"I ask, 'cause I'm not sure: do anybody make real shit anymore?" It's a conundrum up to which the contemporary recording artist must have to face on a nigh on daily basis and, to surmise, although there may be plenty continuing to make the real shit to which dear Kanye here refers, originality is all but a thing of the past by and large. You know, to state the ineluctable obvious, and whatnot... Though imitation can, and indeed often is the sincerest form of flattery, and this an aphorism Ontario troupe [...]
Is it early?!! It's that time of the year where everyone compiles their best of 2012 list. I do have my best of albums (Canadian and Non-Canadian) but it's still in a work in progress. For now I decided to make my list of the best live shows I've been to in 2012. Since it's 2012, why not make it a Top 12. There will be some of the shows that didn't take place in Ottawa but was simply "WOW!" when I happened to catch that show. So here is my top 12 shows [...]
![Playlist/Interview: Photogmusic LIVE on CHUO FM 89.1FM [October 15, 2012]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4567610_lg.jpg)
Today on the show, I had a special coming in the studio in the first half hour. The second half hour, I mostly played tracks. Liam Titcomb was my special guest on the show. The Toronto musician is currently on tour and is playing a show tonight at the NAC opening up for Colin James. I got him to play two great acoustic songs. Asked him some questions Check it out! Here is what Liam [...]
![Beach House & Poor Moon @ Club Soda [October 14, 2012]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4565572_lg.jpg)
This was a special fun day! A friend asked me if I wanted to see Beach House at Club Soda in Montreal. I was like "hell ya!" and there was no way I am going to miss this opportunity since I love their music. Also a band like Beach House would never come to Ottawa (Probably if they play Bluesfest). The show was totally sold out and filled with hipsters . Opening up the show was Poor [...]
![Playlist: Radio Radio on CHUO FM 89.1FM [September 5, 2012]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4489852_lg.jpg)
Today I was on CHUO FM 89.1FM at 3pm. For now the show will be under Radio Radio. This was my second time going solo. Still needing to fix some kinks. Here are the songs that I played today. Yamantaka // Sonic Tian - Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider by YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN [...]
Sorry for not having the music singles chart last week. It was due to being in Toronto for CMW 2012 . Here is a double bill of the chart. In chart #101, there was no change in the #1 spot but there are debuts of acts that impressed me at CMW. But Cousins spends #1 for the second week. In chart #102, things are changed since the release of the new Japandroids single. I had to make it #1 this week. There are new debuts from Best Coast and Beach House. [...]
Wow! This is #100 on the music singles chart! The #1 single that takes it, goes to Halifax's Cousins with their song Jules. Jules is taken from the upcoming album The Palm At The End Of The Mind . There are two new debuts from Advance Bass (Formerly known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and D'Eon. Check out chart #100! This Week Last Week Total Weeks Artist [...]
Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending March 11 - 17. It is no surprise with the new single by Beach House from the upcoming album " Bloom " out on May 15, 2012. Everyone is all in a tizzy and which is why it is this week's #1 song. There are new debuts from Said The Whale and Lemonade. Next week will be #100 and who will have the 100th #1 song? Check it out. [...]
![[Introducing] – Bad Passion](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3587201_lg.jpg)
Tweet This is 100% true: at university, I was officially designated a Sexy Voiced Person. What this meant was that I got to do the voice-over for the student radio station idents. Since most of you probably never heard those, I hope you'll humour me and imagine, for the rest of the post, that I sound like a cross between Sean Connery and the Old Spice guy. I may not actually sound like that. Okay, with that piece of house-keeping out of the way, [...]
We're nostalgic already. Remember Kanye's album? That was dope. Seriously though, we had a great year and we hope you did too. Here's a little something we put together to put all our love for 2010 in one place. The list was made by averaging Matt, Steve, and Ethan's 25 favorite albums of 2010 (Arnold's opinion, though very highly regarded, was not included because he doesn't like to confine music to lists...or he just didn't make one). Click on the artist to see what we've had to say about them previously, and click the album art on [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Canada Roger Kisby, Getty Images One of the more interesting features of Montreal's Osheaga Festival is its Green Stage which, befitting its name, was built to be eco-friendly and is wind- and solar-powered. While it's a forward-thinking idea, many festivalgoers couldn't help but wonder if issues with that stage were the reason Beach House 's set, which was scheduled to occur thirty minutes after Jamie Lidell's -- also delayed [...]
The year is just over half-way through, and so it seems like a good time to make a of list of some of my favorite music that's come out this year. I've included my favorite albums and songs (not from my 'Top Albums' list), as well as the releases I'm most excited for coming out (probably) this year. Looking back on the first 6 months of 2010, it's been a pretty impressive year. There's been some expected favorites (Titus Andronicus, The National, Broken Social Scene, Tallest Man On Earth) but mostly it's been stuff I didn't know that I would [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , Northern Exposure , Canada Every now and then, a new band comes along that justifies all the blog hype heaped upon them. Guelph, Ontario duo Memoryhouse 's dreamy electro is like falling head over heels in love -- it's easy to become enraptured by composer Evan Abeele and vocalist Denise Nouvion's gorgeously gauzy melodies set to softly washed-out beats. The pair's been lumped in with the "chillwave" scene, but while Memoryhouse's music does put them squarely within the same framework as acts like [...]
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