Phil Aubin in Thom Browne meets Kraut-Rock Mode A long time in the making, check out Hovatron's mix for Discobelle , inspired re-workings of Rihanna , Cassie , Janet Jackson and Jeremih .
The Shangri-La's I Can Never Go Home Anymore Sandie Shaw Your Time Is Gonna Come The Shirelles Please Go Away Shirley & Company Shame Shame Shame We'll start with another great George "Shadow" Morton penned girl group song, from the master of teenage melancholy, this one all about loving your mother. [...]
Lookin' Like The Pretenders Hey readers, here's your chance to win two tickets to see British trio Band of Skulls on April 30th at Studio JPR here in Montreal, QC. As these guys were on the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack, you know this is one of the hottest tween tickets in town, a phenomenon in their world second only to that of Justin Bieber . To win these tickets, all you have to do is tell [...]
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Aretha Franklin Jump To It Delorean Monsoon Delorean Warmer Places Up until recently, the calculated upbeat dance-floor pop of Delorean didn't have a lot to recommend itself to me: 2006's Into The Plateau album presented the Spanish group as a tepid VHS or Beta (imagine that), diluting an already weak post-punk brew with an obnoxious singing style and unfocused guitar-playing, [...]
Modern English Face of Wood Modern English Someone's Calling Psychedelic Furs Heaven Grizzly Bear Two Weeks ( Fred Falke Extended Remix) Annie Anthonio ( Fred Falke Remix) Goldfrapp Rocket Bear with me today - I'm going [...]
Jesus & Mary Chain Sometimes Always I went to bed at some ungodly hour last night * - I think it was 4AM - and before that, my ladyfriend commented that this was pretty much "high school life." Thinking back to my high school years, I developed incredibly fucked up sleep patterns that have plagued me since then. I'd stay up all night, reading or listening to music, and halfheartedly try to get up on time, but usually end up being at least [...]
Malcolm McLaren passed away, the first true casualty of hipster asbestos poisoning - a that was primarily confined to the working class. Incidents of hipster asbestos poisoning will surely rise in the years to come, as the years pass and the time spent in squalid squats and basement punk rock venues comes to significantly impact the respiratory health of the slumming classes. I was over at Mark Slutsky's place last night for a good friend's birthday party, and after one of the inevitable death of print conversations, he mentioned in passing that some of the most profitable [...]
Elephant Stone - I Am Blind It's always great to see a bunch of smiling and familiar faces, impeccably shot, and it's even better if those faces are set to the music of a local band comprised of nice guys that you like. So, that's why the video above, directed by Patrick Andrew Boivin and Richmond Lam , for Elephant Stone is such a treat. Richmond Lam is the tremendously talented master [...]
Ken Nordine You're Getting Better
Pop Winds Feel It Pop Winds Little Sister The only Easter candy I received this year around was an e-mail from Devon Welsh featuring two new songs from his group Pop Winds ' new album The Turquoise . I posted their song In Harmony in mid-February and grouped them in with a number of (what I saw [...]
Ros Sereysothea - Cry Loving Me Chen Jie & Golden Melody Band - Spring Wind Kisses My Face Could it be? Could the dark, deep, and depressing winter be finally over? Could great happiness, peace, prosperity and sunshine be within our grasp? I remember when I was first introduced to the Cambodian Rocks compilation by JR at Ditch Records , Victoria's best (and probably now only) record [...]
Montreal's Socalled has his very own documentary featuring a lotta familiar faces and some surprises screening at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto at the beginning of May. Check out the trailer above and keep your eyes on the Hot Docs site to get tickets.
The Style Council My Ever Changing Moods (Single Version) The Style Council My Ever Changing Moods (Cafe Bleu Version) Mike Chui 's a swell guy and a great photographer, but, outside of some extended Facebook wall posts of Youtube videos, the guy doesn't get out much on the internet. He hasn't updated his blog in almost 9 months, but if you go there , you can check out some of [...]
Blue Phantom Equilibrium Nomag is a bilingual online music & culture site (without issues) run by Evelyne Côté (a former music editor at ICI and culture editor at Nightlife ) and Félix Dyotte of Chinatown . I contributed a review of Beach House 's performance last night in Montreal, which you can read online here .
Trans Am Play In The Summer
Will Powers Adventures in Success I was reading something on the Holy Ghost blog that mentioned Peter Gordon 's Love of Life Orchestra the other day , which reminded me of photographer Lynn Goldsmith's Will Powers project in the early 80's. I mentally place this whole project on the same shelf as monologist Spalding Grey , certain projects David Byrne was involved with, Laurie Anderson and other downtown New York video [...]
Dillard & Clark Out on the Side The Left Banke Foggy Waterfall I like the Band , I like the Byrds , I like Blue Rodeo , and if I'm hungover, I even like the Eagles , but really, there's not much of the nudie-suit cactus rock genre I can take. You take a step in one direction, it's Gram Parsons (okay); you take another step, and all of [...]
Evie Sands Any Way That You Want Me H.P. Lovecraft Any Way That You Want Me The Liverpool Five Anyway That You Want Me Spiritualized Any Way That You Want Me From Evie Sands ' original to a mannered, [...]
Goldkicks
No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Princesse - Tell Me | MP3
Beck - 'I Just Started Hating Some People Today' [Listen]
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
New Remix: Jonquil - Run (RxGibbs Remix)
