The 32nd annual Genie Awards nominations were announced today. The Genie Awards are the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Awards. I am really happy to see both Beauty Day and Wiebo's War received nominations in the Best Feature Length Documentary category. The awards will be handed out on Thursday, March 8, 2012. Here is the full list of nominations: Best Motion Picture A Dangerous Method – Martin Katz, Marco Mehlitz, Jeremy Thomas Café De Flore – Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Jean-Marc [...]
Jon McLaughlin has released several solo records, independently that is, over the past few years. He is also responsible for songwriting many hits you may know of, some from Beyonce , some from Demi Lovato , and many many other pop artists. Today he released a delicious duet with none other than the most incredible of incredibles, Sara Bareilles . Its perfect love song and they can do no wrong. Does this mean a long one is forthcoming Please say yes. Buy it HERE (iTunes) after listening below. LOVE [...]
Snow be damned; it'll take more than a little frost-slap in the face to derail a hard-earned weekend of booze, beats, and booty. December might play dirty, but Denver can plays harder. So bundle up in a nice whiskey blanket and strap on your dancing boots-this weekend has got a great selection of shows to thaw you out. FRIDAY 12/2 Tonight kicks off Social Distortion's weekend takeover with Suedehead and Chuck Ragan at The Ogden Theatre . It [...]
Destroy Hump Day with these Best Bets. Tonight: Ponyboy, Radkey at Replay Lounge Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers , Jon McLaughlin, Graham Colton at the Bottleneck Benefit show for Bill Larson with Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders, Justa Billy & the Bullhaulers, Middle Creek, Levee Town, Dan Doran at Knuckleheads Flaming Death Trap, Sleep Agents at Record Bar [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Sunset Junction is barely more than three weeks away? Time to plan. Here's how to get tickets , and after the jump, the complete set times (with one "special guest" still to be announced): SATURDAY, AUG. 27 Bates Stage (The Satellite presents) 1 p.m. — Barrio Tiger 2 — Cinderalla Motel 3 — The Stripminers (Brett Anderson of the Donnas and DJ Bonebrake) 4 — Vanaprasta 5 — 400 Blows [...]
Electronic Music is about Discovery. The journey that leads us to realms with novel, foreign, and exciting sounds. The journey that never ceases. You know that you've discovered something truly special and unique when you can't even classify it in a genre or pin down a style. This is the revelation I had when I fell in love with Daft Punk's Discovery. Pure bliss. Pure escapism. And pure, unadulterated thumpers. When I plugged in Controlling Your Allegiance (their second album) and listened to it front to back, this feeling returned. I still don't know exactly how to describe the [...]
I have been married almost a full year now (almost) and yet I'm only half way through the reception portion of my wedding music. In lieu of that, and an impending anniversary, I thought it would be best to dump a lot more on you in one batch instead of doling out four measly tracks at a time. For those just joining these fair proceedings this is the list of songs that I played at my wedding. If you'd like to see all the posts with all of the songs posted so far simply follow the link [...]
★★★☆☆ A field, hangar or wasteland, either baking hot or flinging down rain, the middle of nowhere, thousands of ravers going mental, and the Japanese Popstars. Stadium electro-housers Gary Curran, Declan McLaughlin and Gareth Donoghue follow 2008's We Just Are with stage management done to a tee. The moments the breakdowns drop, the vocal cues... From opening punk funk-ingestion "Let Go," rough and riff-ready to have you singing in the rain, to the cause of epiphanies that is "Building Block" and slow-clap techno of Jon Spencer's "Destroy," the Northern Ireland trio have become the [...]
I saw a really good show last Wednesday at the Echo - Charles Bradley. Old guy can't dance, but he was willing to throw his 63 year old body into the crowd. Such a soulful voice. I also caught Blue Blood at the Satellite on Tuesday. They've only played four shows as a band, but are already impressive. Monday 5/9/11 [Pick of the Night] He's My Brother, She's My Sister / Sister Rogers / Sweaters / The Pleasure Circus @ The [...]
On the infrequent occasion I end up acquiring a new CD these days, the first thing I do is convert the tracks into mp3s. The second thing I do is find a new home for the CD. However, there are a dozen or so physical products that I could never bring myself to part with, one of which is a handwritten CD-R that Scott Hutchison posted to me in 2007 containing rough demos of three songs called The Modern Leper, Head Rolls Off and Old Old Fashioned, all of which ended up being re-recorded for The Midnight Organ [...]
THE JAPANESE POPSTARS SET TO RELEASE ASTRALWERKS DEBUT "CONTROLLING YOUR ALLEGIANCE" ON JUNE 21st 2011 The Japanese Popstars are ravenous. Since they first tasted success in 2006 with their first two releases on a small indie dance label, their career has been one smooth upward curve, but now that line is about to take a sharp rise vertically. Comprised of three lads from Northern Ireland, The Japanese Popstars have spent the last two years racking up the air miles as they've taken their coruscating live show to all four corners of the globe… and still found time to [...]
El trio Irlandés (Gary Curran, Gareth Donoghue, Declan McLaughlin) que empezaron allá por el 2006 en un pequeño sello discográfico para luego pasar al sello Gung Ho! Recordings donde en el 2008 editaron su álbum de debut, gran debut el 'We Just Are' el cual les valió para realizar grandes actuaciones en los míticos festivales veraniegos de UK como Glastonbury y Oxigen y posterior gira por los USA, Europa, Australia y Japón, labrándose una gran reputación y la edición de un nuevo disco que mostraba su excelente directo, el recomendadísimo 'We Just Are: Live', y esto hizo que se fijará [...]
Minus The Bear at Webster Hall (10/30/08) Photo : Jon Klemm Apr 22 2010 Red Bull Thre3 Style Feat The X-Ecutioners (Total Eclipse & Rob Swift) Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 10:00 PM Buy Tickets [...]
It's a matter of record that the British Blues Boom of the sixties - as discrete from British Rhythm'n'Blues, a similar but different beast - was originally created not by former rock'n'roll or Beat musicians but principally by ex-jazz players searching for a new "authentic" music. Its earliest practitioners came to the blues via skiffle, the ersatz rural American folk movement of the mid-fifties; subsequent ones via the brief vogue for revivalist traditional jazz at the turn of the sixties. Furthermore, the Blues Boom began not, as popularly thought, with erstwhile jazzman John Mayall's landmark 1966 album [...]
The Japanese Popstars es un banda originaria de Derry, Irlanda, ciudad más conocida por los coches bomba del IRA que por exportar artistas...hasta ahora. Este grupo electrónico es una muy buena propuesta bailable firmada por el sello Gung-Ho Recordings (el mismo de Gus Gus ) quienes además de ser ganadores de muchos premios (por ejemplo el "Best Live Act" 2008 de los Irish Music Awards ) y otros más desde su formación en el 2006, pueden presumir de tener su propia lína de tenis Nike , los JAPSTARS01 . Y la [...]
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments. A special bumper gig guide covering all Christmas and New Year's Eve gigs of notice. If you know of any other relevant NYE events taking place stick them in the comments. A special mention for State's third annual Midnight Mass with We Are Losers , We Cut Corners , Sleep Thieves plus three special guest bands also [...]
Eminem leads the with 10 nominations at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, it was announced today in Los Angeles. Bruno Mars has seven nominations ; Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and Lady Antebellum each earn six Here is a Full List of Grammy Awards Nominees 2011 Album Of The Year Award Arcade Fire - THE SUBURBS Eminem - RECOVERY Lady Antebellum - NEED YOU NOW Lady Gaga - THE FAME MONSTER Katy Perry - TEENAGE DREAM Best Album Notes Best Album Notes Award Various Artists - ALAN LOMAX IN [...]
PHOTO: Charlie Hunter Trio, Mint, December 2008 by Sung. At the Mint this Friday and Saturday . PICK OF THE WEEK & TICKET GIVEAWAY Charlie Hunter Trio @ The Mint Friday, December 3 ( ENTER TO WIN FREE TICKETS ) Charlie Hunter Trio @ The Mint Saturday, December 4 ( ENTER TO WIN FREE TICKETS ) 'Tis another great [...]
A legend, lots of hip hop and your standard indie rock kind of week... Monday 11/29/10 [Pick of the Night] Roger Waters @ Staples Center ($55 - $250) - Performing The Wall live; I can't even remember the last time I listened to the Wall (probably when I was a Freshman in college) but I'd still like to see this. [Recommended] Dirt Dress / Allah Las / Cum Stain / Oh Darling @ [...]
Accomplished L.A. songsmith rocks soulful original pop Bleu (nee William James McAuley) is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter whose biggest commercial successes have come from album tracks placed with Disney stars Selena Gomez ("I Won't Apologize") and the Jonas Brothers("That's Just the Way We Roll"), singer/One Tree Hill television star Kate Voegele ("Say Anything"), and indie-rock and pop acts Boys Like Girls, Jon McLaughlin and Ace Enders. It's a resume that prepares listeners for the craft he puts into the details of his songs, but not the soulfulness he puts into his own projects. [...]
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