February 2012
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January 2012
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We’re playing a show with these guys (Home Shake, formerly Sans AIDS) from Edmonton. This song is a real smooth groove w/ some nice chord changes in the chorus. Superb road trip fodder. I think you’ll agree that it’s tops. They’re on first, so you should get to the show on time. It’s at Brasserie Beaubien, a divey place at 73 Beaubien E.
Interview: Hannah Lew from Grass Widow
Photo: Tessa Smith
I interviewed Hannah Lew before their Pop Montreal performance with the Raincoats last fall, and although it didn’t end up getting published by the festival as I was told it would, it did lead to me and Christian putting on a secret show for them with Freelove Fenner and Cousins at Christian’s loft. Here’s the interview, gushy intro intact:
A few years ago,...
December 2011
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Half Way There →
2011: It’s been a rough one. Here’s a mix to ring this most rotten year out. You know what the first thing that happened to me this year was? I woke up in a stranger’s house, put on my jacket, and fished a still-warm dead mouse out of the sleeve.
The songs and their singers:
1. Nazz - Only One Winner (Todd Lead Vox)
2. Matthew Friedberger - Theme From Never Going Home Again
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November 2011
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HPX Vids
A couple of songs from our set at Reflections at the Halifax Pop Explosion a couple of weeks ago. Sandi Rankaduwa of Old ‘n Weird fame (wo)manned the cam. There were a few hairy moments at the beginning of the night when the bouncers almost didn’t let me into the club (cracked ID), but things went smoothly after that. We drank a ton of Thee Oh Sees whiskey in the green room and...
October 2011
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tessagoldsmith:
Freelove Fenner and Grass Widow at the Atlas Building during POP. Such a great show. Was even untainted by my getting shoved by a friend (?) into a pile of dogshit outside the venue.
Invisible Hits #2: Neo Boys - Crumbling Myths →
Last week when Grass Widow were in town for a few days on their tour with the Raincoats, Christian and I put on a show with them and Freelove Fenner at Christian’s loft. It went really well, they were terrific (and even better the next night at a show with a proper PA), and we got to hang out a lot. Hannah Lew and I were chatting, and she told me that one of her favorite records is...
September 2011
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Bias Rocks - Summer C-60 Compilation →
http://www.mediafire.com/?g9fz84swg14auy1
This comp is a follow-up to last summer’s Bias Rock compilation. It’s just a bunch of my favorite songs from the past few months and decades. Kudos to “You Don’t Need Money” by Roy Harper, winner of the Jackson MacIntosh 2011 Biking Around With Earbuds Songwriting Prize. Download these songs and then blow minds by playing...
August 2011
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“Stay Free” by Ashford and Simpson. A...
July 2011
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Invisible Hits #1: The Soft Boys, Underwater... →
Because all I really want is for everybody to like the same stuff I like, I’ve decided to post download links for a few of my favorite records. First up is Underwater Moonlight by The Soft Boys, a band fronted by Robyn Hitchcock, an idiosyncratic Syd Barrett worshipper, and featuring Kimberly Rew, who later made his millions playing guitar in Katrina and the Waves.
Before UM, they’d...
STILL SINGLE: Ultrathin – “Glass City” b/w “Don’t... →
Nice Ultrathin review from still-single:
This one kinda slipped through the cracks but no way was that deserving. I’ve been burned by Montreal garage/punk/Fonzie doo-wop in the recent past, but this Stooged-out huffin’ sock of a single, nothing but wiry, tangled electric guitar, thick bass, frantic screaming and really solid…
May 2011
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Fixture Records Label Compilation No. 2 →
Fixture Records have a new free compilation out, and although I haven’t heard it yet (I’m in a public library in Moncton, NB right now and their wifi isn’t hi-fi enough for this sort of thing) I know that it’s got a couple of our songs and a couple of Freelove songs and that Fixture Records honchos Tessa and Conor have pretty excellent taste. Get it for free here:
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April 2011
7 posts
Long Long Long
Tonight we’re playing a show at the Torn Curtain with Long Long Long, a band from Halifax who just put some potent new stuff up on their bandcamp:
http://longlonglong.bandcamp.com/album/who-the-fuck-said-family-aint-family-no-more
We’ll be on first at around 9, and the room reportedly only holds 40, so get there early. Info about the show can be found here:
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Casting a Paul 2: The Paul Bearer →
The chart-busting success of the first edition of the Casting a Paul series inspired me and my team of archivists to go back down into the hit mines, unearthing such rare and precious jewels as “Live and Let Die,” and his late-period collaboration with African-American singing sensation Michael Jackson, “Say Say Say.”
I’ve allowed a Beatles-era demo (“Come...
Tuesday was my friend Caitlin’s birthday so...
March 2011
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“…you must want to win. I don’t want to be rich, but I want to win. I want...”
– Dave Hickey in an interview with Sheila Heti in a back issue of Believer Magazine. I urge you to read the whole thing, it’s terrific.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200711/?read=interview_hickey
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Bias Rock →
This is another mix; I made this one last summer, complete with xeroxed covers and my personal email address, as a way of foisting my taste on others and prolonging conversations with girls while on last summer’s Play Guitar tour across Canada.
BUNS BUNS BUNS BUNSMASTER
Casting a Paul →
Because I get tired of defending his solo work, a few weeks ago I put together this CD-length compilation of my favorite Paul McCartney songs from the 70s. Kick back and take in the effortless melodicism, the breezily complex arrangements, the lyrics about cake and comic books and, most of all, Linda. Only a loveable goofball who is completely untethered from the idea of making “serious...
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The Bandcamp →
Another branch of the exploding Sheer Agony social media empire.
February 2011
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