Damian Abraham speaks with effusive passion. His words gather momentum with each new firing synapse like a tour guide anxious to describe the amazing sights they've come to know so much about. He sounds like that nice guy whom no one has courage to say anything bad about - like, intimidatingly nice. This may sound belying if you're familiar with his role as the lead singer of Toronto hardcore band, Fucked Up . Abraham, a.k.a. Pink Eyes, can strip paint off walls with his screams, but you'd never know it. That's part of the performance, part of the character, [...]
Then I heard the door close and they were gone. I got dressed and went downstairs. The flesh about my body felt soft and relaxed like an experiment in functional background. Download : The Antlers – "Corsicana" / Buy The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain. Download : Bill Callahan [...]
Then I heard the door close and they were gone. I got dressed and went downstairs. The flesh about my body felt soft and relaxed like an experiment in functional background. Download : The Antlers – "Corsicana" / Buy The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain. Download : Bill Callahan [...]
Time and Place by Atlanta guitarist and singer Lee Moses is a lost treasure of rhythm and blues—a holy grail of a soul record that's developed a dedicated and cult-like following over the past 30-plus years. Originally released in 1971 on Maple Records and re-issued in 2007 by Castle Music UK—though now sadly out of print again—the record contains Moses's interpretations of various classic cuts of the era ("Day Tripper," "Hey Joe," "Reach Out I'll Be There") along with his own hard-nosed funk sound, as evidenced by the original title-track and unequaled two-part "Bad Girl." While Moses's [...]
Above is the new music video for Lumerians ' latest single, "Gaussian Castle", which is said to induce seizures. That being said, keep the phenytoin near by and enjoy an awesome track by this psychedelic San Francisco band and peep the song, "Atlantic Brook" previously posted . Both songs can be found from their latest LP, Transmalinnia, on Knitting Factory Records . Gaussian Castle Atlanta Brook
Dark Castle's set at Scion Rock Fest was spiritual. I don't say that lightly, as I don't consider myself a spiritual person. But a presence was in the air that wasn't there before. It didn't come from the crowd, which was sedate but for some obnoxious moshers. It came from electricity, metal, wood, hair, and the voices of Stevie Floyd and Rob Shaffer. The push and pull between her guitar and his drums was palpable. Of the dozens of shows I attend each year, few have this totality of energy. I didn't hear [...]
am anfang mal gleich die notiz zum album, auf das ich mich aktuell am meisten freue, die band lässt "i am very far" am 10. mai von den zügeln, jagjaguwar und auch die kapelle zieren sich dato aber noch, einen ersten tonalen ausschnitt zu spendieren, so halten wir aus und knabbern an den nägeln zu musik aus alten zeiten: okkervil river - it ends with a fall (2003) news auf western vinyl , lieblinge des hauses scharren mit den [...]
My June trip to Toronto had only three locations on the "Must See" list: the Hockey Hall of Fame and two local record stores. In addition to picking up a few albums I already knew about, I wanted to peer a little into the local scene, and hopefully find some up-and-coming musicians I would enjoy [...]
Scott Munn It's been a pretty lousy Summer, not just for myself and many I know, but for anyone who prefers theirs to be warm, sunny and generally not perpetually cloudy and rain-soaked. It's only been this week that we've gotten some proper heat (accompanied by massive thunderstorms, sure), and I can't believe that it's just coincidence that the weather has improved just as Prince Edward Island's finest, Two Hours Traffic , are gearing up for the release of their second album Territories on September 8. They shared an MP3 of the [...]
Today we recieved a preliminary lineup announcement for HPX '09 (full post on that coming soon, but suffice to say that with names like Japandroids, Ohbijou & The Acorn, things are shaping up well already), and this reminded me that we had yet to post anything on what might be the best summer music festival for indie music fans in this part of the world: Sappyfest . Now in its fourth iteration, Sappyfest is put on by the fine folks of Sappy Records (Julie Doiron, Jon Claytor and Paul Henderson), and takes place in the lovely town [...]
Here we are folks: I've finally gotten off my festively-enlarged ass (seriously, between Mom's holiday treats and Dad's beer I gained about 8 pounds) and finished my top albums of 2008. As per usual, these are all Canadian releases, as that's where the ground is closest to my ears. Here they are roughly arranged in descending order (very roughly): The Olympic Symphonium - More in Sorrow Than in Anger (Forward Music Group) I was a huge supporter of The Olympic Symphonium 's 2007 debut, [...]
+ ATLAS SOUND , LET THE BLIND LEAD THOSE WHO CAN SEE BUT CANNOT FEEL [Kranky/4AD] "I heard a voice through a great cloud of agony and sickness. The voice was asking questions. It seemed to be opening and closing like a concertina. The words were loud, as the swelling notes of an organ, then they melted to the tiniest wiry tinkle of water in a glass." —Denton Welch, A Voice Through a Cloud Atlas Sound, "Ativan" + BEACH [...]
web site Whenever you hear of a big upset in sports, it's usually followed with some overused cliché like – "that's why they play the game" or "you can't measure the intangibles." I think the same type of shit can be said when you throw on a record you assume will sound like one you've heard hundreds of times before, and remarkably it holds your attention like a vice. You see, Castlemusic – aka Jennifer Castle - isn't really doing anything you haven't heard before. Folky blues on a solo [...]
Finally! This is the last installment of my Sappyfest coverage. Click here for day 1, and day 2 can be found here and here . Wow. It's been three weeks since Sappyfest ended and here I am still posting about it. By this point I'd have given up on just about any other topic (some discarded posts of the past include live shows by Sebastien Grainger and King Khan & the Shrines), but this festival was just so damn enjoyable that I feel obligated to spread the love, no matter [...]
photo by davida nemeroff myspace :: web site :: buy from Blue Fog After a terrific night of music last night - seriously, seeing i see rowboats and Rich Aucoin play in a little space with absolutely perfect acoustics made it hard to want to head down to the Seahorse for the Mardeen release show, but more on both later - I got excited by the huge amount of talent we have here on the East Coast. That's probably why we started [...]
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