From the monthly archives:

October 2011

Yukon Blonde – Television Reference / On Tour / Play Edmonton Next Monday

October 31, 2011

Ha! So imagine my surprise when I’m innocently watching network television, and it turns out Neil Patrick Harris’ character (Barney) on How I Met Your Mother is 1/4 Canadian (his grandmother’s from good ol’ Manitoba), after mocking Canada since the start of the show. Colbie Smulder’s character Robin, 100% Canadian (the Robin Sparkles episodes are [...]

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Said The Whale – New Album Info / Still Touring (Aren’t They Always)

October 31, 2011

Vancouver’s Said the Whale announced last week (while driving through the great state of Florida) that their next album, due to be released March 6 2012 (although, let’s face it, that’s far enough away it could easily swing a couple weeks one way or the other at this point), will be called “Little Mountain”. More [...]

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Chad VanGaalen – Eight Cassette Albums Available On Tour / Stops In Edmonton Friday #yegmusic

October 31, 2011

Chad VanGaalen has managed to accumulate a significant number of recordings over the years that haven’t been published to date; and so he’s decided to release them – on cassettes – at his merch table during his current tour. It’s the only place you’ll be able to find them for the time being, so bring [...]

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My Weekend In Photos

October 31, 2011

Obviously I’m not the only one who thinks their weekend zooms by so fast that you could use one more day off. And it would be nice to sleep in at least one day every weekend. But such wasn’t the case this weekend. C’est la vie. Friday night my statistically significant better half convinced me [...]

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Drag Your Heels – “Walk Away”

October 28, 2011

I received an email about this Drag Your Heels on Wednesday from the folks at Dead Space Festival. I love what those guys are doing, great idea, so I took a listen, and you know what – I love the band too. This East London quartet is, well, you know what, here’s how they describe [...]

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LIVE! Paper Lions / Flamingo Bay / Slowstinger at Pawn Shop (Pics / Dates)

October 28, 2011

Early in October we streamed the track “Lost the War” from the Paper Lions. Then last night I managed to see them live at the Pawn Shop. It wasn’t easy, though, because first I had to race home after my day job, read a giant group paper that has to be submitted by Friday midnight, [...]

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On Tour: Tennis / Miniature Tigers

October 28, 2011

Regular readers may recall I saw Tennis during SXSW in March; and reviewed and raved about their album “Cape Dory” earlier in the year. They’ve already toured once this year (with the Vaccines), but they’re heading back out again, this time with Miniature Tigers, for a west coast swing. Tennis should be releasing their sophomore [...]

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Rob Crow – “Sophistructure” Video

October 27, 2011

Rob Crow – Sophistructure from Temporary Residence Ltd. on Vimeo. Regular visitors to NMM will remember a post from back in June where I did an analysis of the album releases I talk about. The second most mentioned label was Temporary Residence – it’s one of those labels that anytime I come across one of [...]