Julie and I started working on a song today, tentatively titled Happy Friday.  So far, we have “It’s Fridayyyyyyyyyyy” down on paper; We will keep everyone posted on where this goes.  I’ve got a great track to close out the work week this afternoon from the Vancouver progressive/indie-rock band Bend Sinister.  Since forming in 2001, the [...]

Another tune tonight from the Vancouver-based indie-rock band Said the Whale.  The Magician (Camilo) is the opening track off the band’s most recent EP The Magician, released in May of this year; The song is also expected to be included on the band’s sophomore full-length effort Islands Disappear.  According to the band’s website, mixing of [...]

I heard today’s song on CBC Radio 3 while I was at the office today.  I noticed something really really good in Nils Edenloff’s (lead vocals) upper register that reminded me very much of Jeff Mangum’s tone and delivery; Have a close listen to the lines around the 1:00 mark and compare it to Mangum’s vocal from [...]

There are 57 days until this year’s Polaris Music Prize gala, and still no invitation for BowlingStone.com; I’m still feeling pretty optimistic however.  I thought I would close out the week with another tune from the American indie/alt-rock/hip-hop band Why?.  The band seems to have this uncanny ability to exclusively create songs I can listen to 15 18 [...]

I found out this morning that before Peaches became Peaches, she was an elementary school music and drama teacher; Thinking about 10 year old kids learning music from the now electronic/glam-rock star puts me in such a good mood.  Talk to Me was released as the first single to Peaches’ fifth full-length album I Feel Cream, released [...]

With Why?’s next album (Eskimo Snow) not slated for release until September of this year, I’m not entirely sure how this song made it’s way onto YouTube; Regardless, I am very very vibed to have stumbled across it.  Yoni Wolf, the man behind Why?, has described the upcoming release as “…the least hip-hop out of anything [...]

After Sunday’s Dinosaur Jr. post, I decided I needed to start listening to J Mascis and the Fog again.  As I mentioned in the post, J Mascis and the Fog served as my introduction to musician J Mascis, and then to Dinosaur Jr.  Fortunately, I was able to track down a really sick version of one [...]

Late post tonight in an attempt to delay the inevitability of a new work week beginning tomorrow.  Tonight’s song comes from the American indie/alt-rock band Dinosaur Jr., an all time favorite of mine.  Over It can be found on the band’s latest album Farm, released last month via the indie label Jagjaguwar; Jagjaguwar is of course [...]

I awoke this morning to a find a new track from Modest Mouse in my inbox, and Tom Watson with the 54-hole lead at the British Open on my TV;  It felt like a strange summertime Christmas morning where someone decided to put old home movies on.  If that ridiculously good simile didn’t make sense to anyone, let [...]

I came across an article today from AmericanSongwriter.com highlighting 25 of their favorite songs from 1984-2009.  The list includes an amazing range of artists from My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, and Bright Eyes to Garth Brooks, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan; Bon Iver’s Flume was also included in this list, and I forgot how much I enjoyed [...]

This song cracks me right up; On the topic of disappointing lays, few songs match Not Fair.  Today’s post comes from Lily Allen, a singer/songwriter who exploded onto the UK scene in 2007.  Her debut album, Alright, Still, was nominated for the Best British Album award at the 2007 BRIT Awards, and for the Best New Artist award at the [...]

Today’s song comes to us from the American alt-rock band that monopolized my Discman from age 13-16.  While perusing Twitter this morning, I came across a twoot/tweet? from Stereogum highlighting this video, which was released via Weezer’s YouTube account yesterday; The original story can be found here.  The video features spliced together concert footage as a backing to [...]

I’m pretty psyched to see Bruno tonight; In fact, it’s been a long time since I’ve been this excited for a movie.  While I wait for Julie to get home from work I thought I’d throw another tune up for everyone today.  It’s been awhile since I’ve dove into the iPod and pulled out an oldie, [...]

I’ve spent the better part of this morning recovering from my annual visit to the Calgary Stampede.  A visit that, this year, started off harmlessly in the beer gardens with Julie, but somehow ended with me rocking out in some greasy pub with a local cover band at 3am; If, by chance, the people who invited me to Denny’s [...]

The highly anticipated short-list for this year’s Polaris Music Prize was released this week, viewable here.  I chose to ignore this until today as I was quite disappointed that my prediction regarding the Japandroids‘ Post-Nothing was completely incorrect.  However, I am now over it and would like to highlight one of the artists that did make [...]

Once again, the Calgary Sled Island music festival caught me off guard and opened my eyes to another fantastic band.  Chris and I (and Dave) were fortunate enough to see The Breeders live at Olympic Plaza, and boy was it something.  The combination of dual female vocals and an awesome stage presence made for a great [...]

My song for today comes from the UK indie/alt-rock quartet Arctic Monkeys.  Fluorescent Adolescent can be found on the band’s second studio album Favourite Worst Nightmare, and was released as the album’s second single in July of 2007.  The album, as expected, experienced tremendous success in the UK; On April 29th 2007, the day the album charted at #1 on the UK Albums [...]

On a scale of 1-to-stoked, Girl Talk definitely gets me stoked.  I actually wasn’t completely sold on the experimental/mashup artist until the first time I heard today’s song.  Hold Up can be found on Girl Talk’s third full-length album Night Ripper, released in May of 2006.  Among the many songs sampled on this track, some [...]

Lunchtime post today, as I will be spending my evening watching Jim Cuddy and the rest of Blue Rodeo play downtown Calgary.  I re-discovered today’s tune on a CD I found while searching through my desk at work this morning; It  is a really sick acoustic cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, done by the always soulful Ray [...]