Month: July 2009
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Song of the Night – “Canadian Song” by Matt Pond PA
Kind of an slow day on the blog the last couple of days due to host issues and “overworked” servers lending to delays in service. I apologize for anyone who has tried to get here and was put off by the extremely slow loading times. In true Canadian fashion, I apologize to you for something…
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Entranced, but I don’t know why. Okay I do know why – The Singleman Affair
The post title says it all. The track I speak of is “Leaving a Mark”. It is a winding mellow hazy road of a track from the self proclaimed “psychedelic” Chicago resident that might also be known as Dan Schneider. Schneider’s “The Singleman Affair” has a new album called “Let’s Kill the Summer” – which…
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Doing the Hometown Proud – The Wailin’ Jennys
So I am not one to shy away from my “roots” (no pun intended). So it is time to represent with some old school tunes (that aren’t actually that old) – but the tracks are from one of my “hometown” bands, the Wailin’ Jennys. I am a previous resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (I’m a…
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Get Your Pre-Order on: Lightning Dust’s “Infinite Light”
Recommendations, recommendations. Bloggers have many. Most are pretty decent recommendations and for the most part we (hopefully) know what we are talking about. As I often talk out of my ass, take what I say with a grain of salt – I obsess on bands or albums or songs, so when I am listening –…
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Manchester Orchestra – MySpace Transmissions EP available for download!
Manchester Orchestra “Everything To Nothing” from MySpace Transmissions Catch the whole thing over at MySpace Transmissions for the videos, interviews and free 5 track EP. Admittedly I like “Right Away, Great Captain” (the solo more mellow version of Andy Hull) a bit more, but Manchester Orchestra have some chops and I always like Hull’s delivery.…
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New on the ‘Nets this week
~image stolen from here. It has been a while since I did a blog round up, so it is more than needed. There are soo many great blogs out there, so much great music, that I cannot keep up with it, so thank goodness for my blogroll peeps! Lets see what they have been discussing…
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Who said “Alt-Country” was dead? Song of the Day – “My Girl Baltimore” by Paul Masson
Sometimes I get in a mood. My mood is currently set clearly in the land of late night dusk across the plains of Maryland. Wait? Maryland? Yes, Maryland. Paul Masson delivered to myself (just yesterday) a fine example of why I could have been born in Texas in the 50’s. Great country (or Alt-Country for…
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Best New Music – Meursault’s “Nothing Broke” EP
So best new music. It is actually one of my categories and surprisingly gets selected on a pretty decent schedule. This is because I tend to cover music that I like (go figure). That being said, listen up people, BEST new music! Meursault comes to me from Song, By Toad blog owner/operator Matthew Young. In…
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Homage to J. Tillman (or maybe not)
Found the below video over on Vimeo while looking for a nice J. Tillman video to post (as the one I want to post is not offered for embedding – see below link) and was a bit struck by the video. It is directed by Tyler T. Williams and is called “seventwentysix” as in the…
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New Favourite – Sea of Bees
So after my Ladies Night post on the weekend, I am really getting into Sea of Bees. I mean getting enthralled with Sea of Bees is more accurate – I can’t stop listening. This one is going to be big for me I think. She (Julie Bees) is but 24 years of age and has…
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Akron/Family – another reason to go to the Calgary Folk Fest
So Akron Family are on tour. They are on tour and stopping at the Calgary Folk Fest for a couple of shows. I know I am thinking of hitting up the Twilight stage on Saturday to see about the show (it lists them last, so I assume a 8:00pm start??). Regardless, I have been listening…
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Ladies Night – Volume Four
Here we are with another episode of ‘Ladies Night”, and this looks like volume four…so you know we have worked the kinks out, right?? With such posts it is difficult to segue into the post as such, being a man I often sit back, mouth agape at the intricacies of women. I did dig into…