Well I started off writing the old looking forward, looking back, eating less, drinking less, spending less routine. But then I thought bollocks, why state the obvious when I never do anyway? January comes around with increasing swiftness the older I get, so it's with a wince of mental planning and a little bit of trepidation that I look forward to this year's thrills and spills, musically and otherwise. Because as sure as eggs are eggs, nothing stays the same forever, for better or worse. Happy New Year! Mrs Mackerel Download Ohbijou - [...]
Merry Chistmas! Considering the season, there wasn't much action on the concert front this week. But maybe one of these announcements is a special gift for you: Jason Collett , The Dakota, Dec 27 More Or Les , The Garrison, Dec 27 Ben Veneer w. The Jessica Stuart Few , The Painted Lady, Dec 28 The Fray , Mod Club, Jan 17 Cody Simpson , [...]
Frank Yang The baseline for any Fucked Up show is glorious mayhem. Add in factors like a hometown show, a full-album recital of their ridiculously ambitious and critically-acclaimed, concept rock opera David Comes To Life , the last gig of an insanely busy year in support of said album that took the band around the world from bars to festivals to arenas, a fundraising benefit for Barriere Lake Solidarity , and a lineup made up of some of the band's favourite acts from Toronto (and outlying regions), and expectations [...]
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The OIFF held their second installment of their local filmmaker spotlight series at the Mercury Lounge on December 14, 2011. This time it was The Indefinite Project 's documentary film on the " Ottawa Rock Lottery ". Before the documentary started, there was a live acoustic performance by Amos The Transparent . The band played some new tracks from the upcoming album "Sure As The Weather" (drops on February 2012). Also played some older tracks. [...]
by teepoo This is the official video for Amos the Transparent's Sure As the Weather . Cute concept with paper crafts of the seasons changing full of silly props. I love the band's somewhat expressionless expressions.
![Amos The Transparent, The Darcys & TJPG @ Live Lounge [November 26, 2011]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3891357_lg.jpg)
Went to the Live Lounge on November 26, 2011. Playing at the venue: Amos The Transparent The Darcys Trevor James and the Perfect Gentleman The first band was TJPG. You can say it's been awhile for them [...]
![[Listen/Download] Amos the Transparent- Sure As the Weather](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3837599_lg.jpg)
by teepoo I remember Amos the Transparent back when they were still young playing a 2am set at C'est What a few years ago at NXNE. To be honest, I had not taken a liking to them back then, or remembered them enough to blog about them til now. I have to say I'm quite impressed by how much they have grown and developed since then. I love this track Sure As the Weather which is a teaser of their November 29th release. Time [...]
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Here are photo of bands that played Glebe Streets on September 9, 2011. Playing there were: Full Tipped Sleeve Young Blood The Riot Police Amos The Transparent The rest of the photos are here [...]
![2011 Ottawa Rock Lottery [Commercial]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3391897_lg.jpg)
Check out this funny Youtube teaser for the upcoming Ottawa Rock Lottery on May 21st at Mavericks. A funny performance by Mike Laing who plays drums for The Love Machine . So far bands participating are: Amos the Transparent The Love Machine The Murder Plans Oceans Paramedics Babble [...]
Want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Have some tunes to listen to (They will be up for 24 hours): Beach House - I Do Not Care For The Winter Sun Best Coast and Wavves - Got Something For You Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (2010 Version) Coldplay - Christmas Lights [...]
Not being a parent, and with no intentions of being one, I've not been a connoisseur of children's entertainment of any value. While my friends and colleagues make jokes about Dora and Diego, I just listen in with confusion. The closest I've come to any understanding of this foreign world has been through downloading YouTube clips of Thomas the Tank Engine on my iPad to amuse my nephew, but only the one's narrated by Ringo Starr. So when I got word that Ottawa's Amos The Transparent had taken songs from their first [...]
The second night of the i(heart)music festival happened on August 27th. The turnout was better than the before but still I love the bands that played the night before. (People, you have to check out Parlovr big time!) It felt like Ottawa bands night well minus the one band from Toronto. Sorry for this review being somewhat short being its very late night and editing the photos at the same time. Oceans was up first. They are totally improving alot with their live [...]
List of who is playing at this year's event. Its the last week of summer and either people need some musical fun to end it off. Here is one mini-festival/show that you should check out. Its the i(heart)music festival on August 26-28. Three days of great Canadian bands/musicians playing live under one building. Five years running and could be possibly (or not) the last one for i(heart)music. Here is why you should check out this event. Thursday, August 26th [...]
It was the last day of what is considered the largest music festival in Canada. There were various acts playing the last day at Ottawa Bluesfest . From local favorites to a big name rock band which had people crowding the big stage on a Sunday night. These 12 days at Ottawa Bluesfest 2010 was beyond crazy. The acts that I saw were: Amos the Transparent Trevor Hall Ryan [...]
The Junction recently finished the video for their second single No Road and are about to play some key dates in Toronto before doing another North East US and Eastern Canada run. next up is April 17th @ Lee's Palace performing with Amos the Transparent and The Darcys Check out the facebook event
As far as my favorite songs go, this seems to be the year for the grand epic. I don't know what it is, but the longer progressive numbers were the ones that seemed to have the biggest impact on me, which you'll notice as you start perusing through the following list. On top of that, if you want to get technical, the entire Decemberists album is basically arranged as one lengthy 55 minute song and should actually be my number one song of the year, but that would just be a little too redundant, what with it already [...]
Johnnie Cluney Last post before the holidays! And it comes courtesy of the ever-lovin' Daytrotter , who've managed to wrangle a studio session of soon-to-be holiday classics from the animated miscreants of Aqua Teen Hunger Force . If the idea of Shake, Meatwad and Carl celebrating the season in song doesn't do it for you, well I'm sorry, I don't want to know you. And no, I don't know where Frylock is - maybe he doesn't celebrate Christmas. Or sing. Or both. And for context, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force [...]
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