Two years ago, Wintersleep front-man Paul Murphy lost his grandparents; his mother lost her parents.  With the help of his brother Michael, some free time in Nova Scotia, and the wonder that is scotch, Postdata was born as a gift for Mom.  12 ideas for an album were laid down using the most modest of setups [...]

I haven’t listened to a lot of Dallas Green/City and Colour in about 6 months.  This is due in part to a self-inflicted saturation of the project in 2008 and early 2009, and in part to my discovery of Dan Mangan last year, who has fared quite admirably in satisfying my moody acoustic/folk-rock needs.  However, [...]

Thanks (in large part) to the strangely fascinating drum beat, I’ve found this song on repeat for the better part of today; if any music theorists reading this can explain what is going on with that snare, in terms of time signature, please feel free to comment.  Where and When comes from the Canadian indie-folk/rock [...]

So I was at a club in Calgary last night, a dance club to be specific, Vinyl Retro Lounge to be more specific, and I saw my first shirtless bar posse; Three dudes rocking bleach-blond mo-hawks, matching tribal tattoos, and no shirts getting their drink on.  I was sure that gold like this only went down [...]

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 CrazyCrazy reviews, done by the always soulful [...]

My post for today is another fantastic piece from the Calgary indie/folk artist Michael Bernard Fitzgerald.  Reach You is off MBF’s most recent album The MBF Love LP, released earlier this month.  I have found that i’ve developed a significant crush on this song, mostly because I like to think that he is singing it to me.  Unfortunatly, due to [...]

So I was at the ColdplayColdplay reviews concert in Calgary last night, and was positive that the band was opening their set with Kids by MGMT.  So positive in fact, that I started singing the first verse to Kids before getting glared at by a posse of 16 year old girls.  With all the controversy [...]

Keeping with the recent Canadian-themed posts, I thought I would bring out another fantastic piece done by Canada’s own MetricMetric reviews.  Live it out is the title track off Metric’s 2nd full-length album, released in 2005.  The album is a fine example of Metric’s use of simplicity meshed with a new wave sound, and was well received throughout [...]

I’ve got a disgustingly good tune today for everyone to wind their weekend down with.  Gimme Sympathy can be found on MetricMetric reviews’s brand-new album Fantasies, officially released on April 7th, 2009.  The acoustic version of Gimme Sympathy is anotherAnother Year reviews track that was only included as a bonus-track when pre-ordering Fantasies.  Currently based out [...]

This post is a favorite of mine as I am a huge fan of music featuring both male and female vocals.  Hazy comes to us from Rosi Golan’s debut album The Drifter and the Gypsy, and features a vocal contribution from William Fitzsimmons.  Currently based out of Brooklyn, the Israel born Golan spent her very early [...]

Another tune tonight, coming from Canadian Dallas Green’s solo acoustic-folk side-project City and Colour.  On the song in question, Sleeping Sickness, the legendary Gord Downie lends his incredible vocals to the track.  Up until Gord begins singing I really enjoyed the song.  However, when his voice cut in I was stopped dead in my tracks.  His [...]

I first heard of Paolo Nutini a couple years ago when he was opening for Amy Winehouse during a tour of Canada.  Unfortunately, I was unable to see either artist perform as Winehouse cancelled the remainder of the tour due to exhaustion (Read: Exhaustion from smoking crack instead of eating and sleeping).  New ShoesNew Shoes [...]

So I know this is a pretty old song, and many of you may have already discovered this gem, but its a classic so I’m going to add it anyways.  I have a special place in my heart for Dynamite Hack’s cover of Eazy-E’s hit because it was the song that introduced me to Dynamite Hack.  I [...]

Michael Bernard Fitzgerald is a local artist (local to myself in Calgary) who has become one of my favorites after seeing him perform around the city.  Following his win in X92.9’s Exposure Contest, he became a regular in the stations daily rotation and was given a spot to play at the Virgin Festival in Calgary.

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I came across this tune on YouTube awhile back during a soul-music phase I was going through;  I had just watched “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” (You MUST watch this film).  This cover of Otis Redding’s classic served as my introduction to Canadian/American artist Justin Nozuka and his acoustic-soul style.  On a side note, I was [...]