
A quick peruse of the recently released Golden Plains Lucky Seven set times tells you one thing: you'll need to be full of beans until well into the wee hours, as some of the highlights come late late on Saturday night. Taking place at the Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre in Victoria, this festival is beaut by virtue of the fact that it all happens on one stage. There are no hellish clashes and no excruciating sacrifices to make. Easy as pie! You can see CAT POWER [...]
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Thanks To Camilo for this great artwork. Looking back at 2012, there were plenty of albums that I loved. Was it the best year of music in recent memory? Maybe not, but it was a damn good year in its own right. There is a lot that we may look back on and remember well into the rest of the decade. This year I listed my Top 40 albums, as well as a few honorable mentions that were as close to making my list as they come. I didn't get to listen [...]
[Playlist] The Best Albums of 2012

Presenting The Best Albums of 2012 #’s 1 -5. The rest: #6 - 10 , #11 - 15 Number 5 Artist: Jessie Ware Album: Devotion Label: Island / Cherrytree Released: August 20, 2012 Peak on UK Charts: 5 Peak on US Charts: N/A Recognition: Sam Wolfson of NME wrote ” Like all the great British pop records [...]

With 2012 drawing to a close, the DJs of WQHS give to you their top ten albums of the year. Check out the entire list after the jump. 10. Cat Power - Sun Four years after Jukebox and six years since her last original material on The Greatest, Chan Marshall returns with Cat Power in her long awaited ninth full-length album Sun . In what seems to be her most costly work yet, Marshall [...]
By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It's been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it's because I've whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year. Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts this year and some of them have been in the neighborhood for years. Check out my top 20 albums of 2012, with my thoughts on the Top 10, and some honorable mentions after No. 1: [...]

Here's the playlist from yesterday's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! Tune in to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM at Noon ET or 12am ET/9pm PST each and every Tuesday! Listen online with a free trial here . Purity Ring - Ungirthed Alt-J - Fitzpleasure Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice Wake Owl - Gold [...]

Been too long. So sorry. Here is what is in the ole headphones these days. Some new, some old...all gold. 1. Portugal. The Man - Share Me With the Sun Download: portugal-the-man-share-with-me -the-sun.mp3 [...]

Norman Wong/Jules Schill It's a real puzzle to me why Toronto's Snowblink aren't huge, and I mean huge in relative Canadian indie terms, not absolute household name terms, I'm not delusional. Their 2011 debut Long Live was an unqualified art-folk jewel , as simple and homespun as it was rich and complex, and not content to simply let the record speak for itself, they also toured it across North America and Europe, supporting not only some A-list Canadian talent but Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on his Spring 2011 solo tour. [...]

Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending August 5 - 11. After two weeks at #1, Stars gets bumped off by Ottawa's The White Wires. This past week the band just dropped their new album WWIII and why not make them this week's #1 spot. I love these two tracks by The White Wires. There is three new debuts. Check it out! This Week Last Week Total [...]

Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending July 29 - August 4. There is no change in this week's #1. Stars is still #1 with that long title song from the upcoming album "The North" on ATO Records . There is a new debut from Crystal Castles. Everyone is going crazy on the new song. Check it out! This Week Last Week Total Weeks Artist [...]

Here is this week's music chart for the week ending July 22 - 28. Well we have a new #1 and it goes to my favorite Canadian act STARS ! This past week they drop another single from the upcoming album "The North" through ATO Records . All I have is that the second single is mouth-full! There is four new debuts. One being the most talked about single which is The xx. Check it out. [...]

Here is this week's chart for the week ending July 15 - 21. There is no change with this week's #1 single. I am still loving the two new Blur tracks. While there are four new debuts from the likes of The White Wires and Frank Ocean. Check it out! This Week Last Week Total Weeks Artist Songs [...]

mp3: Poolside - Slow Down mp3: Misun - My Time mp3: Frank Ocean - Sweet Life mp3: Purity Ring - Fineshrine mp3: Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams mp3: The Raveonettes - Observations mp3: Cat Power - Ruin mp3: Tennis - Petition (Vacationer Remix) mp3: jj - High Summer [...]

Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending July 8 - 14. When I found out that this band decided to release a single on July 2nd. I just had to make it #1 this week. I am talking about Blur's new single which was previewed on Twitter. Hope this won't be the last of the band. There is a new debut from The Raveonettes. Check it out. This Week Last [...]

HAPPY CANADA DAY!! Hope you are enjoying your long weekend? Well here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending July 1 - 7. There is no move with this week's #1 single. Still goes to Ottawa's Silkken Laumann with their dancey track "House Of Common Problems! This being Canada Day Weekend, why not listen to this track and start dancing. There are new debuts from A Place To Bury Strangers and Sic Alps. Check it out. [...]

It's our first mixtape of summer! Accordingly, you should probably just act first and think later and just download it with reckless abandon, as you should do absolutely everything now that it is the season of impulsive behavior. But if you are incapable of such youthful indiscretion without examining the fine print/weighing every possible life consequence, then a) we have a lot in common and b) this mixtape will still please. It opens with Cat Power, so already, pretty good. It also features bona fide summer jams like "Pyramids" by Frank Ocean and "Fineshrine" by Purity Ring, alongside recently released [...]

Stereogum It's our first mixtape of summer! Accordingly, you should probably just act first and think later and just download it with reckless abandon, as you should do absolutely everything now that it is the season of impulsive behavior. But if you are incapable of such youthful indiscretion without examining the fine print/weighing every possible life consequence, then a) we have a lot in common and b) this mixtape will still please. It opens with Cat Power, so already, pretty good. It also features bona fide summer jams [...]