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Here’s some albums I’ve been listening to lately:
Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us…
It sounds like Broken Social Scene. I think that’s all that needs to be said.
Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
Trade in the blue microdot for Valium. This a laid-back album about telling the Grim [...]

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Here’s some albums I’ve been listening to lately:
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
I’ve never been disappointed by the Hold Steady’s previous albums and the trend continues. Stay Positive is chock full of the sordid tales from Craig Finn that we’ve come to know and love.
No Age - Nouns
If Jack White was weened on Sonic [...]

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Popular music annoys me. It all sounds so very drab and uninteresting, and bores the hell out of me. I’ve repeated this ad nauseum to poor Dena. Pop rock. Pop rap. Pop country. Pop pop. It’s all poop to me.
I never understood why the music that the [...]

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There’s a band from Toronto that I’ve been listening to a lot lately. They’re called Holy Fuck and they’ve been providing me with the ultimate soundtrack to coding, planning or simply brainstorming. If I had to lump them into a genre, it would definitely be post rock (which I’m already a fan [...]

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Another year, another smattering of good albums. There were plenty of shitty albums released this year, too, but you won’t find any of them here
In years past, I’ve written a thing or two about each album and how it left an impression on me. Due to the sheer volume of good [...]

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Sometimes my ears and brain work together in perfect harmony. Last week on the drive home, Bookie played “Backed Out On The…” from the new Kevin Drew album, Spirit If…. While listening to it, I thought, “wow, this sounds like an awesome Dinosaur Jr. song” - the guitar solos sold me on that [...]

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Let’s a take a break from all of the tech geek babble that I unleash upon the Web here. I want to speak about music - specifically Canadian indie rock - more specifically Arcade Fire’s new album, Neon Bible - sickeningly more specifically the roads to indie rock success. Ha, specifically.

Arcade [...]

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I thought that 2006 was stellar year for music. My list of favourite albums for this year is the longest one since I started posting my annual list 4 years ago. It’s interesting to note the genres represented in each of my lists. Where last year’s contained many subdued electronic albums, this year’s [...]

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Check out an interview Barry and I did with the Silversun Pickups - a promising new band from Los Angeles.
The interview’s over at Earlyfish.com.

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This year, I was all about different sounds. 2005 might as well go down as the year that UK indie bands that sound like the 80’s Brit Invasion bands (XTC, Squeeze, Talk Talk, Joy Division, etc) took over. I wasn’t really into it since I heard it all before in the basement of [...]

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Sites like Pitchfork, CMJ and NME merely tell you which music is cool, instead of allowing you to voice your opinion. Enter Earlyfish.com - yeah, I don’t get the name either…Barry chose it
Essentially, Barry, Pat and yours truly will mention albums of the moment that we’re into and allow for an open [...]

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Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Last night, Pearl Jam and Sleater-Kinney put on a brilliant show at The Aud. It all started unexpectidly when Eddie Vedder came out on stage while the house lights were still on with nothing but an acoustic guitar and performed a rendition of the Beatles’ “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love [...]

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