Killbeat If we were to spool up the Wayback Machine to November 2006 , you'd find a post where I confessed that sending me a lovely slab of vinyl was a pretty good way to get to the top of my "to listen to" pile... something that apparently still holds true over a half decade later. But as I pointed out even way back then, a listen is not the same as a writeup so I find it comforting to know that Camp Radio still has the goods to impress in whatever format they're [...]
I know, I know. Lists are annoying and trying to assign rankings and value to art is subjective at best. That's why these records - 25 from releases that really made an impact on me in '11 - aren't branded with any type of distinction other than "favorite." These are records, not songs, that warmed my heart, eased my pain, inspired my creativity or simply helped tap my toe or nod my head. They never asked for anything more than a listen, and I was more than happy to oblige. That being said, there [...]
Frank Yang The last few years have seen a bit of a renaissance with respect to Francophone Canadian bands making inroads both in English-speaking Canada and internationally, thanks in no small part to there generally being at least one such act on every year's Polaris Music Prize shortlist. And circa 2009, I certainly expected Montreal's Béatrice Martin - aka Coeur de Pirate - to be leading the charge. Her 2008 self-titled debut made the long list that year, but hardly needed the boost - she was already a star in [...]
A few weeks ago, herohill opened the front doors and hosted a private show with the oh so charming Jenn Grant and Daniel Ledwell . Basically, the idea is simple: We guilt bands - Dan Mangan & The Crackling succumbed to our incessant pleas for the inaugural event - into showing up, cook the guests and the band a huge spread and offer up some drinks, then they play a few songs for the hill and our closest friends. Well, our closest friends and Trevor Murphy. Each time we've [...]
Chad VanGaalen - Cries Of The Dead Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree The Deep Dark Woods - All The Money I Had Is Gone The Deep Dark Woods - Hang Me Oh Hang Me Jenn Grant - Dreamer Julie Doiron - No More Nathan Lawr - Righteous Heart Jim Bryson - All The Fallen Leaves FemBots - Good Days Aidan Knight - Jasper [...]
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This world gets to hear yet another beautiful voice - this time coming from the mouth of Jenn Grant. With an almost Regina Spektor like sound, once again in the vocals, not quite with the music, Grant will steal your ears within moments. The music is pretty fantastic as well in case you were wondering. Some hard evidence of that would show in "Oh My Heart" with an awfully catchy tune behind that
There's no exact way of knowing how many songs are released in a day. Whether it be an eighteen second kazoo ditty on Soundcloud, or a Hypem track with 4 hearts, all music deserves a shot. Even on an independent blog like Earmilk, it's impossible to cover every band/song/remix worth listening too. That's why Straight From the Teet is back, and this time... IT'S DAILY ! My name is Logan (aka Running ) and I will be curating Earmilk's newest old feature, highlighting three up-and-coming artists from three different genres, so sit back and enjoy some good-old-fashioned, non-pasteurized, Earmilk. [...]
This isn't really my thing but it wasn't bad. Sounded like the kind of 'quirky' music you hear in those ipod nano commercials or something! If you dig Feist and Adele , you know: female pop music that's still kind of cool and vaguely 'edgy', this may appeal. BTW: I apologize if my reference point sound crazy. Once I veer away from my favorite genres (hip hop, R&R/soul, some strains of indie and electronic and club music, sh-t can get kinda wobbly very quickly!) Download Jenn Grant Getcha Good [...]
The 2011 Polaris Prize Long List was announced last week, a list of forty Canadian albums collated from five-album lists submitted by the hundred-plus jurors several weeks ago. From this list, jurors vote again, and the ten-album Short List will be revealed July 6. Short list artists will receive $2,000 each, will perform at September's [...]
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Toronto - This is part 2 of Stacey's NXNE highlights. For part one, click here . Sweatiest show Sheezer at Sneaky Dee's. Without a doubt. We were completely jammed like sardines (they had to have been breaking fire code), primed for a good time after great sets from The Ruby Coast , Paper Lions and Great Bloomers . Every single person was an exuberant fan, joyfully singing every word to every song, jumping along so hard that it made the floor feel like it was going [...]
Here is part 4 of who to see at NXNE . This time on Saturday June 18, 2011. There is a lot of things to see during the daytime and nighttime. Usually on the Saturday I would go down to the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern for CBC Radio 32s show. But this year I might have to break my tradition. I am setting my eyes on staying at this venue which is the Great Hall. Playing there are: 9pm - Duzheknew [...]
Facebook Beirut and Owen Pallett have a pretty long and storied history together, with the former enlisting the latter to arrange and add strings and things to their last full-length, 20072s The Flying Club Cup , as well as take lead vocals on the song "Cliquot" while the latter while still operating as Final Fantasy enlisted members of Beirut to play on his Spectrum, 14th Century EP. So yes, hardly strangers. But even so it still counts as an [...]
Vanessa Heins It's fitting that there was on The Rural Albeta Advantage's debut album Hometowns a song called "The Ballad Of The RAA" because really, theirs was a nearly perfect story. The Toronto trio went from sparsely-attended open mic nights around town through a whirlwind of buzz - including a glorious, crystalline moment in an packed Austin church - that saw them become critical and popular darlings, all on the back of that batch of perfect, almost bewilderingly-simple but heartfelt songs. If this were the feature film adaptation [...]
I think it is safe to say that nearly all musicians draw inspiration and write songs about life, whether it is their lives or someone else's. The reason I like Jenn Grant so much is that you can feel how she felt while writing each of her albums. Stages of life are funny and damn do her tunes make it feel real as ever. She was young, sad, heartbroken, and maybe a tad lost...BOOM! We got Goodbye Twentieth Century and Orchestra for the Moon. Then she gets a couple years wiser, [...]
Frank Yang You would think that my appreciation of a triple-bill of artists familiar and favoured would be of the "comfort food" variety more than anything else, but Saturday night's lineup at the Horseshoe featuring Jenn Grant , Rae Spoon and Olenka & The Autumn Lovers offered up more than its share of pleasant surprises. By rights, Olenka's superb second album And Now We Sing should have gotten a proper writeup hereabouts by now, but having stuck it on my 2010 year-end list [...]
Toronto - Why did I watch the Grammys last night? I don't know. Happy Valentines Day. Wavelength 11 No longer a weekly series, Wavelengths went out with a bang last year, but much like Brett Favre, have come back to entertain us once again. They have come back with a mini festival of sorts, starting on Wednesday night and ending on Sunday. A host of of top notch of local acts will be playing, including Woodhands , Maylee Todd , Hooded Fang and Lullabye Arkestra Here's a [...]
It's Thursday, and I know you're looking for a few things from yer boys at the hill. You want videos, you want dancing, and you want gratuitous Halifax footage. Well you're in luck, as we unleash an all-Halifax version of the Video Hits today that is heavy on dancing and has plenty of hot Halifax landscape action. We'll start with the visually pleasing clip for Jenn Grant's Getcha Good , for which Jenn recruited a number of friends and like-minded enthusiasts of group choreography to assist her in putting together a [...]
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