I’ve never read The Time Traveler’s Wife, but I think that after seeing the trailer for the movie adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel, I don’t think I really need to. It doesn’t appear that there’s any interesting bit of storyline left for the movie itself to reveal. That’s a shame, because I know that at [...]
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If you're still looking for something to do this weekend, and you're within driving distance of the Niagara Region, don't forget that the first ever Bridgestock Music Festival happens Saturday, August 15 in Welland, Ontario. Walk up tickets are a mere $25 and gets you front and centre for a pretty impressive line up that [...]
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Yesterday Mika, today, Destroyer. Could these posts be any more opposite? Perhaps, but the one thing they do have in common is that both have new music out that could loosely be called "disco". In the case of Destroyer, Dan Bejar has created a 14-minute epic movement entitled "Bay of Pigs", apparently about the 1961 [...]
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This is so sweet my teeth ache just from listening to it! Mika is back with the first slice of sugary confection from his new LP, The Boy Who Knew Too Much. Originally, "We Are Golden" was supposed to be the title track of the album, but last week on his website, Mika announced that [...]
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The more I hear "New Goodbye" by Hey Rosetta! the more I want to love the LP it leads off. Into Your Lungs (and around your heart and on through your blood) ticks off all the right boxes: stadium-filling anthems? Check. Classic pop songs delivered flawlessly? Check and check. Heart and soul? Check, check. So [...]
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I was terribly saddened to hear that John Hughes had died this past Thursday after suffering a heart attack at 59 while out for a walk in Manhattan. Much has been made of how Hughes’ coming-of-age movies in the 1980s defined a generation, and I am certainly someone who’s adolescent years were shaped and influenced [...]
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Let be be absolutely clear about this:I HAVE NOT POSTED THE NEW RADIOHEAD SONG AS A FREE DOWNLOAD.I will, however, certainly provide all the links you need to get this gorgeously orchestrated tribute to British WWI veteran Harry Patch, who died on July 25 at the age of 111. Patch fought at the Battle of [...]
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Bob Wiseman’s In Her Dream, the Blue Rodeo keyboardist’s solo album. 1989 was a pretty remarkable year of music for me personally, but none of the great albums that came out that year moved me the way Wiseman did. I was familiar enough with Blue Rodeo at the [...]
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Hey friends! I’m home, sweet home after an extended weekend in the nation’s capital, hanging out in my favourite city with my favourite people and spending way too much money and eating way too much good food. One of my favourite purchases was a kick-ass pair of Bose in-ear headphones that make the sound of [...]
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The other day on CBC Radio 2’s Drive, Rich Terfry posited that the sound of Tony Dekker’s voice can melt women’s hearts, and coupled with the languid musical accompaniment of his band, Great Lake Swimmers, has the power to win over both the hearts and minds of the female persuasion. Maybe that’s where Dekker got [...]
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Last week I introduced you to The Jet Rodriguez from Michigan who independently released Seven Hour Night Shifts last week. Cameron Navetta is the one-man band behind The Jet Rodriguez, and he agreed to undergo a little QBiM cross-examination about his debut album, his musical beginnings, and a few odds and sods along the way. [...]
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It is with some regret and embarrassment that I have to report my failure to acknowledge that Quick Before It Melts turned 3 on Friday, July 24, 2009. I’m usually pretty good at keeping my sights on milestones like that, but I guess sometimes these things slip by in the hustle of life. It wasn’t [...]
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I was pleasantly surprised to get word about new music from Young Galaxy the other day. The Montreal band are setting their sites on the August 25 release date for Invisible Republic, the band’s sophomore disc. In a recent post on CHARTattack, band founder Stephen Ramsay explains why this album isn’t coming out on Arts [...]
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The last three weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind for me, as I’ve been knee-deep in professional development for my real job and so some things at home have sort of piled up. And by “some things” I mean “my desk”. And by “piled up” I mean “Holy crap, where’d all this junk [...]
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In last week’s Polaris Shortlist review post I asked, “Where to start with Elliott Brood?” I hate to sound like a broken record, but the sentiment fits this week’s review like a glove.Where to start with Fucked Up?Before The Chemistry of Common Life entered my musical orbit, I’d never given the Toronto hardcore punk band [...]
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I haven’t always been fair to my hometown of Welland, Ontario. I think the idea that “familiarity breeds contempt” is spot-on when it comes to the places we live. The fact that some people refer to it as the “armpit of Ontario” doesn’t help matters. Welland’s reputation has rested on being an industrial, working class [...]
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You may have gathered from my posts that I’m not one to go out to concerts very often. I enjoy live music, don’t get me wrong, but life sometimes gets in the way (along with geography), making it difficult to get to the city to see someone I’d truly be interested in paying to see [...]
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Sometimes it’s a daunting task trying to come up with a post about someone who’s only just sent you the scantest of emails with a link to their Myspace page, or if you’re lucky, a download of whatever music their promoting at the time. Often times, these emails end up sitting in my inbox for [...]
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The hype is out there.(Un)Lucky for me, I’ve been so wrapped up in Canadian music these past few months that I’ve failed to notice the attention being given to one Florence Welch, who trades under the name Florence & the Machine. There is a Machine (i.e. band) behind Florence, but she’s the one who rules [...]
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Where to start with Elliott Brood? If you read my previous post (and first) about the band, you;d know that I’m pretty much at the beginning with them anyway; after not really getting into their first album, Ambassador, I paid very little attention when they released the follow-up, Mountain Meadows last summer. My bad. As [...]
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