The Duck Duck Goose Sessions are a live, improvised music collective featuring Tom Heuckendorff, JC Thompson, and Ali Siadat from Mother Mother. The group jams with the creative masterminds behind different acts touring through Vancouver from around the world every Tuesday.

First episode featuring HUMANS.. enjoy.

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How cool would it be to play in a band with three of the hottest punk rock chicks around? Ask Kenny from White Lung (srsly though, ask him). Your favourite Vancouver grunge band has a new album coming out on the 29th of May and you best be listening; get on my level.

White Lung have more or less mastered the essence of their genre. Their new album “Sorry” is like re-living your first show in your early teens… you better have hoped you brought two pairs of underwear. Can’t relate? Talk to me after you’ve blasted through the album next week.

Catch White Lung at their CD Release this Thursday night @ The Biltmore and check out their tour dates here and catch them in a city near you.

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Tiger & Woods, consisting of Larry Tiger and David Woods, are a secretive musical duo that often hides behind a fierce looking leopard logo.  They’ve recently garnered much attention for their funk infused disco, which has probably gotten them more ass than the real Tiger Woods circa 2010.

Their latest release “Through the Green” got them an 8.2 on Pitchfork media, with the track “Gin Nation” even making it on the sites top 100 tracks of 2011 list, coming in at a solid 83.   For the past few months, Tiger & Woods have been touring the world, selling out clubs in New York, London, and Miami.

While the lack of information regarding their personal histories is frustrating, especially if you fantasies involving a hotel room and bubble baths, the epicness of this dream team cannot be denied.  The only scary part is that these dudes are just getting started.

So if you want to experience the magic that is Tiger & Woods, come by FIVESIXTY (560 Seymour Street) on May 25.  Tickets are only $15.00 in advance and are available online and at the following locations: Red Cat, Puff, Zulu, Highlife and Beatstreet.

Also taking the stage is Winnie Cooper co-founder @Tristanorchard, as well as Luke Mckeehan, Joel Armstrong, DJ Woodhead, SKLA and Right Hand Barber.  Doors at 10 pm.  More information on the event page.

Tiger and Woods – Gin Nation 

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The boys are back in town… no, not like the song; like for real. After a long awaited comeback, Michael Champion and David Phu (City of Glass) will be playing a Homecoming show with Winnie favs Young Liars May 19th. RSVP on Facebook and enjoy their recent music video “Sticks and Stones” from their up and coming album.

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All right ya’ll, its time to bring out your sickest Jordan’s because FIVESIXTY is showcasing some of Canada’s dopest hip-hop on Thursday, May 10.  Here’s what we’ve got:

TOO HIGH CREW
Vancouver’s very own 20-person rap posse who have garnered a loyal cult following through clandestine shows at sushi restaurants and back alley speakeasies.

LANSE BASE
Fresh new act from Walley, Ontario. 1st they will fk your bitch then they will steal your car/taco. You’ve been warned.

TRE NYCE & JAY WORTHY
Tre Nyce has exploded onto the hip-hop/rap scene, reppin’ Vacouver harder than Japadog reps hot dogs. Hitting the stage with Jay Worthy aka P Worthy aka Grimes brother.

+ WinnieCooper.net Djs +
@tehrealwobangs
@tristanorchard

You can get yo tixs here or cop them at the door.  $8.00 in advance with 4.50 draft and tequilazzz.  Doors at 8:30 pm.

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One of the toughest tricks in being a pop musician is creating music that feels current, and yet sets itself apart from it’s peers. In the midst of Vancouver’s indie scene, Synthcake rears it’s mast. The band makes a unique blend of electronic pop music that leaves many other local acts feeling just a tad generic. Believe it or not, Lana Pitre, frontlady and songstress of Synthcake, gets away with making indie-electro-circus pop, this is honestly the best way to describe what you hear.

Molding Through the Seasons is their freshly released EP. The five tracks offer a rich blend between hallucinative and haunting lady voices, and bouncing carnival grooves that are just plain fun.

Synthcake – Drip
Synthcake – Sail Away

You can check out their EP Release on May 11th, and you can purchase a digital copy of MTS on Bandcamp.

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Download free high quality here.

Vancouver’s indie-folk rockers, Behind Sapphire, have been making a good splash with their new EP, “Diamonds”. The latest six tracks have a new taste of adventure and experimentation since their debut album in 2010.

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Hermetic is Eric Axen (baritone guitar, lead vocals) and Bart Newman (drums, backup vocals). They draw inspiration from high-energy post-punk (Minutemen, Fugazi, Mission of Burma) and heartfelt 90s indie rock (think Jawbreaker, Inbreds, Plumtree, etc).

Check out Hermetic’s LP Release w/ Chung Antique + Movieland on May 4th… you can attend here on Facebook. Enjoy their tracks Revenge Comedy, and Curmudgeons Club from their new album “Civilized City” below.

Hermetic – Revenge Comedy

Hermetic – Curmudgeons Club

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Wait a tic, ya’ll better check out what’s going on @ CANVAS (99 Powell St.) Gastown tonight. Strangelove Inc are apparently the new kids on the block for alt/electro. Launching tonight with the resurrection of DJ Tony Seoul (previously Needle Kineval), CANVAS looks like it might be cool again on Fridays. Winnie will see you there… ♥♥♥

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Join Student Loan Records Friday, April 13th at the Astoria Pub for the release of their second record. The night will include complimentary Jason Voorhees masks to celebrate “Friday the 13th,” as well as special live performances by Babysitter, Apollo Ghosts, and Korean Gut.

Apollo Ghosts – For What They Do, They Do

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Luckily for me, they’re hitting up FiveSixty nightclub on Thursday, April 12 to support their latest release off Nettwerk Records entitled Homesick Futures aka the perfect post-prom love making album.  Be careful ya’ll, wear a rubber.

Young Liars will be joined by fellow local acts The Ballantynes and Valley Girl, who have the perfect tunes for this supa chill weather.

Tickets are only $10.00 and available online or at Zulu, Beatstreet and Red Cat Records.  Doors are at 8:30pm, show at 9:30pm.

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Our little honey’s from Oh No! Yoko teamed up with Stephen O’Shea from You Say Party and made Real Boys. Check their Facebook for more info on a Western Canadian tour and enjoy their single “Vacation” from their self-titled EP.

Real Boys – Vacation

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I encourage you all to start your week off right with a sexy new single from Hot Chip. My favourite memory of Hot Chip was watching them at Coachella 2010, an older couple standing near me clearly wasn’t diggin’, and said they were just “electronic disco,” which made me wonder what acoustic disco sounds like…

Their new track Flutes is an infectious booty shaker, and it’s going to be on their new album “In Our Heads” which comes out in June on Domino Records.

Hot Chip is hitting The Commodore on September 15th which feels like 5 billion years from now but you can get tickets now and they’re going fast.

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You may have heard the saying “Music is Memory” before, but it’s not often determined what this saying means. The reference is a rhetorical question and can be interpreted in several ways.

Daniel Benjamin Buxton puts a specific definition in my head. If you’re walking around downtown Vancouver at night, between the audible pulse of electronic beats bleating from every club in a 5 block radius, you may run into D.B. playing a song entirely against the current. He will likely be, stomping on a piece of wood with a tambourine, shredding an ancient looking guitar, and howling a blues tune with almost terrifying authenticity. Buxton plays old world blues, a style that is so close to being only used in a historical sense, that he makes it entirely his own. His execution in performance is so precise, that any doubt of his act coming off as a novelty is quickly squelched.

Music is memory because it doesn’t remind us of how the world was in a prior point in history, instead it has the ability to remind us of how the world felt, this is because people have always expressed their feeling through music. D.B. Buxton has a rare gift of emulating the emotions from an important period of music that started Rock n’ Roll.

Don’t take my word for it. He is best experienced as a live performance. Buxton told Winnie that he has taken a break from music but has returned and is ready to get out and perform again. You can check him out at Guilt and Company in Gastown, perhaps the last venue downtown where you might see anything like him on stage. He is performing on Monday evening, April 2nd, and will return periodically.

For now check out a new tune Buxton sent Winnie titled “Blues on the Ceiling.”

D.B. Buxton- Blues on the Ceiling.mp3

www.dbbuxton.com

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