Live music picks for THURSDAY MAY 24 through MONDAY MAY 28, 2012. THURSDAY MAY 24 / BRUCE PENINSULA / THE GREAT HALL / 1087 QUEEN W / $12 - $15 / ALL AGES Drop everything you're doing and go to this show. Trust me, you won't regret it, because Bruce Peninsula is quite simply one of the most astounding acts I've ever had the pleasure of coming across. It's difficult to even tag them with a genre--they blend elements ranging from gospel, folk, rock, country, and [...]
Trying to determine "the best" album of the year is always going to be an exercise in subjectivity, and well it should be. You can assign points for technical proficiency, and set all kinds of arbitrary criteria as if this was a figure skating competition, but even at the Olympics, they're looking at artistic impression. In my year-end columns, I always stress that I'm very uncomfortable saying my choices are "the best" records of the year, deferring to the old stand-by "favourite albums" tag to define my choices. Being a Polaris Music Prize [...]
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by teepoo Whoa, here is a 14 minute long new track by <a href=" http://ridethetempo.com/tag/br uce-peninsula called Of Songs . It may seem long, but the song seems to be divided into parts of gospel, folk and root country stuff. Maybe the intention of the one track is so you'll hear the parts as a whole. It's not my favourite thing they've released, but kind of neat. Of Songs by Bruce Peninsula
(Norman Wong) Last Tuesday, Bruce Peninsula released "Of Songs", a 13 minute and 47 second song cycle that they have been working on with tender love and care over the past few years. It features contributions from 15 members of the Bruce Peninsula collective: Neil Haverty, Matthew Cully, Misha Bower, Andrew Barker, Steven McKay, Tamara Lindeman, Ivy Mairi, Kari Peddle, Amy Learmonth, Daniela Gesundheit, Leon Taheny, Taylor Kirk, Christienne Chesney, Mike Smith and Dan Goldman. They recorded "Of Songs" with Leon Taheny throughout 2010 in basements and [...]
Norman Wong We're going to close out the week with some new and hopefully interesting stuff to listen to, domestic-style. Unless you're not Canadian in which case this will all be strange and foreign and exotic. Whoooooo! Last week, Bruce Peninsula were teasing on their website that something big was coming as of April 24 and they weren't kidding. And it's literally big - an epic-sized, three-part, almost 14-minute song cycle entitled "Of Songs" that takes the band's choral gospel-blues sound in unexpectedly experimental directions. It's available to stream - as below [...]
Frank Yang If you were to plot out my appreciation for Patrick Watson on a graph versus time and geography, the salient data points would read something like this: September 2007, Toronto, Ontario - Watson wins the second Polaris Music Prize with his second album Close To Paradise , an album I was almost wholly unfamiliar with despite the fact that, as a juror, I probably should have been. I generally resent him for this because I was sure that Feist was [...]
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Download link is in the original post Sounds like: Dirty Projectors, Pattern Is Movement Song: Bruce Peninsula - In Your Light [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Frank Yang Though his punk credentials are beyond reproach thans to his tenure in Propagandhi , John K. Samson has always cut a bit of a curious figure in front of The Weakerthans . While his bandmates are more than willing and able to play the part of rockers in turning out muscular guitar riffs and solos, Samson by comparison has always been a bit slight of stature, reedy of voice, sheepish of grin; the thoughtful and verbose folksinger who somehow ended up fronting a rock band. I don't know if the [...]
At a younger age, there would be no way I'd catch myself at the office on the saturday of a birthday weekend. Perhaps this is what happens when you turn 34. I'd now rather take an afternoon to power through this inbox, plus post about all these great tunes I've bookmarked from the last two weeks, than start drinking at 1 in the afternoon. Maybe I can do both actually.... Soundtrack to this exact moment is the new video for Bruce Peninsula 's song "In Your Light" off the record Open Flames . The [...]
I love this swirling, mesmerizing video for Bruce Peninsula 's "In Your Light". Bruce Peninsula - In Your Light by HandDrawnDracula Facebook: Bruce Peninsula Twitter: Bruce Peninsula
When we spoke to Neil Haverty of Bruce Peninsula back in 2009 , the band had just been Polaris long-listed for their debut album A Mountain is a Mouth . Back then Haverty spoke about the logistics of putting a multi-membered project together both in the studio and on the road, introduced us to some of the band members' other projects, and placed a lot of stock in the band's capacity to be adaptable in the face of change. This skill has been vital to the band in the two years leading [...]
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Snowblink is one of my favorite acts you have to see live. Last year their album " Long Live " was re-released worldwide and opening up to acts like Jeff Tweedy, Owen Pallett and Ohbijou. While no word on when Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman will return to the studio and make a new album. Why not check out their music video to " The Tired Bees ". Directed by Carla Susanto . It is a beautiful animated music video.
Here is part four of the Best of 2011 Canadian albums. We are almost getting to the Top 10. These albums that are still worthy to check out. Here is the ranking from #20-11. 20. Sound of Lions - 11.44 Listen to Blue , Counting Eights , One and Passive Attack . 19. Mother Mother - Eureka [...]
This week, Quick Before it Melts welcomes the roster of Hand Drawn Dracula to help round out 2011 with a series of guest posts. Today, guest blogger Neil Haverty of Bruce Peninsula muses musically on an unforgettable 2011. (Norman Wong) 2011 was a big year for me. Half of it was the worst year of my life (I was sick for a lot of it) and [...]
Frank Yang There's many great things about the long-running Toronto institution of Nu Music Nites at the Horseshoe - not least of all the fact that they're free - but the fact that they often feature such random assemblages of acts that each set can feel like its own standalone show and not part of a larger bill is certainly a big part of the fun. Such was the case on Tuesday night when rather than one headline-calibre act, as you'd normally be fortunate to have, they had two - and quite markedly different ones at that. [...]
Idée Fixe When you've spent much of your life doing one thing, and that one thing draws to a close, it's not unreasonable to decide to do something completely the opposite next. So for Bry Webb to make his first post- Constantines record Provider a quiet, mainly acoustic affair only stands to reason - particularly for anyone who heard him operating as Harbourcoats before the Cons went on hiatus. But to suggest that Provider is just the Cons frontman gone unplugged is a grave [...]
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Bruce Peninsula couldn't done an amazing show at Raw Sugar Cafe on November 17, 2011. Seems like they have played at every venue in Ottawa. (Except for Babylon & Ritual) More of an intimate vibe and sit down on the floor kind of show. The band hasn't played a show in Ottawa since the 2010 Ottawa Folk Festival. You can say it was an album release show for their second album "Open Flames". The show was all Bruce [...]
Frank Yang Much of Dan Mangan's appeal comes from his everyman-ness - and his beard, if you ask certain friends of mine - so when he was playing the back rooms of bars, as at The Rivoli in October 2009 or The Horseshoe in April 2010 , it felt perfectly natural. Those shows also felt utterly jam-packed - because they were - making it unlikely that the club circuit would be able to serve his ever-growing audience for very long. And so when he played Trinity-St. Paul's in his last proper [...]
Multi-musician ensemble Bruce Peninsula showcase their talent in this weeks sessions podcast playing songs from their sophomore album.
Walking into Soundscapes last night I managed to squeeze my way to the front with the all agers. Tiny colourful bells could be seen scattered between mic stands draped with rainbow ribbons. As an ongoing rotating collective, Bruce Peninsula had nine members for the night. Celebrating the release of their second album Open Flames, the band was about to set sail on their east coast tour, leaving today. The room was packed with about 50 or more fans, anxiously awaiting their set. BP had a no nonsense jeans and t-shirt look that gave off an approachable demeanor. But [...]
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