Who: Two Door Cinema Club from Bangor, Northern Ireland.What: Even though you can go to Two Door Cinema Club’s myspace and hear their newest single ‘I Can Talk’, I’m partial to an earlier single called ‘Something Good Can Work’ (below). Both will make the band’s debut album, due out early next year.Song: Something Good Can [...]
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Who: Phantogram from Saratoga Springs, NY.What: A duo of Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel who fuse electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, and pop into each of their beat-driven dreamlike songs. Sounding like what you wouldn’t expect from rural areas, the duo grew up in the municipality of Greenwich, outside of Saratoga Springs, NY where [...]
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Turkey that is. Will I ever learn to not over do it at Thanksgiving?Nope.-Have you heard the new Michael Jackson song? Its a co-write with Paul Anka and its streaming at his website.-Does It Offend You, Yeah want you on their next record.-Finally, take a look at Julianna Barwick performing at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Wonder [...]
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Peter Bjorn & John — Living Thing from Shruti Ganguly on Vimeo.
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As well as sending out September podcast to iTunes, we also uploaded it to this site called Mixcloud; a site dedicated to re-thinking radio by joining the dots between radio shows, Podcasts and DJ mixes (called Cloudcasts, audios shows stored in the ‘cloud’ and available to be streamed on-demand).Our show is in the widget below [...]
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‘Tired Of Talking’ by Jason Bajada
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Who: Bravestation from Toronto.What: Emerging from the garage in the summer of 2007, Bravestation have really found that sound to call their own. Formed by Jeremy Rossetti and brothers Devin and Derek Wilson, the band met their fourth member (Andrew Heppner) in the studio while recording a good body of the band’s original work for [...]
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Good news for Hamilton band The Rest. Their album ‘Everyone All At Once’ will be released in the UK next week on the label Something In Construction (Memory Tapes, Air France, Loney Dear). To celebrate and support this, they’re heading to the UK for some tourdates with Sebastien Schuller and Kill It Kid (check their [...]
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from Awkward Family PhotosCanadian Thanksgiving this weekend, which means a couple things. Most likely, I’ll eat too much and regret the entire holiday. Also, I’ll probably be working for a good part of the weekend. Seems to happen the same way every year.But, its a good time to hang out with family, relax and enjoy [...]
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I figured why not? It’ll be a monthly podcast featuring 6-7 of the best songs we featured that month on the blog. As I get better at making them, I’ll be sure to sound more exciting and entertaining in the audio snippets between the songs. In episode one, I seem uninterested. In reality, I was [...]
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Probably in the crazy wind we’ve been having here in Toronto.Quick post from me, then something later tonight on The Rest.Then the IMF Podcast. Stayed tuned for that.In the meantime, check out:-CBC Radio 3’s new digs. I’d say an improvement, but I miss the days when it was more like a magazine.-Wye Oak are playing [...]
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‘Troubled’ by Land Of Talk
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Who: Alan Wilkis from Brooklyn, NY.What: A new spin on that song everyone probably knows from (500) Days Of Summer. Alan’s always been solid at both picking great indie songs to remix and his re-interpretations of them. Head to his myspace to hear his Very Best remix of ‘Warm Heart Of Africa’, featuring Ezra Koenig [...]
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Who: Sunbear from Dublin, circa 1999.What: These songs might not be new, but probably new to your ears. Sunbear, Dublin’s answer to the shoegazer’s of the late 90’s (MBV, Ride, Sweredriver), really made a name for themselves with the release of their 1999 self-titled album. But the band had a collection of other unreleased songs [...]
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Stumbled upon this today. Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratories.In the future, I can only hope my head will be preserved for its ability to be used as a sample.
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You’ve probably seen us posting about School of Seven Bells recently, as they’ve recently released a deluxe version of 2008’s Alpinisms. I’ve seen the live show (when they opened for M83 in Toronto last year), but haven’t seen them in a headline spot. Soon I’ll get my chance, and so could you….Contest: Correctly spell the [...]
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All reports out of LA are glowing for Thom Yorke, his supergroup (Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco), and their performances this past weekend at the Orpheum and the Echoplex. Playing a mix of songs off Thom’s solo work The Eraser, Radiohead b-sides and new Radiohead songs (which are below from The Echoplex [...]
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I saw the countdown clock at ithinkuracontra.com which sometime around 2:30pm EST today reached zero and pointed us towards Vampire Weekend’s homepage. Like the image above indicates they’re offering a free download of the song ‘Horchata’, the first track off the upcoming release of Contra (Jan 11th and 12th), with or without the old e-mail [...]
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Head to FatCat to stream these two new songs off the upcoming single ‘Swim Until You Can’t See Land’ (11/16). Fun Stuff is a new track to me, can’t remember if I’ve heard it live or not, but Swim Until You Can’t See Land has been on constant rotation here for the past little while. [...]
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