tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19537941236983330482011-07-30T08:24:57.882-04:00Justin Beach[email protected]Blogger1830125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953794123698333048.post-65216526478421649272010-11-10T21:19:00.002-05:002010-11-10T21:22:56.609-05:00

On November 11th Clothes Make The Man EP release party "Control" will be held at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto with friends By Divine Right, Teenage Kicks and Colin Moore. Here is your chance to win 2 free tickets and EP. All you have to do is follow us on Twitter @nxew for your chance to win. The 5th person to re-tweet 'I love Clothes Make The Man' wins. OK GO! TORONTO'S CLOTHES MAKE THE

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There's something about that Dan Mangan. An unmistakable likability, the way he can warm a room with his presence, charm a crowd with a flicker of a smile. Last night he proved that this can extend to hundreds of people at a time as he wowed an assembly of followers in the Church of Mangan. (Sacrilegious? It was actually held in Toronto's Trinity-St.Paul's Church.)From the line snaking down Bloor

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This. Is. AWESOME. Vancouver/Abbotsford-based band You Say Party has debuted their latest video for "Lonely's Lunch" on Pitchfork. It's set in India. Watch it!

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"Wow" is a term that Toronto's Diamond Rings should be used to hearing by now. That was the first word that stumbled out of my mouth when I first heard John O'Regan's head-turning solo project (he's also the frontman of The D'Urbervilles), namely the infectious electro-pop track "Wait & See." Butting heads with Sony/BMG for an unwarranted pull-down of his low-budget first video for "All Yr Songs

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On Tuesday Saskatoon's Violent Kin released their new EP "Velvet Hideout". The four song release showcases an even split of songs featuring the vocals of siblings Maygen and S.J. Kardash and forges ahead in the Electro Rock vein of 2009's "Bitter Blood" with songs "Wolf, "Keep Your Balance", and "Good Girl". However, while "Call You Out" from "Bitter Blood" hinted at a larger, more cinematic

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Chatham, Ontario is not exactly known as being a musical mecca in Canada. It probably wouldn’t get a mention even in Ontario’s Top 10. But one of Canada’s finest purveyors of psychedelic pop music over the past 18 years, Square Root of Margaret, have steadfastly called the small agricultural and automotive city home-base since their inception, with no foreseeable plan of relocating to any of the

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In the summer of 2010 Vancouver singer-songwriter Adaline made a temporary move to Toronto to record her second disc. While we have to wait until 2011 to hear it all Adaline documented the recording experience in a YouTube video that debuted in late August. I recently had the chance to ask her some questions about recording and YouTube and the 2010 Peak Performance Project, Adaline’s second

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EP Review: The Episodes ~ Pilot

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Video of the Day: Mother Mother ~ “Body of Years”

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For those of you in Vancouver, you may already be aware that 100.5 the Peak recently started up the Peak Performance Project for another year and after a rigorous boot camp the 20 bands are set up to do a showcase every Thursday at the Red Room from Sept 9th till Oct 7th. This first showcase's line-up was Jess Hill, Bodhi Jones, Vince Vaccaro and Acres of Lions.Jess Hill came on to the stage

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I don't post album reviews often, but today I've found one that's got me so enthusiastic I'm making an exception. The band is Wisconsin Dream Guitar: Silver Fall by wisconsindreamguitar It's a new project from Rob Dunlop and Leigh O'Neill, who have been in a few of my favourite local Prince George bands over the years. In fact, Rob was the singer/songwriter for Big Old Eyes, the band

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Nicely done, skater boy. Vancouver's Black Mountain releases the music video for "The Hair Song," which hails from their upcoming album Wilderness Heart (September 14). Hmm... wilderness, that's apt. Be amongst the first to pre-order the album and you'll get it autographed too. A few tour dates below. October 31, 2010 Toronto, ON - The Phoenix November 1, 2010 Montreal, QC - La Tulipe

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Luke Doucet's new album, Steel City Trawler, will be released August 31st in Canada and September 21st in the U.S. on Six Shooter Records. On his fifth full-length, Luke Doucet turns to classic themes of place, love and "the existential labyrinths of human understanding." With first-time producer Andrew Scott (Sloan) at the helm, Steel City Trawler is equal parts classic rock and roll and

Brenda Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05037870131691926380[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953794123698333048.post-81397002443399327362010-08-31T20:04:00.002-04:002010-08-31T20:04:43.673-04:00

Aww. This video reminds me of all those summer days I spent as a camp counsellor. The hazy glow of Two Hours Traffic's latest video for "Happiness Burns" seems to be an ode and a send-off to those blurry days of summers past. The track is from their 2009 release Territory. Enjoy!

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Great Lake Swimmers will release a new track this week honouring fishermen and families affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "Ballad of a Fisherman's Wife" was written and produced in Toronto and will be released online at www.swimdrinkfishmusic.com. "'Ballad Of A Fisherman's Wife' was written after hearing, with great dismay, news about the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Vancouver's Jonas Shandel (also of Headwater) has released the video for a track from his lovely self-titled debut, named "Drinking the Water." I had only kind things to say about the album, which you can read here. On a stormy Vancouver day such as this, this video and song have a way of transporting me back to the lazy summer noon-time when I laid on the grass, listening to Headwater's

Brenda Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05037870131691926380[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953794123698333048.post-26913840289058818352010-08-31T11:18:00.000-04:002010-08-31T11:18:35.615-04:00

Album Review: The Lions ~ New Rise Of The Footsoldier

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Live Review: the Ben Rose Wedding Band

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EP Review: the Fast Romantics ~ Kidcutter

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Album Review: Krome ~ Kronic Rock

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Album Review: Arcade Fire ~ the Suburbs

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Album Review: Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles ~ The Grand Bounce

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Review of the 2010 Hillside Festival, Guelph Conservation Area, OntarioPart three of three. Part one posted on August 16. Part two posted on August 17. Perfect day in Guelph, despite the previous day's deluge. Day 3 The weather on the third day of Hillside, Sunday, July 25, could not have been better. The traffic volunteers were directing everyone to a different field on this day, and you

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Since last they played in Los Angeles in June Hey Rosetta! have covered a jillion miles all over North America and, recently, Asia. Last week the band played in the Canadian pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai China. At the Hotel Cafe show tonight I caught up with cellist/keyboardist Romesh Thavanathan to find out how playing in a Shanghai summer, where daily temperatures approach 40c, went for

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Review of the 2010 Hillside Festival, Guelph Conservation Area, OntarioPart two of three. Part one posted August 16. Mediocre photography by me. Day 2 There was a huge thunderstorm on Saturday, June 24, so I decided to wait out the weather over a breakfast/lunch of bacon sandwiches and onion rings before heading back to Hillside. Needless to say I arrived at Day 2 of Hillside much later than

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