This week my show featured yet another fill in host. Next week I will return to my hosting duties. Tune in next week (or visit this blog) because I will also play new music from The True Lovers, Sloan and more. In the meantime, here is an interesting video featuring the UK band The Horrors. Courtesy of amoeba.com, the band discusses some of thier favourite records. More information on The Horrors can be found in my Primary Colors post. [...]
Wale - "90210" A backwards A's cap, on a kitten, who's licking a baby mouse, who's sitting on a handwritten letter, written on ESL stationery, soaked in butter, on a plate of dainty grandmother china, all on top of a burger, which is on the hood of a cooper mini, which is being carried by a cruise ship, across a mirror-still ocean, leaving a pink wake of perfume and 100-calorie Caramilk Thins, all in a snowglobe, which sits dusty on a dresser, next to a framed production still from Scarface, a Taz-playing-darts statue, a copy of Tribute [...]
Just a meandering, pointless, chatty post, this one, bringing up some bits of news and so one and so forth. Did everyone know that eagleowl have a new73 single coming out in December? They're having a launch party at the Bowery on Friday 11th December which we in Edinburgh should make sure we give the most fantastic send-off you can imagine. Bring the Bowerettes flowers and postcards and letters and drawings and photos and anything you can think of to show them how much the place meant to you. We should bloody well do [...]
Wale - "90210" A backwards A's cap, on a kitten, who's licking a baby mouse, who's sitting on a handwritten letter, written on ESL stationery, soaked in butter, on a plate of dainty grandmother china, all on top of a burger, which is on the hood of a cooper mini, which is being carried by a cruise ship, across a mirror-still ocean, leaving a pink wake of perfume and 100-calorie Caramilk Thins, all in a snowglobe, which sits dusty on a dresser, next to a framed production still from Scarface, a Taz-playing-darts statue, a copy of Tribute magazine, [...]
Billie Carlton A young pretty actress called Billie Carlton had a starring role on stage at the huge Victory Ball held at the Albert Hall on 28th November 1918. Tatler had a few months previously described one of her appearances on a London stage, saying that she had: 'cleverness, temperament and charm. Not enough of the first, and perhaps too much of the latter.' While one newspaper described her appearance at the ball: It seemed that every man there wished to dance with her. Her costume was extraordinary and daring [...]
Over the last month there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the cuts to Arts and Culture programs in BC. Attempts by reporters from Vancouver's Georgia Straight to interview the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Arts Kevin Krueger have been declined, and the Minister has avoided responding directly to questions during a Question Period at the Legislative Assembly of BC. This lack of respect and integrity regarding the issue and how it affects the people behind the scenes is very disheartening. Many arts and culture programs throughout BC were promised funding, only to later receive [...]
Civil Twilight Genre: Rock / Alternative / Pop From: Cape Town, South Africa South African balladeers Civil Twilight are surely about to go global on the back of their track 'Letters From The Sky' sound tracking the most moving, emotional and romantic scene on television in 2009, or ever, the death of Chloe on Harpers Island. Anyone who claims not to be moved has got a stone where their heart should be. If you haven't seen it yet then you can catch it in the [...]
"...Of all the stupid things I could have thought / This was the worst / I started to believe / That I was born at seventeen / And all the stupid things / The letters and the broken verse / Stayed hidden at the bottom of the drawer / They'd always been / And now I plough through piles / Of bills, receipts and credit cards / And tickets and the Daily News / And sometimes I just . . .Wanna go back to my home town / Though I know it'll never be the same / Back to [...]
Let's keep this going, eh? Another guest writer!!! Our 6th in a series of guest writers from our beloved communities found in Our Society , on the Facebooks , and in the Twitter . Man, I'm one lucky bastard. What about you? Got an album you are just dying to talk about, a show you saw, a mixtape you've been aching to share? Come on in, hang out with us, [...]
Every season seems to have a mood set by the changing scenery. Fall is especially pronounced: Time to pull out the sweaters, drink more tea, enjoy the pumpkin sightings, and watch the trees change colors. As the air cools, the days grow shorter, and our hands grow colder, so too do we adjust our accompanying album shuffle. We switch from indie pop to folk, from glam rock to instrumental ambient. Indie Shuffle contributors have compiled their favorite albums for autumn. So what did we pick? Below are our favorite fall-time albums, with our favorite song from [...]
Every season seems to have a mood set by the changing scenery. Fall is especially pronounced: Time to pull out the sweaters, drink more tea, enjoy the pumpkin sightings, and watch the trees change colors. As the air cools, the days grow shorter, and our hands grow colder, so too do we adjust our accompanying album shuffle. We switch from indie pop to folk, from glam rock to instrumental ambient. Indie Shuffle contributors have compiled their favorite albums for autumn. So what did we pick? Below are our favorite fall-time albums, with our favorite song from [...]
Junius - Letters From Saint Angelica Helgi Hrafn Jonsson - Ashes Away Helgi Hrafn Jonsson - Dry Run Firekites - Same Suburb, Different Park Firekites - Mirror Miracle Collapse Under The Empire - Crawling Nihiling - The World Ends With Me Hermelin - I Felt Xetrov Nihiling - Moth Gate Catherine Wheel - Broken Head Adorable - A To Fade In Music For Your Heart - Embrace The Change Her Name is Calla - Nylon Her Name is Calla - Motherfucker! It's Alive and It's Burning! [...]
Today, I'm going to tell you about an exceptional new talent in Scotland's music scene. It struck me that this is something I don't do particularly often - not because I don't want to but because I'm not able to. To put it bluntly, there is very little spread-the-word music being made in this country at the moment by up-and-coming artists. Despite checking out every single band recommendation, MySpace link and email tip-off that comes my way, I'd estimate that I find no more than one good new Scottish act a month, which explains why you are more [...]
This is not the week for musical auteurists who sit in solemn anticipation, salivating over the idea of a new album that proves the continuing genius of their most beloved artistes , though there are in fact a couple of those included here. Instead, this week's picks are dominated by compilations that anthologize either a label or an era (or both) and an EP that's packed with as many arresting remixes as new tunes. From hardcore to hip-hop, retro-minded troubadours to trenchant indie-poppers, you've got a lot to look forward to (and look fondly back at) this [...]
You find great comfort in the music of Richard Hawley . The lush arrangements; the sad and unapologetically soul-baring words; and the blanket of warmth that is the Sheffield crooner's enriched velvet vocal tones - tones, which seem to soothe the soul. Hawley's perennial subjects may be of the bleakness of love and loss, but you can't help but be drawn in by of the promises of rich romance. So remains the case on his sixth album where little has changed but hope. Like his previous three outings Sheffield again provides an album title and a rich [...]
TOP ALBUM RELEASES: AUGUST 2009 NICK'S TOP YACHT: See Mystery Lights Nurses: Apple's Acre Yim Yames: Tribute To EP Jay Reatard: Watch Me Fall Modest Mouse: No One's First and You're Next EP [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of inexpensive indie(ish) musical happenings in downtown Toronto, all for $10 or less. If I'm missing something you think I should list, or you have any comments, let me know. I star (*) shows that most interest me. Like this list? Join my Facebook group to get my weekly Toronto indie music listings. Subscribe to my weekly podcast (or download the episodes) here , or through iTunes . Or just listen to the latest [...]
Day 2: Almost getting smashed in the face and then eating the best Indian food ever Words & Photography by Jenn Hernandez The good weather continued for giddy Outside Lands second day concert-goers eager to soak in as much sun as possible while also getting their fest on. As we listened to a smooth Raphael Saadiq croon from the main stage - who started out dressed in a three-piece suit to later strip down to a rolled-up collared shirt - it was [...]
The artwork for rap artist Ghostface's forthcoming album, The Wizard of Poetry , takes as its inspiration L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fable, The Wizard of Oz , in which a young American girl, displaced from her rural home, must travel to the Emerald City to obtain assistance from a kind-hearted wizard. The girl acquires a small band of companions, whom she helps to overcome various personal failings while traveling to the city. However, at journey's end, Dorothy comes to understand the [...]
Why are you so special? Maybe because we are letting you in on these 10 million dollar secrets about The Millionaires. Find out the top 10 things people don't know about The Millionaires. 1. All of us have been Ballet/Tap/Jazz dancers and competed professionally in dance since the age of 3 all the way until we graduated from high school. 2. Melissa Marie is in her third year at CSULB as a Mathematics Major [...]
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