Do you know how to listen? Not to a song, but to another person? I know I've broached this subject before , although mainly in a humorous way. But lately I've been feeling like I'm not really being heard and it's bothering me. First and foremost, when someone is telling you something, it is not, I repeat, NOT purely an opportunity for you to say, "Oh, me too--this is what happened to me, how I felt, what my child did (fill in the blank)." One of the most [...]
Feb 24, 2009, 1:27pm
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Frank Yang If there's an advantage to writing about the same band for the third time in the span of a month, it's that rather than try and lay down some background, I can just point you here and here and voila - you're up to speed. If there's a disadvantage, it's completely running out of things to say. But I'll soldier on. Sunday night was the long-awaited album release party for Bruce Peninsula's debut A Mountain Is A Mouth and there [...]
Frank Yang If there's an advantage to writing about the same band for the third time in the span of a month, it's that rather than try and lay down some background, I can just point you here and here and voila - you're up to speed. If there's a disadvantage, it's completely running out of things to say. But I'll soldier on. Sunday night was the long-awaited album release party for Bruce Peninsula's debut A Mountain Is A Mouth and there [...]
Here we are folks: I've finally gotten off my festively-enlarged ass (seriously, between Mom's holiday treats and Dad's beer I gained about 8 pounds) and finished my top albums of 2008. As per usual, these are all Canadian releases, as that's where the ground is closest to my ears. Here they are roughly arranged in descending order (very roughly): The Olympic Symphonium - More in Sorrow Than in Anger (Forward Music Group) I was a huge supporter of The Olympic Symphonium 's 2007 debut, [...]
It's Christmas Eve and the festive-booze is about to start flowing. The next few days are likely to be packed, so I thought I'd better get the second part of my favourite Canadian songs of 2008 done before the holiday fun starts. If you missed part 1, here it is . Otherwise, on to the second half. Once again, these songs are arranged in a mixtape order that I found pleasing ( download the whole thing in a zip file here ): Human Highway - The Sound ( Moody Motorcycle [...]
A lot of the things I said about Matthew Barber's record hold true for the latest effort by The Violet Archers . I'm not trying to say they sound the same, because sonically they aren't even close, but both understand how important the little things are when it comes to making a song complete. With Barber, it's a result of a methodical approach to song writing, but for Tim Vesely and the rest of The Violet Archers it seems to be more the benefits of experience. If you look at Insecure , [...]
The title track from the brand new sophomore album by Tim Vesely 's Violet Archers , "Sunshine At Night" is an excellent indication that the former Rheostatics songwriter is still on top of his game. As a song it's melodic and lush with an unassuming drive, but as the figurehead for an album it's irrefutable evidence as to why Sunshine At Night is currently a mainstay in my headphones. The Violet Archers - Sunshine At Night Hear more [...]
Here's the skinny. Some bands just deserve your attention. No questions (jackets) or back story required. But some deserve your attention and have a compelling back story to boot. Enter The Violet Archers . The Violet Archers is the new project of Rheostatic Tim Vesely . Almost every Canadian music fan has some tie in to the Rheostatics, but getting to hear Tim in a new form is pretty great. It doesn't hurt his band is full of talented musicians from outstanding bands ( Great Aunt Ida, Sarah Harmer, Raising the Fawn ), but the first [...]
Well anyone who knows me knows that the Rheostatics are my favorite band of all time. Unfortunately for us fans the future of the band is uncertain. To be honest a friend tipped me off a few weeks ago that there was trouble in the band but I kept it to myself. However this week, first on the Rheostatics email list Fish Mailin' and then today in an article in the Halifax Chronicle Herald more details came out. On the email list [...]
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