Mason Hastie If there's one thing I learned from being on the Grand Jury for last year's Polaris Prize , it's that the duties of being a regular jurist are far, far, far, far less stressful. There's a real burden of responsibility when you're one of the 11 whose duty it is to choose Canada's "best album of the year", forcing you to consider each nominee on the short list objectively, checking as much as possible personal biases towards genre, personality, history, whatever. It's a lot of work. And while in [...]
:: The Devil Wears Prada has released a webisode (apparently there's a series of them) detailing the band's recording process for With Roots Above And Branches Below . :: Trouble in paradise maybe? Heavy Heavy Low Low is leaving Ferret Music . :: AW Music recently talked to Provincial Parks . :: The Killers manager sued them three years ago. I guess Brandon Flowers was too busy grooming his mustache to do anything about it at the time, because the [...]
"Can I get you something? Tea, water?" "Water would be nice" Delaware House welcomes me with a warmly lit living room and a glass of water that I, being a humble pilgrim in search of great music, requested. I land myself in a chair, opposite Provincial Parks, that make themselves comfortable on a couch. We sit down for a chat that you, beloved reader, are about to be a part of... given that you'll actually read and not just scroll through. The answers are much more brilliant than the questions. See [...]
The backlog of CD's that I have to listen to and review is reaching the point of unmanageable, but I don't anticipate that I'll be heading out to a great wealth of shows over the next few days so maybe I'll get the chance to finally post a CD review or two. I finally gave a listen to a few of them over the past week, and the one that stood out the most to me was the Iron Ponies EP by Provincial Parks . Will, Rich, Scotty and Pete all live together in the [...]
"Can you write a negative review?" "I can write whatever the hell I want. The problem is that these f*cking musicians are too f*cking good" This was a conversation that I had earlier this morning with one of my friends. One thing I'm definitely good at is negating everything. The funny thing is that as of late I couldn't find even one album that I would dislike enough to write a negative review, dipping the whole thing into shit. With that thought in my mind I sat down with my laptop, put my headphones [...]
"Can you write a negative review?" "I can write whatever the hell I want. The problem is that these f*cking musicians are too f*cking good" This was a conversation that I had earlier this morning with one of my friends. One thing I'm definitely good at is negating everything. The funny thing is that as of late I couldn't find even one album that I would dislike enough to write a negative review, dipping the whole thing into shit. With that thought in my mind I sat down with my laptop, put my headphones [...]
Who : Provincial Parks from Toronto. What : I woke up every 30 minutes last night, either sweating, or shivering. I'm sick as a dog, but still managing to blog away here. A couple weeks ago I caught an opening set by Toronto's Provincial Parks and I was pretty impressed. I haven't been able to spend enough time with their EP (Iron Ponies), but why don't we just start with an introduction. The band not only shares a certain sound to Midlake ( AM radio getting a modern sheen [...]
Just a little bit of stuff to keep you all posted on. 1. The "Best ____ of '08" thing has gone just about as good as I ever could have hoped. Because of the number of submissions (and the length of a couple - you know who you are) I've divided it into 3 posts: friends, bloggers, and bands (those of you who may, or may not, fall into more than one category I suppose you'll know where you stand with me at the beginning of next week - hah!). I'm going to [...]
myspace There's something about feeling like a band is destined to be more than just another local act. Instead of just another band that seems to fill out the lineup for every show you go to, every so often you stumble upon a n artist that seems to represent everything that makes your neighborhood's heart beat. Whether it's a cover band that keeps the bar rocking till 3AM on a Tuesday night or the band you and all of your friends tell everyone is the "next big thing", it's usually music that creates that [...]
If I had to be honest, which I don't, I really wasn't expecting to enjoy Iron Ponies EP by Provincial Parks . My initial reaction, was to recoil at the adult-contempo rock/pop sound, but I did give it chance and boy-howdy am I glad that I did. ( Rob spends an incalculable amount of time thinking about how to try and convince readers to listen to the record even though he's compared the band to ones that his parents would listen to. ) And really, now that I think about it, once [...]
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