Brad Weber and I may be estranged from one another by some 3,500-odd miles of land, sea and in-between – on top of five hours' time difference – but we're both quite incontrovertibly lamenting a lack of palpable springtime. We've been robbed of it somewhat, what with Toronto on the receiving end of "a bunch of snow today" and a similarly wan mottling enshrouding London the following afternoon, but where we may bemoan the meteorological tedium of an ongoing winter, something all the more lustrous this way came that week in the luminescent form of an eponymous début from Weber's [...]
Eric's Trip are one of the semi-forgotten slacker rock bands of the ’90s. Their songs were often cloaked in fuzz, vocals way low in the mix. Everyone sounded half asleep. It was awesome. Julie Doiron, ... read more
Eric's Trip - Songs About Chris (1993) With our pocket computers running Shazam, Spotify, YouTube and Google, it's nearly impossible to lose a song due to a lapse in human memory any more. This wasn't always the case. In the '90s, my pants pocket often held one very important, folded up piece of paper. This piece of paper, it could have been been a bill or a piece of homework, really deserved a more permanent place on my self, one not so prone to washings, would have been ideal. For on this piece of paper was a list of [...]
Cuatro años después de su fecha original de lanzamiento el documental Eric's Trip: 1990 - 1996 , registro histórico de los canadienses Eric's Trip compilado por su guitarrista Rick White, ve la luz de manera gratuita en http://www.ericstripmovie.com/ content/ . En palabras de White, "... el metraje y la música están en orden cronológico pero a la vez distribuidos en una trama intencional. Algunos de estos conciertos los tengo completos, otros apenas un pedazo. Aunque todos los clips usados, las letras de las canciones, las fotos, todo junto fue elegido para contar la verdadera historia [...]
[Photo Credit: Patrick McCann ] Earlier this year Baltimore-based indie upstarts Golden Gurls seemed to drop out of the sky like a house onto a witch, sporting an inexplicably well-conceived and awesome debut long-player [ review ]. But shoot the breeze with fronter and guitarist Andrew Mabry for hours as we've done in recent weeks, and it is apparent that the excellent Typo Magic is the product of decades of music-making, music fandom and immersion in ancillary underground culture. Mr. Mabry has put in the hours: if Indie Rock was a Fortune 500 company, CEO [...]
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Filed under: News , Exclusive , Book Club Image From 'Have Not Been the Same' It shouldn't be too hard for any music fan to name groundbreaking and influential Canadian artists: Neil Young , Joni Mitchell , the Band , Leonard Cohen ... and then Arcade Fire , Feist , New Pornographers , Broken Social Scene . But what about the in-between? 'Have Not Been [...]
You'd think that sitting around all day watching TV shows, then drinking yourself to sleep would make you great at jogging, well I can tell you from first hand experience that it doesn't. Not many people know this, but running also happens to be a weakness of mine (I'd like to believe, my only weakness). So I guess that doesn't really help me out in my "Hey, I'm going to wake up, have some orange juice, and enjoy this mediocre weather by having a jog". It gets worse...I joined some virtual running programme ran by some virtual coach, Christine [...]
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Toronto - I estimate that over the years, and including her appearances with Eric's Trip and as part of Gord Downie's band, I have probably seen Julie Doiron upwards of ten times. And every time, it's a different experience and she's usually playing with different musicians (or on her own). On this occasion, she was backed up by Wil Kidman of Constantines and Woolly Leaves fame on guitar and drums. It was a pretty loose, unstructured set (The only time I've seen her more loose and unstructured was when Patrick Watson made her make up a [...]
Aquí, un playlist elaborado con clásicos del indie rock de los noventa, un género que creció a la sombra, amparado en sellos como Touch and Go, Merge y Sub Pop. Esta selección contiene varios nombres fundamentales de una escena aún cercana al post punk y al hardcore. Lo increíble, es que todos ellos fueron esenciales para el desarrollo de tendencias como la de Morr Music, cuyos artistas -como Styrofoam- han reconocido el legado de quienes les precedieron. Ponga play y disfrute.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Live It Out , Canada Almost exactly a decade ago, Canada's then-best '90s alt-rockers Thrush Hermit sadly played their final show. This week the Halifax-born band announced their decidedly not-sad reunion tour. Singer-guitarist Joel Plaskett went on to an acclaimed solo career, which this year alone included being personally picked to open for Paul McCartney and releasing the Polaris Prize -nominated triple-album '3,' which has been his best-selling yet. But Plaskett was never sure why he [...]
"Sabotage! I don't like it! I don't like this sabotage. I don't like it . I do what I do here!" - Tom Scharpling, denouncing the diabolical forces that dared to attack his equipment "You can't talk to me like that. You know why? 'Cause I'm a professional basketball star, you piece of f uuuuuuuu dge." - Rick Stevens, reducing Tom to a mere confection for failing to recognize his lofty status "What is that ? What is it? It sounds like a reaction. [...]
Band: Julie Doiron From: New Brunswick, Canada Sound: awesome Similar Artists: Liz Phair, Smog, St. Vincent, Cat Power, Marissa Nadler Listen: "Consolation Prize" I can wonder what you did with your day; or, you can purchase I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day right now and I'll already know that you wisely spent part of it bettering your music library... - We don't mean to approach every [...]
Frank Yang For the last few years, Harbourfront Centre has been the go-to spot for Canada Day celebrations in Toronto. Each year, they put on a free show on the lake with some of the top domestic acts of the moment, but on a year-to-year basis they've also been doing a pretty great job of representing all the facets of what we'd call Canadian indie rock. Back in 2007 (I missed the 2006 show featuring The Dears ), they showcased the more avant garde end of the spectrum with Final Fantasy [...]
Toronto-based independent digital music store Zunior has announced the inaugural class of inductees for its Independent Music Hall Of Fame.To qualify, a band must:Be CanadianEmbody the spirit of independent music.Have put an album out on an independent label.The first inductees are:Eric's TripDefinitely deserving. At their peak Julie Doiron, Rick White and company were the Canadian equivalent to
ive totally slept on julie doiron's recently released i can wonder what you did with your day . it was released back in march on jagjaguwar but for some reason i gave it my first spin today, and i am diggin it. then again, i like/love all her records, and she has released a few. she used to be in eric's trip by the way. eric's trip who, you ask ? that track above is "blue" from this record, and was recorded for fader tv . consolation prize [...]
The ever-reliable CBC New Music blog takes a break from reliably posting great new music to bring a classic, overlooked gem: Eric's Trip doing Anytime You Want . Canada is brilliant, isn't it?
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