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Currently Listening To: Kashka

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Kashka is the moniker for Forest City Lovers’ Kat Burns and her friends and collaborators.  She started writing these songs in 2009 with the help of James Bunton (Ohbijou, Light Fires), where the two would collaborate over long distances (Bunton on tour with Ohbijou, composing beats in the van and Burns sequestered away on Toronto Island for a composition residency).  The winter of 2011/2012 had Kat assembling what was to be her full length debut in Vichada; a recording process that pushed Kat to think outside her normal songwriting process and channel this new voice.

Look for the record out July 17th, recommended for fans of School of Seven Bells.  Here’s “This Machine”.

CMW, Where I’m At

photo by Rob Fournier

Two nights down for Canadian Music week, and two more to go for me. Tonight will probably be a night at Lee’s with hopefully a final destination of Supermarket for Phantogram. But, I’ll have to see where the night takes me.

So far, I’ve managed to catch sets from Sweden’s Hellsongs (which I posted about here), The Wilderness Of Manitoba, Pick A Piper, Family Of The Year, Forest City Lovers, Hooded Fang, The Rest, Little Dragon and Rich Aucoin. So far, Rich’s ability to engage the audience with catchy songs and sing-a-long lyrics has made his show my favorite of the week. He even managed to mix this into his set (which made me think of this).

More details on all this once this weekend is over.

What did you do this weekend?

I played road hockey and pulled a bunch of muscles in my legs.

I saw 2012 and wondered why John Cusack is an action hero and why these days in disaster movies, the single father is the new hero?

Really enjoyed My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding. Running in Toronto until Dec. 13th, maybe longer.

Saw Band Of Skulls at the El Mocambo. Amazing concert. After a couple attempts at seeing them live, I finally made it and subsequently rediscovered songs like Impossible and Fires. See you on the best of ’09.

and today:

–RCRD LBL has new remixes by Miike Snow (speaking of) and Au Revoir Simone. Check out the formers’ Black & Blue (Savage Skulls remix) and the latters’ Another Likely Story (Aeroplane Remix).

–Nobody Likes Chipmunks have posted a poem about Honeybees. This is a site that I help start years back, showcasing an interesting poetic structure that I helped hash out. Each poem has five points/lines. The first line is the question. The last line is the answer. The middle area is the proof, structured with what we call a reverse compliment sandwich. Negative point, positive point, then negative point. Enjoy.

-One of the Canadian blogs tipped me to Forest City Lovers having new songs up on their myspace.

-Download a free compilation from Paper Bag Records called ‘The Seven Year Itch’. PBR is celebrating 7 years in business by having their bands do covers, including The Acorn doing Gowan‘s Strange Animal. Congrats Paper Bag.

-Listening to Young Coyotes‘s Zach Tipton as I Am The Dot on Pasta Primavera.

-and finally, loving the site Southern Souls. For fans of La Blogotheque and Black Cab Sessions, here’s another site dedicated to getting impromptu acoustic sessions from indie bands in interesting settings. Newest session is from The Wilderness of Manitoba, Bluebirds is below.

THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA – “Bluebirds” from Mitch Fillion on Vimeo.