Once again, the Calgary Sled Island music festival caught me off guard and opened my eyes to another fantastic band.  Chris and I (and Dave) were fortunate enough to see The Breeders live at Olympic Plaza, and boy was it something.  The combination of dual female vocals and an awesome stage presence made for a great [...]

On a scale of 1-to-stoked, Girl Talk definitely gets me stoked.  I actually wasn’t completely sold on the experimental/mashup artist until the first time I heard today’s song.  Hold Up can be found on Girl Talk’s third full-length album Night Ripper, released in May of 2006.  Among the many songs sampled on this track, some [...]

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 [...]

I’ve got a quick post this morning from the American alt-rock band Pixies.  Hey comes from the group’s second studio album Doolittle, released in April of 1989.  Doolittle would be the Pixies’ first international release, with Elektra Records distributing the album to the US.  The album would peak at #8 on the UK Album Chart [...]

Quick post tonight coming from the American alternative/indie-rock band The Breeders.  Formed around Kim Deal while she was still the bassist for the Pixies, The Breeders have released four studio albums since their inception in 1988.  We’re Gonna Rise can be found on the band’s most recent album Mountain Battles, which was released in April of 2008.

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