CMW recap, Thursday night

Last night was a good night for shows. Started at CBC’s Glenn Gould Theatre for Emma-Lee‘s opening spot for The Trews. Perfect room for her. Smooth, sweet and witty, she dazzled the crowd with songs off ‘Never Just A Dream‘. The highlight for me was her great cover of Corey Hart’s Sunglasses at Night. Dekel […]

Elephant Shell (remixed)

Been listening to the remixes of Tokyo Police Club‘s new record Elephant Shell in the last couple of days. Its definitely grown my interest in this band. On the 5 song 7″ there are remixes by artists like Dntel, Flowers Forever, and The Good Life. The best one is Field Music‘s verison of Tessellate, head […]

School of Language

I got an e-mail from Season recently, telling me about a band she knew I would like. School Of Language, particularly the song ‘Keep Your Water‘. I think she knows me pretty well. You might recognize the voice in School Of Language, its David Brewis, or 1/3 of the UK’s Field Music. A band definitely […]

SXSW ’07, Day 4: Saturday

Finally, I’m getting around to this… I bet becuase I’ve waited two weeks since these events actually happened, the recollection will be a little off. Instead of trying to do a play-by-play for the day, I’m just going to mention what I remember in no particular order. Apollo Sunshine. Managed to see this band twice […]

SXSW ’07, Day 2: Thursday

Possibly my least productive day bandwise. I saw only 8 of them….. And I still can’t remember what I was doing between noon and 2pm. Everything else has come back to me. SXSW has always been about meeting people. I met Sue while on the plane from Denver to Austin last monday. We talked for […]