Photography by Me! WHEE ! Happy US Thanksgiving Eve!!! Very excited! Tonight, all across America, people will be placing giblets under their pillows with hopes that the Great Gobbler will swoop down their chimneys, exchanging the less-than-pleasanet-though-ver y-high-in-iron innards for beer & Stove Top Stuffing brand stuffing! AND... if you've been an extra good boy or girl this year, the Great Gobbler will even insure your favourite team has an extra-special juiced-up syringe of steroids, to help them win "the big game". Here's [...]
Filed under: The Hit List A turkey isn't just a bird Americans eat on Thanksgiving. In the art world, a turkey is a flop. An embarrassment. Something that will never take flight. Musically, a turkey is more than just one the worst songs ever made in that it's often created by someone we once respected. Or perhaps it's a good song soiled by a bad version. [...]
The Crash Test Dummies sort of disappeared five years ago. Brad Roberts ' signature baritone voice was silenced. Until now. Oooh La La! is an album build around the Optigan , a low tech keyboard with "pre-recorded optical soundtracks to reproduce sound" - which allows for old school sampling. The result could have been a cheesy collection of novelty songs, but the album focuses on acoustic instruments, with leading roles for the violin and cello and the luscious background vocals of Ellen Reid - she sings lead on the closing track [...]
It was kind of a slow week for me as far as listening to new music, I was crazy busy, and Friday my car decided to die on me, so I've been busy looking for a new one which has limited my music time. Hopefully this coming week there will be a lot more songs on the picks of the week feature. Dido's Lament- Jeff Buckley Home- Goo Goo Dolls It'll Never Leave You Alone-Crash Test Dummies [...]
Two thoughts, both related to "And It's Beautiful" in varying degrees: 1.) There should really be a Dumb and Dumber sequel, though only with Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey on board. 2.) The bit with roses that starts at the 1:32 mark would make a very romantic screen saver, should one ever need a screen saver that sets the mood. CTD's Oooh La La! , their first record in six years, is out now.
Jesus. If I have to sit around and listen to my friends rave about how good Uncle Tupelo or any of i's offshoots are one more time I am gonna have to find a new bar to drink at. Do I like a few Uncle Tupelo songs? Sure. Do I like an Uncle Tupelo album? Not even the greatest hits comps. So ther you go. That's your theme for this Top 5. Top 5 that everyone loves but you just can't get on board with..... Here are mine: [...]
HEY! Guess what! We made a mixtape for Amanda over at Tadpole Audio of, what was originally supposed to be at least, "children's tales" - please note the quotation marks - called Come On In, Sit A Spell, & Let Me Tell You A Tale Mixtape!!! It's chock full of tales of hobos & hobbits, of murder & robots, mountaintops, mountain towns, & transvestites, stories of science fiction & hippie adventures, [...]
There is no mistaking Brad Roberts voice. He may look like an average guy, now in his mid-40s, but then he opens his mouth and his majestic baritone voice immediately conjures fond memories of such Crash Test Dummies hits as Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm and Superman . Perhaps best remembered for the acerbic folk rock sound of 1991 s The Ghosts That Haunt Me and 1993 s God Shuffled His Feet , there have nonetheless been enough hits for the band over the years to merit a couple of greatest hits packages. [...]
Dates for the Crash Test Dummies forthcoming fall tour including a stop at Calgary's Theatre Junction Grand October 5.
It's been six years since the last Crash Test Dummies album, and six years since they toured. But, as you may have heard on this very website, the Crash Test Dummies are back and their new album, Oooh La La , dropped last month to much applause. Brad Roberts is taking his brass-baritone voice on the road along with his soulful vocal partner Ellen Reid and honorary-Dummy, Stuart Cameron. Contrary to the instrument-focused sound of the album, the tour is a surprising, stripped-down performance: one guitarist and two vocalists, that's [...]
Photography by Jodi Miller It was a beautiful Wednesday evening in mid-April when I, sun slowly but surely settling in for the night off to the west somewhere, found myself lost in my old black beat-em-up pick-em-up 1980 Toyota Pick-Up in the “neck of woods” that I should know by the back of my hand. I’m over-confidence’s bitch tonight, I thought as the clock on my phone was getting uncomfortably close to 8pm, the time I was fucking supposed to be there! I thought right now as I think back to [...]
Photography by eckyducky Man! Two mixtapes in one day, one from adventurerneil's buddy and one from Subpop via Amazon ? Niiiiiiice...... Well, with all that hot & potentially hyped up modern indie-alt goodness, I think I'll put my post on the sweet new Born Ruffians album on hold for a sec - SPOILER ALERT : The album sounds like what Vampire Weekend's album SHOULD have sounded like! Truly fun & soulful! - and discuss an oldie that's brought something [...]
As fine a collection of well-crafted, emotionally honest pop songs as you're liable to come across anywhere this year.
As fine a collection of well-crafted, emotionally honest pop songs as you're liable to come across anywhere this year.
When we last heard from acclaimed Canadian folk-rockers the Crash Test Dummies on 2004’s Songs of the Unforgiven , lead Dummie Brad Roberts delivered a melancholy and haunting record largely based around a 19th century pipe organ. While achingly beautiful at times, it was also a bit out of left field, even for a band that has made a habit (and career) out of doing the unexpected. What a difference nearly six years has made. On Oooh La La , the Dummies’ ninth studio offering, Roberts’ outlook has transitioned from dark and foreboding to uncharacteristically light [...]
Crash Test Dummies are best known for their 1993 worldwide hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," yet the Canadian band put out six more albums after that before going on hiatus in 2005. CTD is back this week with Oooh La La (Deep Fried) but in a brand new incarnation. Mainman Brad Roberts (now based in [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive 'Ooh La La' may be Canadian alt-rockers the Crash Test Dummies ' first album in six years, but frontman Brad Roberts doesn't think of it as a comeback record. With an offbeat pop sound constructed through the use of '70s analog music toys, 'Ooh La La,' due out May 11 on Deep Fried Records, is going to startle Fans of 1993's 'God Shuffled His Feet' and its inescapable hit 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.' "There [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive 'Ooh La La' may be Canadian alt-rockers the Crash Test Dummies ' first album in six years, but frontman Brad Roberts doesn't think of it as a comeback record. With an offbeat pop sound constructed through the use of '70s analog music toys, 'Ooh La La,' due out May 11 on Deep Fried Records, is going to startle Fans of 1993's 'God Shuffled His Feet' and its inescapable hit 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.' "There [...]
Crash Test Dummies are still around. You learn something new every day, don't you? If you were around in the early '90s you probably remember the song "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" (not "MMMBop", that was Hanson), and you may even look back on Crash Test Dummies fondly as a guilty pleasure . They're really a two-piece band now, just the bass-baritone stylings of frontman Brad Roberts, accompanied by sidekick Ellen Reid. On May 11th, the duo will be releasing their eighth studio album on Deep Fried Records, the followup to 2004's Songs of the [...]
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