Live video of a Said the Whale show at the Phog Lounge plus - if you scroll down below the video - the Phog's list of who is playing when in Novemer. At the Phog in November:1 - Sharon Lavin Art Show Up1 - BOOK FEST - Alexander Zelenyj Reading2 - Peace Leeches (Blenheim) w/ TBA - 9pm4 - Engineers Without Borders w/ What Seas, What Shores w/ James OL and the Villains5 - Ox (Vancouver) w/ Barzin ...
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Live Video: Said the Whale @ the Phog + Phog calendar for November
City Sonic: Serena Ryder @ the Dakota Tavern
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Serena talks about the good things that happen when the music industry declines, about how much Toronto sucks when you first move here from a small town and the rise of the Dakota Tavern.
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Exchanging e-mails with... That's the Spirit
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Now that I've got a little more time on my hands I think I'm going to start up this "Exchanging e-mails with..." segment again. It's been really interesting getting some insight from different bands/artists and figuring out what their life with music is like: what their goals are, their motivation, what tours are like, etc.. Hopefully it's an interesting read, but, if not, I think it makes me ...
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Radio 3 Artist Series Podcast w/ Basia Bulat
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Everyone, everywhere is waiting for Basia Bulat's sophomore album but we can't have that right now. What we can have though is Basia's mixtape of songs she likes from Sandro Perri, Diamond Rings, the Phonemes, Final Fantasy, Shad, Katie Stelmanis, Royal City and more.Download the MP3, the the OGG or just press play:And if you've missed any of Radio 3's Artist Series podcasts, it makes you a bad...
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Free Guitar Lessons from Luke Doucet
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Over on the Six Shooter Records YouTube Channel they are uploading Luke Doucet guitar Lessons. Cruise on over and learn to play like Luke and keep checking back - they are still rapidly uploading more.
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Music BC Compilation Calls for Submissions
If you are a Music BC member who has released an album or EP in the last 24 months, or plan to in the next 3 months Music BC wants to talk to you. Complete applications must be received by 5:00pm on the deadline date:Friday November 13th, 2009 (5pm pst)Click here to download the Music BC 2010 Compilation CD application form (pdf).This program is open to all Music BC members who have commerciall...
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Zygiella Podcast 54 feat. the Schomberg Fair
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Tyler and I met up with Matt, Nate, and Pete from the Schomberg Fair at a rehearsal space earlier this week to talk about their new record (Gospel - out now!), their upcoming tour, and so they could play us a song. Plus other stuff: how the band classifies their sound, Nate's worst performance experience, the band's plans for the future, and more. Featuring songs by the Schomberg Fair ("Angel's...
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Live Video: Ohbijou - Jailbird Blues (+ Tour Dates)
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Via Ohbijou's Blog: The band officially kicked off a cross Canada tour yesterday in Quebec City with the Acorn. For the rest of the dates in the tour that will take them from the east coast to BC scroll down below this video of the band performing Jailbird Blues (video by Mitch Fillion).OHBIJOU - Jailbird Blues from Mitch Fillion on Vimeo.Tour Dates:22 Oct 2009 21:00 Baba’s Lounge w/ The Acorn .
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Metric Acoustic EP coming Tuesday
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Photo by EdwinMetric is releasing a digital EP next Tuesday (Oct. 27) which will feature acoustic versions of songs from Fantasies. The album will be available exclusively through Amazon.com for the first 30 days, after that it will also be on iTunes and directly from the band at ilovemetric.com. A sneak peek is in the nifty widget below.
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Mike Duguay: To St. John's w/ Love from Peterborough
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If you know Peterborough, at all, you know Mike Duguay. On top of booking local shows and festivals Mike is also a member of pretty much every local band including the Burning Hell (keyboards, glockenspiel), Weird Weather ( drums, organ, accordion), Tarantula (accordion), and Evening Hymns (keyboards, accordion). . Now Mike is getting ready to do his first solo project and in preparation Mike ...
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METRIC with The Stills at Massey Hall, Toronto Oct. 21, 2009
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Standing front row centre, I had no choice but to willingly submerge myself into a futuristic world quickly unfolding in front of my eyes like something straight out of a science fiction novel. Blue ray beams shine in all directions and I feel like I’m flying through outer space as I watch shooting stars flash by on a screen, and suddenly a small yet powerful golden creature appears on centre .
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Concert Review – Amy Millan with Bahamas in Calgary
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Tuesday, October 20 2009Marquee RoomCalgary, Alberta A friend of mine in Sacramento California asked me to give him a full report on the Amy Millan concert, as he was trying to decide if he should drive up to San Francisco to see her live show. Immediately I told him to do it, because really, how could it not be great? Long story short, I fully stand behind my previous
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Joel Plaskett, Great Lake Swimmers, More to Play Coldsnap Winter Music Festival in Prince George this January
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In the interest of full disclosure, I'm the communications director for this festival. That said, it's a volunteer position that I do because I think it's a great event. For those of you who don't know, Coldsnap is a weeklong winter music festival that takes place in British Columbia's northern capital, Prince George. I actually just got this lineup yesterday and the announcements are going out...
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Jason Collett to Perform at This Book is Broken Event at the Harbourfront on Friday, Oct. 30th
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For lovers of Broken Social Scene, come and check out the 'This Book is Broken' event at the Harbourfront this coming Friday as part of the Authors at Harbourfront series. Stuart Berman, the man who penned the BSS biography, will be present to take questions and discuss the book. Also their to join the fun is Arts & Crafts co-founder Jeffrey Remedios along with BSS members Kevin Drew and Brenda...
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Winnipeg's Scene is Getting Hot!
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What a great time to be a part of Winnipeg's Music Scene. If you have not read our previous North by East West Post, then you should catch up before you read this.Today we met with Tara from The Paps, and we are excited to share with you that they will be coming into UMFM for a interview and a in studio performance within the next two weeks! These are four girls with have serious musical
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3 Acoustic Shows to Help Spiral Beach Get to Europe
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Toronto's Spiral Beach are playing three shows to help them pay for an upcoming European Trip (European dates at bottom):TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 - Donlands & Mortimer have asked us to join them for one of their weekly shows at C'est What (67 Front St E) - come early, we're on first! 19+, PWYCFRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 - our longtime tour manager, friend and "fifth member" Ryan Tonkin has opened an artists' c...
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New Gentleman Reg EP 'Heavy Head' Coming in Stages
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The new Gentleman Reg EP Heavy Head is going to be released in stages on November 10, 17 and 24 - the full EP won't be available all together until December 1. Fans attending Reg's shows with the Hidden Cameras (dates below) will be able to buy it from the merch table in advance as a limited edition download card with the EP cover art. The tracks on Heavy Head (according to Arts & Crafts will i...
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Help Spread the Love for NxEW.ca
In our, just over, seven months of existence delivering Canadian music goodness to (as of right now) 82,686 unique visitors without spending anything at all on advertising / marketing or promotion. We decided early on to focus exclusively on Canadian music because, with the exception of the understaffed CBC Radio 3 - no one else was. We probably could have generated more traffic by making it in...
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Video Vault: Bran Van 3000, Martha and the Muffins, Cub, Controller.Controller
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This website launched in March of this year. We post alot of video - live video, music videos etc., but a whole lot of stuff happened before March 2009 - so I'm going to do occasional posts where I dig back and find video (live or otherwise) from the past just to revisit some great stuff or so that you can see things you might have missed the first time around. Bran Van 3000 - Everywhere (1997)...
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Oh The Boss(es) Are Coming... To the Ford Plant
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Yesterday, Saturday October 24, the usually quiet town of Brantford was painted red by with the Arkells show at the Ford Plant. The Ford Plant was lucky to be the first date on the Arkells first official tour, and it's deliciously delapidated and, for lack of a better word, cozy atmosphere provided quite the place for the big kickoff. The show was supported by The Family Boo (local to ...
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