Beat Radio: HARD TIMES, GO! - Beat Radio is the intricate inner workings of Brian Sendrowitz. With the help of friends and other artists, Sendrowitz has recorded songs with true Indie style, everywhere from bedrooms to basements. Their first full length, The Great Big Sea was released in 2006, and with the release of the fourth full length LP HARD TIMES, GO! it is clear that Beat Radio is a presence not to be ignored. It is best to listen, at least for the first time, to HARD TIMES, GO! [...]
Great Big Sea have a new video for "Heart of Hearts" off the 2-disc greatest hits album. While the band may be showing their age, it also shows their great history. Check out the video above and upcoming tour dates below. Great Big Sea tour dates: March 05 – Grove of Anaheim – Anaheim, CA March 06 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA March 07 – Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR March 08 – The Moore Theater – Seattle, WA March 19 – The Fitzgerald [...]
Great Big Sea have a new video for the track "Heart of Hearts". The song is featured on their recent 2-disc 'best of' collection. Watch it here:
Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle is stepping out with a new solo album. The debut record, Boy On Bridge , has been set for a May 15th release. Is it just me or is there a word missing in that title ( Boy On THE Bridge , Boy On A Bridge )? Not surprisingly, he has lots of friends that he's recruited to help him out, including Jim Cuddy , Hawksley Workman , Russell Crowe , and Colin James . [...]
Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug [...]
The blogs are buzzing with yesterday's announcement, via a terse yet sincere statement on their website , that Athens, GA hometown heroes R.E.M. are calling it quits after three decades on the road, the radio, and the cultural consciousness. We first covered the genre-defining band back in 2009, so rather than rehash their path from college radio to iconic mainstream success, we're taking the opportunity to revisit that older post today in memoriam - with a couple of bonus covers of Losing My Religion , from more recent CLD faves Amber Rubarth [...]
This is from Great Big Sea ' s album The Hard and the Easy.
Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: "A Boat Like Gideon Brown" by Great [...]
So it's the run up to our annual journey to SXSW in Austin, and frankly, I haven't been paying too much attention to what's playing here in the Bay Area this week. But if our SXSW previews are meaningless to you because you're staying here (as I assume most of you are), it turns out [...]
This is the crappiest week for Toronto concerts that I can recall in a long long time. There's not much to recommend, unless you're a Justin Bieber fan. In fact I can't remember the last time that I could only recommend one show: Great Big Sea Great Big Sea, Molson Ampitheatre, Aug 20th Even if they haven't had a strong record in nearly a decade, they still know how the throw a great party.
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by Feeney Great Big Sea is a band from St. John's, Newfoundland, and is well known for their rock interpretations of folk songs and sea shanties. For those who love the group's iconic sound, you will not be let down by their new album, which features story-like lyrics, and interesting instruments including the accordion, mandolin, concertina, harmonica, fiddle, bodhran and tin whistle. I did not find that this album stood out from the group's previous work, but [...]
Newfoundland Celtic party band (and Russell Crowe pals) Great Big Sea release their new studio album Safe Upon The Shore on July 13th. They've just released a new video for the track "Nothing But a Song". Watch the clip here: Great Big Sea play the Molson Ampitheatre in Toronto on August 20th. Great Big Sea's website
Newfoundland's favorite traditional celtic folk rock act will release their new LP, Safe Upon The Shore , on July 13th. Until then, the album is streaming in its entirety on CMT Canada's website and watch the new video for "Nothing But A Song," the album's first single, on the band's YouTube channel . Safe Upon The Shore Track Listing 1. Long Life (Where Did You Go?) 2. Nothing But A Song 3. Yankee Sailor 4. Good People 5. Dear [...]
by teepoo Happy Canada's Day! To celebrate I decided to feature music from all the provinces and territories. Believe it wasn't easy, especially for the territories, but here is some Canadian music I hope you will enjoy. There is no particular reason why I chose each of these artists out of all the artists from their respective provinces. Some of these are known, some unknown but I hope you will hear something new and enjoyable! BRITISH [...]
Always a favorite amongst Canadians, East Coast rockers Great Big Sea have announced the release of their new studio album. The album, entitled Safe Upon The Shore, will be out July 13th. Alan Doyle was last seen starring in Robin Hood alongside Russell Crowe, and Sean McCann recently released his first solo album. You can hear some of the new songs now: Great Big
Yep, St Pattys Day is today and on a day when everyone seems or claims to be Irish, the green beer will be flowing like raging rivers of spring floods. I know I haven't been posting a lot but real world stuff like work and real life gets in the way. There's no way I could miss a post about St. Patrick's Day .The songs I'm serving up today are some classic Irish drinking songs and may well have been featured here before at one time or another. In fact they may be featured on [...]
Great Big Sea: Mari-Mac [ purchase ] Great Big Sea hails from Newfoundland, where the cliffs are steep and the summers short; over their fifteen year run, they've grown famous for their unique mastery of the traditional folktunes of their region, as filtered through a raucous pub-crawl sensibility. The result lies somewhere between celtic punk and the heavily harmonized folksongs of the sea and spray, more akin to a salty privateer's interpretation of The Clash and The Pogues than that singer-songwritery stuff that many [...]
For more than 15 years now Great Big Sea has been relied upon by Canadians to deliver fun, fast-paced, East Coast rock. Now for the first time singer Sean McCann is stepping out with an album of his own. Lullabies for Bloodshot Eyes (out February 23rd) will be his debut solo album. You can stream four songs from the album, and sign up for a download of "Peace Among the Bones", here:
A wide and varied collection of Canadian artists for you on Canada Day 2009, One Hundred and Forty Two years old... Happy Birthday Canada. Viletones - I hate You-Without You The Real McKenzies - Ceilidh Cancer Bats - Sorceress Die Mannequin - Do It Or Die Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown Neil Young - Tonights the Night [...]
I enjoy a good challenge. So when a recent and otherwise well-written treatise on the socio-economic function of cover songs past and present declared the R.E.M. catalog "too cryptic to survive being covered", I set out to amass a collection of songs which would prove the author wrong. My dubious pursuit was confounded a bit by a long-time personal apathy for R.E.M.'s particularly angsty, often melodramatic performance style, as filtered through frontman Michael Stipe's voice and phrasing, which just aren't to taste. Sure, there's a few songs I wouldn't change the station [...]
Violent Success
The End Of Irony
Snob's Music
IckMusic
Cover Lay Down
Keep the Coffee Coming
Spinning Platters
Ride The Tempo
Beats Per Minute
Good Rockin' Tonight
Star Maker Machine
Oreo Cookie Blues
MP3: Daft Punk – “Horizons” (RAM Japanese Bonus Track)
[Listen] Daft Punk - "Horizon" (Japanese Bonus Track)
Mix/Cover/Live #887 (feat. Yalls & more)
Ta-Ku
Le Fever :: "White Hearts"
