WATCH THE VIDEO in this post before you do anything else becuase 1) the track SICKO is awesome and 2) its quite an awesome footage. Rattail hail from Canada and can I just say that it's so refreshing to see a female lead singer on guitars. I like the DIY, shambolicness of it all. Jasmyn's voice is just amazing. It's not everyday that you find bands like this in your inbox so thank you, Unfamiliar Records, again. Totally fallen in love with them. Now watch the fucking video: [Rattail - Sicko] [...]
A gem to sort out this shitty Sunday afternoon. Unfamiliar Records dropped the lowdown on Rituals ' upcoming new EP. (Rituals is not to be confused with Ritualz by the way, people.) I don't know why but the inner hipster in me is connecting with this band. I like the hazy photography, the chillwave-y vocals, how everything is so lo-fi and spaced out that the aural assault you'd expect to hit you straight, instead cushions you, buffering everything out, kinda like a drugged out afternoon, which is kinda like what I'm feeling right now at [...]
I'm glad I caught Little Girls' set at The Great Hall on Thursday night. Josh McIntyre of Little Girls clued me in on a secret show, hosted above a hardware store on Queen Street the following day. A pretty hefty lineup was all set to play for 10 bucks a pop above the store, including Dirty Beaches, Red Mass, Crocodiles, and Makeout Videotape . Free beers from a keg and a whole slew of hipsters. It was like I was in college all over again. Nonetheless, I rolled into the [...]
Dirty, grungy, distorted, overexposed, and even skanky, are all words that feel right when describing Makeout Videotape's turn on the Harry Nilsson classic I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York. The cassette-sounding rendition can be found on the Vancouver lo-fi/garage-rock duo's limited-release EP "Heat Wave!", which appears to be the only release-proper from the band to date; according to the band's MySpace here , the EP can be had as free download after politely emailing front-man Mac DeMarco (mdemarco@gmail.com). Late last year, the band was signed by Canadian independent label Unfamiliar Records and announced a [...]
People mark down March 1, 2010 on your calendar for the release of the long awaited debut full length album by the Vancouver band Brasstronaunt . First time I saw them was on October 10, 2008 . They were brilliantly amazing live. Here is a blurb on about the band and the album: Mt. Chimaera, the debut album of Vancouver band Brasstronaut can be envisioned as the mythological beast of its title. This record skillfully unifies genres as various as pop, electronica, klezmer, and jazz, just as the chimaera is composed [...]
Again, I'm not sure if you can miss an album that was a DIY, limited release (500 EPs), but up until a few weeks ago I had never heard of this young song writing scamp from Vancouver. Considering Mac DeMarco (with drumming support from Alex Calder) - aka Makeout Videotape - had a lengthy tour with herohill favs Japandroids (and signed to the same label), you'd think we would have hipped ourselves to his style many moons ago. It's fitting that as we get closer and closer [...]
On the third day of Pop Montreal. I went to a BBQ/Music day show called East Meats West. It was a collaboration with Kelp Records , Mint Records , Unfamiliar Records and Cokemachineglow.com . Playing there were: Flecton Big Sky Carolyn Mark Hot Panda The Pack A.D. Snailhouse [...]
The key to Post-Nothing appears in the second track, “Young Hearts Spark Fire.” Amidst gently clanging guitar chords and speaker shredding feedback, Brian King and David Prowse don’t so much sing as they do holler, “ I don’t wanna worry about dying / I just wanna worry about sunshine girls. ” And in that line alone, the Vancouver duo Japandroids manage to encapsulate the overbearing feeling of anxiety that descends upon you after high school, when you realize that youth isn’t forever, that all good things come to an end, and that [...]
It only takes around fifteen seconds to identify and digest the new Japandroids release, Post-Nothing , and I'm a little bit ashamed we didn't review this thing more properly when it first surfaced awhile ago. To connect to a more personal realm, Bon Iver is set to release his side project, Volcano Choir, and I already know I won't buy it. I'll leave it to James or Brian to review that record because I already know what it involves. In 2009, the indie music world has toed the line nicely between oddball experimentation and honest-to-goodness neo folk sentimentality. This [...]
the year started with the most promising of the recent lot of noisepopsters, the pains of being pure at heart, putting out their first album. closer to the mid year, we have japandroids reminding us that good ol' noise is here to stay for a while with a first release of their own. if the former debutantes heralded a what may be termed a post-c86 movement, the latter is most aptly post-nothing , with its bubbling stew of garage punk too restless to stand posing and having too much fun to worry about anything else. in "young [...]
I am a little upset that I missed the recent love affair between No Age and Death from Above 1979. Luckily, I have been acquainted with the offspring that emerged fully formed from the aforementioned procreation – Japandroids. A mixture of uncompromising percussion and static vocals from two self-proclaimed "sweethearts still naive enough to think they’ll never sell out" reverberate from the band's favourite place in the world – your sister’s bedroom. When the two-piece band is not in your sister’s bedroom, you can find them in East Vancouver where they formed in 2006 as a creative outlet for post-teenage [...]
The band had me at Japandroids . The Vancouver duo is ... well, a duo, but not just another one of those minimal, loosey-goosey garage duos. Japandroids is Brian King and David Prowse (no, not the guy who played Darth Vader ). In fact, these two rockers were probably born years after Return of the Jedi was released. They formed in 2006 and put out a pair of five-song EPs. Now they're gearing up for the upcoming release of an eight-song LP called Post-Nothing [...]
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The Clips Genre: Indie / Rock From: Canada I'm not sure whether Canadian five piece The Clips are afficienados of early 80s British New Wave and 21st Century Nu Rave but their new single 'Space Kidz' starts off like Department S 1981 [...]
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