After a relatively quiet 2009 (It would be nice if my relatively quiet years included an album I produced being shortlisted for the Polaris Prize), Hawksley Workman is poised once again for a big year; the Polaris-shortlisted album Workman produced was Hey Rosetta!’s masterpiece Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through [...]

I’ve got another fantastic song today, from a band that seems to have an affinity for creating fantastic songs.  Last year, Hey Rosetta! unleashed (yes, unleashed is a fair description) their second album Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood) to the masses.  With Canadian indie legend Hawksley Workman [...]

I had planned on posting this earlier in the evening, but upon returning to my apartment after buying my mother going-away sushi, I found that “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama” was airing on HBO.  Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, or in my case a Canadian, this is a movie [...]

Congratulations to the Toronto, Ontario hardcore punk band Fucked UpMoms Fucked Up reviews, whose album The Chemistry of Common LifeThe Chemistry of Common Life reviews took home the 4th installment of the Polaris Prize last night.  As promised, here are my thoughts on the show last night; In point form of course, as proper sentence [...]

Very cool tune today, coming from the Canadian folk/indie-rock artist Dan Mangan.  Robots can be found on Mangan’s latest EP Roboteering, released in March of 2009; The EP contains songs from an upcoming full-length release titled Nice, Nice, Very Nice.  The album will be a follow-up to Mangan’s Postcards and Daydreaming which was recorded in [...]

Tonight’s post features anotherAnother Year reviews tune from the two-time Polaris Music Prize nominated Calgarian Chad VanGaalen.  City of Electric Light can be found on VanGaalen’s third full-length album Soft Airplane, released in September of 2008.  In 2007, VanGaalen’s Skelliconnection album was short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize, eventually bowing out to the winner Close to Paradise, from [...]

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 [...]

With our California vacation coming to an end, Julie and I found ourselves too sun burnt to leave the condo yesterday.  Somehow we decided that recording a music video would be an appropriate way to spend the afternoon.  Feel more than welcome to check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSd3ow-TKc
The band behind today’s post, Hey Rosetta!, is a [...]