Thursday, April 8, 2010

Video Hits:: Yukon Blonde, Ghostkeeper & The Junction

Bit of a condensed version of the video hits this week, as starting a new project at a new company has left me jammed like it was Julius and I was Mike Cooper trying not to get flushed on. But it's Thursday, and you fine folks want videos, not my sob stories, so lets have at it.

Vancouver's Yukon Blonde has blown up a bit. The Ack was complementary of the band as he tried to short-circuit the Fleet Foxes comparisons before they got up a head of steam, and I said this about the band after catching their set during HPX: "Yukon Blonde were great: fun, polished set - they seem like they've been playing together for decades". So we liked them, but it's been surprising much I've been hearing about them from US sources. Good for them I say! Wind Blows was the standout of their HPX set for me, and so a video is a welcome development.

The next band from out west to blow up? It might very well be Ghostkeeper, as Shane Ghostkeeper & Co. have been all over the blogs of late. I haven't actually heard the album to be honest, but you can check out their new video for Haunted and decide for yourself.

To round things off, we have a new video from The Junction, who I reviewed last summer, when, ironically, I was starting my last project! Isn't that amazing, life is one big circle isn't it? Anyway, as I said in that review, The Junction's last album was perfect warm weather music, and this new single, No Road is no exception, so maybe posting it up will encourage some of that warm weather we enjoyed last weekend to come back. Enjoy!

Yukon Blonde - Wind Blows