Category: Indie-pop??
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Nineteen Year Old Swedish Sisters!! This is not spam, it’s “Taxi Taxi!”
Okay, lame post title I know – but seriously, how is “19-year old Swedish sisters” not something you get in public email spam filters? Seriously though, the subject of this post are folk diva sister’s from Stockholm, Sweden and they have quirky, tragic, fun, heartbreaking folk pop simply oozing from them. Comparable to Calgary’s own…
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Nothing more delicate than “A Book About Elephants”
So a little gem of a lo-fi EP fell in my lap recently – and you regular readers (I know you are out there) will appreciate a bit of an accented bedroom recording. The band is a solo project of Christina Tsui who is going by “A Book About Elephants” and she has a FREE…
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Some Tuesday listening suggestions: Julie Peel, Boca Chica & Concept: Bravery
The above photo is not me, but just someone who I might just look like after this weekend. I have been a bit remiss in my music blogging the last couple of days on this past labour day weekend – a long weekend without a music blog playlist!?!? What was I thinking, a long weekend…
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A Band We Need More From: Hezekiah Jones
I just want to say that I would like more of Hezekiah Jones. Raphael Cutrufello (and crew) were introduced to myself via the good folks at Yer Bird Records and after 2 solid albums, some compilation work and a nice split with Chris Bathgate (see video below) – but I still need more. Compared to…
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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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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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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…
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Thursday Discovery – Withered Hand
So sometimes a band/artist comes along and you think to yourself, why don’t you already know of them. This happens to me often, mostly as there is soo much good music out there (despite the endless amounts of it lately), and it always keeps me going when I find someone that simply provides some good…
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Calgary Concert Alert – Sunset Rubdown Tonight, July 2nd!
Another show at the Marquee room tonight, this time it is Sunset Rubdown on their new album tour for the June 23rd released album “Dragonslayer”! The new album “Dragonslayer” is still too new to make comment as SR are not a regular listen for me. There definitely is that signature sound and panicked delivery that…
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Summer Song! Slowcoustic gets up, dances awkwardly. People stare, but can’t look away.
Ah! A Trilogy of not so Slowcoustic posts! Who has taken over this blog? Come on, we all need a fun summer song. Well folks, look no further – I AM GIVING YOU GOLD HERE. Thank me later after you have the best summer of your lives due to this song. From the look of…
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Saturday Afternoon with Brent Randall & his Pinecones. We all seem to get along.
So to further my effort for a bit of a “pop” infused Saturday, I bring another pseudo brit-psych-pop group, but this time from Halifax. Come on seriously, it couldn’t be anything other than that with the album cover above, could it? In all honestly I am trying to not be as much as a purveyor…
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Saturday Morning with Papercuts. Not as painful as it sounds.
San Francisco’s Papercuts is sound tracking my start of vacation Saturday Morning. You can’t start all crazy and sometimes it is nice to start with something that you haven’t heard much of. I have been meaning to spin the Papercuts recent album “You Can Have What You Want” for a while now, so why not…