I’m not sure why there was a “Are you a Communist?” Ad popping up when I was listening to this video… Anyhow; a great Canadian musical forebear to so much wonderful songwriting happening across the country. Tragically, tragically hip.
Category Archives: Music Monday
Because a productive morning should lead to a well deserved afternoon break. Have you ever walked through the Chinatown rain?
This is a really cute video for Tough Cookie, Samantha Savage Smith’s latest; nobody likes getting a tomato thrown at their head, yet she handles it very well. From Calgary, Alberta. The new album (Sept 2011) is lovely, esp Devilman.
Grouplove, origin: Los Angeles. They are currently on a North American tour that spans from Pheonix, AZ, to Montreal, Canada, to Aspen, CO and New York City, ending with a show in both Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
Starting the #Heard & #UnHeard back and forth as an expansion of MusicMonday in order to merge the realms of tiny Canadian rock with their famous and funded counterparts. Do you know Lana Del Rey? Lyrics: It was like James Dean, for sure You so fresh to death & sick as ca-cancer You were sorta […]
Is Animal Collective touring by alias? This Canadian band hailing from Winnipeg is starting to take the circuit by organic-storm; people don’t know them, yet. There is no doubt they will be full-on soon, so get out to see their excellently compelling live shows (if they extend a Canadian tour) before you have the crowds […]
Happy Monday! Here’s a video about love to start your week off “write.” Producer Jessie Ware (SBTRK) & Sampha combine forces on this track titled Valentine, to create more of the same clean / crisp minimal-electronic found only in Jessie’s other project SBTRK. I like the simple song lyrics and pop vocal-harmony, the layerlap of […]
Ntjam Rosie Boasting all the best in soulful vocals and a wonderfully artful, colourfully fashionable music video.
Swedish-American electro band.
Hailing from Oklahoma fresh off a tour with Bon Iver, meet Other Lives, as they were at the Media Club on Friday night. A tightly knit sound that, though it conjures the sense of being on an arid planet with a likeness to Death Valley, also stays liquid and quenching for the ears & soul. […]