Pablo Picasso eut un jour cette réflexion restée légendaire : "Les artistes copient, les génies pillent". Si la boutade est aussi délicieuse que pertinente, elle n'en demeure pas moins incomplète, oubliant dans son constat malicieux une 3ème engeance nettement moins admirable, celle des médiocres qui plagient sans talent. On l'a déjà mentionné : Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton ont sorti l'an dernier un très bel album, le délicat Knives Don't Have Your Back. Nous n'avions pas parlé par contre du joli clip qui (...)
Like I said, this blog has hit 10,000 visits since its launch in mid-October. So, to thank all of you who have visited and continue to visit this blog, I wanted to do something special. So I've put together a list of some of my favorite indie pop songs, their correlating videos as well as mp3's and put them into what I'm calling the 'You Pop' compilation. So here we go! Loney, Dear - I Am John [...]
Photo from emilyhaines.com You may recall that Knives Don't Have Your Back by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton was my Favorite Album of 2006 (read previous ). Their North American tour begins tomorrow night (1/4) in Montreal; I'll be catching her/them this Sunday at the First Unitarian Church Sanctuary (not the basement) in Philly. It seems like I've been waiting for forever for this show... being that I'm such an Emily Haines fanboy, I'm anticipating it to be one of my favorite shows of [...]
Metric lead-singer and Broken Social Scene contributor Emily Haines leads yet another band, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, and for their "Doctor Blind" video the group enlists Jaron Albertin to create a haunting piece reflecting the songs frighteningly real themes. VIDEO: "Doctor Blind" directed by Jaron Albertin "the lonesome lows don't quite go away overnight" The click of heels against the cold sterile floor can be heard [...]