Charlottetown Canada natives, Brohan Moore and Alec O’Hanley, have put out a new album this last month – Are You Afraid of The Danks. This is their second feature on the Daily Dose. They are described as being driven by small-town boredom and a severe distaste for contemporary pop, delivering a fistful of excitement with the follow-through of a wrecking ball in a Beverly Hills mansion. Recorded under sweltering circumstances in a Haligonian mini-mall, the quartet pounded out, among other things, the unflinchingly catchy Are You Afraid of The Danks. [via Planetary] [...]
The VPME Podcast, featuring the best music from the past present and future! Curated by Andy Von Pip whose unique upbeat, effervescent presenting style has been compared to Eeyore the donkey in a coma on a wet Tuesday in Hartlepool .... With special guest appearances from Dum Dum Girls, Sarah Nixey, Howling Bells, Kyla La Grange, Lush and loads more. Listen below or on Mixcloud here Related articles The Vpme Podcast- Jesus and Mary Chain Special (vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpres s.com) [...]
Heavily inspired by downbeat Scots indie-types Arab Strap, the album has a strong sense of place – namely the fishing towns of darkest Scotland. As the band themselves say, 'the best thing about leaving where you’re from is that it allows you to see it better and describe it better.' As a whole it's a tribute to the kind of love that we're all more familiar with that the florid passions of romance – the love that compromises rather than idealises. There's also a rich vein of black humour in the carefully-crafted lyrics about the mundanity and disaffection [...]
Heavily inspired by downbeat Scots indie-types Arab Strap, the album has a strong sense of place – namely the fishing towns of darkest Scotland. As the band themselves say, 'the best thing about leaving where you’re from is that it allows you to see it better and describe it better.' As a whole it's a tribute to the kind of love that we're all more familiar with that the florid passions of romance – the love that compromises rather than idealises. There's also a rich vein of black humour in the carefully-crafted lyrics about the mundanity and disaffection [...]
This week, Veronica Falls, Howling Bells, Zola Jesus and Dirtblonde *************************** VERONICA FALLS. Veronica Falls release their self-titled debut album released 17th October on Bella Union and will be touring the UK with VPME faves Dum Dum Girls in November. “Bad Feeling” By Veronica Falls. ****************************** ****************************** * VPME – Six [...]
It's been a bit quite here lately. This was due in no small part, to a trip to Italy and a wish to never return to Blighty and her relentless grey skies. However return we did and almost immeadiately made our second apperance on Tom Robinson 's Now Playing @ BBC 6 Music If you missed us on BBC6Music you can listen again here (at 22 minutes and 53 seconds) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/c onsole/b013z70r . We get over excited about our top tip for 2011 The Good Natured , wax lyrical about [...]
Prince Edward Island are a band named after either a province of Canada or a sub-Antarctic island in the Indian Ocean. I Googled that and it surprised me, because this band are Scottisher than Simon Neil's chest hair. The misery-laden lives and relationships that inspire them bring to mind Frankie Boyle council estate jokes, and where a more mainstream band such as Franz Ferdinand choose to play down their accents on record, Prince Edward Island play them up. Their influences are undeniably Scottish, with hints of Idlewild and Arab Strap, and they share the inherent understanding of melody that [...]
Prince Edward Island released a new single earlier this month, but I wasn't properly paying attention at the time. You Look Like I Need A Drink is out now, and is a good wee teaser for the Prince Edward Island album, This Day Is a Good Enough Day, which is released next week. I say next week, the labum is already available to purchase on Amazon . The band are London based, but listen for more than a few seconds and you'll quickly catch on that they aren't [...]
Prince Edward Island released a new single earlier this month, but I wasn't properly paying attention at the time. You Look Like I Need A Drink is out now, and is a good wee teaser for the Prince Edward Island album, This Day Is a Good Enough Day, which is released next week. I say next week, the labum is already available to purchase on Amazon . The band are London based, but listen for more than a few seconds and you'll quickly catch on that they aren't [...]
Toronto - Despite what you might think, the band Prince Edward Island is not a Canadian folk act that dresses in flannel and plays the banjo. They are instead a melancholy indie pop act from England that will be releasing their debut album called This Day is a Good Enough Day on August 29th off Crocfingers label. This song is just fantastic, even if shamelessly borrows from 90s era New Order. The guitar solo at the end, the pulsating life behind each drum beat and the "I've been there before" way that the lead [...]
Today we feature Ladytron, Prince Edward Island, Howling Bells, No Ceremony and The Icarus Line. Ladytron. Let us be clear so there is no misunderstanding, I love Ladytron, their icy, hauntingly sinister goth electronica continues to fill my heart with unbridled joy. Their latest offering "Mirage" which appears on their forthcoming album,’ Gravity The Seducer,’ has reaffirmed and indeed justified my infatuation... It’s in stores September 12 (UK) / September [...]
Σχεδόν το καλύτερο του μήνα. SBTRKT είναι ο Aaron Jerome. Εκ του περισσού αναφέρω: προφέρεται subtract. Τί αφαιρεί; Τη φυσική παρουσία του φορώντας μάσκα για να μην απασχολεί την αντιληψή μας τίποτε άλλο εκτός από τον ήχο. Τι καλός παραγωγός θα ήταν αν δεν σκεφτόταν έτσι. Αφαιρετέα και η φωνή του μια και έχει στη διάθεσή του θαυμάσια φωνητικά από Yukimi Nagano, (Little Dragon), Shampha, Jessie Ware , και Roses Gabor. Αναγκαστικά dubstep θα το πεις , αλλά και τις soul-dance- trip hop- drum & bass- garage- broken beat επιρροές του θα ακούσεις. [...]
This week's round up of the tracks that I haven't had the space to post... Prince Edward Island From: London, United Kingdom By royal appointment the missing link between ballboy and Arab Strap. Go Try [...]
Ever want to know what is happening in PEI's music scene. Have no fear, check out this artist run centre/project called " This Town Is Small ". Check out this video from the first Small Town sessions with Milk and Rectangles . Here is info on what they do. this town is small is an artist-run non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and understanding of contemporary art forms. Serving as a vehicle for communication among artists [...]
“Territory” is the follow up to the Charlottetown band’s Polaris Prize nominated and internationally acclaimed sophomore album, “Little Jabs”. Once again produced by Joel Plaskett, Territory builds on the promise of Little Jabs as the band continues to write and record sunny pop gems for the heart and head. Territory, however also finds Two Hours Traffic discovering the shadows at the side of the road. Right from the get go this becomes apparent as the gold into lead alchemy of the rousing opener Noisemaker kicks in and by the time the title track tells its tale of disillusionment and betrayal [...]
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater & her 15 yr old son's friend Lucybelle Crater (1974), photograph Nude With Stillson Wrench by John Smith (1927-) This is not what you had in mind when you called the plumber. Or is it? Is she that fleeing thought that pleaded for life while you tapped your foot to the mood music on his answering machine? Perhaps she's been waiting in the bathroom from the first, captive in holograph on the [...]
Filed under: Around the World Eastern Canada's Prince Edward Island is generally known internationally for three things: 1) as the setting for native daughter L.M. Montgomery's enduringly popular 'Anne of Green Gables' books; 2) as the source for some of the tastiest mussels gracing menus all over; and 3) and as -- along with neighboring Nova Scotia -- a place that all the French Acadians, the descendents of the original 17th-century colonists, left when the English and Scots booted them out 250 years ago, many migrating to Louisiana where they became known as [...]
Filed under: You Oughta Know , Canada Two Hours Traffic are releasing their new album at the cusp of fall, but the Canadian band's summery pop music has enough substance to sustain listeners year round. The Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island quartet's 2007 album, 'Little Jabs,' received critical acclaim and decent media exposure for infectious, feel-good pop tracks like 'Backseat Sweetheart,' 'Stuck for the Summer' and 'Jezebel.' It earned Two Hours Traffic an East Coast Music Award for best pop recording and was one of 10 finalists for last [...]
This rock n' roll quartet, made up of four seasoned musicians, has quickly turned heads in the east coast of Canada. Its honest and gritty form of true rock music has propelled the band to the top of the music scene. Charlottetown, PEI native Dennis Ellsworth (formerly of The Rude Mechanicals), and Stephenville, Nfld's Bruce White (of the Korea-based band A Taste of Dinomite) are the band's main songwriters. Ellsworth and White teamed up with Charlottetown brothers, Craig and Brady MacDonald (of the hard rock band, [...]
Again it's something of a quiet week but apparently July often is in the world of gigs, as the Summer music festival season continues its dotcom-esque ballooning and people get ready for the foreign invasion and artistic black hole that is the Edinburgh Festival. I might be popping through to Glasgow to see Mumford & Sons [...]
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