Indie Rock Rollercoaster

An album of disco mashups! Gonzo, it’s like you’re...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:18:30 -0500

An album of disco mashups! Gonzo, it’s like you’re reading my mind - just the thing for the Time Traveller’s Ball I’m DJing this Friday :D

Summery pentatonic melodies from the Born Ruffians’ new...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:35:56 -0500

Summery pentatonic melodies from the Born Ruffians’ new album, Birthmarks.

Second track released, first single: Needle

Could not be more excited!

New track from Young Galaxy, from their upcoming album...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:15:25 -0500

New track from Young Galaxy, from their upcoming album Ultramarine! Their last album, Shapeshifting, was pretty much on repeat in my head for a while, am ecstatic to hear more from the new one.

Much preferred to Last Christmas, Dragonette’s Merry Xmas...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:19:35 -0500

Much preferred to Last Christmas, Dragonette’s Merry Xmas (Says the Text Message)

Who would you rather be, Bob Dylan or Neil Young? Elliott Brood...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:51:00 -0500

Who would you rather be, Bob Dylan or Neil Young? Elliott Brood covers Metric’s Gimme Sympathy.

For the curious, Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young), and A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan).

Beautiful be-minor-ed takes on Christmas songs from Chilly...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:46:00 -0500

Beautiful be-minor-ed takes on Christmas songs from Chilly Gonzales.

(yes, I made up the word beminored)

Fun in the jungle for Mynabird’s “Body of...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:51:00 -0500

Fun in the jungle for Mynabird’s “Body of Work”

Muse’s new video for Madness, full of smokey lens-flared...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:45:39 -0400

Muse’s new video for Madness, full of smokey lens-flared teal-and-orange, the first single from The 2nd Law.

Mother Mother says “Let’s Fall In Love”, with...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:28:56 -0400

Mother Mother says “Let’s Fall In Love”, with this first single off their upcoming album, The Sticks! I admit, I am an unabashed fan.

Wax Mannequin plays his song “Beware” with a...

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:00:49 -0400

Wax Mannequin plays his song “Beware” with a frickin’ lit candle on his head! (for http://southernsouls.ca)

Amanda Fucking Palmer epitomizes NSFW for artful purposes, with...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:58:00 -0400

Amanda Fucking Palmer epitomizes NSFW for artful purposes, with a typographic stop-motion video for the first single off her album with the Grand Theft Orchestra, “Want It Back”.

I love the moment where she wipes off her ~~tattooed~~ eyeliner eyebrows.

Brilliant video on willful ignorance and literally nuclear...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:30:00 -0400

Brilliant video on willful ignorance and literally nuclear families for Santigold’s “The Keepers”.

Local band Don’t You Mean People with some very lovely...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:02:52 -0400

Local band Don’t You Mean People with some very lovely and rhythmic acoustic guitar and drums.

Delightfully raunchy Canadian French folk music! I particularly...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:31:00 -0400

Delightfully raunchy Canadian French folk music! I particularly enjoy track 6 (Dan Mon Litte).

Personally, I really don’t understand what they’re saying (excepting the most rudimentary word here and there), but there are times when I cannot help but want to start a hoedown.

If you love the United Steel Workers of Montreal, this is a great companion album.

A brief history of videogames. Amazingly comprehensive - I might...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:21:00 -0400

A brief history of videogames.

Amazingly comprehensive - I might suggest Katamari Damacy and Mass Effect/Dragon Age as a few missing titles.

Kishi Bashi is the solo project of K. Ishibashi (cute), a...

Fri, 25 May 2012 10:30:00 -0400

Kishi Bashi is the solo project of K. Ishibashi (cute), a touring musician with the likes of Of Montreal and Regina Spektor, who uses looping and self-recorded samples to build a symphony out of a single violin.

In other words, Kishi Bashi is like Final Fantasy, but of Japanese lineage. And this is a sentence that inverts my brain, because the Final Fantasy I’m referring to is Owen Pallett, who named himself after the highly lucrative Japanese video game franchise (he has since stopped using Final Fantasy as a stage name, to avoid incurring legal wrathification). Kishi Bashi also shares some traits with the video game, in that he clearly enjoys some elaborate costuming.

Indie Rock Rollercoaster May 12th 2012

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky \ Out of the Blue
Belles Will Ring - Mad Love \ Belles Will Ring EP
Graham Wright - Heavens Just For Moviemakers \ Shirts Vs Skins
Disasterpeace - Adventure \ FEZ
The Shins - Bait and Switch \ Port of Morrow
Fanfarlo - Tightrope \ Rooms Filled With Light
Young Liars - Echoists \ Homesick Future
Disasterpeace - Puzzle \ FEZ
Zeus - Messenger’s Way \ Busting Visions
Disasterpeace - Progress \ FEZ
Kathryn Calder - Who Are You? \ Bright & Vivid
Young Empires - Against the Wall \ Wake All My Youth
Zammuto - F U C-3PO \ Zammuto
Disasterpeace - Beacon \ FEZ
Wildcat! Wildcat! - End of the World Everyday \ End of the World Everyday
Miike Snow - Devil’s Work \ Happy To You
Ohbijou - Iron and Ore \ Metal Meets
Carina Round - You Will Be Loved \ Tigermending
Disasterpeace - Compass \ FEZ
Hands & Teeth - Song 8 \ Hunting Season
Will Currie & the Country French - City \ Awake All You Sleepers
The Fugitives - Pickled \ Eccentrically We Love
Eric Chenaux - Amazing Backgrounds \ Guitar & Voice
Kevin Myles Wilson - The Wasted Years \ Businessman
Old Time Machine - Old Mountain Shack \ Old Time Machine
Said the Whale - 2010 \ Little Mountain
Zachary Lucky - Across the Ocean \ Saskatchewan
Octoberman - Wind Up Bird \ Waiting in the Well
Ontario - Home \ Ontario EP
Knock Knock Ginger - If You Recall, I Spent That Summer In Rome \ Headed For A Fall
Beck - Summertime \ Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine? \ R U Mine
Hawksley Workman - Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off \ For Him and the Girls
The Rural Alberta Advantage - In the Summertime \ Hometown

Indie Rock Rollercoaster April 28th 2012

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Had a phoner interview with Konrad of Poor Young Things, which all Thunder Bay music sceners knew as Money Honey while they were in town.

Young Empires - Rain of Gold \ Wake all My Youth
Alex Clare - Too Close \ Lateness of the Hour
Diamond Rings - Give It Up \ Special Affections
Metric - Hustle Rose \ iTunes Sessions
Zeus - Let It Go, Let It Go \ Busting Visions
Kathryn Calder - Five More Years \ Bright & Vivid
Great Lake Swimmers - Easy Come Easy Go \
The Dudes - Girl Police \ Blood, Guts, Bruises, Cuts
Will Currie & The Country French - Railroad \ Awake, You Sleepers!
Boxer the Horse - Rattle Your Cage \ French Residency
Money Honey - Chicago Road \ Money Honey EP
Hands & Teeth - All That Was \ Hunting Season
Poor Young Things - Blame It On the Good Times \ Let It Sleep EP
Queen - Bicycle Race \ Jazz
Hawksley Workman - (The Happiest Day I Know Is A) Tokyo Bicycle \ Meat
Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream \ Walking on a Dream
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine? \ R U Mine single
Said the Whale - We Are 1980 \ Little Mountain
Young Buffalo - Anthems for a 17 Yr Old Girl \ Anthems for a 17 Yr Old Girl
Peppina - Hetki \
Amanda Palmer - (Introduction to gaga, palmer, Madonna,: A Polemic) \ An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer - Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic \ An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
Ohbijou - Metal Meets \ Metal Meets
Alvin Band - Stanley Kubrick \ Rainbow Road
Ivy - Lost in the Sun \ All Hours
First Aid Kit - King of the World \ King of the World
Disasterpeace - Forgotten \ Fragment EP
Disasterpeace - Home \ Fragment EP
Neil Gaiman - The Day the Saucers Came \ An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

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Foster the People answer the question: what do you do if your...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:28:34 -0400

Foster the People answer the question: what do you do if your band is smushed to death, two shots into making a video?

A fabulous mashup to commemorate one of the great ladies of soul...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:11:00 -0400

A fabulous mashup to commemorate one of the great ladies of soul - Amy Winehouse with a bit of GNR.