To be fair, this post more about a fantastic Vancouver DIY effort that new material from a great band, but it was the latest Apollo Ghosts single that tipped me off to the whole affair. It’s no secret that Apollo Ghosts are my favorite band right now. The band puts out punchy guitar ditties, gives(…)
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been reading and dismissing the (as of yet) failed pop culture experiment that is Bill Simmons new web site, Grantland. The only apt comparison I’ve come up for the bland, boring content is to place the collection of authors alongside any of the many failed “supergroups.” As with(…)
Voting starts for this year’s Polaris Prize tomorrow and after much humming and hawing (and precious little payola), I’ve narrowed down my list to the Top Five. A couple of records fought hard for inclusion – and I hope they make it through so I can vote for them in Round Two – but(…)
We missed the Video Hits last week, and as a result we’re bursting at the seams with video goodness. Specifically, we have a bunch of vids from what the majority of Canadians not from the Atlantic region refer to as “Eastern Canada”: Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. So let’s do it. One of my favorite(…)
Cavernous. Subterranean. Enough reverb to drown you. Yeah, pretty much another tater from Alex Hungtai. Dirty Beaches is pushing the envelope every time he steps in the studio, and the 8-minute adventure into the darkness is a great, albeit unmastered hint at where this ever evolving musician is headed next. It’s not standard Saturday(…)
Back in 2008, it seemed that Alex Zhang Hungtai’s – a.k.a. Dirty Beaches – music was destined to be heard by only the most devoted of fans (really outside of Said the Gramophone, herohill & Weird Canada, his sound collages seemed to be lost in the quagmire). Admittedly, that had less to do with the(…)
Stumbling onto Master Chef, a super lo-fi, noise duo from East Van, wasn’t as easy as it should have been. Considering the musicians involved are major players in two herohill favs – Adrian from Apollo Ghosts and Alex from Dirty Beaches – even a quick scan of their respective myspaces reveals nary a mention of(…)
