Archive for September, 2009:
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Felix Da Housecat – We All Wanna Be Prince
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La Roux – I’m Not Your Toy
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HEALTH – Die Slow
OB4CL2 IN STORES NOW
“Ayo I’ve been wanting to say this 4 a long time “OB4CL2″ in stores now! NIGGAZ I’M BACK! GO COP THAT!” – Raekwon on Twitter
Unbelievably “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. 2″ is NOT AVAILABLE on iTunes Canada. Hope they fix that STAT.
SWARM
Flores went to NYC last month and I forgot to tell him that the art world closes down for 3 months every summer. Artists have been finding finding ways around it, like exhibiting in the Hamptons where all the Manhattanites go to vacation.
Vancouver did its best this summer with the Drawn Festival. Thankfully everything is getting back to normal starting this week with SWARM, the annual art gallery crawl. Check out their website for full schedules. And remember, it’s FREE!
Down The Line
With summer coming to an end, it’s almost time to start listening to music that goes well with dark afternoons, bowls of soup, big warm sweaters, and giant furry blankets.
My autumn playlist is pretty much all Fleetwood Mac, but Gerry Rafferty can be thrown in there too.
Best known for the amazing ‘Baker Street’ song, Gerry Rafferty was also a member of Stealers Wheel.
Here’s my personal favourite off the City To City LP.
Gerry Rafferty – Right Down The Line
No Pigeons
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Remember Sporty Thieves? Yeah me neither.
Still funny though.
Sat
Yeppers it’s NO MORE STRANGERS time, getting some new tunes together. The one I am most excited about you ask? From Toronto.
Fri-Day
As expected, here is your Friday song.
You’re gonna wanna play this while you get all pretty to head out for the weekend.
Don’t forget… Winnie hopes to see you this weekend:
SATURDAY – No More Strangers with Dreamboat, Balacade, and Stefana Fratila plus indie pop disco dance with the Winnie DJs (click here)
SUNDAY – Long Weekend end of summer Dance Party with the Winnie Cooper DJs playing the best songs in the history of the world (click here)
I was an O.G. Teenage Emo
Sunny Day Real Estate have just re-released thier debut album “Diary”. To me they are one of the godfathers of emo before it became Jimmy Eat World / post 00′, then further deteriorated into My Chemical Romance and Angels and (H)Airw(e)aves. I had forgotten how good Diary is, it has aged well.
Sunny day Real Estate’s original lineup have reuinted and they are heading off on tour. they are here in Van-schmitten September 17th. Check their website for more dates.
Sunny Day real Estate – In Circles (94)
While were on the topic of emo…. A lot of my emo cds aren’t playing anymore, I was a napster whiz kid and a lot of them were burnt discs as hard drives were only 6gb back then so you had to burn everything to disc to free up space. Ive been doing a lil emo revisiting.
I remember trying to get in to see The Promise Ring at the Starfish Room and being super wasted as only an 18 year can be. I showed the bouncer my library card as ID and was told to never come back. I went and passed out in my friends car, he had fake id and got in. super bummer. never got to see them play.
The Promise Ring – Why Did We Ever Meet (97)
This was my friday song
The Get Up Kids – Holiday (99)
the acoustic version of this is even more emo.
The Ataris – San Dimas High School Football Rules (99)
I just posted some David Bazan, this is his first group. It was released on Jade Tree Records which was like the ultimate Emo / awesome label.
Pedro The Lion – Of Minor Prophets and their Prostitute Wives (98)
Is this emo? You can’t really mention emo with out talking about old school weezer IMHO. This is a blue album b-side that Rivers wrote about two girls that ended up running the Weezer fan club through their early interest in the band. They were the first members of the club. They died tragically in a car crash in 97′ and are said to be one of the reasons for the downtime post pinkerton.
Some Canadian emo.
I love how they look so sad on this cover. Come on cheer up, Kurt did it to himself. It will all be ok, just look forward to the rave era. Happy pills, kids.
Sloan – Coax Me (94)
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Is this emo? Does it have to have more of a punk element to be emo? Feel free to dispute any of these claims or suggests others I missed.
Hayden – As bad as they seem (95)
Hayden – Summer (95)
Ok I’ll leave it on this as im getting way to weepy and feel like cutting myself.
American Football – I’ll See You When We’re Both Not So Emotional (99)
