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Capital Rock City #69 // Saul, Paper Cranes, Lizzie and Simon, Cage The Elephant

Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Cage the Elephant, Cavaliers, CBC, Chevelle, English Civil War, Hinder, iTunes, Lizzie and Simon, Podcast, Saul, The Paper Cranes, The Tudors, Victoria on August 20, 2009| 5 Comments »

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The march to 1,000 weekly downloads of Capital Rock City continues with… uh, you downloading my podcast? But it really kicks into gear when you unleash the social media revolution and share my work with your friends and ex-boyfriends.

Be groovy, download: Capital Rock City #69 TODAY!

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DJ Notes:

01) Saul – “Wasteland Anthem”
02) The Paper Cranes – “The Cavalier”
03) Lizzie and Simon – “Mermaids and Kings”
04) Cage The Elephant – “Back Against The Wall (live)”

The more I listen to Saul’s latest work, the more I am impressed by the chunky fullness of the sounds. I do have a soft spot in my heart for riff-rock (I grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver jamming out CFOX) and this music kinda reminds me of Chevelle. I don’t know what will propel Saul to an opening slot of a Hinder concert, being a “rock” band can be a hard row to sow with a song about cheating on your girlfriend or drugs (of hopefully both). I am not sure if I’ve heard that break-out single from Saul yet… but maybe after a couple more listens. A few weeks back I jammed out a track called “Never Enough” and that song had a nice hook, so maybe I’ll need to revisit that cut or maybe a couple cuts for CRC #70. If you have some thoughts, I’d always love to hear them, in the comment section of my blog (or http://www.thezone.fm/jeremy readers can email me jeremy@thezone.fm).

I have a minor obsession with the CBC show The Tudors. I just discovered the program recently, and outside of the news and hockey, its the only reason I visit the Ceeb these days. The King in The Tudors is such a dick, but all the lady’s of the court are smoking hot, so I can see why the dude was always fucking anything in a dress and not managing his realm very effectively.

This attitude would eventually… well a century later, boil over to the First English Civil War. Supporters of the then King Charles would be called cavaliers. A cavalier is either, depending on which end of the pike you were standing, bold, dashing, religious, loyal, Calvary men of the King or… godless, drinking, frivolous men. I’ll need to have another listen to the Paper Cranes cut to hear who Ryan is singing about. I did like the prayer of one Cavalier before battle: “O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not forget me.”

Liz Beattie sent me a track to feature on my podcast this week, “Mermaids and Kings.” its alright, I like “Wherever You Go” from last week’s show so much better.

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*photo courtesy of Two

The show ends with a clip from chit-chat/live performance with Cage The Elephant. The song they played is called “Back Against The Wall.”

That’s all I got, thank you for downloading my podcast and please take a moment to find it in iTunes music store. You could rate it (highly I hope) leave a comment, subscribe to it… sure. And if you liked the show, maybe you’ll tell a friend about it.

Go with yourself.

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Interviews: Silversun Pickups and Cage the Elephant

Posted in music, radio, tagged Cage the Elephant, Interview, Live Music, Manchester Orchestra, radio, Silversun Pickups, The Zone @ 91-3, Victoria on August 19, 2009| 1 Comment »

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thanks Two for the awesome pictures. *all pictures are from Two in this post.

Monday night had a trifecta (I don’t know if that is a word or not), Monday night had three great modern rock bands invade our Island for a show at The Royal Theatre.

Before the concert all three bands came by The Zone to hang out and The Silversun Pickups and Cage The Elephant made it to The ZAS.

Here is the audio of their interviews/live performances.

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Check out the stream of the event at http://thezone.fm/jeremy

we had some technical issues during the Silversun Pickups of our broadcast feed (which is what this recording is of) so the first couple songs are heavily distorted which is a real shame. The end of the performance is decent.

The interview with SSPU was a little more awkward as we couldn’t hear each other too wel and were on a stage with everyone, so it takes me a second to get comfortable… so yeah, first half of the interview is a little weak and I apologize for that, but our second talk about the recoding process half way through the set is a little bit better. Brian gets all James Hetfield at the performance and away we go. Brian is singing/guitars and Nikki is playing bass.

They perform four songs:

01) “Growing Old is Getting Old” (worst of the audio)
02) “Panic Switch”
talk about recording/song craftsmanship/drilling holes in pianos
03) “Substitution”
04) “Lazy Eye” (best of the audio)

After the show on Monday, you might have found the SSPU playing bubble hockey in the Games Room of the Strathcona Hotel.

Check out the stream of the event at http://www.thezone.fm/jeremy

Matt Schultz and I talk about who he likes better, SSPU or Manchester Orchestra, what is better? a tour bus or hotel room, what are some of his favourite bands, who is he singing about in the song “In One Ear” and what is the best part of the great state of Kentucky.

I thought the interview was alright, but later that night at the Royal, I ran into Matt (he was hanging out drinking and watching the other bands in the seats with all us plebes) he was very apologetic.

After the show the groups was off to drink at local peeler bar The Fox. (and Manchester Orchestra was at Smiths for pints).

The band performed a couple songs with brother Brad and guitarist Lincoln.

set:

01) “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked”
02) “Back Against the Wall”

I hope you enjoy.

Read Mike Devlin’s Review in the Times Colonist
Two’s Flickr inclusing pics of CTE and SSPU
Two’s Vimeo of the live performances

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Silversun Pickups on a Boat / Coral and Jeremy go to Kings of Leon

Posted in music, tagged BBQ, BC Ferries, Dix, Port Moody, Red Truck Beer, Silversun Pickups, Twitter, Vancouver, Victoria on August 17, 2009| 3 Comments »

This is pretty cool, The Silversun Pickups are on their way to Victoria for a Zone Show tonight and included a picture on their twitter of the Ferry ride.

Yesterday, when I was on the ferry, back from our Kings of Leon concert adventure, we saw whales! no rock stars, but man, there were so many whales out there on the water.

KOL was a fun shit show. Coral, Alyx, Gord and I bee-lined downtown to this little pub called Dix. Dix serves up its own micro-brew, Red Truck. Why do we know and love Red Truck in Victoria? Because that fine brewery sued our friend Matt Phillips and made him stop brewing his Blue Truck. (I mean calling it “Blue Truck,” he still brews it as Blue Buck).

What ever, I forgive and I order and you know what? Good, no Blue Truck, but a quality micro-brew at a decent price consider we were in the tourist ghetto on Vancouver. Prices were actually pretty decent at Dix. James and Holly showed up with James’ brother and James let us know you can eat peanuts by the bucket in Dix and toss the shells on the floor Big Bad Johns style. Fun.

Coral and I wobbled over to GM Place after the Whigs, a couple more beers and KOL hit the stage jamming out one of my fave tracks, “Be Somebody.”

Txts from that night:

me: they totally played sex is on fire!

james: I got crabs!

me: Hey remember that time holly gave me the aids?

James: Remeber that time they played sex is on fire and I got a total semi

They basically jammed out all the hits, good set, humble guys, loud crowd then back to Coquitlam for some John B. Pub.

My sister, her BF and my brother Matt joined us and we slammed back some dirt cheap Molson. The cover band asked for requests and I said, “KING OF LEON, SEX ON FIRE!”

The band said, “only if you sing it!”

OK. Um, my sister has the footage somewhere.

The next day was a sunny one and we headed to the water park in Port Moody which is one of the finest family parks I’ve ever seen. I think I have a new mission from god, and its to build a water park in Esquimalt.

right, dreams aside. Good times.

Go with yourself.

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tell me what to like

Posted in food, tagged Burgers, Cabin 12, Vic Burger Blog, Victoria on August 14, 2009| 2 Comments »

Yesterday I met up with the Vic Burger Blog guy, Donald, to mow down on a burger to add to his outstanding list of Victoria burger reviews.

I wanted to hit Cabin 12 on Pandora Street. Last week, I met up with Robin Farrell of Kool FM for a bite, and we ventured to Cabin 12 and I was mighty impressed with the service, cost and quality of the meal. Robin and I rocked wraps, this time, Donald and I would be trying the burger.

Donald ordered some creation with a fried egg, some bacon and cheese on top. Pretty much a breakfast AND lunch combo thing. I went with their classic, Cabin 12 burger.

What to say about it? I loved that it wasn’t too saucy, an overly saucy burger makes me want to drag net the ocean bottom. The burger came open faced on a hearty whole wheat bun and came with all the standard fixings.

Right away, the burger could do no worse than par.

The patty tasted like some kind of homemade creation from a picnic long past. It had that “mom” feel about it and some surprises as you bit in. Red and Green peppers? sure, I hope that is what it was. Donald and I had a hard time deciding if this was good or not. The dude mentioned that the burger was very similar to the Floyd’s Burger, something about the owner being a former employee?

For the $8 something I paid and the funky vibe of the joint I’ll give this burger a firm recommend and it will become a new favourite diner for me. I’ll need to drag Coral down sometime for a breakfast. Ha, maybe this morning when I wake up before work. Friday is pay day!

Go with yourself.

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Capital Rock City #68 // Funk Vigilante, Goodbye Beatdown, Lizzie and Simon, Black Hat Villain

Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Armchair Cynics, Black Hat Villain, CFC, Funk Vigilante, Goodbye Beatdown, Lizzie and Simon, Lucky Bar, Maurice, Podcast, Vancouver, Victoria on August 11, 2009| 2 Comments »

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Thank you for finding my weekly Victoria rocker podcast, Capital Rock City. As I continue the march to 1,000 weekly downloads I ask that maybe you’ll share the link to this podcast with a friend or on your social media page.

Download: Capital Rock City #68

Here we go!

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DJ Notes

01) Funk Vigilante – “On Top of the World”
02) Goodbye Beatdown – “Feel Your Pain”
03) Lizzie and Simon – “Wherever You Go”
04) Black Hat Villain – “Rain or Shine”

Funk Vigilante reminds me of my old vigilante hat. Many moons ago when I was snot-nosed suburban hipster, I went to the Warped Tour in Vancouver. During the show I found this trucker hat (remember when those were so hawt!) that had the top cut off so it looked like a real D-bag styled golf vizer thing. Written in sharpy marker was the word “vigilante.” Cool.

Funk Vigilante describes themselves as:

The album is called “Civil Disobedience” it’s like one of those hot lava burritos, blended up, and poured right into your listening hole.

which is much better than anything I could write.

The Goodbye Beatdown are a Vancouver band that is increasingly spending more and more time visiting us here in Victoria. They’ll once again be here for a show on August 20th at Lucky Bar.

Liz Beattie was (maybe still is?) the bass player for Machina. Remember that band? Lately I notice she performs as The Liz Beattie band or on MySpace as Lizzie and Simon. Simon is the keyboard player for Maurice and together they make some pretty indie pop. Cute attack!

I end the show this week with Langfordians, Black Hat Villain. You’ll get a chance to experience their post-grungy sounds live at The Station House Pub on Saturday, August 15th when they suppoert the Armchair Cynics.

Thank you for trying something new with your music and discovering some great Victoria rock & roll.

Go with yourself

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Capital Rock City #66 // The Paper Cranes, Japandroids, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Current Swell

Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Current Swell, Evolution Nightclub, iTunes, Japandroids, Lucky Bar, Metric, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Nickelback, Podcast, Seattle, The Paper Cranes, Unfamiliar Records, Vancouver, Victoria, Zone Band of the Month on July 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »

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Please do the right thing, download: Capital Rock City #66

This crazy fun summertime is doing a number on my blog hits which I can only imagine is damaging my March to 1,000 weekly CRC downloads… that said, if you are one of the fine few finding this website when really you should be at the beach, thank you and maybe take a second to subscribe to the podcast on either iTunes or by RSS feed.

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DJ Notes

01) The Paper Cranes – “Chivalry’s Dead”
02) Japandroids – “Crazy/Forever”
03) Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band – “Albatross, Albatross, Albatross”
04) Current Swell – “Red Shag Carpet”

No better way to get right to it, then to go to Paper Cranes female half, Miranda’s blog:

The gist of it: our label Unfamiliar Records has called out Factor for giving grant money to only successful bands who don’t “need” it. Large amounts of money going to groups like Nickleback and Metric.
While I agree with the sentiment and have been frustratingly rejected for multiple video and recording grants (written by professionals) we have also been approved for and relied on a couple travel grants in the past to play festivals.

I am a little worried that we will now never be able to get a grant as a result of this. It is pretty entertaining though…..

The letter has been picked up by thedailyswarm, exclaim news and the national post.

the national post
the original letter
response from metric’s manager

oh the dramz. i hope we have not been fully alienated.

I hope not either Miranda! But I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Grants are free money, if you get one, score, if not… then you do like countless others and work for yours. Ryan and you are hard workers that make great music.

Huzzah! Japandroids are making up the canceled show in Victoria. This mighty Vancouver fuzz rock group is playing Lucky Bar on Saturday, September 5th. And they’re bringing with them, Seattle group the Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. I had a chance to see these guys (I think) at Sasquatch!

Finally on this weeks CRC, Zone Band of the Month, Current Swell. Some fine summer music that is perfect for the patio. CS is a great example of a band that makes music people like and work hard showing it. These guys don’t really “need” a band of the month showcase, but we’re happy non-the-less here at the Zone for the chance to share their fantastic music with our audience. The showcase tomorrow (July 30th) at Evolution Nightclub promises to be packed! So make sure you meet up with Pol early at 9PM.

That will do it for this week…. thank you for downloading my podcast and I hope you discovered some great new music.

Go with yourself.

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Capital Rock City #65 // On The Road to Edmonton with Vince Vaccaro and Maurice

Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Brixx Bar, Edmonton, indie rock, Lucky Beer, Maurice, Podcast, Victoria, Vince Vaccaro on July 22, 2009| 1 Comment »

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Back from my rip-roaring holiday in Edmonton and the first thing I did when I rolled into the radio was watch this fine Nirvana Mash-up. But then the second thing I did, was hop in the Capital Rock City studio to jam out this week’s CRC.

Download: Capital Rock City #65

I hope you enjoy the show as much as I loved making it. If you like the program, please share the link with a friend or on your social network. Every link counts on my march to 1,000 weekly downloads. Thank you.

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DJ Notes

01) Vince Vaccaro – “Costa Rica”
02) Vince Vaccaro – “Heart and Hands”
03) Maurice – “Anticipation”
04) Maurice – “Unattainable”

Wow, if you remember last week, I was thinking out loud about the possibility of seeing Vince and Maurice on tour in Edmonton, well the stars aligned and on Friday night, I journeyed out to downtown Edmonton (1,300 km from downtown Victoria) with Coral, Alyx, Dave and Lacey to experience some fine Captial Rock in… uhhh… another Provincial Capital.

The venue was this hot, sweaty basement called Brixx Bar. The room was downtown on some numbered street (they all look the same to me) just off Jasper under the Starlight Room.

We walked in and Coral and I wanted to fire this night up right so we ordered two three (one for Alyx) double Gin and Tonics. $33! SWA? Edmonton what’s up? Okay, one round later and I was on to their finest, cheapest beer… Lucky.

I was watching two fine Victoria rockers drinking Lucky Beer in… Edmonton.

Maurice and Vince were tired. They had played Calgary the night before, bee-lined it north to Deadmonton, slept an hour or two then did Breakfast TV on CITY. Slept a few more hours then had sound check at Brixx, oh the life of a touring working band.

The boys treated me like a star, told some stories, drank some beers and then Maurice tucked into their set.

As always, Maurice translates so much better live than on record. The rock songs rock harder and far more furiously and the ballads are more passionate and desperate. On record, sometimes I find their songs get lost in the production. Coral was sold after their set and needed a t-shirt! Post Script, Coral sent me an email today:

And HEY! Your blog made it sound like Id never heard Maurice before “coral was sold after their set and bought a tshirt’

How about coral swooned. I was sold befooooore!
Being the long time Maurice admirer that I am, I was sad they did not play “High School Sweetheart.” Maybe they were drunk, I know I was… but I am pretty sure promises were made to record that song for Capital Rock City??? maybe??? Maybe JP?

Vince did his thing after, using most the boy in Maurice as his backing band. A very efficient way to do it. Too bad more people in Edmonton don’t go out on a Friday night, it was a sparse crowd. Any touring band might want to think about some more local support. They had some group open, then the touring acts headlined… next time, have a local open and one close the night out.

I grabbed a copy of Maurice’s ‘Young People With Faces’ and Vince’s s/t LP, the girls got t-shirts and it was off to enjoy the rest of our holiday… which included lots of driving.

Maurice’s record stayed in the player lots. “Anticipation” rose to the top for Coral and I. Another song that peaked my interest was the final song of the podcast, “Unattainable.” JP sings about Fernwood! and existentialism? ahhh, you had me at Fernwood.

Thank you for downloading this week’s show! Tell a friend about it.

Go with yourself.

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Capital Rock City #63 // Mother Mother, Paper Cranes, Great White Shark, Everybody Left

Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged A British Columbia, Big Time Out, Cumberland, Eric Thompson, Great White Shark, indie, iTunes, Lucky Bar, Mother Mother, music, Podcast, Quadra Island, Rifflandia, RSS, Ryan Guldemon, Something Better, The Paper Cranes, Vancouver, Victoria on July 8, 2009| 1 Comment »

Thank you for finding my blog. If this is your first time visiting I would like to invite you to check out my weekly podcast called Capital Rock City. Capital Rock City is a weekly audio podcast I create that features some of the fine music of Victoria and points in and around the capital.

Please Download: Capital Rock City #63

If you enjoy the show, please consider sharing the link with a friend and subscribing to the podcast. You can subscribe by using this RSS feed or by searching ‘capital rock city’ in the iTunes store.

Now lets get to it.

DJ Notes

01) Mother Mother – “Hay Loft”
02) Paper Cranes – “Black Centipedes”
03) Great White Shark – “Long to Tell You”
04) Everybody Left – “Get Used”

The show begins with a taste of an interview I did with Mother Mother lead sing Ryan Guldemon. We’ll get a couple chances to see this Quadra Island native (now living in Vancouver) on August 15th at Cumberland’s Big Time Out Festival and then here in the city in late September at Rifflandia. Ryan and I mostly talk about how I completely fail at interpreting their music. good times.

The Paper Cranes have a new record called ‘Chivalry’s Dead’ and they be celebrating its release with a pair of CD release parties. July 17th here in Victoria at Lucky Bar (Racoons in support) and then the following night, July 18th in Vancouver at The Biltmore.

I got an email from my man crush Eric Thompson at A TV. Eric has a son and he is the drummer in the band Great White Shark. AND it turns out I know the lead singer. He was in the band Something Better which I have featured before on Capital Rock City (I thinkon the podcast I make a mistake and confused my notes. I said that Great White Shark was Everybody Left… and that is wrong, they were Something Better).

Finally, a song from the band Everybody Left. What a groovy track.

That’ll do it for this week’s Capital Rock City. Thank you for spending your time exploring new indie rock with me and I hope you’ll not be a stranger and introduce yourself in the comment section and make a point to subscribe to the podcast.

Go with yourself.

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Victoria Flash Mob Jams Out Thriller

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged Atomic Vaudeville, Canada day, Flash Mob, Michael Jackson, Thriller, Victoria on July 2, 2009| 2 Comments »

Times Colonist: Atomic Vaudeville Pays Tribute ot Michael Jackson on Canada Day

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An Exploding Whale of a Time

Posted in history 101, neat-O gang, politics, tagged Beached Cow, Beached Whale, Exploding Whale, Government, Oregon, Six-Gilled Shark, Victoria on June 30, 2009| 5 Comments »

Over the weekend a cow washed up on the shores of Victoria and typical, it took no less than three levels of government to deal with the situation,

Cow Washes Up on Victoria Beach

My favourite line from the story:

“It was originally thought to be a dead horse, but once the officers got there they were able to determine it was a cow,” said Victoria police acting Sgt. Jamie McRae Sunday.

Well done city.

Have a Listen: The Zone Afternoon Show Talks About the Beached Cow and an Exploding Whale!

Now this isn’t the first time something bizarre has washed up on our fair beach. Zoner Liz sent me some pictures from a six-gilled shark!

Hey guys,

You were talking about how they don’t know what to do with the dead cow that got washed up at Clover Point. I have a suggestion: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/destroyed-in-seconds-beached-whale-explosion.html

It’s a matter of precedent since apparently that’s how they dispose of washed up whales.

Incidentally, around this time last year a dead six-gill shark was washed up at Mile Zero (near Clover Point). We took it back to the dive shop at Ogden Point and it sat our dunk tank until the UVic biology department got it a week later. Here are some pics for shits and giggles of it. I wonder what will get washed up next year? A dinosaur?

Later,

Liz

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