
This will be the last of the Pop Montreal stuff. This time its all a bunch of random silly interviews. Three different interviews and got ambushed by PDF Format . The first one is with Laura Barrett The second one is with Hooded Fang . Very funny and hilarious and was surprised this person made an guest appearance in the interview. [...]

Amidst all the hubbub over the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis' jazz classic "Kind of Blue" comes "Kind of Bloop, " a brand new (just dropped last week) utterly unlikely song-for-song tribute performed only on primitive video game technology - Gameboys, Nintendos and the like. I've always enjoyed 8-bit music 's rinky-dink charms, but as funny as this album can be (if you're familiar with the original), it's also amazing. These cats are blowin' mad jazz. The shimmering "Blue in Green," in particular, is a kind of dreamy '50s Space Age ballad, [...]
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Ein Album voller Weezer-Songs in 8-Bit-Versionen auf dem Video Game Music Netlabel Pterodactyl Squad . Da wird einem doch mal wieder die Wichtigkeit von Netlabels klar vor Augen geführt! Island In The Sun (Belmont's Revisal) - videogame orchestra Holiday - Anamanaguchi El Scorcho - Tugboat The World Has Turned And Left Me Here - Bit Shifter You Won't Get With Me Tonight - PDF Format [...]

Oh yeah, baby! We've got 14 of Weezer 's best hits listed right bellow, all available for download for free. You betcha there's a catch. All of the songs, including Island in The Sun, Holiday or Buddy Holly, are in 8 bit format, which means all your favorite summer anthems now sound like they're off the Space Invaders soundtrack. All of the 14 tracks have been mixed by an awesome crew of peeps going by the name of Pterodactyl Squad , a video game label, so they say. Here's how they described the 8 bit Weezer: [...]

Jen Davis - Matt and Kate [Madison, WI] (2008) There is no shortage of Great Songs of 2008 here at JustSayin... an offensively amazing Helen Keller dance prompt, a brilliant Elvis ode and impersonation, a promising debut EP by an 18-year old with a dream, a suprisingly relevant 8-bit Beach Boys reinterpretation, a piece of songwriting by a soulful cellist from Kentucky, and a [...]

( Note: I'm mentioning last night's Wombat Wednesdays Valentine's special after the fact, because a) February curator Magali Meagher has several more Wombat Wednesdays scheduled this month, and b) several performers have upcoming shows, including Gentleman Reg's in-store and CD release, and Levi Macdougall & Katie Crown at Laugh Sabbath and, well, my shows . The Wombats in Love show was slated for a profile yesterday on the site, but I've been a busy fella, and I [...]

PDF Format - "Wonderful Day" Tonight, it's cold, I'm very sick, and there's nothing better than new PDF Format to warm me up. I was at the Pop Montreal show and had to leave early, but this was the show opener, and its honest beauty remains intact from that night. In a recent no-sided conversation I had with him, he's looking for money to record his rock opera (his incredible and sweeping and I've-no-doubt absolutely canonical rock opera) "properly". So if you run a studio and you've got like 3 weeks of unbooked time, [...]
Ehren Salazar & David Dineen-Porter - MD64 Today's glitchy music & art collaboration comes to us courtesy of David Dineen-Porter of PDF Format. The video was a contribution to last year's Animatron animation festival and features the work of such amazing visualizers as Portland's Wonka-rockers Hooliganship and Canadian's gruesome beauty collective Crystalbeard . PDF Format - God Only Knows [...]
PDF Format - "God Only Knows 64" PDF Format is Toronto artist David Dineen-Porter in one of his many disguises, manifestations, approximations. Though this one may be his most honest to date. As PDF Format, he is the conductor of a vast symphony of thousands of little glitchy bits: a hundred-and-fifty laser bursts, eight-hundred jumps, bomb bursts, one-ups, door opens, gun loads, enacting reflector shields, passing levels, losing hearts, and landing dying on spikes. If there were ever an instance of a band created to play one song, this could be a perfect [...]

C'est encore une fois avec un brin de nostalgie (puis un sourire) que j'ai dégusté entièrement Alice Part 1: Fecal Alcohol Syndrome (rien que le nom m'amuse) lors de la première écoute. Dès le premier titre, j'ai cru être convier à une petite partie de Golden Axe sur l' Amiga 500 de l'époque. Les autres y verront peut-être la bande originale d'un jeu d'une ancestrale console 16 bits . En effet, après quelques recherches, le mouvement chiptune [...]