From the monthly archives:

December 2011

The Second Annual (And Now Traditional) Christmas Blogcation …..

December 23, 2011

I’ve learned a lot of things in my time as music blogger. The one that’s pertinent to this time of year is that people just stop reading blogs during the holiday season. And frankly, I could use some time off, my world gets pretty hectic too. I mean, you know, there’s new XBOX360 games to [...]

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Saint Motel – “At Least I Have Nothing”

December 22, 2011

I mentioned Los Angeles’ Saint Motel back in September, featuring a remix of their track “Puzzle Pieces”. I received a link to a new track a week or so ago, and since I’m slowly whittling down my inbox, I listened to it the other night. It’s just as brilliant. They like to refer to their [...]

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Handsome Furs – “Serve the People” Video

December 21, 2011

Huh. It would appear I blog about the Handsome Furs more often than I thought. I mean, there’s good reason to, they’re a great duo out of Montreal (Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Atlas Strategic) and his wife Alexei Perry). Their 2011 album “Kapital”, their third, made them even more fans, and they were busy touring [...]

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Happy Trendy – “Satan’s Tape” / Tour Dates

December 19, 2011

Next time you have a couple spare hours to yourself, surf on over to Bandcamp and just search for your city’s name. I mean, sure if you live in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, you’ll get more music than you can manage. But if you live somewhere like Edmonton, it’s not an altogether intimidating list, and [...]

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Tycho – “Dive” (Radio Edit) / Tour Dates

December 19, 2011

So what do we have for everyone today? A little track from Tycho (aka Scott Hansen), who we’ve never mentioned before – but some of you may be familiar with them, as they do get quite a bit of attention elsewhere. Why haven’t I talked about them before? No good reason, I suppose, but as [...]

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When Saints Go Machine – “Yellow” and “The Same Scissors”

December 16, 2011

Ethan from eightythreemusic (who rarely steers me wrong) tweeted me the other day asking if I’d ever heard of a band called When Saints Go Machine. I replied no, and then immediately put them on my “have to listen to soon” list (though not that night, it was Tuesday and my wife and I had [...]

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The Shins – Fourth Album “Port Of Morrow” To Drop March 2012

December 15, 2011

Also releasing a new album in 2012 is James Mercer’s The Shins; “Port Of Morrow”, recorded in Portland and Los Angeles, will drop sometime in March on Mercer’s own Aural Apothecary and Columbia Records. We don’t have a single yet, or tour information, but you can expect those early in the new year I would [...]

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Ting Tings – “Hang It Up” Video / New LP Info

December 15, 2011

Well, this news certainly caught my interest for much of yesterday – the Ting Tings are set to release a new album, titled “Sounds From Nowheresville”, March 6th. I absolutely loved their last album, couldn’t listen to it enough when it came out, so this is great, great news. They may be a bit poppy [...]