Want to spend your Valentines Day with Ponderosa? We're giving away a pair of tickets so you can take your Valentine or Galentine to the show and use the money you saved to tip your bartender. Thursday February 14 Ponderosa Party Dolls (featuring members of The District Attorneys, Ruby the Rabbitfoot, Crooked Fingers, Tedo Stone, The Breaks and more) Blue Blood (Hunter Morris of Gift Horse) Doors at 9:30 P.M. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20) [...]
Want to spend your Valentines Day with Ponderosa? We're giving away a pair of tickets so you can take your Valentine or Galentine to the show and use the money you saved to tip your bartender. Thursday February 14 Ponderosa Party Dolls (featuring members of The District Attorneys, Ruby the Rabbitfoot, Crooked Fingers, Tedo Stone, The Breaks and more) Blue Blood (Hunter Morris of Gift Horse) Doors at 9:30 P.M. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20) [...]
San Francisco trio Grass Widow are playing at Caledonia tonight with Shade and Glasscrafts, an offshoot of Glass Giraffes. Fans of Vivian Girls, Brilliant Colors, Dum Dum Girls, and The Raincoats won't want to miss their fuzzed out harmonies and riffs reminiscent of the first wave of British D.I.Y. Their third album, Internal Logic (perhaps an homage to UK post-punk band Essential Logic ?) is out now on the bands own HLR Records.
One of my favorite albums of 2012 was Zeros from Bay-area artist The Soft Moon . After one show that fell through due to severe weather, he'll be back January 16, 2013 at the Caledonia Lounge with Majical Cloudz and locals Twin Tigers. If you have any inclination toward New Wave, Krautrock or Industrial tinged dark fuzzed out atmospheric compositions, you'll want to be at this show. [...]
Tonight at Caledonia , Brooklyn experimental dream-pop duo Shana Falana is performing. If you're not sitting at your computer right now saying that name out loud over and over, you should try it. It's fun, and feels a little bit like a theater vocal warm up. Shana Falana has a bunch of tracks up on bandcamp for your perusal. I suggest starting below, with "Where R U" off Velvet Pop . It feels a little bit like The Mo-Dettes, Teen, and Dum Dum Girls. Also on the bill tonight: [...]
Update: Well, crap. Now I'm hearing that due to Hurricane Sandy complications, this tour might be canceled. Enjoy the new album anyway! --------------- Captured Tracks artist The Soft Moon is coming to the Caledonia Lounge 11/7 with Group Rhoda and Twin Tigers. We're giving away a pair of tickets to the show below, and you can stream the new album by clicking the album art above. Zeros , the follow-up LP to 2010's self-titled release, came out today, [...]
Update: Well, crap. Now I'm hearing that due to Hurricane Sandy complications, this tour might be canceled. Enjoy the new album anyway! --------------- Captured Tracks artist The Soft Moon is coming to the Caledonia Lounge 11/7 with Group Rhoda and Twin Tigers. We're giving away a pair of tickets to the show below, and you can stream the new album by clicking the album art above. Zeros , the follow-up LP to 2010's self-titled release, came out today, [...]
As with many of our more folk-oriented Covered In Folk subjects, I discovered the work of Dougie MacLean through two primary sources: through my father, who handed me one of his albums over a decade ago, and through label-watching, after discovering the same poignant song twice over, in separate female voices, and realizing that neither of them had written it. The song in question is Caledonia , the Latin name for Scotland, and as its matronymic title implies, though it treats its subject as an anthropomorphised object of desire, its lyrics truly [...]
JT and the Clouds Three reasons-as-good-as- Kitten-Mittens to head over to Lincoln Hall tonight... 1. I’m no Tom Skilling , but today’s forecast calls for 80 percent chance of boogie as JT & The Clouds develop over Lincoln Hall’s stage. The Chicago sextet specializes in southern fried rock peppered with groovy R&B and gritty soul. JT & The Cloud’s latest album Caledonia sees the band crafting roots rocking tunes in the vein of the Rolling Stones or the Black Crowes. You’ll want to [...]
Of all the local bands made good, I'm always surprised by how little attention we give Caledonia . The boys write solid songs, stand for something and aren't afraid to pile in the van and tour the shit out of their songs. In this era of blog TUMBLR-born and praised bands, it's refreshing to see a band still go out and earn fans the old fashioned way. The band has taken a pause, but refuse to idle. Zac Crouse just completed an epic Ottawa-Halifax sea kayaking journey to show [...]
CONTEST - Zac is offering up 2 tickets to the CD release show for You Plan To Do Nothing @ The Company House on Nov. 13th @ The Company House. To enter, simply hit us up with your details via email (HEROHILL AT GMAIL DOTCOM) or in the comments section below . Unfortunately, the stereotypical assumptions most have of a man going off into the wilderness is one of solitude; the need to escape from the machine and what's ruining society. Sadly, anyone that challenges the power of nature or embraces [...]
Codeine Velvet Club will be playing in Bucharest tomorrow and head to Japan later this summer for what will likely be their last gig. Still, the band fronted by Scotland's Most Eligible Lady Lou Hickey and Jon Fratelli went down a storm at SXSW and Lou recently spoke to us about that experience and more: Lou [...]
Happy 2010!! To everyone. Here is part 2 of my honorable mentions 2009. As the last post, these are some albums I forgot to put in my Best of 2009 list . Here is a added bonus Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees - Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees Rebekah Higgs side project and its a fun electro-rock-dance affair. Check out tracks: You Don't Miss Me [...]
Captains Dead Blog joins in the fray at Day 10 of the "Best of 20093 Blogger crew with a list that apparently requires a stroll down memory lane. Honestly, this stroll is one that could be rightfully taken out of yours truly's memory banks....almost. Regardless of the payoff being quite a spectacular list, it just might be worth it for a photo of Greg at 9 years old... ~Smansmith ~~~ The year was 1983... ...the year when I started [...]
Yes, you read that right. It's not a Best-of list because if herohill has proved anything in our six or seven years of existence, it's that we don't often sync up with the masses and despite our great efforts, not many people really gravitate towards Canadian content, especially the acts we seem to love. So when you look at the list and start to disagree, to quote Rob Base, "you don't like it, so what, I don't care." Obviously, we want to turn you on to a few new bands, but we can't hit the mark with everyone. [...]
Yes, you read that right. It's not a Best-of list because if herohill has proved anything in our six or seven years of existence, it's that we don't often sync up with the masses and despite our great efforts, not many people really gravitate towards Canadian content, especially the acts we seem to love. So when you look at the list and start to disagree, to quote Rob Base, "you don't like it, so what, I don't care." Obviously, we want to turn you on to a few new bands, but we can't hit the mark with everyone. [...]
the Halifax band Caledonia stopped by Canteen for a great installment of Bands Undone *. Let's say their set up was big. I really enjoyed the four song set the band did. Funny during the set when the keyboardist wore a duct tape hat. The band members were very nice. Surprised to find out that the band is nominated for four ECMAs. That Ottawa was their final stop of their tour. The band was also nice enough to give me their download [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of inexpensive indie(ish) musical happenings in downtown Toronto, all for $10 or less. If I'm missing something you think I should list, or you have any comments, let me know. I star (*) shows that most interest me. Like this list? Join my Facebook group or subscribe to this blog. Subscribe to my podcast (or download the episodes) here , or through iTunes . The latest ones are here . Make sure to [...]
With CBC threatening to cancel the 5 PM airing of the Simpson, it only seems fitting that I run a Simpsons inspired "clip-show" style post trying to bring some shine to local artists. It's been an impressive year already and with Rich Aucoin, Jon McKiel and Ruth Minnikin all holding finished records in their respective vaults, we obviously aren't done yet. Obviously, record like Joel Plaskett , Classified and Jenn Grant would be standing high on this list, but if you are from Halifax and reading a music blog, chances are you already [...]
Frank Yang Woodpigeon shows are like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. The first time I saw them live at Pop Montreal 2007 , they were a rhythm section-less five-piece, more church choir than pop band but the next time, opening for Calexico last July , they were kitted out as an eight-piece and most certainly capable of bringing the rock. So it was anyone's guess as to which Woodpigeon would come to roost at the Horseshoe on Saturday night, opening up [...]
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