every time. Every time.
The other idea I had was creating a small production business crafting mini-infomercials or content commercials for businesses. They can use them as commercials that educate or edusell, or even as podcasts on their websites… I dunno. Still kinda heshing that out in the brain.
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On my show Friday, Victoria rockers theset will be coming by for an interview and live performance.
They play a show on Friday night at the White Eagle Hall and then its off on a tour. They’ll be heading to Deadmonton so I emailed Adam at Sonic 102.9 about meeting the boys and having a listen to their new album, Neveroddoreven. Adam sent me a band from Edmonton to check out called The Wet Secrets.
Adam says, ” We’re playing the snot out of Secret March, and its getting a phenomal reaction.”
ewwwwww, snot.
Next week I am filling in for Dylan on the morning show. So far I am looking forward to an interview with author Sarah Kramer on the 24th and an interview with author Patrick Lane on the 30th. Maybe I should try and hook up an interview with the “It Begins With Silence” guy? I’d be into learning more about that.
For the Is Dave There? game I want to try and track down some famous Daves. Like Dave Babych… but maybe also David Lettermen and David Suzuki. Any other famous Daves you can think of to try and call so people can win prizes?
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Coral and I took Madelyn for shots yesterday. Amazingly she did NOT cry for the first one and barely cried on the second.
We got her standing up a bit on her wobbly legs (some pics are posted on my Facebook).
She baby babbles. Baby babbles very loudly.
She just babbles on and on and on…. its like, “Jeezus baby, would you just shut it and play a bloody song already!”
She is whip smart. Always exploring and learning about her world. I have said it before… she is not going to be a doctor or an astronaut, she is going to be a doctor on a spaceship! Maybe after she discovers how to travel the speed of light. and she’ll make Coke Zero taste good… and I’ll be thin with awesome hair and a laser machete.
The Morning After 