Rob shows Liz photos from the concert last night. Liz: Did you ever watch that TV show " Breaker High "? Rob : (pause... thinking) ... what if I say yes? Liz : Uhh... nothing... I just thought that guy (lead singer of the SPP Andrew Penner) looks a lot like Jimmy ... Rob : OMG Yes! I'd never been to the Dakota Tavern before, and, I've gotta say, it was a little like going to a concert in my [...]
My folks used to wait until after my birthday (late November) before decorating for Christmas. After that, all bets were off and we'd go wild with decorations-not to mention drooling over the Sears Wish Book...ahh, pages and pages of toys. I (heart) music's annual list of the hottest bands in Canada is somewhat of a similar event for me, as this mammoth list signals that it's time to start thinking about my own year-end countdowns. Of course, instead of looking forward to toys and holiday parties, it's a time to look back over the year [...]
I still can't decide if The Sadies are my absolute favourite band in the city or not, but watching them perform on Friday definitely confirmed that they've got to be the most talented. Performing 50 songs in two and a half hours, the Good Brothers never missed a step, playing songs that alternated genres between rock, blues, garage, country and even hints of punk that had me wondering if there was anything that they couldn't play. Standing up front, I could really see how tight the band was, and there were even a few moments where I was [...]
Toronto and I have a real love/hate relationship. Having lived in or near this city almost my entire life, with my most recent years spent in Toronto's east end, I can tell you first hand that she's far from a perfect beast. Turns out neither am I, so we usually get along just fine. This whole train of thought got started after a copy of This Beautiful City , the soundtrack to Ed Gass-Donnelly 's film of the same name , made its way to my stereo. I haven't seen the film, but a synopsis [...]
spoon rocks off (stones cover) spoon jonathan fisk (demo) spoon don't you evah (from Sound Opinions radio show) spoon don't make me a target (from Sound Opinions radio show) spoon black like me (the tonight show) bob dylan hurricane (live 1975) doveman let's hear it for the boy ( footloose sdtrk cover) the golden dogs yeah! pas/cal we made our way, we amtrakked the sunparlour players talk it to death the veils [...]
Horse Feathers, House With No Home (Kill Rock Stars, 2008) MP3: "Working Poor " Recently, Canadian folk acts such as Great Lakes Swimmers, Sunparlour Players, and the Hidden Cameras have gained a fairly decent amount of success by combining traditional folk music with a contemporary sound. You would figure that Portland, Oregon is close enough to the Land of the Free (health care, that is) that a band would be able to gain access to that formula simply through osmosis. Not the case with [...]
cat power dark end of the street (black session 2008) bill callahan diamond dancer belong girl from new york britt daniel bring it on home to me (sam cooke cover) black mountain angels arctic monkeys love machine the tallest man on earth shallow grave blood on the wall junkeee.... julieee sandro perri and friends dreams (fleetwood mac cover) erykah badu me the sunparlour players robbers lullaby
Date: April 10, 2008 Venue: The Horseshoe My apartment was undergoing some much-needed maintenance last week (no more frozen pipes!), so I was marooned at my folks' place in Pickering. Fortunately I was able to steal a car and drive down to the Horseshoe on Thursday in time for the Hilotrons ' CD release. Unfortunately things were uncharacteristically on-time at the Horseshoe, so those of us (ie, me) banking on the show being behind schedule ended up missing Andy Swan completely, which [...]
Why Do You Let Me Stay Here - She & Him I Can't Wake Up - Hot Chip Breathes The Best - Populous If the Creeks Dont Rise - Sunparlour Players I Sing I Swim - Seabear Come As You Were - The Bird and the Bee Stop the Parade - Aster Hanging On - People Press Play Beach Bum - Flowers Forever I [...]
bob dylan quinn the eskimo (live at the isle of wight festival 1969) hot chip i can't wake up bettye lavette joy josh rouse sad eyes the redwalls modern diet sunparlour players if the creeks don't rise jane siberry bound by the beauty track a tiger [...]
The Sunparlour Players aren't as refined or archaic sounding as their name would have you believe. The word 'sunparlour' conjures images of old ladies drinking tea while sitting in stiff floral wingback chairs draped in antique doilies. This is not how this three piece band sounds, not one bit. The S.P.P. are organic, they've got dirt under their nails, sweat soaked into their collars, these are heavy metal dreams (they cover AC/DC in their set and list Pantera as an influence) channeled through acoustic instuments by the will of singer and songwriter Andrew [...]
If the hardest thing about a post is deciding on two tracks out of a handful of completely stellar collection of songs, I'll take that predicament every day. 14 months ago , Sunparlour Players made their linesthroughlines debut, way back before I even started providing "buy" links, back when I was lucky to get ten visitors a day. I even mistakenly said that version of "Talk it to Death" was from Hymns for the Happy , when it was actually from Alive at the Tranzac . Silly me. Today, the Players finally get a formal [...]
The 'sunparlour' is an area of southern Ontario that is renowned for it's farming and tomato production and this is where Andrew Penner, the main force behind the Sunparlour Players is from, Leamington, Ontario, the 'Tomato Capital of Canada'. In fact, Penner grew up on a Mennonite tomato farm outside the small city of Leamington. This is where he befriended Mark Schachowskoy, the other original Sunparlour Player, when they were both five years old. Life pulled them apart as they grew older, as it often does, but they met up again in Toronto in [...]
Who knew that Elliott Brood had such a huge and rabid fanbase? Not me, and yet Lee's was packed to the gills on Friday night with rowdy punters keen to take in a little of the Toronto trio's "death country" stylings. I was there more to see middle act The Acorn but having seen and heard the headliners for the first time last month at the Toronto Reference Library show and gotten a copy of their latest album Ambassador (from the library, natch), I was pretty [...]
1. The Long Winters - Rich Wife - kicks off with one of my favorite guitar licks of the year, you'll know the one. This one's straight out of the "how to make a bouncy indie pop song" rulebook. In a good way. 2. Counterfit - Better Late Than Never - one of my favorite indie bands, complete with off-kilter, angular rythms, and lots of rock. I wish there were more bands making this type of stuff today. [...]
Sunparlour Players - "Pacifist's Anthem" (before was a sample from their live ep, this is now a sample from their full-length, to convince you it's worth it) All of Sunparlour Players' songs are set in the same place, at the same time. Specifically, no time and no place. Descriptively, a place made out of pink sunsets, pale blue dawns, waist-high whispy fields, light breezes. Houses in which only old people live, but families come to sleep. In the days they are working, helping to raise the sun, stir the lakes, guard the trees, turn the ground into food. In this [...]
Sunparlour Players - "Talk it to Death" It's okay if you love this song. No one's looking at you. You can bop your head, you can shake your face at the ceiling, you can kinda sing even though you don't know the words. I like how it takes 3 minutes for the tambourine to appear, as if it were hiding in the closet (when it shows up, he shouts, "hey! hey!" as if pointing at it). In the direct melody, the tight approach, even down to the singing style, as many idiots like myself will come to say in the [...]
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