Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Awards , Junos Chromewaves F---ed Up , Sloan , the Sadies and members of Broken Social Scene will be among those performing over two nights at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern as part of this year's JUNO Concert Series beginning Feb. 4. As reported by Exclaim , the first concert will be a mammoth three-set affair beginning with the Elwins [...]
Everyone likes awards right? Especially when they are random and whimsical..right? Here's the rest of my favorite concert moments. Since it's my blog, I'm just going to call these awards The Panickys . I would call it the Rickys, but that oozes of ego boasting. 2011 Panicky for Concert Where I Saw the Most Friends Sloan, December, 2011 - The Great Hall Before I joined this cultish indie blogger group I am now apart of, I rarely knew anyone at concerts. Since that fateful [...]
Seeing how our staff has distinct tastes and opinions on music, it would be nearly impossible for us to determine a 10 Albums of 2010 list as a single entity without excessive bloodshed. So over the next couple of days, we'll be posting Top 10 Albums of 2011 lists as determined by individual Loud Loop Press staff members. Today, associate editor Audrey Leon offers up her list for Top 10 Albums of 2011. What a long strange trip it has been. All obligatory yearbook quotes aside, 2011 has been an interesting year for music. I spent [...]
The following is a collection of reviews of eleven of my favourite albums of 2011, a top 11 of 2011 if you will. I'd like to note that while these releases are technically my top 11 albums, all of the songs featuring on today's program I enjoyed and encourage you to check them out (info can be found in the play list below). 1. The Black Lips – Arabia Mountain [...]
Sloan @ The Great Hall: photo by Michael Ligon Review to come. Photos: Sloan, Rural Alberta Advantage, Ohbijou, Bonjay @ The Great Hall, Toronto (December 21, 2011) MySpace: Bonjay MySpace: Ohbijou MySpace: Rural Alberta Advantage MySpace: Sloan
Frank Yang It may have sounded like Tuesday night's grand Fucked Up throwdown at The Great Hall was going to be an untoppable finale to the 2011 concert season in Toronto, but remember - that was just the first of a two-night event and if you were going to try and top a recital of one of 20112s best albums (that's David Comes To Life , for the record) then a front-to-back performance of one of the best Canadian albums of the past 15 years is a pretty good [...]
SLOOOOOO-OOOOOAN SLOOOOOO-OOOOOAN The chants for Sloan echoed throughout the Great Hall Wednesday night, and what a night it was. Playing their classic album "One Chord To Another" to a sold out and enthusiastic crowd, last nights show ultimately became a celebration of a great Canadian band, nostalgia and Toronto all in one. Taking the stage shortly before 11 to a rapturous applause, the four piece group quickly launched into the albums first track and one of the album's biggest hits - The Good in Everyone . Who doesn't remember that music video? [...]
Frank Yang Okay, let's get this over with. More than any year in recent memory, 2011 was tough to distill down to a top ten - not because there was a dearth of notable releases, but because there was a glut of them. Plenty of records this year were good to great - from those you'd expect as much from, those who surprised by upping their game and/or those who you'd simply never heard of before - but head-and-shoulders standouts? More of a chore than I expected. But here are ten [...]
Check out a music video and lots of news from Toronto's favorite hardcore band.
Photo by Jeremy D. Larson As Matablog points out, there's a whole lot going on in the world of Fucked Up . Having already revealed two albums in 2011, including their third LP David Comes to Life and the Record Store Day compilation David's Town , the Toronto hardcore rockers have announced two new singles: a split holiday 73 with Toronto alt-rock band Sloan and the long-awaited "Year of the Tiger" 123 According to Matador, the split holiday 73 will "hopefully" be [...]
by teepoo Rather than post you some stupidly generic list of albums you are supposed to expect, I think my top 10 is going to be based on the fact I actually listened to these releases the most this year. Come on , if an album is good, it must be one of your top plays right? These are based on stats according to iTunes and Last.fm plays as well as the fact I physically own them. I don't believe in people's top lists if they [...]
56 mins : 34 secs | 38.8 mb Emmy The Great And Tim Wheeler "Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing)" ( 02:35 ) This Is Christmas [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Parker Lewis & Matilda Berggren "All Alone On Christmas" (04:59) A Polaroid For Christmas [ free download ] website | myspace | facebook Kula Shaker [...]
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Once again it's on! By "it" I of course mean Christmas, or whatever festive occasion you celebrate at this time of year, and by "on" I mean that now is the time that everyone under the sun looks for some free press, errr, rather, they look to brighten everyone's spirit by recording a holiday song of some kind. And I'm into it. Despite our curmudgeon-liness, once December hits, we're into the holiday jams, just like everyone else - well I am, I'm pretty sure the Ack hates Xmas, but that is neither here nor there. This year we have our [...]
Sloan Is That All I Get? Self-Released [2011] Fire Note Says: Go back to the beginning with this newly released Sloan live set! Album Review: Sloan fans received a treat this month with the release of this live recording titled Is That All I Get? It was recorded by a fan in the audience via cassette on September 20, 1993 in Winnipeg, [...]
Daniel Boud If the ubiquity of decorations, lights and carols wasn't enough of a hint, let me be the one to break it to you - like it or not, the Christmas season is upon us. And with the holiday season comes Christmas concerts and performances, but if Handel's Messiah or The Nutcracker Suite aren't your speed, local hardcore heroes Fucked Up would like to offer you an alternative - a complete album recital of David Comes To Life . As touring commitments for [...]
Frank Yang The last few years have seen a bit of a renaissance with respect to Francophone Canadian bands making inroads both in English-speaking Canada and internationally, thanks in no small part to there generally being at least one such act on every year's Polaris Music Prize shortlist. And circa 2009, I certainly expected Montreal's Béatrice Martin - aka Coeur de Pirate - to be leading the charge. Her 2008 self-titled debut made the long list that year, but hardly needed the boost - she was already a star in [...]
How many of these Wainwrights are there, anyway? Ten songs from Sloan Wainwright, of the singer-songwriter Wainwright family. If you've only got a passing familiarity with the family you probably haven't heard of her. This isn't for lack of talent so much as lack of prolificacy. Unlike her brother Loudon III, she only started releasing music in the 1990s. Her latest album is pleasant enough, but doesn't possess any truly distinguishing characteristics. It's nice to have on while you're relaxing with a cup...
Frank Yang Just as a point of reference, when someone IMs you late on a Friday afternoon and asks, "do you want to go see Feist at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio tomorrow night?", the only appropriate answer is yes. And so it was that after assuming that it'd be too much trouble to finagle one of the hottest tickets in a long weekend with no shortage of hot tickets, one was handed to me. No I'm not bragging. Okay I'm bragging a little. But the point being that I didn't expect [...]
Big Sloan drops this new remix to Rick Rozay's 9 Piece. Off Sloans upcoming mixtape Exacta Standards . Check out our recent interview with Big Sloan . His album Khakis-n-Chucks is coming soon. Related posts: Rick Ross ft Lil Wayne - 9 Piece Remix Lyrics Rick Ross ft Lil Wayne - 9 Piece Remix. Lyrics... Video: Rick Ross – 9 Piece/Even Deeper Rick Rozay drops the visuals for 9 Piece and Even... [...]
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