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... [...]
Sloan @ Echo Beach: photo by Michael Ligon Sloan @ Echo Beach: photo by Michael Ligon Sloan once were fashionable - for about a year, maybe two. They were right on board with the alt-rock movement of the early 1990's when Nirvana and Sonic Youth were bringing the indie and 'punk' music to the forefront of the music industry. But since their second album, 1994's "Twice Removed" , the band have gone the decidedly unfashionable route for [...]
Ladies and gentlemen I present to you, Big Sloan aka Sloan Bone. Sloan is born and raised in Long Beach, California and is the brother of Layzie Bone, and Flesh-n-Bone from the legendary Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. A couple of days ago I had the privilege of talking to him about about being Layzie Bones little brother, his album Khakis-n-Chucks , Ron Artest, and the emergence of non-gangster rappers in the West Coast. Full interview after the jump. QuezKHH : Who is Big Sloan? [...]
Keith Klenowski Just to be clear: filling Massey Hall for two nights in a row is no mean feat. Not many bands can do it once, let alone twice, but when The National did just that last June in support of their breakout album High Violet , it felt like an arrival - the best and most natural setting for a band that had graduated from the bar circuit and were taking their rightful place in the city's most hallowed room, hopefully for years to come. [...]
Sloan is one of those bands that is probably an influence of a lot of bands you like, you just don't know it. Originally starting out with a heavier, more guitar-driven sound, the band was once called Canada's answer to Nirvana (if that gives you a hint as to how long they have been around). Sloan plays with more of a poppy melody and harmonizing mindset these days, and that sound is showcased well in their new album, The Double Cross, which one lucky reader can win a vinyl copy of [...]
Sloan (Can) ::: home / myspace :: Select Singles 1992-2011 (2011) ::: Noise Trade ::: De Canadese band Sloan , mag wat mij betreft alleen al om hun fantastische single Underwhelmed het predikaat legendarisch dragen! Bij die single uit de vroege jaren 90 bleef het dan ook wat het succes in Europa betreft, in eigen land is de band [...]
Twenty years is a long time to do anything with anybody. So when the Chris Murphy, Andrew Scott, Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland - collectively known as Sloan – recently celebrated their 20th anniversary of being a band, there was good reason for music fans to rejoice. The Halifax-founded, Toronto-based quartet first conquered the realm of shining indie-rock in the early 90's with singles like "Underwhemed" and "Coax Me", before moving toward infusing that sound with stadium rock heft on their turn of the decade singles "Money City Maniacs" and "If It Feels Good Do [...]
Kandle Osborne When I last wrote up Timber Timbre back in March , shortly before the release of their latest Creep On Creepin' On , I commented on how unlikely it seemed that the Toronto trio's murky goth-blues should make them stars (relatively speaking), but how that seemed to be exactly what was going to happen. And indeed, it's been a good 2011 for them, to say the least. The decidedly positive critical response and popular demand kept the band on the road through all of [...]
by Bill Pearis Sloan at Knitting Factory in June ( more by Dana [Distortion] Yavin ) As previously mentioned, Sloan have three NYC-area shows coming up: Tuesday, September 13 at The Bell House , then Thursday, September 15 at Bowery Ballroom and Friday, September 16 at Maxwell's . All three shows are with Australia's You Am [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Big Tree : "This Fall" [mp3] from This New Year (out October 4th) search for more Big Tree posts at Largehearted Boy Dark Dark Dark : "In Your Dreams" [...]
Niente a che vedere con witch house o affini: la "doppia croce" nel titolo si riferisce semplicemente ai vent'anni di onorata carriera del gruppo canadese, che dopo avere toccato il vertice con l'accoppiata "Never See the End of It" - "Parallel Play", torna alla carica con il decimo album. Ancora una volta niente sorprese: disco solido dall'inizio alla fine, con un power-pop ispirato agli anni '60 e '70 condito da ritornelli assolutamente indimenticabili ("She's Slowing Down Again", "Follow the Leader") e svisature acustiche agrodolci ("Laying So Low"). Diciamo che se i Big Star di "#1 [...]
I never embed widgets on this site, but for Sloan I'll make an exception. The band is offering up 14 of their singles as a FREE download to help fans introduce other to the genius that is the band's vast and amazingly solid catalog. In fact If you dont think these are some of the best songs ever ... I will fight you.
While we stood very still last week - trying hard not to think about the heat - we reminded ourselves that in six bloody months we will be yelling to the high heavens about how cold it is. We live in fickle world my friends, and nothing is ever quite right. Thankfully, the temperature subsided and trips to the beach reaffirmed just how lovely summer can be. In fact, the beach is such a lovely place that we strongly suggest taking a trip to your nearest watering hole as soon as possible. While on your way put on the latest [...]
Frank Yang I've been trying to do piggyback a write up of Sloan's latest The Double Cross on a live review all Summer but have been constantly foiled. For their album launch in-store at Sonic Boom back in May , a perfect storm of non-functional transit made a 10-minute trip take 45 and while I could hear the show, I couldn't see a damn thing. Then for their two-night stand at the Mod Club I was felled by a post-NXNE cold so those didn't happen. It certainly [...]
james vincent mcmorrow red dust (unreleased - daytrotter session) bon iver flume (live 9:30 club - august 2/11) tv on the radio killer crane brown bird fingers to the bone camille baby carni bird sloan green gardens, cold montreal dean wareham & britta phillips forever
Live music picks for WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 through TUESDAY AUGUST 9, 2011. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 / JOSEPH ARTHUR / DAKOTA TAVERN / 249 OSSINGTON AVE / $22 / 19+ Akron, Ohio singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur plays piercing jams with poetic lyrics as textured as his paintings, which grace the cover of his records. Arthur plays in support of his newest eighth LP The Graduation Ceremony . THURSDAY AUGUST 4 / LIGHT FIRES / MOCCA / [...]
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