Who : Holy Fuck from Toronto and Foals from oXXXford.
What : These two bands are currently touring the UK together. Why not cover each other’s songs? Young Turks has put out a limited edition pressing of 500 copies of this split and have been kind enough to provide links to the two songs (wait, zshare […]
Who : Oldfolks Home from Winnipeg.
What : What’s the sweetest sounding song about hating a computer company you’ve ever heard? Might be the one below from Winnipeg’s Oldfolks Home . The artist name for Ricardo Lopez-Aguilar, a producer, sound-engineer and band member of Boats . The song is off his debut We Are The Feeding […]
I like watching bands get better. And from these earlier posts, you can see that I’ve been watching this 5-piece band from Hamilton (with songs about factories) grow into a powerhouse live band with a great album to back it up. Charlemagne became Arkells and Arkells have come into their own. This year the band […]
Who : That’s The Spirit from Ottawa.
What : Spending some time here listening to the debut LP (Staying Places , Antique Room ) from That’s The Spirit , the moniker of Ottawa local multi-instrumentalist Ben Wilson. In his music you might hear something along the lines of Yo La Tengo mixed with Iron and Wine […]
I was sitting here trying to figure out who The Silent Years were. Its took me a while to realize that I had written about the band in November, two years ago. Wow, glad I have that search function on my website…… Why are you looking at me like that? I don’t have the memory […]