Finally got around to buying the new M83 record Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. This double album is an exceptional trip in the most classical sense of the word. Best enjoyed with head phones and a little buzz. Honestly, I rarely make through the whole album in a sitting as I always drift off to sleep. [...]
Archive for October, 2011
we would be hundreds, thousands, millions / the biggest group of friends the world has ever seen
Posted in music, tagged Hurry Up, M83, We're Dreaming on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Capital Rock City #97 // Versa, Current Swell, Celebrity Traffic, Monolithium
Posted in music, tagged Celebrity Traffic, Current Swell, Jon Williams, Monolithium, Nick Blasko, Rifflandia, Versa on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Capital Rock City is the Zone @ 91-3 Victoria music podcast. Have a listen! Mixcloud >> Capital Rock City #97 Download MP3 >> crc_-_20111025 This week I interview Michelle of Versa, the boys in Current Swell and Nick Blasko, the organizational force behind the Rifflandia Music Festival. Listen for music from: Versa – See them [...]
The Rebel Emergency and The Arkells
Posted in music, tagged The Arkells, The Rebel Emergency on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day Madelyn went into my closet and pulled out a pile of CDs to make a big-ole mess. She was picking through them and confused. They didn’t look like the records she was used to. What kind of record played played these little shiny records? God bless the hipster baby’s heart. Because three-and-a-half-year-olds [...]
come fall upon my shoulder Scottish rain
Posted in food, music, tagged Baker's Bourbon, Download, EP, Free, Frightened Rabbit, Jim Beam, Scottish Borders, Small Batch Bourbon, Stereogum on October 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When you listen to a Frightened Rabbit song… you believe, “these guys must live in a cottage.” It was reassuring to read on their blog for the new song “Scotting Winds,” that it was in fact written on the bus to their cottage in the Borders. My favourite Scottish sad rockers have a new extended [...]
Wicked Thai Soup
Posted in food, tagged Alex Chilton, Bangkok, Recipe, Soup, Wicked Thai on October 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite things to do when Dave Sawchuk used to work at the Zone was hit Fairways and hope… HOPE that Wicked Thai soup was on the burner. Dave is gone, and my day is filled with a void. I still wander to Fairways, and sure…its nice when Wicked Thai is being served…but [...]
then we hum along all from memory
Posted in music, tagged Arkells, Michigan Left on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The record that is changing my life for the better this week is not M83… as I had thought. Rather a record I brought home from the Zone the other day, Michigan Left from Hamilton rock & rolla’s, The Arkells. The Arkells are are winning at music because this album is just so darn happy. [...]
ZAS >> No Law in Esquimalt
Posted in politics, radio, tagged Esquimalt, Police, The Dead Weather, Western on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The Township of Esquimalt wants to ditch the Victoria police in favour of the RCMP, Mayor Barb Desjardins revealed Tuesday afternoon.” That’s what the Times Colonist newspaper read today. I don’t know how wise of an investment this will be for Esquimalt considering the RCMP might be pulled out of BC over the next few [...]
Capital Rock City #96 // Acres of Lions, Noverdubs, Rocky Mountain Rebel Music, Quoia
Posted in Capital Rock City, tagged Acres of Lions, Maurice, Noverdubs, Quoia, Rocky Mountain Rebel Music on October 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Capital Rock City podcast makes its return today! Listen: Capital Rock City #96 CRC96 fires up its third season with music from Acres of Lions. My favourite song off their new record ‘Collections‘ is the title track and last cut. Maybe its about hording? Jeff, are you trying to tell us you need an [...]
we didn’t need a story
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, Dave Babych, life or something like it, music, neat-O gang, tagged Gowlland Tod Park, Intro, M83, Madelyn, Midnight City, Victoria Royals, Zola Jesus on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New M83 record is out tomorrow… I hope the iTunes download goes hot tonight, I am going to buy it for sure. Actually… if Ditch has the vinyl tomorrow… I’d really like that. I wonder? Initial reviews have been promising. I adore the first single “Midnight City.” Today I have been jamming out track one/side [...]
We’re half awake
Posted in history 101, music, tagged Grand Archives, Henry Bellinger, World War One on October 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I like to consider myself a Grand Archives fan. On more than one occasion of exalted the virtues of the song “Swan Matches.” That song has taken an almost mystical or religious place in my heart. But scratching surface, the paint will fleck off and reveal, I’ve been a poor fan. I’ll tell ya, it [...]
