
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 45 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by John Doe, Cesar Luciano, Bob Seger, Blueprint, Aphasia, Memphis, Peter Elkas and more! So much more! DATE: 03-03-11 WRITER: Don Loder Looks like ya hit pay dirt junkie! So after a couple o'weeks suckin' fumes wit' SWAG at a trickle, I gotcher first motherload o' the year right 'ere! Check this out bitch - I got thirty-eight individual songs 'ere, an' a whole comp ta [view more]

(photo: myspace.com) On a hazy, humid Sunday night in mid-August, when the sun sets noticeably later than it did just two weeks ago, nothing seems to make more sense then sitting on the back porch with your beverage of choice and an album as beautifully simple and straightforward as the self-titled debut of Colleen and Paul . Colleen Hixenbaugh (By Divine Right) and Paul Linklater (The Pinecones) are a match made in musical heaven. They blend the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel with the slinky sexual tension of Sinatara [...]

I'm currently staying with my grantparents in London, ON, so my internet access over the next week will be spotty. I'm pretty sure this neighbourhood only just learned about the internet (it's a series of tubes). Here's "Please Be Kind," the new track from Colleen and Paul , aka Collen Hixenbaugh, formerly of By Divine Right , and Pail Linklater, who plays in the Pinecones . It's an acoustic pop tune, but with different instrumentation, it might have been a dancefloor-filling new wave rocker. It's easy to imagine the chorus reworked as a [...]

This has the potential to be a regular Friday thing; a desk clearing edition of music I wish I had more time to talk about, but simply don't. No more 500 word think-pieces (I can hear you all saying, thank god), simply a quick descriptor and a free track. Work for you? Works for me. Ketch Harbour Wolves - One of my favorite discoveries in the last few years. The unique sound is an almost rural recklessness meets big city alienation and loneliness in [...]