Canon Blue

Listen up fans of Maps, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke and Caribou. I think you’re going to like the music of Canon Blue. I regret not going to see this artist (songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Daniel James) play live when he toured here to Toronto this month. I’m loving his dreamy folktronica; blissful melodies backed by electronic […]

Making Lists

I think this year I’ll keep a list of favorite releases, that way when I do my year end best albums of ’08, I won’t be stuck. I think this band is going to make my top ten for sure. The full length from Maps called We Can Create came out last month in the […]

Maps

The Internet. It’s quite amazing. It proved this again to me today. It gave us this a while back. Today, I found this. I think something has to be really amazing or horribly wrong for people to want to make their own video adaptations. Sorry got distracted. A while back I mentioned the band Maps. […]

A quick note

Just getting the final touches on our best albums of the year. Burtch has done his, I just got to put it together. Hackett, have you got anything yet? As for me, I’m now up to 10 records, but I don’t really want to put them in order….. they all grabbed me this year in […]