The Constantines @ Lee's Palace: photo by Michael Ligon review to come. Photos: The Constantines, Attack In Black, John K. Samson @ Lee's Palace, Toronto (December 11, 2009) MySpace: The Weakerthans MySpace: Attack In Black MySpace: The Constantines
Chris Eaton puts music on hold to share a tale of doppelgangers.
Hello friends. It has been a while, eh? Did you think I forgot about you? Honestly, I sort of did. I had posts more or less prepared and then...nothing. What does it take to bring me out of hibernation after 2 months? The rawk of the Constantines , that's what. The band is celebrating its 10th anniversary by going on a 10 date tour of Ontario with some of their friends. They kick it all off in Ottawa on Tuesday and then, on Wednesday, they are going to blow the doors off the Grad Club in Kingston. [...]
haben nada surf 2009 ein album heraus gebracht? nein. die weakerthans? nein. die shins? nope. death cab for cutie? auch nicht. immerhin hat death cab for cutie-gitarrist chris walla als produzent an einem album mitgearbeitet, dass über die nicht erschienenen alben der erwähnten bands hinweg tröstet, dem debütalbum von telekinesis! telekinesis! ist die band des songwriters michael benjamin lerner. auf der deutschlandtour mit den thermals und den rosebuds sah man den schmächtigen musiker mit der nerdigen brille und den strubbeligen haaren noch singend hinter seinem schlagzeug sitzen. auf dem album [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Canada Most of us have one or two really talented friends. Y'know, those_thumbnail.gifted, smart and charming folks who make you feel like an untalented rube. But what do you do if all of your friends are of that blessed ilk? If you're Jason Collett , you host an annual holiday spectacular. Jason Collett's third annual Basement Revue Series take place Tuesdays in December at Toronto's urban cowboy-themed Dakota Tavern. The multi-disciplinary variety show brings together some of Canada's most [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Plenty of bands have taken their names from film titles, but it takes a special kind of movie nerd to rock a reference to some obscure character or snag a favorite line of dialogue for their moniker. Here are 20 bands that probably still pay to see movies in the theater. Duran Duran Here's a shocker: The stylish, oversexed British New Wave superstars borrowed their name from an "erotic science [...]
Today on the Dose we bring you a unlikely collaboration of Canadian artists of three differing genres, and a beautiful song they quickly put together in one day. Every Wednesday for 16 weeks, 3 musicians showed up at MCM Studios in Winnipeg. They didn't know who else would be arriving. They only knew that over the course of one evening they would have to get to know each other, write, record and mix one song. And that song would be made available for download the following morning. It was a risky proposition – putting musicians on [...]
Yes, I'm dragging my boyfriend to a cat show tomorrow. In honor of that I'm posting my favorite song about cats EVER. Plea From a Cat Named Virtute - The WeakerthansAnd speaking of the Weakerthans, John K. Samson just released a three-song solo record City Route 85 for Anti. We quite like it as well!Also the above cat is my gal Mudpie. She needs a LOL caption, don'tcha think?
After spending several hours and TTC rides with my iPod revisiting literally hundreds of albums spawned from the decade that began at the turn of the century, I managed to whittle down a pretty extensive list to a mere 50 choices. These are not the best albums of the decade, these are simply the ones that have spent the most time in my headphones. And I rambled enough about that here , so let's just get on with the list: 50. Gold - Ryan Adams (2001) [...]
Nov 16, 2009, 1:30am
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Sie existieren angeblich immer noch. Die Jungs, die mit Gitarren in den Klauen, Bier im Blut, ewig gebrochenem Herz und einer feinen Feder auf so simple Weise so gute Musik machen, dass es schon fast ein bisschen schmerzt. Sich von deren Existenz zu vergewissern ist an diesem grauen Novembertag nur auf eine Weise möglich: sich [...]
Nov 16, 2009, 1:29am »78s
Sie existieren angeblich immer noch. Die Jungs, die mit Gitarren in den Klauen, Bier im Blut, ewig gebrochenem Herz und einer feinen Feder auf so simple Weise so gute Musik machen, dass es schon fast ein bisschen schmerzt. Sich von deren Existenz zu vergewissern ist an diesem grauen Novembertag nur auf eine Weise möglich: sich [...]
MP3: The Weakerthans - One Great City! #15 - The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site Epitaph Records 2003 Matt On Reconstruction Site: Personally, I find this record to be criminally underrated in large circles. The Weakerthans finally found their home in slightly slicker production values to finally put the focus on John K. Samson's lyrics and give the music the light it had always deserved.
Hooray! Its the weekend and we have some great music in store for you just as we have in our previous FIVE 'Mix For the Weekend"s (although we think this is our BEST yet!). Half ... Related posts: Longwave's Steve Schiltz To Release "Tonight Is The Ghost" Mix For The Weekend IV Mix For The Weekend V
John K. Samson (of The Weakerthans) at The Music Hall of Williamsburg (09/18/09) Photo : Matt Fricovsky ( more ) DOWNLOAD : "Cruise Night" - John K. Samson (mp3) When a band takes 4 years between albums, a three song EP from the primary songwriter still counts as an "event" in my books. As is usually the case, John K. Samson takes on his (and my) hometown as the subject of his new short player, City Route [...]
Canadian folk/punk band The Weakerthans can thank their existence to leader John K. Samson, who decided to leave those precocious veganarchists, aka Propagandhi, to make more melodic music. Now Samson is spreading his wings in an even more poetic direction with his soon-to-be-released solo EP entitled City Route 85 . This marks a return to solo work for Samson, whose last such effort was 1995's Little Pictures . The plan is that City Route 85 will be the first in a series of probably three EPs that are inspired [...]
This is the fourth stop (out of ten) on the Albums Of The Decade Blog Tour that features a ton of great music bloggers listing their favorites from the years 2000-2009. Yesterday's list featured ten albums from Built On A Weak Spot and tomorrow's will be provided by Clicky Clicky Music . For the complete schedule or any of the other lists, go check out Albums Of The Decade Blog Tour . I'm not sure how anyone is realistically supposed to accurately and/or adequately represent their favorite albums of a [...]
As we inundate you with new material, album reviews, concert information and the like, we rarely ever get the chance to show you what's been hot on our playlists lately. You hear a track during the picks of the week for our radio show but that doesn't exactly suffice, in my opinion. So I'll try to come up with more playlists, throughout our usual posting, of music I am liking, have liked, and am just plain listening to. Besides, everyone loves a good (yep, I can't go wrong) mix. Florence + The Machine - "Cosmic Love" [...]
Tonight's song comes to us from the Winnipeg, Manitoba indie/folk-rock band The Weakerthans . Civil Twilight can be found on the band's fourth full-length album Reunion Tour , released in September of 2007. The album was among an impressive group of short-listed releases for the 2008 Polaris Prize , which would ultimately be awarded to Caribou 's Andorra. Though my love of The Weakerthans tends to ebb and flow, I've always felt a strong familiarity with the band's lyrics. Civil Twilight is no different, as it delves into the disgusting experience of not being [...]
Video: The Weakerthans "Sun In An Empty Room"
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