SXSW ’08: Thursday

If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and bar-b-que tastes really good, then eating bar-b-que for breakfast every day can’t be that wrong… can it? My stomach would reply ‘yes sir’ at around 1:30pm each day while at one of the many day parties happening in Austin. But I kept doing it […]

Kevin Drew

Had a good night out at Lees Palace on thursday. Went to see Kevin Drew‘s early show, as part of the Edge 102.1’s next big thing concerts in conjunction with Redpipe.ca. It was impressed with the show. From what I’d heard online of Spirit If.. (Drew‘s recent solo release on mini-major Arts& Crafts) it didn’t […]

New Stars Video ‘Riot’

When I heard the kid on the bus say that he was coming into the city from Coboconk, a ton of memories came flooding back. No, I didn’t end up in Toronto after a fateful 2 hour bus ride when I was a teen, but I had a cottage on Silver lake, just outside of […]

Contest!! The Russian Futurists

I’ve got two brand spanking new copies of Me, Myself and Rye (Upper Class Recordings) by the Russian Futurists. This album, or compilation, hit the shelves this month and is an amalgam of TRF‘s hottest songs assembled from their three previous albums, all digitally remastered. Paul Simon from Our Thickness The bio sheet I’m reading […]

The Besnard Lakes

I’ve found the soundtrack for my next acid trip. Or my first for that matter. Check out the Besnard Lakes from Montreal. I went to the Rivoli the other night to hear some new material off their new record The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse (Outside/Jagjaguwar). The room could have used more haze to […]