Artist: Geoff Berner

this week in Ottawa: 08.28.06 - 09.03.06

Aug 27, 2006, 11:09pm >Dial 6-1-3_

The relatively-senior Dinosaur Jr. play the Capital Music Hall on Friday The most intriguing show this week goes down Friday at the Black Sheep Inn, where Vancouver's Geoff Berner bravely continues his quest to " drag klezmer kicking and screaming back into the bars ." His brand of klezmer is not your daddy's klezmer... it's actually your grand -daddy's klezmer, which apparently was full of "drinking, politics, and sex." Sounds like just another Friday night for dial613. If the intrigue doesn't do it for you, there are 3 other [...]

• Geoff Berner - Whiskey Rabbi
• Hexes & Ohs - Alive Until Saturday Night
• Lou Barlow - Home
• Poorfolk - Cave Smokin

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Artist:	Geoff Berner
Title:	Whiskey Rabbi
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Artist:	Hexes & Ohs
Title:	Alive Until Saturday Night
Link Text:	Hexes & Ohs - Alive Until Saturday Night
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Bitrate:	160 kbps

Artist:	Lou Barlow
Title:	Home
Link Text:	Lou Barlow - Home
File Name:	Lou Barlow - Home.mp3

Artist:	Poorfolk
Title:	Cave Smokin
Link Text:	Poorfolk - Cave Smokin'
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Bitrate:	128 kbps

slang of the city: a poll of local favourites

Aug 18, 2006, 4:36am From Blown Speakers

Inspired by I (Heart) Music's 33 Hottest Bands in Canada poll, I put out the call via email last week to some folks asking them to put together a list of their favourite local acts. Eleven responded (and I did one) and the results are tabulated below. Everyone made a list of (up to) ten bands, with ten points to first, nine to second, and so on. I hesitate to call this "best" or "hottest" list or anything like that, as its mostly for fun and its far from exhaustive. Hopefully it a) introduces [...]

• Angel on the West Wing » hank_lily_-_angel_the_west_wing.MP3
• Candian Winter » canadianWINTER_maplewoodLANE.mp3
• Clockwork Crows » 02.mp3
• Druganaut » druganaut.mp3
• New Drug Queens » newdrugqueens.mp3
• The Dugout » dugout.mp3
• The Gap » thegap.mp3
• 3 Inches Of Blood - Deadly Sinners
• Bend Sinister - Through the Broken City
• Geoff Berner - Whiskey Rabbi
• New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
• They Shoot Horses Don't Hey? - Emptyhead

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Link Text:	Angel on the West Wing
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Link Text:	Candian Winter
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Link Text:	Clockwork Crows
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Link Text:	Druganaut
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Link Text:	New Drug Queens
File Name:	newdrugqueens.mp3

Link Text:	The Dugout
File Name:	dugout.mp3

Link Text:	The Gap
File Name:	thegap.mp3

Artist:	3 Inches Of Blood
Title:	Deadly Sinners
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Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Bend Sinister
Title:	Through the Broken City
Link Text:	Through The Broken City
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Genre:	Progressive Rock

Artist:	Geoff Berner
Title:	Whiskey Rabbi
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Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	New Pornographers
Title:	Mass Romantic
Link Text:	Mass Romantic
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Year:	2000

Artist:	They Shoot Horses Don't Hey?
Title:	Emptyhead
Link Text:	Emptyhead
File Name:	Emptyhead.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Genre:	Alternative & Punk
Year:	2006

Geoff Berner, “Whiskey Rabbi”, Grad Club Kingston, 13 January 2006

Jul 28, 2006, 3:36pm B(oot)log

photo by Silje Ese Haugen from a show in Norway in 2005. The first show I attended this year was Elliot Brood in Kingston. While they were excellent, the real treat was seeing the opening act, Geoff Berner . Never before have I seen such a nervous looking guy grab a crowd's attention, and with an accordion no less, singing songs about the failure of the Maginot Line ("Stupid! Stupid!”) and losing poker to Corb Lund. With an extremely strong voice, engaging storytelling, and audience participation, Berner had everyone's attention through his rather odd set. His [...]

• Maginot Line.mp3 » maginot.mp3
• Geoff Berner - Light
• Geoff Berner - Whiskey Rabbi (live)
• The Be Good Tanyas - Light Enough To Travel

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Artist:	Geoff Berner
Title:	Light
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Artist:	Geoff Berner
Title:	Whiskey Rabbi (live)
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Bitrate:	128 kbps
Genre:	Blues

Artist:	The Be Good Tanyas
Title:	Light Enough To Travel
Link Text:	Light Enough to Travel.mp3
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