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 [...]

This song is dedicated to my big brother Chris, whom I left back in Calgary this week; I can definitely picture us rocking out to this tune on the Deerfoot in his GTI.  Lasso is another tune from the French alt-rock band Phoenix, hailing from Versailles.  The song can be found on the band’s latest album titled Wolfgang [...]

I was sitting on the couch this morning, trying to decide if the milk in my fridge that expired 3 days ago was still good for cereal, when I saw that Phoenix would be the musical guest on SNL tonight.  My introduction to the French indie-rockers came about 5 years ago, thanks to the Lost [...]