Ahh yes, the very first Friday of 2012 is here. I am still getting caught up on all the Top Songs of 2011 from all over the internet BUT this handful of songs have found a way to make it into my eardrums this morning. Hope you enjoy them. Free mp3: Conveyor - Mukraker Free mp3: MPSO - Can I Convince You Free mp3: Of Montreal [...]
Heycoolkid!'s 100 Best Songs Of 2011 (1-10) So it's down to the 10 best songs of 2011. Here is what made life better, got me through tough times, made me nostalgic, got me to think optimistically, and at the end of the day helped it all make sense. . . 10.Baby Monster -"The Fear of [...]
You know the drill. Here are my favourite songs from the past year...#11-20. 20. San Cisco - Golden Revolver Another band that came to me in an email. As soon as I say they were from Australia I was instantly hovering over the trash button but I must have been in a good mood because instead of clicking on the garbage can, I clicked on their bandcamp link. What I found was this beauty. Golden Revolver has been [...]
![[Playlist] The Restaurant – Opening Hours](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3901408_lg.jpg)
So, over the past couple months I have been attempting to learn how to run a restaurant. On my parade through the many positions and shifts that happen on a daily basis, I have noticed a variety of musical themes to the day. By far my favourite so far has been the first few hours that you have before the doors are unlocked in the morning. Durnig this time there is a lot of paperwork done, money counted, payroll entered and most of all, A LOT of coffee/espresso/cappuccino/etc consumed. To balance out the caffeine highs, I have turned to my [...]
Hey oh. Due to unfortunate bicycling accidents, this week's most downloaded songs will actually be from the past 2 weeks. Either way, five great tracks here for you to download and listen to today. Enjoy! 1. Say Hi - Bruises To Prove It 2. White Denim - Street Joy 3. Teen Daze - Let's Fall Asleep Together 4. [...]
For those of you who have visited this particular blog in the past, it is no secret that I will shortly be packing up the family and moving out west. I'm opening a new pizza place on Commercial Drive that I hope each and every one of you will have a chance to frequent consistently in the near future. Aside from the business side of the move, I am most excited about living in a city with a reliable music scene. I have spent a lot of time pondering all of the shows I will be [...]
Week 7. Sun is shining...life is good. 1. Childish Gambino - Bonfire 2. Girls - Honey Bunny 3. Giraffage - Polar Bear 4. City of Glass - Tourist 5. 41st and Home - Wilderness Eyes
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Just cause I'm in this kind of mood. You got a short drive? I got the playlist. Drive fast...be aggressive. 1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends 2. Bleached - Think Of You 3. Ty Segall - You Make The Sun Fry 4. Greg Preston and the Great Machine - Leave The Light On [...]
. . . 41st And Home - "Wilderness Eyes" [mp3] "Wilderness Eyes" is a song that from the first note I knew I was in love with. This is the kind of song I'm likely to hit repeat on and just let it play over and over. 41st and Home's sound is obviously Vancouverish. I [...]
With a diverse and talented slew of artists representing our northern neighbor, including Drake, Justin Bieber, and Celine Dion, it is no surprise that Canada's latest band, 41st and Home, is establishing themselves as a rising contender in the music industry with their debut album release, "Left in Places". The Vancouver-based quintet comprised of science students with a do-it-yourself attitude and a mini-orchestra of members, including a violinist, pianist, and bassist, are responsible for their own engineering, management, and publicity, many of the essential factors that today's most prominent recording artists outsource to professionals. Yet, without the hovering [...]
I'm back from the UK! In the past two weeks I have: -Seen seven bands live. The only one that was tolerable was a traditional Scottish duo called Duncan Mackinnon and Jock the Box . -Sat on a train in the London Underground across from a guy wearing a Vancouver Voodoo jacket. -Ridden the Harry Potter train and seen Platform 9 3/4 . -Watched two different documentaries about Bansky and seen two of his pieces in person. -Consumed an unhealthy amount of Irn-Bru . [...]
I am very excited to share this show with you for a few reasons. Primarily because I am personally very excited to have a show of this caliber coming to my hometown of Chilliwack. The second reason I am very happy to share this with you is because this is an excellent, very affordable opportunity [...]
So hear it is. The result of months of hard work from some of our favorite bands across this nation (and even a special cameo from one of our favorite American outfits). Basically, the idea was simple: Pay tribute to a Canadian legend on Canada Day. Oh, and get some free content for the blog of course. In all seriousness, Gordon Lightfoot has been making music for decades and his stories are passed from generation to generation. Unfortunately, when asked about the greatest Canadian songwriters, Gordon is often left off the list. [...]
"Gorbachev" is the latest single from Vancouver chamber pop ensemble 41st and Home . It uses soaring strings and horns to create a mood of cinematic grandeur, and the track spends much of its four-and-a-half-minute runtime in a seemingly continuous crescendo. This is a fitting accompaniment to the triumphant lyrics, which discuss the end of the Cold War. Am I sensing a trend in USSR-themed indie rock sweeping Canada? The song comes from the upcoming EP Raised by Wolves . Go to Exclaim! to read my article [...]
The horn laced energy that booms from the speakers on "Gorbachev" doesn't conform to our status quo but I just couldn't slog through another slice of pleasant, milquetoast folk today. Most days I'm quite happy to digest any sad-sack acoustic plodder, but the sun is finally out here in Halifax and the temperature is on the rise. Basically all that preamble means one thing; SUMMER JAM. It's easy to settle into the strings and keys that Vancouver's 41st and Home deliver, but it's the soaring harmonies and rafter rocking choruses [...]
Vancouver's got lots of pop bands and more than its share of punk and metal acts, but we don't have much in the way of baroque rock. Where are all of our cellists and flugelhorn players? 41st and Home is an exception to the rule. Here's the slow-building "Sleeper," which swells from a folksy ballad to an orchestral crescendo. Now that Sufjan Stevens has gone electronic , you can get your baroque fix here. I get the funny feeling I've heard of a song called "Sleeper" before. (Inside joke, don't worry about [...]
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