The Olio Festival lineup and schedule has been released. Book off September 23rd-26th now.

Highlights include, The Very Best, Chad VanGaalen, Tanlines and Shout Out Out Out.  The Street Boners & Tv Carnage people (the)Gavin McInnes and Derrick Beckles are coming for talk and to show their work also…

+++More local talent than you can shake a stick at. Buy your tix now so you don’t end up playing the fool.

Fine Mist have a new album coming out in the fall. These two jams are from it. Purty catchy.

Fine Mist – Stop or Start

Fine Mist – Heart Attack

Babe Rainbow has a new “Screwed” Mixtape. This site ran a nice lil interview with him and talks about a potential LilB collab. exciting!

Babe Rainbow – “Screwed”Mixtape

Tracklisting:

1. Wake Up, Mr. Flowers – Lil B
2. Hit U Up – Lil Wayne feat Hot Boyz
3. Return of the G – Outkast
4. Life’s A Bitch – Nas
5. Ready To Die – Notorious BIG
6. Not A Stain – Jhi-Ali
7. S.O.D. Money Gang – Soulja Boy
8. Silence – Company Flow
9. Paradise – G-Side
10. Mommy, What’s a Gravedigga – Gravediggaz
11. Up – Tyler, the Creator with Domo Genesis & Hodgy Beats

The music making machine, Teen Daze has some new tracks. Here’s one he did for a Heart Music Group collaboration and a Japandroids cover.

Teen Daze – June 2010

Teen Daze – Wet Hair (Japandroids Cover)

We have another No More Strangers show with Teen Daze Sept 17th at the Cobalt. An “all Abbotsford kids” show with Oh No! Yoko and Young Liars who are finishing up a new album.  Here’s a sneak peak of one of the tracks and another Teen Daze remix.

Young Liars – Marathon

Young Liars – Colours (Teen Daze Remix)

Makeout Videotape have been up to their old tricks, making vids.

World Club have a “very dope” brand new ep. They’re on tour right now in the US so hit up their myspace for more info.

You can download the entire ep for free here (you should)

World Club – Static Kill

World Club – Eagle

Walter Tv have a new video for their track Grandpa.

Twee Death and Pop Drones are putting on a couple of shows this week. Wednesday at Nouvelle Nouvelle (209 Abbott Street at Water St. in Gastown) full info here. Broken Water from Olympia are playing. These tracks are from their new debut album. Also playing are Nu Sensae who were so great at NMS on Saturday

Broken Water – Heal

Broken Water – Web

Sunday at the Anza Oneida from NY are playing. Full details here.

+++ This weekend Winnie / No More Strangers presents, Shimmering Stars, Bummer High and Web Sherriff at the Cobalt plus guest deejay set by Parallels on Friday.

and Myths, Mt-40, JDH and guest dj Bobby Siadat at Goodie on Saturday.

Shimmering Stars – Sabians

Is Soko the every-woman?

I just want to hug and kiss you and tell you not to be soooo mad.

Her myspace says “she quits”! quit what? don’t quit! More Soko pleeeeease.

Why not make a fortune, creating a program that you type words into that speaks it back to you with your accent and intonation?

Soko – Love No (The Teenagers cover)

We have a brand new No More Strangers mix just in time for our 1 year birthday celebration this Saturday.

Hope to see you there! xox

ps, we are going weekly!

No More Strangers Vol. 3 – Mixed by Hunk The Drunk

tracklisting

Leonard Cohen – Stranger Song

Pegase – Without Reason

Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Juxx Remix)

Jeremy Jay – Gallop

Pacific! – Hot Lips

Silent Talk – My Risonare

Say Hi – Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Sebastien Tellier – Divine

Handsome Furs – Legal Tender

Don Cash – Jeanette Cassette

The Teenagers – Feeling Better (Minitel Rose Remix)

Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance (Miike Snow Remix)

Peaches – Talk To Me

Miike Snow – Animal (Crookers Remix)

Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind (Hunk’s 12′ Cut Up)

Happy New Year…?

My New Year resolutions for 2k9:

No more fist pounds. If someone comes towards you trying to intiate one, the new thing to do is, “the downward wrist chop”, followed by a firm and audible “no”.

Try to quit smoking. Why not quit smoking rather than trying to? because smoking is so great. Everyone who smokes and tried to quit knows this, sometimes it takes quiting to realize. The most interesting people at any party are always found in the smoking area.

Be really mean. 2k9 is the year of being really mean. The hippie ideal of loving one another has not worked out. This year i’m going to try to be the biggest asshole / jerk / shit head I can. So far it feels great.

Lastly, because I can’t think of any other things that I could improve on, don’t hoard all the good songs. I have this imaginary mix tape that im always making and I save all the good songs for it. Fuck it. Heres to 2k9, isn’t it amazing? How many days till summer? Thankgod for music.

From our BFF’s site Ohh! Crapp.

The Teenagers – Feeling Better (Minitel Rose Remix)

From This Scene Is Dead. Spacey techno to bug out to.

Autechre – Bike

Ponytail are from Baltimore. This one has spazz pop written all over it.

Ponytail – Beg Waves

Is this band really from Montreal?
Of Montreal – Engager

Lifelike usually lays it on a little too thick for my liking. this one is just right

Lifelike – L.O.V.E. Is What You Need

From You Can Call Me Pelski. Dubstepp.

Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game (Moody Boyz Vocal Mix)

Who won the Passion Pit remix competition on this song anyways? Who won the Reckenor one also? so many questions…

Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (LOL Boys Remix)

Maroon 5 have a remix album out with some top notch producers on board. They have done a great job of actually making M5 listen-able.

Maroon 5 – This Love (Cut Copy Galatic Beach House Mix)

I love this. Songs like this cheer me up.

Ruby Suns – Palmitos Park (El Guincho Cover)

If you HAVE to listen to only one track this year, it’s “Homecoming” by The Teenagers. It is a laugh-your-ass-off-funny track—and at the same time it somehow manages to say something almost profound about those 20somethings wanting so desperately to be a character from the The Hills.

The Teenagers, however, are more than just that one kick ass song. They skewer geeky teenage obsession on “Starlett Johansson” and comment on those complete strangers so willing to be your new myspace/facebook best friend on “Fuck Nicole.”

Quentin from the band was surprisingly subdued—insisting that his life is not all about alcohol and ketamine, but “has some other stuff as well, like fruits and veggies.” He also revealed the family-friendly lyrics they use when performing the chorus to their controversial “Homecoming” song—“I touched my American crush”—and talked about his own crush on the original 90210’s Shannen Doherty.

The Teenagers on the interview show

The Teenagers “Fuck Nicole”

The Teenagers “Starlett Johanson” (Les Petits Pilous Remix)