You don’t have to be a fan of  the 80’s songstress Sade to enjoy this smooth new track from Toronto’s Times Neue Roman. It’s jazzy undertones and psychedelic rhyming will make you crave some B.C. bud.  And coincidentally enough, this jam was recorded at a cabin deep within our province’s outback.

So take a minute and let your mind move in slow motion.

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Hello folks!

Ever had a band stay with you? Every been in a band and had trouble finding a place to stay after the show?

Last summer, I did a freelance piece for CBC Radio 3 on this topic. It aired today on Lanarama on CBC Radio 3.

Scott Wood and Couch Surfing

They usually put up these projects on their blog, so I can link to it, but they didn’t this time. Sadz. I will put up my rough edit so you can hear the funny stories from Carpenter, Ember Swift and Styrofoam Ones.

I also talked to some other cool bands about the same thing for the interview show in a sort of x-over! the interview show Summer Tour Special has great tales from Fallan Soldier,  Times Neue Roman, Humans and White Cowbell Oklahoma. Enjoy!

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Humans “Bike Home”

Times Neue Roman “Music and Math”

Fallan Soldier “Fights”

White Cowbell Oklahoma “Happy Ending”

Ember Swift “Disarming”

Carpenter “Don’t Go”

Styrofoam Ones “Pavement”

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Times Neue Roman don’t sleep. They are back with a new vid. Look close for a cameo by TO’s April Aliermo from the band Hooded Fang.

Happy Heart Day everyone.

Here are some tracks to show the love. And all of these guys will be on the interview show real soon.

Arowbe & Rich Kidd “Coolest Girl” Arowbe (Times Neue Roman) and Rich Kidd have collaborated on a special track for Valentine’s Day. “Coolest Girl” reminisces on an unrequited crush for the coolest girl in school.

Eamon McGrath “Wrecking Ball” This kid is just plain cool.

Boats “TV Scientist” A cool band not many people know enough about.

This is it!

We end things this year with a bang! For me, 2010 was filled with plenty of insanity, so I thought I would celebrate with an end-of-the-year, star-studded jam, featuring my favorite bands telling insane tales about being on tour!

the interview show’s All-Star Jam “A Tribute to the Tour!”

Yes, that’s right! FOUR bands and FOUR tales about touring!

When I reached him, Fallan Soldier just got back from his very first tour. Hear him tell the tale! Fallan Solider “Fights”

Arowbe from Times Neue Roman talks about finding love and a place to stay in a foreign land! Times Neue Roman “Music & Math”

Robbie Slade from Humans parties with the best in LA! Humans “Bike Home”

And Clem and his band White Cowbell Oklahoma break down in the middle of nowhere and encounter… Sasquatches?! White Cowbell Oklahoma “Happy Endings”

BTW: White Cowbell are currently on tour…

12.04: Edmonton, AB @ The Pawn Shop
12.05: Jasper, AB @ Downstream
12.06: Banff, AB @ Wild Bill’s
12.07: Golden, BC @ Rockwater’s
12.08: Revelstoke, BC @ Outabounds
12.09: Whistler, BC @ Dusty’s
12.10: Victoria, BC @ Lucky’s
12.11: Vancouver, BC @ The Penthouse

Have a great holiday season! See you in 2011!

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Remember this girl from 2006?

Uffie‘s back. It’s time for the re-attack of the damn crazy brat!

Back in 2006, Uffie was one of the most controversial figures in indie music. She couldn’t quite sing, she couldn’t quite rap, yet Uffie was being played in all the hottest clubs. She was backed by Ed Banger and hung out with some of the most cutting edge guys in the French electro scene: Justice, Mr. Oizo, SebastiAn and Feadz, to name a few.

Well now it’s 2010, so time to catch up! Uffie called me from a Fireman’s bar in New York and she told me the question she hated being asked the most “Where the fuck have you been?!?” Plus, Which Ed Banger genius never leaves his house? and Ke$ha… You have to hear it!

Uffie on the interview show

Uffie “MCs Can Kiss” My fav off the new record.

Uffie “Pop The Glock” (Mirwais Pop Remix) This track started it all.

Uffie – “Hot Chick” (dj feadz edit) Feadz is the most underappreciated of the Ed Banger DJs.

Coming up… Can you believe it? We only have two shows left in 2010! Next week, we have a party with DVAS and then we end the year with a superstar jam! We’ve got Robbie Slade from Humans, Fallan Soldier, Arowbe from TNR, and Clem from White Cowbell Oklahoma, all on one show. It has to be heard to be believed!

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Times Neue Roman ALERT!

The TNR guys are in our fair city right now, working on their next record. They will also be doing a show at the Cobalt this Friday as part of the magical Olio Festival. A great chance to catch one of Canada’s undiscovered hip hop upstarts.

Early on, TNR got the tag “Nintendo rap,” but **please** do not use that term. These guys don’t like it. They even came up with their own name for what they do, “deco rap.”

Any way,these guys can rawk a party. See you there!

Times Neue Roman on the interview show

Times Neue Roman “Music and Math” Remember when everyone was putting a rapper over a Darude track? This song is a nice callback to those days, and a great look forward. And, TNR tell me it gets those ladies dancing on the floor. Listen to it and practice, people!

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I wish I lived in a cool city like Toronto and could go to cool parties like this. :(

Times Neue Roman and Pabst Blue Ribbon present:
The Official ‘TALKING SPORTY’ EP Release Party
With special guest Warm It Up Chris

FRIDAY JULY 16th 2010
10 PM SHARP

FREE / GUEST LIST ONLY

RSVP to tnr.pbr@gmail.com for guest list and address/directions.

Not only is Winnipeg’s favorite son, Chris Jericho a WWE superstar, but he also has written a book, starred in film and tv–oh yeah, and he has his own band, F o z z y. He teamed up with industry stalwart Rich Ward, who was a founder of rap-metal pioneers Stuck Mojo. I asked Rich why he thinks the genre doesn’t get a lot of respect and he had some surprising things to say about metal-rap–and Winnipeg’s own Chris Jericho.

Chris Jericho’s Fozzy on the interview show

Fozzy “Martyr No More”

Was at the Fallan Soldier / Dragon Fli Empire show on Saturday and homegrown hip hop was flexing its biceps.

Fallan Soldier “Fights” Love this ringtone beat.

Also, friends Times Neue Roman are putting out their new EP Talking Sporty on July 6, 2010 with YYZ Records.

Times Neue Roman “Roq Roq” Show them some love. Buy it!

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Here is the result of a recent TNR jam session with indie TO band Tonka Puma. (Shhhhh! A leaked demo for the interview show and winniecooper.net fans only!)

Times Neue Roman “Toronto”. Hmmm. Irony, anyone?

Promotion is hard for any upstarts. And these guys have created an interesting keepsake to promote the band.

The walkman includes a Times Neue Roman cassette, headphones and batteries. A cassette tape?! Wow. (BTW: The tape has the whole TMR record on it and some bonus tracks, I understand.)

An extinct device from the golden era of hip hop that plays a cassette by a bunch of guys who do video game bleep-bloop hip hop beats.

Awesome.

I think these are sold out but if you are interested, check out the deets here.

Local boy makes good! Everyone loves a success story–and here’s another one! Vancouver-to-TO-transplant Arowbe and his crew Times Neue Roman were on your favorite show back in June.

Since then, one of their tracks has been video gamed! So, being the cruel bastard I am,  I thought I would email them some questions for all the guys to answer while they are stuck in the tour van–on their first tour.

the interview show: You guys are on a tour right now. What’s the best and worst thing so far?

Arowbe: The great baggage explosion of the 401 Highway. The straps on the roof racks just ripped and our tent, sleeping bags and yoga mats flew off onto the highway. This was very disagreeable for me. The tentpoles got crushed by the two 18-wheelers behind us. So we stopped and quarreled for a bit and took turns trying to be heroes like we were going to jump in front of the speeding cars to get our stuff back. The best thing about the tour has been the sympathetic and bounteous people who put us up in their homes.

Alexander The:  This devil tour put us in a haze from the start.  We packed everything, I mean from boiled eggs, oranges, guitars, bass amps, undies, a couple of 40s, drums & synths.  Our purple jelly bean we were riding in was fully packed. It seemed like our van took the roof rack off like a jansport back pack with all our sleeping necessities and said “fuck it, u ain’t sleepin’ on this tour”.  The best was definitely getting hooked up with places to crash at each spot.

Arowbe: Another objectionable thing for me was this picnic basket that Alexander purchased at Value Village in Ottawa. He was really pumped about it on some, “Yeah! Babymoms is gonna love this! I’m going to take her for a picnic when I get home.” But Josh’s minivan was harsh chockablock already and the picnic basket was really family-sized. It kept getting in my way all the time.

Alexander The:  I needed to buy the picnic basket so I have a place to put my new A-Life Pony shoes in it.  No one understands. No one.

Arowbe: It’s Beelzebub’s picnic basket.

the interview show: Who has brought the most interesting new find to the tour van playlist?

Arowbe: Always Josh from Styrofoam Ones. His name is J Catalog.   My favourite was this cover of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Higher Ground’ by Ellen Mcilwane. Another was Bob Dylan and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes.’ I had never heard these recordings.

Alexander The:  Os Mutantes. Definitely amazing band from Brazil.  It was again another J Catalog selection.  He’s definitely the Most Valuable Sound Selecta off our tour.  He even kept sneakin’ in David Lynch’s Audiobook “Catching the Big Fish”.  Who does that?

the interview show: I’ve heard you called a “post-rap duo”… what does this mean to you?

Arowbe: It means we are gorgeous, haphazard, kinky and jejune. It’s okay for us to leave the house with scuffs on our shoes. We are free.

the interview show: Your brand new 8-bit inspired single, “Roq Roq” was featured on the soon-to-be released EA Sports game “Fight Night: Round 4″ (Xbox 360 and Playstation 3)… Getting placements like this can be a way of legitimizing acts that don’t get a lot of radio or club play, agree or disagree?

Arowbe: In our case, I suppose it kind of legitimizes the song. The production reconstructs the classic videogames, and then it ends up getting featured on a new game. I like the cyclical aspect of that. The hook is a bit of a nod to Afrika Bambaataa of course, who also happened to be featured on the soundtrack to Fight Night.

Alexander The:  Agreed.  It totally brings our childhood days full circle.

the interview show: How did you get in the game?

Arowbe: I have no idea. We are the one unknown band on it. A friend of ours passed it to someone who passed it to someone who picked it for the game. I didn’t even know it was gonna be in the game until I ran into this guy I went to high school with in a steam room. He was working for EA and he confirmed to me that our song made it into Fight Night before it was announced to us or to the public yet.

Alexander The:  It was pretty much a friend of a friend dated a friend now living on the West Coast who knew a friend in EA.  Now we’re friends.

the interview show: What’s it like to play a game and hear your song?

Arowbe: It’s funny. They censored some words like ‘oral’, and even some made-up words like ‘murderate.’

Alexander The:  Who cares about getting it played for clubs when u can get Tyson, Ali and Pacquiao to enter the ring playin’ ur track!

the interview show: What will you guys do with all that video game moolah?

Arowbe: It wasn’t that much. If you found out how much, you would probably kiss your teeth. The money just goes back into the band. We camp on tour.

Alexander The:  Without camping gear.

the interview show: When can we expect new music from Times Neue Roman?

Arowbe: We just released a dub-step remix of “To Die” on 12 inch vinyl.  Our full-length album is coming out as a hand-painted  cassette Walkmans. The walkman comes with our tape inside, batteries and headphones. So you can just listen. That has all of our songs, unreleased ones. It will be available at our shows or maybe if you just email us nicely we could send you one.

Alexander The: Twennyfivebucks.

Arowbe: We have an EP of remixes on the way too.

Times Neue Roman “Roq Roq” Shhhh! Here is the song… take a listen and get their record at their myspace!

the interview show may be on holidays, but the interviews just keep coming! Check back in mid-September for our season premier… METRIC…!