Ryan Dahle tends to fly beneath a lot of listener's radars. It's a shame, but he doesn't seem to mind. After putting out three increasingly (and unjustly) ignored albums as the brains behind Limblifter , including the stupendous I/O in 2004, Dahle took a bit of a break. He built up his own recording studio in Vancouver, and started working behind the board, engineering, producing, and mastering other Vancouver artists instead. Last year, he put out the very excellent Irrational Anthems under his own name. Most people didn't seem to take note, but [...]
Today's song comes from the Kelowna solo artist Cary Pratt, and his solo project Prairie Cat; see what he did there? Just Cuz can be found on Pratt's most recent album "It Began/Ended With Sparks", which appears to have been released digitally late in October of this year, and physically early in December. The song delivers a story about a breakup, or breakups, in way that is refreshingly sardonic over sappy. "It Began/Ended With Sparks" follows-up on Pratt's debut 2007 EP "ATTACKS!", which was mixed by former Limblifter / Age of Electric frontman (co-frontman) Ryan [...]
Today's song comes from the Kelowna solo artist Cary Pratt, and his solo project Prairie Cat; see what he did there? Just Cuz can be found on Pratt's most recent album "It Began/Ended With Sparks", which appears to have been released digitally late in October of this year, and physically early in December. The song delivers a story about a breakup, or breakups, in way that is refreshingly sardonic over sappy. "It Began/Ended With Sparks" follows-up on Pratt's debut 2007 EP "ATTACKS!", which was mixed by former Limblifter / Age of Electric frontman (co-frontman) Ryan [...]
Does everyone remember last week when I posted the Young Galaxy song? It was the one that was set to the oddly intriguing anime video. Well I'm back on YouTube this morning, looking to see if anyone has uploaded today's Ryan Dahle track, and sure enough I find it... set to an oddly intriguing anime video. It appears that there is a YouTube user, with impeccable taste in music, creating these Canadian indie/Japanese anime mashups; I feel that I must meet this person. Anyways, as mentioned, todays track comes to us from the Canadian music veteran Ryan [...]
I guess we can thank The Decemberists for making the rock opera cool again. Members of Blood Meridian, Black Mountain, Lightning Dust, Pink Mountaintops, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Limb Lifter, Bughouse 5, Bend Sinister, Fan Death, The Mohawk Lodge and Bison all contribute to the endeavor, which you can listen to here .
I know most people who read this blog are American, so you only have a faint idea of The New Pornographers. Like most Canadian bands, The New Pornographers are really 7 bands in one, featuring members from Swan Lake, Immaculate Machine, Maow, The Evaporators, Age of Electric, Limblifter, Destroyer, and Superconductor. AC Newman [Myspace], the [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
** To explain Challengers , I first feel the need to give some background on what makes the New Pornographers the Canadian sensation they are. With Twin Cinema , the New Pornographers seemed to have became more comfortable with more subtle hooks and more drawn out climaxes in a way they'd never been before. *** Electric Version and Mass Romantic were somehow both subversive and almost garish; as a teenager I was drawn to them because I saw them as being more sophisticatedly rebellious than the music my peers listened [...]
Matt's Pick If there's one thing Andrew and I have in common it's our love of mid to late 90's can-con alt-rock. He showed up with some Rusty a few weeks ago and it freaked me out how well their stuff held up. I've gone a diggin' in my own back catalogue since, looking for other classic acts MuchMusic made me think were living like rockstars when in fact I was probably racking in more cash renting James Van Der Bek's latest project to giggeling 'tweens when I worked at [...]
I can't help but wonder about the different ways people love The New Pornographers . Sure, the band is brilliant and with its forthcoming album Challengers it will probably claim the airwaves (including but not exclusive to all college radio stations across America). But do I love the band for its musical merit alone? I think not. Rather, when first introduced to the Canadiana supergroup I started picking apart its pieces only to find that I this was far from a new group to me. Long before I had ever heard 2000's [...]
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