After my ability to write complete sentences was hampered by an 8-day peyote trip (much of which was spent listening to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, while simultaneously trying to memorize Lester Bangs‘ essay on why Metal Machine Music was the greatest album ever made), I am finally back with a new song for the [...]

Dirty, grungy, distorted, overexposed, and even skanky, are all words that feel right when describing Makeout Videotape’s turn on the Harry Nilsson classic I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York. The cassette-sounding rendition can be found on the Vancouver lo-fi/garage-rock duo’s limited-release EP “Heat Wave!”, which appears to be the only release-proper from the band [...]

As I suspected would happen, I forgot to turn off my alarm clock last night, and was jolted to life this morning with far less than the appropriate amount of sleep.  The Boys Are Leaving Town began blasting through my room, and in my confused haze I came to realize just how much the song [...]

I’ve got a fantastic song tonight, coming from 10 years back in my music-listening career; a career that started when my surprisingly cool father gave me a Pet Sounds cassette tape.  I couldn’t have been older than five, but I still remember listening to Sloop John B about a hundred times in a row.  Anyways, [...]

There are only 11 more days until the release of the new album from The King Khan & BBQ Show (November 3rd), which means that today is the perfect day to preview the title-track.  Invisible Girl will be the 5th studio album from the garage-rock/doo-wop duo that formed in 2002.  As is standard from The [...]

I apologize for the two-day delay in getting this post up; I had planned on putting it up last night, but received a phone call from a friend of mine after work.  3 bars, 8 hours, and a 1am phone call to my sister for a ride home later, I found myself in no condition to [...]

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 [...]

I was lucky enough to catch the last half of The King Khan & BBQ Show during this year’s Sled Island festival; We were actually at the bar to check out the grease-kings themselves Monotonix.  The Canadian band has this really cool doo-wop/punk/garage-rock feel that made me think I was at a really sweaty Buddy Holly [...]

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 [...]

Two-thirds of the BowlingStone.com team is leaving for California tomorrow.  If we decide not to return, and live the rest of our lives without an Internet connection, the site will be left in the hands of Mr. Paolo Cruz.  Unfortunately, Paolo doesn’t post a lot (read: ever), so this could be an issue.  Anyways, this [...]