Recovering Bohemian Music Snob. Currently learning to warp young minds with his knowledge of cynical conspiracy theories and the physical world.
1. The Like Young – Last Secrets myspace Ok so I guess I’ll get the bad news out of the way early. Unfortunately, the band that produced my favourite album of the year, the Like Young, have decided to call it quits. Describing this album as having “culminated 15 years of songwriting, recording, touring, and […]
Artists who want to produce concept albums often bite off more than they can chew. Fortunately the latest release by New London Fire doesn’t have this problem. If you enjoy the musical wonderment of Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, and classic U2, or perhaps just like being occasionally reminded of Midnight Oil, then this band might […]
Ok, so when I was in my last year of University at Queen’s I was talking to some people from the southern US on-line who happened to be big fans of a number of indie groups I’d been into for a while like Jets To Brazil, Pedro The Lion and At-The Drive In. In the […]
Apparently I have procrastinated in posting my thoughts on the Virgin Music Festival from this weekend past. Chris has left me with the opportunity to post about the Dears, the Hidden Cameras, and Eagles of Death Metal. Lets get to it shall we? The Dears put on exactly the show one would expect of a […]
German Electronica. Somehow those two words in combination always seem to conjure up images of a classic Simpsons Episode: Hey fun boys, get a room! Somehow (don’t ask me why) my initial impressions of German Electronica were a tad less farcical. Working backward from more recent artists like Depeche Mode, Stereolab, The Chemical Brothers, Boards […]