Saturday night Scion presented East Vancouver’s Shad and Montreal’s Miracle Fortress at Fortune Sound Club.

A nominee for 2007 Polaris Music Prize, Miracle Fortress is another one of Secret City Record’s gems. Explained as “bedroom club,” their indie pop sound is highly versatile, delivering heavy tech sounds and plenty of reverb.

Most of the kids I chatted to post show had no idea who Miracle Fortress were before tonight – but every single one of ‘em said they would check the band out after the set they had delivered. New record Was I the Wave hit stores Apr 26th.
Miracle Fortress – Raw Spectacle by SecretCityRecords. Uploaded with BandPage by RootMusic

Juno Award winner (2010) and nominee (2011) for Rap Recording of the year, 2008 Polaris Music Prize nominee and National Posts’ “best rapper in Canada”, Shad K is a Canadian who has been compared to the likes of Common and K-os. A slightly more old-school 90’s sound that focuses on social causes with an air of humor that keeps everyone stoked.

The 5 minute a-cappella Shad turned out kicked everyone’s ass Saturday night. Whereas most of his set was hard to hear over the bass heavy tracks. Song, “Rose Gardens” was a crowd fave and “Old Prince” got everyone hyped. Playing with a live bassist added a genuine flair that really suits Shad’s whole appeal. His new album Tsol is worth checking out.

Shad – Rose Garden

Shad – Yaa I Get It

-Alana McDowell

Back in Vancouver for a few days now. I have almost recovered. Slept for 12hours last night. Think i’m getting sick. I miss Austin, drinking all day, sleeping little and most of all “being shitty” which we decided the upside down peace sign is the international symbol for. Spread the good word.

Apologies to anyone who wasn’t at SXSW that I pissed off with my drunk tweets.  Thank god, I had my camera and my twitter account or I would have no idea what happened.

Without further adoo-doo.

Day 1. PS I Love You (Kingston, ON) at Canada House.

PS I Love You – 2012

Our cab driver didn’t know where to get any green but he did have MCat. That was a highlight of our trip.  It was particularly nice for James Blake (UK).

James Blake – Limit To Your Love (Tanzlife edit)

Cecil of Gobble Gobble (san fran / Edmonton).

Gobble Gobble – Where is My Mind (Pixies Blasphemy)

Gold Panda – You (UK)

Wolf Gang (far left and middle)(No relation to Odd Future). They are from England and are pretty chill bros.

Wolf Gang – Back To Back (Active Child Remix)

Wolf Gang – Dancing With The Devil (Outer Limits Recordings’ Coco Bongo Club remix)

DAY 2. Hot Panda (Vancouver) at Sxsw Olio, Mint Records, Music Waste Showcase. Oh man their bass player is talented / h h hot.  p p  p please do us show with us in Vancouver Hot Panda.

Hot Panda – Mindlessnesslessness

Grimes (Montreal) at the Olio, Music Waste, Mint Records showcase @ Headhunters. I still havn’t heard back about my marriage proposal to Grimes via twitter. Still open. ooo gawd.

Grimes – Feyd Rautha Dark Heart (karnheartrevisit)

Bikini (Victoria / New York) at Headhunters.

Bikini – ACheerleader

Bikini – ((())) _ Diamond’s Departure

Humans (Vancouver) @ 7-11. Yes we have 7-11′s in Canada. They don’t sell booze though.  I think this is some unreleased new Humans. Hopefully I don’t get in trouble for posting it.

Humans – Way It Happens

Black Lips (Atlanta) at a Vice party.

Black Lips – Bad Kids

DAY 3. HotTub (Oakland) at Palm Door. These guys are like on some Salt n Peppa tip.  Lol. They have a song about 4loko.

Hottub – 1-2-3-GO!

Hottub – HOTTUB (FOUR) LOKOS ONLY MOCHIPET REMIX

Miracle Fortress (Montreal).  (Not the sunglasses bro, he’s alright though)

Miracle Fortress – Maybe Lately

Miracle Fortress – Digital Love (Daft Punk Cover)

Quadron. This Danish duo were amazing.  Soul.  In Vancovuer April 12th.

Quadron – Average Fruit (10.4 Rogs Gradeschool Crush Version)

Quadron – Baby Be Mine (Michael Jackson Cover)

Quadron – Slippin

Skrillex (L.A.) was one of the most intense / fun shows I saw. Duhbbstephhhin.

Skrrillex – Do Da Oliphant

Class Actress (Brooklyn).

Class Actress – Journal Of Ardency

@tristanorchard “Dude. These kids are killing in the back yard. ? R tehy? http://t.co/Nmwrl1u” OMG they were tight and I don’t mean their buttholes. From NY via Arizona.

The Young Friends – I Wont Break Your Heart

The Young Friends – Downtown

I blogged about these guys a while back. It was pretty cool to watch them and find out who they were.  Dead Gaze (Mississippi)

Dead Gaze – This Big World

Eric our new friend from San Fran who works for Intel.

DAY 4. Big Freedia (New Orleans) at the Mess With Texas tent.  Right before everyone jumped on stage and some drunk guy pulled down his pants and showed his peen for a long ass time.

Big Freedia – Get Back

Had to jump the fence to get backstage and then sneak past security to hang off the scaffolding backstage for Odd Future (L.A.).  Some girls started fighting next to me for position and were pulling each others hair.  Diddy showed up and was hanging out backstage.  I swear he looked at me hanging of the scaffolding like a douche with my camera and gave me a lil wink, like, “Never give up kid”. Awesome. Tried to follow him to find the Kanye West penthouse party but I swear he disappeared into thin air. Might of been a hologram.

Tyler The Creator – Yonkers

Tyler The Creator – Sandwitches

Fave chill bro, Teen Daze (Vancouver) at Soho.

Teen Daze – Together

Basketball (Vancouver) at Soho.

Basketball – Suspiros de Chile

Jamie XX (London) at Barcelona.  I told my friend Becky to go ask a guy standing next to the bassbin if he was Jamie XX. Totally was! NBD right. Swoon. Too bad she lost her voice.

FaltyDL – Hip Love (Jamie XX Remix)

Vancouver peeps at an after party on the last night.

DAY 5. Last day. Hanging out in a field at a school killing time before flights home with the roommates. Party pain. Can you tell who went to bed the earliest / is the most responsible?

Stay tuned for the video footage. Just say no kids.

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XO-T

How perfect is this?

Daft Punk will be creating an original score for the upcoming Tron sequel.

Tentatively titled Tron 2.0, production is set for this spring with a release in 2011.

Of course, tracks by the French duo are ALL OVER the internet… here’s something a little different.

Miracle Fortress – Digital Love (Daft Punk Cover)