Music festivals have come and gone in Canada, but one which seems to have taken hold and established an identity is Montreal's Osheaga Music and Arts Festival . Conveniently scheduled right at the end of July, and picturesquely located on its own island by the Saint Lawrence River, it brought fans from across the country and elsewhere up close and personal with nearly 100 bands and DJs. It's not quite as big as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, or Coachella yet, but Osheaga is well on its way to becoming a preferred summer destination. I lost track of the number of times artists [...]
Samantha Cardow With festivals come hard choices, and for this year's edition of Canadian Musicfest , getting underway with a handful of events tonight and in earnest as of tomorrow, I am choosing to eschew the club-hopping-ness that typically comes with these sorts of fest and largely plant myself in one place for each evening. Hard choice or lazy choice? A little of both. But just because I am staying put doesn't mean that I recommend others do the same. So by way of festival preview, here's a list of stuff that [...]
Trevor from Montreal's The High Dials contacted me a few weeks ago, asked if maybe I'd throw something up on Donewaiting about his band's upcoming Columbus show. Though The High Dials have released four full-lengths since 2003, the name didn't ring a bell to me, but I took Trevor up on his offer to send me a copy of Anthems for Doomed Youth . Too bad I didn't hear this thing earlier in this year as it would definitely have ended up on my year-end favorites list. I'm not sure [...]
Some of you may ring in the new year on January 1, but I choose the first official Drake's Take of 2011 to kick off my celebrations. -ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 01.11.11 The new releases for 2011 begins in earnest this week, and while there is nothing in the way of essential releases, there's plenty to stop and check out while we wait for the real motherlode to drop in two weeks. The latest from Wire, British Sea Power, Cage the Elephant, Tapes n' Tapes, Cake, [...]
...with so much going on this weekend around the Gem City, yr going to have to choose wisely to catch everything worthwhile. We'd like to submit for your musical consumption requirements Montreal outfit, The High Dials, who will appear at South Park Tavern this Sunday, Jan. 16 with The Main Street Gospel [Columbus] and local [...]
[ download ] [tweetmeme] As the title says, teenage love drives everyone a bit crazy. Your body is stubbornly insisting that things that never mattered much to you before are now the only things in the world that matter at all. People you've known since kindergarten transform into entirely different and more fascinating creatures, especially little Annie who you only used to notice because she tended to cry every time she broke a crayon but suddenly is all curvy and smells nice and every time she touches her hair your toes curl up in [...]
![[Listen/Download] The High Dials- Teenage Love Made Me Insane](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3058816_lg.jpg)
by teepoo The sound is exactly what it sounds like it would be! Montreal's The High Dials delivers a teenage love anthem. Very appropriately, their most recent album is named Anthems From Doomed Youth . Although it sounds almost like it would be a collection of wrist cutting emo songs, it's far from that. Their songs almost mock and poke fun of youth love. Other songs such as Uruguay take you back to Beetles-esque rock songs that are welcome the listener to sing along. [...]
80 mins : 36 secs | 46.1 mb Kanye West "Power" ( roc-a-fella records ) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Childish Gambino "I'm On It" ( independent release ) Culdesac [ free download ] website | myspace | facebook Ice Cube "She Couldn't Make It On Her Own" ( lench mob [...]
The High Dials hail from Montreal. They're psychedelic-pop rockers who recently released Anthems For Doomed Youth on Rainbow Quartz . Honestly, it was the album title that drew me in and while I was expecting some punk-rock explosion! it instead extols some of the finer qualities of the kind of jams that 602s AM radio used to play. It's a little bit Petty, a little Left Banke, a lot pure pop for now people. And that's the way I like it. Check out two songs from [...]
Siete años después de su debut y cinco desde que publicaran su último trabajo, los canadienses The High Dials vuelven con el que es su cuarto disco, "Anthems For Doomed Youth", grabado en un estudio construido dentro de un edificio abanadonado que fue la sede de la Marina Canadiense. Amantes de la psicodelia y del pop sesentero, en este nuevo trabajo nos ofrecen diez temas en los que mezclan ese gusto por bandas como los Beach Boys y The Byrds con influencias algo más cercanas a los ochenta [...]
Of course the High Dials are a psychedelic pop band—just look at the album cover , which resembles a long-lost (and slightly morbid) Woodstock poster. Here's the single "Chinese Boxes," which is laden with vocal harmonies and Byrds -esque guitar leads, all delivered with what sounds like a narcotic exhaustion. It comes from the Montreal band's new LP, Anthems for Doomed Youth . Go to Exclaim! to read the story I wrote about the album last month. MP3: "Chinese Boxes"
This week Drake puts Brooklyn funsters Matt and Kim under the microscope. ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 11.02.10 The long march towards the holidays continues with reissues, compilations and other releases geared to be fitted with gift-wrap paper. Breaking free of the holiday drudgery are new releases from Matt & Kim , Elvis Costello , The High Dials, The 1900s along with notable compilations of Elliott Smith, Keith Richards and Weezer ; and special reissues of Weezer 's Pinkerton [...]
The long march towards the holidays continues with reissues, compilations and other releases geared to be fitted with gift-wrap paper. Breaking free of the holiday drudgery are new releases from Matt & Kim, Elvis Costello ( which we touched on earlier in the week ), The High Dials, The 1900s along with notable compilations of Elliott Smith, Keith Richards and Weezer; and special reissues of Weezer's Pinkerton , Paul McCartney's Band on the Run and The Fall's The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall . Playlist: New Releases [...]
On one hand you've got European smokers who, back in the day before tobacco and that other plant were the thing to put in your pipe, puffed on pear leaves. On the other you've got USA Pears suggesting that a pear diet might help to fight cancer . Somewhere in the middle you've got woodwind instruments , furniture , playlists , bands and bands , wine and cheese accompaniment and snacks. What is the best way to use pears? You ask me, shoving them in a pancake is the [...]
Election Day in the U.S. coincides with the release of dozens and dozens of new albums, EPs and singles from bands and artists around the world. This week we recommend newbies from indie favorites like Bear Hands, 1900s, Violens, Matt & Kim, Horse Feathers, The High Dials, plus new releases from bands and artists you've [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Como todos los martes, acá van mp3 y streams de álbumes completos de los lanzamientos de la semana. A partir del próximo martes publicaremos en la noche, solamente porque durante la jornada laboral se nos complica la cosa. Recuerden oír y descargar nuestro mixtape de lo mejor de Octubre . Quedó una machera. Y ya publicamos el MP3|3PM de hoy. También está una machera. Destacados: Matt & [...]
Here are The Wheel's Still In Spin's suggested new releases. Elvis Costello – National Ransom. Download "The Spell That You Cast" (mp3). With 16 tracks, this is not a consistently great album, but some of the songs are standouts. Costello returns with the same producer, T-Bone Burnett, and many of the same musicians that made his last album, a bluegrass record. National Ransom mixes an acoustic jazz feel with some country influence and the sound of earlier Costello classics. It's a diverse album and his best in years. The Hentchmen – The Hentchmen. The Hentchmen are a three-piece garage rock [...]
The High Dials hail from Canada and have a sound that immediately calls to mind the jangly psychedelics and country rock of the late 60s. New album (their fourth) is called Anthems For Doomed Youth and is out on November 8th. It is full of soaring vocal harmonies, orchestral flourishes and rousing choruses and while influences are unashamedly worn on sleeves, there is enough originality and imagination to prove the band are more than capable of setting their own musical path. Check out the exuberant taster Chinese Boxes and singalong. Visit [...]
howdy gang. anyone going to voodoo fest this weekend? i shall be there, either saturday or sunday, we havent decided as of yet. in all honesty, i really dont care, or at least i dont think i care, about many of the bands playing, but i figured it would be an interesting time. montreal's the high dials have a new record coming out, their 4th, on 11.2 and is called, anthems for a doomed youth . as for most of the time, i havent heard the entire thing as of yet, its downloading right [...]
Consequence Of Sound
Listen Before You Buy
Chromewaves
donewaiting.com
Bumpershine.com
The Buddha Den
One Track Mind
Ride The Tempo
A Good Day For Airplay
Some Velvet Blog
Stereo Pills
Chipped Hip
thus spake drake
Write.Click.Cook.Listen
Indie Rock Podcast Stream
Cortesia de la Casa
The Wheel's Still In Spin
Mad Mackerel's Blog
Captain's Dead
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Diplo - "Climax" (MP3 Stream)
Out This Week 2/14
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
