Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
HAPPY FRIDAY: Tonje Langeteig - " I Don't Wanna be a Crappy Housewife".
Norway brings you the new Rebecca Black and intense heartburn.
100 Mile House CD Launch June 4, 2011 at The Empress Ale House, Edmonton AB.
*ED NOTE: The kick off starts Wednesday May 18th at the Empress as well.
PleaseComePleaseComePleaseCome... they are incredible.
I can't even tell you how much I love 100 Mile House.
I recall seeing them at the Crown & Anchor for the first time and they just blew me away. So beautiful and such a great sound.
They are releasing their next album June 4th and if you are in the Alberta area, please make a point to check these guys out.
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| http://www.100milehouse.co.uk/ |
Also, Peter Stone really misses English pies so if you could, perhaps wrap up one of those as a gift. ;)
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| Greg did the first band poster for them. It was incredible. |
LoveLoveLove.
Ben Folds Covers Ke$ha's 'Sleazy'.
It never occurred to me that people may not have heard this yet, because it is necessary if you enjoy Ben Folds and things that are great.
It was recorded for the Tsunami Relief Fund.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?4hwr20p5b4sb1ws
If Time Doesn't Exist, Then What Am I Wasting..?
Thank you, Crown & Anchor for another Thursday worth not forgetting.
;)
xoxoxoxoxmeow.
The Solidarity Rock Benefit & Gear Drive.
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| The parking spot I scored at the airport when picking up LePage. |
Just a note to say that today is Thirsty Thursdays and we are heading down to the Crown & Anchor for an extra special cause tonight. The Solidarity Rock Benefit & Gear Drive is to benefit rock & roll artists and the music community in Cuba.
They are looking for some solid instrument donations to send down to Cuba in May. If you've got an old guitar, bass, drum heads, sticks, guitar and bass strings, cables, mics... etc.... they will take it and put it in the hands of people who need it.
Oh, and did I mention there will be bands?
THE FIGHT
FREE ELLIOTT
BOMBCHAN
OLD SINS
Always a great time at the Crown, but now it can be a great night for Cubans as well.
;)
Record Store Day. (Because it's Not a Starbucks Yet.)
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| http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home |
Since it started in 2007, this event has caught on as a nationwide celebration of the little neighborhood shop and a reminder of how important it is to music. In this age of the digital download, it's easy to forget how awesome it is to wander through the aisles of a record store and discover a band you might not have found on an iTunes best-sellers list.
A bunch of artists have put together limited-edition Record Store Day releases available only at participating stores (I'm totally coveting the Andrew Bird/Loney Dear 7" and the previously unreleased Flight of the Conchords songs). In addition, cool events are taking place at stores around the country today — for example, the independent store in my neighborhood, Permanent Records, has Christian Hansen playing.
I dig the convenience of digital music, but I adore independent record stores for the character, the composition, and the human element that is so important to me. So take a stroll today and see what interesting events are happening where you are.
And if you are in Edmonton, later on swing by the Pile Up Art Show.
PILE UP: An Art Show for People Who Like Art.
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Poster Courtesy of Greg Tymofichuk. |
One of Greg's best friends Nate is putting on an art show with music, painting, sketching, burlesque, fashion, film, and photography. It will be wet and it will be wild.
Maybe not that wet. But wild.
And Whiskey-y... since Whiskey Wagon will be playing.
SEE YOU THERE.
Beastie Boys' Fight for Your Right- Revisited Trailer is HERE.
"Here we go again, give you more nothin' lesser..."
INDEED.
GREAT ARTICLE BY MIKE ROSS REGARDING THE DEATH OF THE SOUND.
A great, pull-no-punches article about the format change of 95.7:
CUCKOO EDMONTON RADIO: Ah, Juicy Fruit
By Mike Ross
The gut reaction to listening to the radio station formerly known as the Sound – which relaunched Monday as Lite 95.7 – is to re-enact a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
It’s the part where Jack Nicholson’s character McMurphy tries to strangle the evil Nurse Ratched after she goaded a teenage boy into committing suicide. So they give him a lobotomy. The Chief sees what they did to his best buddy, and is unable to bear the thought of Mac living without frontal lobes, personality or identity in a hellish mental hospital for the rest of his life. So the Chief smothers his friend to death with a pillow before smashing a giant sink through the window and running free into the night – probably to a beautiful fantasy world where the radio dial is full of stations just like CKUA and CBC and CJSR.
Yes, listening to Lite 95.7 is exactly like that.
The Sound has been wiped clean. The last few months must’ve been some wonderful, bizarre dream where Alanis Morissette lived in the same Old Apartment as Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan in the ‘90s at 9. Now it’s time to wake up and get back to work because Lite 95.7 is our “At Work Station.” I hate Mondays.
There’s some bad news for all those Sound supporters who came out of the woodwork: Nothing is going to change. Thanks for all your letters, but where were all you people before? Give your flowers to the living, why don’t you? Too late.
“Well, I did,” pipes in local radiohead Sheena Millar. She was so pissed when her favourite radio station died that she wrote a letter to the station’s head office, Harvard Broadcasting. It expresses deep disappointment in losing “one of the most original radio stations this city had” and ends with a plea to “reconsider.” Never happen. The switch was a “business decision,” which always sounds lame until you realize how many people’s livelihoods depend on business decisions. The Sound wasn’t getting big money for ads (with a sad 0.8 rating), and something had to be done or a lot of people might’ve lost their jobs. That is, unless Harvard had been willing to invest a little more money and a little more time for cool radio in Edmonton. But they obviously weren’t. So when EZ Rock flipped to Virgin, there was a hole in the Edmonton light rock market – which is where the light rock market should be, frankly – and Harvard rushed to fill it. Done deal. Plus they still have this weird thing in their license that says they have to play a certain percentage of blues and/or jazz. Michael Buble is of course perfect: Fulfils genre, Lite Rock mandate and Canadian content in one maudlin burst of schwing.
We reached what we hoped would be a disgruntled former Sound announcer who was “let go” after the switch. The person didn’t sound angry: “I was shocked. I thought they would’ve given it more time. But I understand. It was a business decision. Shit happens.”
Millar knows Harvard won’t budge, but she hopes that maybe one of the other stations will get inspired by the outrage of her and other former Sound Supporters – whom she describes as people who WANT to listen to commercial radio but generally don’t because there’s usually nothing good on (same can be said for TV) – and “pick up the ball.” She agrees that a radio station can be more than a mere jukebox, that it can turn into a more personal relationship. When one gets into the zen of listening for long periods of time, while studying, say, or making out, a good radio station can to take on a parental, almost God-like role: They’re talking to YOU. They’re picking music they think YOU would like. They’re playing songs YOU lost your virginity to.
Millar joined a new Facebook group: Edmonton Needs a Decent Radio Station. It’ll have to be one we already have. The Edmonton radio dial is full. No more new stations, for now.
I listened to about two hours of the new Lite 95.7 morning show the other day with the husband-and-wife tag team of Jamie and Dan, and it wasn’t COMPLETELY horrible. The hosts were charming and mildly witty in the manner of mid-morning talk shows. They played Tainted Love, talked about how Jamie doesn’t like moustaches and then made a bit of fun of Matthew McConaughey. She loves him. He doesn’t. Oh, the matrimonial hilarity we’re in for! They played The Climb by Miley Cyrus, after which Jamie noted that the song is inspirational to people going through “stuff.” They gave a plug for Lite 95.7’s “secret santas,” who had been roaming around town giving away money during the audio lobotomy process over the weekend (72 hours of Christmas music). Then they played Daughters by John Mayer. That song gets me misty every time. They played Taylor Swift and LeAnn Rimes and Michael Jackson, then some old-time swing ballad I’ve heard a million times before. They played Shania Twain. As the morning show drifted off, they played a non-stop block of 95.7 minutes of something. I’m just going to go ahead and call it “SHIT,” OK?
Pass the pillow.
(In addition to CKUA and CBC and CJSR, the Chief would probably listen to Edmonton’s aboriginal station CFWE 98.5 FM, too. Great station. Very interesting. We’ll get to them on another date.)
source: http://www.gigcity.ca/2011/03/30/cuckoo-edmonton-radio-ah-juicy-fruit/
source: http://www.gigcity.ca/2011/03/30/cuckoo-edmonton-radio-ah-juicy-fruit/
Teabag You.
Congrats, Landon & friends! You hit 10, 000 views!
Not bad for a local band who made a song about nutsacks.
Having such classy friends definitely has it's perks.
My Fifteen Year Old Hip Hop Fanatic Just Came.
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| "Desperation, jumpin' off of street corners here..." |
I don't care if I come off as a giddy, ridiculous teenager. I am new at Twitter and I am still amazed at the fact that I have gotten the chance to speak to Eddie Ifft, Lisa Lampanelli, Patton Oswalt, Louis Peitzman, and Butch Walker... but motherfucking Q-TIP?
I know. Few really care but him anymore, but I DO care. And it made my entire Saturday to have him come back at me with Princess Jedi. (Though that statement just prompted my boyfriend to reply "See? Now we HAVE to watch Star Wars...")
I am not a fame whore, starfucker junkie, but when you are actually able to have a piece of time with people who are in the moment, interactive, and interested in what you say... it is a pretty amazing thing.
And I am thankful to have them.
Thank you, Facebook. I was upset when I lost access to all of my friends and comedians when you disabled me, but Twitter has been the girlfriend you never were, and I didn't even realize it until you dumped me.
SHENANIGANS. (AKA: Our Friends Make Music.)
Thursday: St Patrick's Day debauchery at the Crown. I won 'Free Beer for a Year' and danced my ass off. Prairie Nights were so good and the night ended poetically as I helped Lindsey's cute little drunken ass from the bathroom and into a cab. I didn't leave until 4am. I love that place.
http://www.myspace.com/westofwinnipeg
(Prairie Nights is the folk version of West of Winnipeg. Same people, different music.)
Friday: The audio/rocketry CD release show at the Pawnshop. FANTASTIC show with Rusty (nice shorts, never-nude), Desiderata, and Feast or Famine. JESUS.
(It was Kevin & Paddy's last night. Boo. Also, the sound is shit. This is posted more for posterity not to convert. They are much much better than this vid represents.)
(Not from that night but the boys are not their best promoters. Here's a taste.)
Saturday: Bad Science Party for Ramsden's birthday (watch shitty sci-fi movie, for every instance guilty of bad science, drink. We watched 'The Core' and most were drunk by the first hour.)
And then we ended the early weekend with the unveiling of the first video for The Sister Gray band 'Close the Night". They played a show with The Fight and Elliott and it was a sweet intimate setting with good people. They are SUCH fab girls and I wish them so much goodness. The video really doesn't capture their energy, their talent, and their beauty. I'd probably hate them a little if they weren't such sweethearts.
Sunday was relaxing with a trip downtown and dinner & hot tub. Just to remind us that we are, in fact, adults with family and down-time. ;)
http://www.myspace.com/westofwinnipeg
(Prairie Nights is the folk version of West of Winnipeg. Same people, different music.)
Friday: The audio/rocketry CD release show at the Pawnshop. FANTASTIC show with Rusty (nice shorts, never-nude), Desiderata, and Feast or Famine. JESUS.
(It was Kevin & Paddy's last night. Boo. Also, the sound is shit. This is posted more for posterity not to convert. They are much much better than this vid represents.)
(Not from that night but the boys are not their best promoters. Here's a taste.)
Saturday: Bad Science Party for Ramsden's birthday (watch shitty sci-fi movie, for every instance guilty of bad science, drink. We watched 'The Core' and most were drunk by the first hour.)
And then we ended the early weekend with the unveiling of the first video for The Sister Gray band 'Close the Night". They played a show with The Fight and Elliott and it was a sweet intimate setting with good people. They are SUCH fab girls and I wish them so much goodness. The video really doesn't capture their energy, their talent, and their beauty. I'd probably hate them a little if they weren't such sweethearts.
Sunday was relaxing with a trip downtown and dinner & hot tub. Just to remind us that we are, in fact, adults with family and down-time. ;)
And On That Note...
Heather Russell is from Toronto.
She has been writing her own music since she was 7.
Simon Cowell just signed her.
You'll be hearing more from her...
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