After my ability to write complete sentences was hampered by an 8-day peyote trip (much of which was spent listening to Lou ReedLou Reed reviews’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 [...]
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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 [...]
Today’s song comes to us from the Abbotsford, British Columbia indie-rock/dance-punk quintet You Say Party! We Say Die!, and their brand new album XXXX, released yesterday. The album is the third full-length effort from the band (not technically, but pretty much), and follows up on their 2007 release Lose All Time. The band will be kicking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
