Big day for music news. –Exclaim! says the Arcade Fire are planning to release their as-yet-untitled third album in May, with a single before that with tourdates in the spring. The new record will also be produced by Coldplay‘s producer Markus Dravs. –Phoenix are on la Blogotheque. Versions of ‘1901’ and ‘Litszomania’ are there, filmed […]
I’m just going to point you towards a great blog with a great post on a great band from Queensland called The Middle East. IGIF has two tracks from the band including ‘Blood‘, which is my idea of what they Great Lake Swimmers would sound like if through the song they kept inviting members of […]
I’m going to be playing with this all day. Much like the Arcade Fire video for Black Mirror, the viewer is actually able to manipulate both video AND audio. The video, directed by Tool of North America’s Sam Jones, (Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”), features four distinctly different versions of the song […]
Ever been to one of those house parties where there’s a band crammed in the corner surrounded by people going nuts? Me neither. Most house parties I’ve been to didn’t include a band. I did however put on 4 bands at a houseparty, but there wasn’t room for dancing and the music didn’t fit. These […]
The first time I ever heard it was back in the early two thousands when I started working for Toronto indie label Aporia Records. They had previously licensed a record called ‘The Stars Of Saint Andrea‘ by a LA band called The Devics. I’m really not sure how well it did up here in Canada, […]