I am getting a little overwhelmed by this whole moving thing. Maybe some of these songs will help. Take twice per day for the next 3 months. In the end, how can you not be excited to move around Western Canada with a beautiful lady? (see above...and please take note of the classy, english, drinking pinky) Free mp3: Little Red - Rock It Free mp3: Dr Dog - Heart It Races (Architecture in Helsinki cover) [...]
Keith Klenowski Just to be clear: filling Massey Hall for two nights in a row is no mean feat. Not many bands can do it once, let alone twice, but when The National did just that last June in support of their breakout album High Violet , it felt like an arrival - the best and most natural setting for a band that had graduated from the bar circuit and were taking their rightful place in the city's most hallowed room, hopefully for years to come. [...]
Saturday... all day without a post, and then I realized that I only have 11 days to get five more mixes up, so here it is #17. Mixed on a flight between Houston and Charlotte. Blogophilia 17 – Mixed in a Cramped Coach Seat Ripped @ 320kbps VBR Songs gathered from blogs – March 1 – April 7, 2010 Download All Tracks in One Zip File Track list: [...]
This, is Mont Saint Michel. Which, thanks to Rick Steves, the Fabio of travel, is one of most incredible things I've seen all month. If you're intuitive, this gives away a simple and very embarrassing fact: that given all the possible things I could be doing in life, much less the television shows I could [...]
It's almost hard to believe that it is summer here in northern California and the Pacific Northwest, because it has been unusually cool, and even rained (which almost never happens in the Bay Area during summer). One of the best things about summer is taking trips to the beach. We're blessed with being only a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It's almost hard to believe that it is summer here in northern California and the Pacific Northwest over the past week. But the unusually cooler temperatures, and even rain (which is almost non-existent in California in summer). Nevertheless, the rest of the country is enjoying the summer, and it'll soon be returning to these parts. [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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Tweet Buy the album from Amazon - Vinyl / MP3 / CD Tapes 'n Tapes have had a strange journey so far - they began as a buzz band with hype pumped full of saline solution by Pitchfork and an appearance at SXSW. Then they signed to XL Recordings and released a second album, which didn't seem to scratch the same itch. When a band's career explodes at an [...]
It's time for our annual Summer Edition of Commercial Watch , where I again highlight some of the songs that those indie-saavy marketing folks are harvesting for mass consumption. Since I realize most of you are the Hulu / DVR / next-day-on-youtube type, you've probably been blissfully unaware of the beer, car, and shoe ads that have been lighting up TV screens, so I've dug up some of the best ones for you. Lucky for you, the past few months have seen a surplus in indie music in commercials so there's quite a bit more ads then here I [...]
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Any Joe Blow music blogger can throw together a playlist of decent songs (believe me, I have tried one too many times). Rarely am I high-fiving strangers or chest-bumping my ladyfriend when a new one pops up on the interweb...unless of course if it comes from a select few of my favourite music junkies. We have already seen a couple from I am Friends, You are Fuel and Music For Ants recently...stepping into the spotlight today is the newest release from Canadian superbloggers, Ca Va Cool . So good! Get it [...]
Sometimes, there's too much good music. Mixtapes are a chance to pick and choose from the spectrum of too muchness and bring friends and readers some of the best of what I've heard recently. But sometimes there's still too much, which is why I decided to split this mix into 2 parts, or 'sides', if you will. Part 1 is California Sunrise, because as you'll learn quickly in the captions below, California has inadvertently become a major theme in my listening choices as of late. Like past mixes, this one's heavily influenced by how I feel with the on-set of my favourite time [...]
Sometimes, there's too much good music. Mixtapes are a chance to pick and choose from the spectrum of too muchness and bring friends and readers some of the best of what I've heard recently. But sometimes there's still too much, which is why I decided to split this mix into 2 parts, or 'sides', if you will. Part 1 is California Sunrise, because as you'll learn quickly in the captions below, California has inadvertently become a major theme in my listening choices as of late. Like past mixes, this one's heavily influenced by how I feel with the on-set of my favourite time [...]
Photo by National Capital Commission It's pre-Canada Day today but here goes. Happy Canada Day 2011! Hope everyone will be enjoying their weekend and celebrate Canada's 144th birthday. I decided to make a mixtape which all the acts that are Canadian. I know some of the songs don't have Canada as a theme but just wanted people to have fun or chill to the songs on Canada Day. Enjoy! Aidan Knight - [...]
Photo by National Capital Commission It's pre-Canada Day today but here goes. Happy Canada Day 2011! Hope everyone will be enjoying their weekend and celebrate Canada's 144th birthday. I decided to make a mixtape which all the acts are Canadian. I know some of the songs don't have Canada as a theme but just wanted people to have fun to the songs on Canada Day. Enjoy! Aidan Knight - North East South [...]
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- WATMixtape 02 : La Bleu - PS : Les WATMixtapes vous seront désormais livrées les 8, 18 et 28 de chaque mois et sont en écoute sur 8tracks et Spotify (qui bénéficiera d'un titre bonus). Cliquez sur les bannières dans le bas de l'article pour écouter la playlist sur les plates-formes respectives. A dans dix jours. 1> Bot'Ox - Blue Steel (feat. Anna Jean) Pour ceux qui seraient passés à côté, il n'est pas encore trop tard pour les découvrir [...]
Born Ruffians - Jimmy Jimmy Hope everybody had a nice Easter. And if you didn't, or if you did, this free Madonna covers compilation should help make the last day of a certain somebody's celebrated resurrection long weekend a little better. It looks like there might even be a picture of said somebody on this True Blue covers album's album cover (bottom row, second from the right). Coincidence? Download the whole thing for the cost of you email address.
Berlin is well-known for its electronic music scene with major record labels, DJs and producers based in the buzzing capital city. Along with Ellien Allien, Sascha Funke, Paul Kalkbrenner or Modeselektor, 32 year old dj Sascha Ring aka Apparat is part of that prestigious inner circle of musicians that enable electronic music to perpetually expand. [...]
A 25 años de la publicación del LP original, el sello independiente canadiense Paper Bag Records está regalando un disco con versiones de los temas que formaron parte de la famosa placa. La lista de artistas convocados incluye a gente como The Rural Alberta Advantage , Born Ruffians , Young Galaxy y los recientemente separados You Say Party , entre otros. El disco homenaje [...]
Sometimes, I worry that this blog is little more than a Paper Bag Records cheerleading site. Their artist roster reads as almost an exact list of my most-listened-to artists week and after week, and a good percentage of posts here on Soft Signal have been dedicated to the likes of Young Galaxy, Austra, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Winter Gloves, and more. But there's very good reason for it, Paper Bag really knows how to pick 'em. To celebrate both eight years as a label and the launch of their new website, Paper Bag called upon their artists to [...]
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