Owen Pallett’s highly anticipated follow-up to He Poos Clouds found it’s way onto shelves last week (January 12th).  Across Canada, fans finally began their journey through Pallett’s conjured-up world of Spectrum, with help from the album’s narrator Lewis; Heartland is a concept album narrated by a farmer named Lewis as he comes to terms with his [...]

Today’s song is off the highly anticipated forthcoming album from Owen Pallett aka. Final Fantasy aka. one of the best live performers you will ever see.  Lewis Takes Action can be found on Final Fantasy’s 3rd full-length effort Heartland, set for release on January 12th of 2010.  Earlier this year Pallett revealed that the follow-up to [...]

Today’s tune is a cover of the Stars classic One More Night, from their cheekily titled 2007 remix album Do You Trust Your Friends; the album features covers of Stars songs from artists such as Final Fantasy, The Most Serene Republic, Metric, and Young Galaxy.  This particular cover is done by Broken Social Scene lead guitarist [...]

Hailing from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Beirut is a band driven by the young and talented Zachary Francis Condon.  The band’s debut effort, entitled Gulag Orkestar, was released in 2006 to tremendous critical acclaim; This acclaim included a 7.7/10 from the stingy Pitchfork Media, and the title of best album of 2006 from Rough Trade Records.  The release is a fine [...]

Julie and I have been hitting Calgary’s Sled Island festival pretty hard this week, and I’ve got some information to report.  Said information will be presented in point form, as my head hurts too much to string together well-formed sentences:

Final Fantasy, as mentioned in my last post, is a genius.
Japandroids put on a great show Thursday night; I [...]

Julie and I were lucky enough to catch Final Fantasy last night, during the Sled Island festival here in Calgary (Thanks to Drew for setting us up with passes).  As it was my first time seeing him live, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the one-man band consisting of a violin, synthesizer, microphone, and loop box.  [...]

I was listening to CBC Radio 3 at the office today and caught an interview with the founder of the Polaris Music Prize, Steve Jordan.  He announced that the 2009 Polaris Prize long-list will be announced June 12th, and the short-list July 7th.  Keeping with that theme, I thought I would post a song from a past [...]