Another video from the Paper Bag Sessions, check out Cuff The Duke perform “Letting Go” from the album Morning Comes.
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I think this is the first time I’ve written about a band from Prince Edward Island on my blog. What took me so long?
Two Hours Traffic began in 2003 when four PEI Chemistry students got together and started writing music. After releasing an intial EP (The April Storm), Joel Plaskett noticed and offered to produce the groups first full-length album. Tons of play on CBC, tv placements in The (late) O.C. and succesful touring with Wintersleep and Cuff The Duke all worked together to bring this band to the top of the Canadian Maritime pop revival. Think alt-country on a third date with power pop.
The new disc is called Little Jabs, comes out next month. Its good, really nice. Check out Stuck For The Summer (video). Realy like New Love on their myspace page as well… (waiting to see if I can get that one up here as well…)
Stop number one. The Australian Party at Brush square. Caught the last song from Decoder Ring. Checked my watch to make sure it was past 12pm, had a beer. And so on.
Stop number two. The Paste party. Great magazine, always a good party every year at SXSW. They had this cheese sauce…. wow. It made you want to dip your hand into the bowl, let it solidify, then go around Austin all day licking your hand. Well, it at least made me want to do that.
Caught a cool band called Midlake on the advice of a great guy named Nelson from Team Clermont. Check out the tracks ‘Roscoe’ and ‘Balloon Maker’ here. They have a Flaming Lips sound and the drummer looks a lot like Elijah Wood.
Also, caught a little bit of a band called Manchester Orchestra. Here is thier myspace page, I really recommend spending some time with ‘Golden Ticket’ and a nice live solo effort of ‘Play It Again Sam’.
Stop number three, the NXNE party at SXSW. If a bomb had gone off, Canada’s music industry would have perished. And Switzerland would become the new Montreal. Strong sets by Pilate, Cuff The Duke and Novillero.
Final Stop. Stubbs. Spent a good couple of hours drinking Lonestar beer and watching some of the bigger bands at the festival. Heard four bars of the Subways, all of Metric‘s set (which was very good), The Magic Numbers, and Snow Patrol (who weren’t actually that lame as some of us thought they would be).
By this point, I had developed a nice blister on my big toe. I named him Johnny.
