Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Joel Sage, AFP/Getty Images If a cover is the highest compliment one songwriter can bestow upon another, then few songwriters command as much respect as Leonard Cohen . It seems like thousands of artists have interpreted his work, especially his signature late-career song 'Hallelujah' which Cohen once told the CBC could use "a break." With the release of ' Old Ideas [...]
Eleven albums into a career that has flown mostly under the radar, Ron Sexsmith has had his praises sung by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Elvis Costello. Sexsmith writes rueful, self-deprecating songs about the painful joy of being in love. Long Player, Late Bloomer is more of the same, but only better with a strict no filler mandate among the album's 13 tracks.. The title song "Long PLayer" is a nod to his own survivor's instincts and his slow, gradual climb to the middle. "I'm a late bloomer, I'm a slow learner [...]
Chaque année, ww2w (mp3 blog échangiste ET fétichiste), propose à des amis triés sur la reprise de volet et/ou à quelques étoiles appréciées ici de wépondre à un questionnaire de fin d'année. (oui, chaque année, la preuve 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) _ _ _ Analyse rapide des réponses: 1) Concert de l'année La réponse la plus [...]
Et c'est parti pour le classement de mes trente disques préférés de l'année ! Pour chaque album, un lien vers un de mes articles ou un d'un collègue si je n'en ai pas parlé, une toute petite explication de la présence du disque dans le top en passant la souris sur la pochette et un titre en écoute dans le lecteur en bas de page. #30 Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean [...]
With Christmas out of the way, and the year almost over, it's time I finally get around to compiling my Top 20 albums of the year of 2011 (in fact, there are 21 entries). Each album is represented on the mix with a song, and each entry has a link to the artist's homepage or other outlet where the album can be ordered from. Because this list is intended not only to show off my impeccable taste, but also to showcase artists, all data files in the mix have been downscaled to 128kbps. This is not really a chart, but [...]
Toronto - The holiday season is an interesting time of year, one in which one's usual resitance to things that might be considered slightly corny or cheesy are in fact actually embraced. Christmas specials we've seen dozens of times over, albums by Mariah Carey, all of them are kind of OK at this time of the year. When this tendency to like Christmassy stuff is combined with a solid lineup of Canadian talent, it turns into something very much like the Andy Kim Christmas concert. The annual charity event, now in it's seventh year, was raising funds this night for Julliette's [...]
Another of our not quite random list of 20 artists of 2011 we think deserve another listen: If there is an artist with more critical acclaim and peer-worthy worship -- and less commercial success -- than Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith , we'd like to know about it. But that anonymous ignominy may thanfully be over with the March release of Long Player Late Bloomer , a self-described "action movie" of an album that finally matches the quality of his songwriting with the rich, vibrant sound they deserve. Produced by [...]
Here's how this works: Gijs posts a track from a Feist Inspired Playlist I made with Arja (see below). That reminded me of Ron Sexsmith, who wrote a song that Feist covered. Then I see this free Christmas album by Exohxo on Stubby's . That features a cover of Ron's Christmas track. So I wondered - are there more covers of Maybe This Christmas? Is Ron's song a Christmas classic yet? Well, he's getting there, I think. Covers from artists from all over the world, even a Swedish translation. It was used in tv-series , there are various [...]
Though it falls on Columbus Day, Canadian Thanksgiving Day seems relatively untainted by the parallel history of white privilege and savagery which have come to typify the two American holidays with which it shares either date or name. Rather, though giving thanks in the territories is still partially grounded in the European exploration of territories and provinces, Thanksgiving Day in Canada was originally established as a harvest holiday, pure and simple, first as a natural extension of the human need to celebrate the cornucopia, and subsequently by proclamation, in 1957. My connection to Canadian Thanksgiving is familial: [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Chromewaves When the grand jury for the 2011 Polaris Prize voted Montreal's Arcade Fire as the winner at a gala Monday, Sept. 19 in Toronto, they did something no other Polaris grand jury has done in the award's previous five years -- picked the popular band to win. Indeed, the Polaris Prize, which is voted on by Canadian music critics each [...]
Frank Yang Executive summary of this post: Arcade Fires's third album The Suburbs did what everyone kind of expected and won the 2011 Polaris Music Prize last night, and with the $30,000 giant novelty cheque comes loads of praise and under-the-breath mutterings about how they don't deserve it, though that'd have happened no matter who won. If you're the sort of person who only looks at the scoreboard and pays no attention to the boxscores, then you're done here. If you want the blow-by-blow about how [...]
Here is the seventh album on the Polaris Music Prize 2011 shortlist. I am going to cut to chase and make my prediction on Ron Sexsmith 's Long Player Late Bloomer. This is the album I haven't listened to that is in this year's shortlist. So my prediction is that he has a 50% chance of winning it. Ron is already an established musicians domestic and internationally. He is more of a musician's musician that [...]
The 2011 Polaris Prize winner will be announced at the tonight's Gala in Toronto. Over the past ten weeks, I've reviewed every Short List nominee, but haven't played favorites until now. Here, without commentary, but links to reviews of all 10 albums, is my ranking of the ten contenders. 1. Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. [...]
Toronto-based singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith has been around for a long time. And his twelfth LP, appropriately titled, Long Player Late Bloomer , convinces he can still craft catchy pop hooks with a clean, pleasant sound. "I've got to raise it up / As far as my spirit can reach / That everyone might see," Sexsmith sings in the album's title track, a point he proves with the recent success of Long Player Late Bloomer . Below, read my interview with Sexsmith. Why do you think [...]
No more pussyfooting around, then. My methods may not be as scientific as CBC Radio 3's clairvoyant cat, but they're far from flinging darts at CD sleeves pinned to the wall. Besides death and taxes, it seems that the only other thing certain in our world is that on the morning of the Polaris Music Prize gala, I'll be using Quick Before It Melts to put forth my predictions on how the proceedings behind the closed doors of the grand jury room will go. It's not about who I think should [...]
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