Do you know about Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies? He describes them as a series of "worthwhile dilemmas" printed on index cards used to prompt creativity in the recording studio. Having a bit of mind block working out that guitar riff? Just go to your deck of Oblique Strategies cards and pull one out. Maybe you'll get "You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas" or perhaps "Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element" and that may help you on your way to musical genius. Perhaps when Coldplay and Eno were in the studio the "Make an [...]
Don't come at me with your geographical proofs and whatnot -- as long as I can believe it's Tuesday somewhere, I won't feel so bad about being late on this, as usual. Golem - Mirror Mirror : MYSPACE The Cloud Hymn - Wide : MYSPACE The Memories Attack - Peaks and Valleys : MYSPACE The Shortwave [...]
The mailbox flooding continues and the past few days I've been busy reading, deleting, downloading, deleting, listening and deleting. As always I have probably listened to 10 songs for every decent one I have found. So to be able to post these 8 songs I have listened to at least? Oh well, you do the math. Have a rather busy day ahead of me, so I'm afraid that the music will have to speak for itself today. + The Memories Attack - Peaks & Valleys + [...]
posted by Matt: The Maynards released a great record at the end of last year called, Date and Destroy , and as I'm halfway through watching this year's Grammy Awards (the cool blogs told me it'd be worth it), I've never been more happy that music like this exists. Scrappy garage rock, shouted vocals...the band gets described as 'fun' a lot, but they're also just really good....WHAT! Stevie Wonder is playing with the Jonas Brothers?! I appreciate that the Grammys want to fuse the new and the old, but that's like [...]
Canadians Chris Thompson (of Eric's Trip) and Ron Bates (of Orange Glass and The Got To Get Got) have released their second full-length under the moniker The Memories Attack. (I'd like to pause for a second and just think about the band's name.) Yes, that was good, but the music's even better. If you can remember their name, there's a good chance you'll remember the name of the album: The
If you're like us, and by that we mean you're constantly seeking out melodies that sound like they were made in the 90's and you just sort of missed them, you'll instantly be caught by the tracks we're about to bestow upon you from The Memories Attack . Comprised of Chris Thompson from Eric's Trip and Ron Bates of Orange Glass and The Got To Get Got, the group create instantly anthemic and catchy indie rock songs that bleed a blood of mid-90's alternative and late-00's throwback-lo-fi sensibilities. The band just released their sophomore record, The Memories [...]
Check out The Raft by The Memories Attack . Doesn't it just make you want to scream along with the chorus? Love those songs that go from a quiet low to such a loud high. This song is from the duo sophomore effort, called LP2. East Coast music scene vets Chris Thompson (of Eric's Trip ) and Ron Bates ( Orange Glass ) have found something nice here. Not something we've never heard before in lo-fi two-pieces, but they do it really, really well. Here's the video.
There are a lot of things to talk about on this Halifax Friday Morning. First, the handy post counter shows that this is our 2004th post. Hot damn. Two thousand posts that range from diatribes about women with holes in the ass of their jeans, personal vendettas against Raps writer Dave Feschuk, Sportsguy Bill Simmons and unfunny yutz Robin Williams, copious amounts of poorly written reviews that are usually about 1000 words too long, golden age rap jams, and more weather metaphors than you can shake a stick at. We've been doing [...]
As the Ack mentioned the other day , we hit the Seahorse Friday night for an evening of musical entertainment provided by Bloodsport, Hospital Grade, The Just Barelys, and The Memories Attack. These are all bands we (or I, I'll speak for the Ack here as he's in Vancouver for the week and likely too busy to even read this) were kind of only "myspace familiar" with (except for Hospital Grade, who I reviewed last week), and so we weren't sure what kind of show we'd get. What we got was one of the better shows we've [...]
Posted by Andrew: You all know how much Matt and I love watching people fall on their asses right? Andrew's Pick I love the debut record from Fields . The british quintet released Everything Last Winter earlier this year, and my love for it has been growing ever since. Every time I listen to it I find new things to appreciate, and as [...]
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