tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10266630327488364902012-01-12T07:03:47.049-05:00<strong>a music blog where you use your eyes and ears</strong> <br>listen x 3 . blogspot . comStuart A. Thompsonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663032748836490.post-41061018600825315012009-12-15T12:29:00.001-05:002009-12-15T12:30:17.837-05:00

It's late, but these videos by prolific Guelphenite Mitch Fillion are simply remarkable. I want to copy the style of all them. Here we have the equally prolific Olenka & the Autumn Lovers, a breakout band of 2009 and one of my favourites. Here's a new song. OLENKA AND THE AUTUMN LOVERS - No Coins from Mitch Fillion on Vimeo.

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Another winner at the Bucky's was Coeur de Pirate, an obviously French band who took home the prestigious "Best Reason to Learn French" award. Indeed. I went to see them with an incredible line-up at NXNE. But, of course, the place was sold out. I waited in line for an hour but once Jian Ghomeshi arrived and walked straight in, I had enough.

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This track just won best lyrics at CBC Radio 3's Bucky Awards. I don't think they're amazing, but Plaskett is one of my favourite Canadian musicians right now, and he has been since I heard his live performance podcast on Radio 3. If you rent that Joshua Jackson movie, you can see him there, too.

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What can I say? After a crazy album got released, these boys stepped up and put one of the most amazing EPs I've ever heard, which you can hear on MySpace. It's the first ever Grateful Dead! This particular song is one of my favourites from an old album. Quite personal but so strange, so you can't tell it's just an emo song in disguise.

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One of the greatest lyricists and voices I've heard, Handsome Dan is significantly handsomer than most musicians I know, and quite the musician too. He used to be called Dan the Boy, but after growing up and becoming handsome, he changed his name to reflect his new handsome appearance, which was less boyish. He also added some of the best musicians in town, like two of the best guitarists, a

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I blog a lot about indie bands in London because so many of them are so amazing. The scene here is thriving right now, no doubt. Part of that scene is the Whipping Wind, a mysterious group with not much information anywhere. No pics, no bios, no MySpace wall to write on. Apparently it's all about the music, and what kind of music is it. GO LISTEN TO THE SONG "OUT"

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I saw these dudes at Call the Office tonight opening for Olenka & the Autumn Lovers. They're a loud group using the kind of genre splicing that's quite popular today, especially hopping from rock to folk mid-song, tempo-changing and using extreme pop to make the toe tap while grounding it in favourable aesthetics like plaid. It's basically part of the "legit" pop music scene right now where

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Jian Gomeshi loves music and hosts Q on CBC Radio. He even manages Lights. When he's not doing any of this, he's apparently making documentaries about the death of print, radio and TV. In their stead? The Internet! Scary! Actually, he shows a lot of bloggers and cool Internet folks using the 'net to make money and careers for themselves. They argue that traditional information distributors, like

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This took me all over the freaking map. At first I thought death metal with the tap drums. Then the guitar reminded me of a Bright Eyes folk tune. The vocals are very indie, which is a good thing these days. This is the third easy listening tune I've done in this experiment, but it's the most contemporary sounding I think. It has a fun momentum that builds like a 2-year-old on a sugar rush — 

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Thanks, Becky, for submitting this song. Compared to the other tunes I've reviewed so far in this experiment, this ranks more closely to XX than Britney (not surprisingly). I've honestly never heard of this dude, but he's got a sweet enough voice and invokes a little bit of the early 2000 pop. He might even make it big on some adult contemporary radio stations because he's asking ladies to "

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This cute little song was suggested by "anonymous." Well, whoever you are, this song would fit well in a Zack Braff movie or in the really sad parts in Juno. Possibly a little too mellow for most of my moods, the guy-girl sing-song is enough to soothe me right now after a long day of excruciating work.

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This is the first in my experiment to listen to other readers music. First up: Britney Spears' "3". Possibly the worst song I've ever heard, this incomprehensible, polished, glossy turd somehow takes three minutes to finish, though you've heard everything the song offers in the first 10 seconds. Possibly the funniest part comes when the bridge arrives, the synths turns down, and an acoustic

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This is a band that I knew about years ago, saw them open for Death From Above and Billy Talent at the Dirty Denim in Guelph. Shortly afterwards, they blew up and became worldwide stars (at least some think so). The latest album is pretty awesome, but they're almost too popular. That's what they said about being nominated for the Polaris: too popular for Polaris, too indie for the Junos.

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They played at LOLA this year, and probably some time before. Kind of experimental and a little strange, but in good indie ways, the Acorn are a lovely little troupe. Drums in this tune are cool. They remind me of Pick a Piper, at least at the start.

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I discovered this band many years ago during a expedition through the Canadian wilderness, aka a car ride to the cottage. Always epic, kitschy and fun, Supertramp was a pop sensation and worth all of your precious attention. This song is real nice. Thoughts?

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Tonight! Black Shire! 9:30 PM! GO!

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I want to know what the hell you people listen to. Comment below and answer this quiz.......: 1. What was the LAST SONG you just listened to?? Send it my way and I'll look it up and write a mini-blog about it. I'm sure you're just dying to know my opinions on the latest top 40 tune or some obscure Scarborough indie pop outfit your little sister just looooves. Please send them to me right now.

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This blog post was supposed to be about You Say Party! We Say Die!, poppy dancey little group from out East who hit the Black Shire stage next Monday. (Be there!) But when I got to listening to YSP!WSD!'s new album, I remembered Crystal Castles, a Nintendo-y little Ontarian duo with madly affected vocals (to the point of incoherence) and a lot blips and bleeps. This song launches the album

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This band's best quality is that they're so weird. Ghost Bees are this chick duo from Halifax with flawless harmonies and busy plucking guitars. You've probably never heard anything like it. Their singing is very direct, like speaking, but is very spotty and a little crass. It's all over the place. This single is fitting for Halloween. It's heavy with mood, like background music to folklore.

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I've been listening to Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection a lot lately. I think modern audiences can really appreciate this kind of music, made between '59 and '71, since in many ways it was the early danceable black pop. Close cousins of R&B and funk, early motown songs were influenced by popular "romance" music of the day. While men worked around sexual codes, women were mostly

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Pick your fav Canadian band for the Bucky's, cbcR3's highest honour! Don't know who to nominate? Don't worry, just scroll through my blog posts and pick at random (just avoid the already-famous Americans). On the R3 boards, people are nominating Fucked Up and Metric. Why? They already have their recognition and Polaris nominations. It would be a TRAVESTY to edge out bands like Timber Timbre

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Download my most-raved-about CD EVER — for free! My first blog post was about Timber Timbre, an eerie acoustic spook-folk group that captured my heart and tortured it gently with acoustic strings all summer long. I just found out Arts & Crafts, the Hippest Label Ever (I hear), is giving the album away in celebration of Halloween! Only until Oct 31st, which is very soon. So run over here my

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Oh, Said the Whale. I think they got this name from a Dr. Seuss book. Hmm... Well, on Radio3 they were talking about bands with then name "Whale" in them and interviewed Whale Tooth, a Toronto popsome group whose latest song will be featured on everyone's favourite teenage drama Degrassi. Here's their MySpace page with some songs. Apparently there are TONS of bands with "whale" in the name,

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I hope you like the new blog look. That's a self-portrait I drew, then needed a place for it. So here it is. And he's saying "Uh, because I just like it?" which is pretty much my motto when it comes to loving music. This song is an amazing example. Soon I'll get back to my CBCR3, indie, new-music vibe, but lately it's been all about the old favourites. The Carpenters are this manufactured,

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When Slow Down, Molasses came through London last year, they were kind enough to be our first-ever live recording. We wanted to do a Blogotheque style one-shot live song, and that's what we got: This song, "Feathers," sounds particularly, well, honest. Sure, that's an emotional description, but I can feel their down-home earnesty in the group singing and the always wholesome banjo, trombone

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The Gazette has a fashion blog where they take pictures of fashionable people around campus. Did you know about this? Check out the blog called "Fashion on Campus" at westerngazette.ca

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they have been called an ethereal experience of sight and sound, the most breathtaking musical experimentation to come out of the forest city in over 30 years. they opened london's biggest music festival this year. you must hear this band. they are, of course, a horse and his boy. since i started this blog i've had their self-title debut listed as my favourite album and i've been reluctant

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I'm sorry, but Kanye West's College Dropout is among my top 5 rap albums of all time. It came on during an iPod shuffle moment and I was like, oh yeah, Kanye! Oh yes, the autocrat of audacity, the pimp of gettin' paid. Dropout is Kanye trying to prove himself. After producing "H to the izzo" for Jigga, Kanye set to prove his skills as a rapper, too. He freestyled for Jay-Z and quickly became

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Attention Girls: The Gazette just released this video about the Mustang Cheerleaders! omfg, I know! So like totally check it out because you'll love it! Now, for everyone else, I produced this video for the Gazette as part of our growing presence online. All in all I think it's pretty good. Interesting editing. Music-wise, there's lots of free, unlicensed rap beats used to give it a MTV Cribs

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After I invited the wonderful Shawn Clarke to guest blog here, he returned the favour and asked me to send a blog his way to Birds Too Tired To Fly. So I nervously chose William Shatner's (yes, Kirk from Star Trek) amazing spoken-word album Has Been. I was nervous because you never know who's going to get it or not. I get it, and love it. Read it here!!! Also, since I seem to have a lot of free

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Listen to my awkward interview on 94.9 FM if you dare. I was interviewed on CHRW today about work I do for the Open House Arts Collective and other things I do (see my bio sidebar). If you ever wanted to know who this weirdo is or why he's always late and tired, listen here. Just skip the enviro ad. And while you're at it, a clip from my second appearance on CHRW today talking about the

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The UK music blog The Line of Best Fit has a segment called Oh! Canada, where they highlight some great Canadian indie bands and give them some more exposure in the UK. I just found out they want to include two musicians I've blogged about in the past — Olenka & the Autumn Lovers and A Horse & His Boy — on their next compilation. This compilation, the fifth in the series, is a fancy little

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My life was pathetic before Ohbijou, a band so endlessly promoted on CBC Radio 3 as the Next Big Thing, they are the mythical indie saviours of Canada's cutesy pop scene. But I didn't give it a chance. Well, FML, I learned a lesson. Tonight I discovered the incredible skill this band has when they played at Aeolian Hall. It's not just that it's fun, infectious, lush and savoury (like sweet

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This is a response to the movie Outfoxed. It is for class. I think I say a few interesting (and unexpected?) things about Fox News and its place in contemporary media. I have a pretty accepting view of salacious media. I think, generally, news media needs to become more relevant to people and their lives. Divisive politics in news media is its tradition and my favourite period is the

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Dylan's had a lot of ups and downs in his career. Before the Flood was recorded during an arguable drought for Dylan and The Band, who took to the road in 1974 with a live album planned. They professionally recorded the tracks over several concerts in the US and the result is a frantic, energetic rocking Dylan without the string-filled gypsiness of 1976's Desire. Recordings like this are

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My proud indie friends will have to forgive me because I love rap music. Just like the girl at the Rock Show said, people are pretty judgmental about good and bad genres. Even good and bad music within genres, like Canadian "head rap" versus American gangsta rap. I just like what I like. "A Milli" is an amazing example. Looping and sampling over a tappity-tap-tap faux snare drum beat, Wayne

Stuart A. Thompsonnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663032748836490.post-16847178724326674582009-10-07T02:03:00.004-04:002009-10-07T02:46:25.143-04:00

Dear girls, You are going to love the Bahamas. It's a band — well, it's mostly one guy — who makes the sweetest music ever. Sung quietly and smootly by Afie Jurvanen with an almost comically endearing quality, this is music about love. Period. His latest album is a simply-made love letter to someone, probably his wife or guitar. I saw him play a backyard show in London and his guitar skills

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Welcome music bloggers of the world! I'm introducing a new feature that invites my favourite music bloggers to contribute right here on listen!listen!listen! Let's give a big welcome to Toronto's Shawn Clarke! Shawn is a musician residing in Toronto with an interest in the arts and city culture. He has created and writes for his blog Birds Too Tired To Fly, which celebrates Toronto and the

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London legend Olenka Krakus and the tribe of musicians making up the Autumn Lovers are possibly the best thing to come out of London. Ever. I'm a little biased: I work closely with Krakus and her bandmates. But I was a big advocate of Krakus before I knew her so well. Proof? Check out this wall post from 2007. Yes, almost two years ago. Krakus' music is emotional and intensely lyrical. An

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This album is unstoppable. Hitting the charts #1 worldwide in 1977 with "Go Your Own Way," Rumours captures that soothing, groovy Fleetwood Mac sound all around. Richmond Row still celebrates this album on a weekly basis and it remains the tenth-best selling album of all time. And for good reason. Hip and snappy, Rumours was written during a tumultuous period during Mac's history.

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This album reminds me of girls, of slow dancing, of warm nights in the winter. Seriously, it's got a deep place in my heart. And it's beautiful. Carla is now the wife of France's president. Former model turned musician, Carla certainly doesn't write these songs, but damn if she can't sing them. Acoustically driven, always soft and soothing, Carla's voice is pure and smooth like a 500-thread

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I'll admit it... I didn't know about Howlin' Wolf until I picked up a random $9.99 greatest hits CD and saw his howlin face on the cover. For some, Howlin' Wolf is blues bread-and-butter, a go-to song man of the '60s. For me he was a new taste of a powerful blues sound I've known, but never been immersed in. The album opens with Killing Floor, a version recorded as a single in 1964. His voice is

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The band wrote this album in a studio loft in Montreal. The street? You guessed it, Parc Avenue. It quickly earned attention from the Canadian music scene and was soon nominated for a Polaris Prize among some of my favourite bands of all time, including Caribou and Basia Bulat. They didn't win. But! -- the album is astounding. There's definitely that Montreal sound in there, similar to Arcade

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This was one of the first bands I discovered from CBC Radio 3 and I was really excited about it. Their single, "Battle of '77, " seemed like a strange enough tune to make for an interesting album. I also started hearing about their existence through the festival tour grapevine and on the internet, so I knew they were popular enough for me to dip into.The album is pretty consistent with "Battle of

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Before I bought this album, I was hearing about it all over town. In record stores, at shows, at school, at work -- everyone was talking about it. With good reason. It's a record I need to listen to a few more times before I have a perfect idea of how great it is. But it's pretty great.Fitting what sounds like the familial/collective mentality of groups like Broken Social Scene, the Projectors

Stuart A. Thompsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026663032748836490.post-68782317906570482812009-09-26T10:17:00.000-04:002009-09-26T11:46:55.913-04:00

My first experience with the Decemberists was during a guitar solo competition between guitarist Chris Funk and Stephen Colbert. I found Funk's solo to be unusually underwhelming, anti-climactic and kind of boring. When I heard Picaresque, I thought it was unusually underwhelming, anti-climactic and kind of boring. Go figure. The album opens with momentous pomp in "The Infanta," which is

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This year's Polaris Music Prize had several travesties (like playing it safe with the nominees and risky with the winner... slow clap, Polaris, you're still legit) but none were more painful than when Timber Timbre didn't make the short list. Just after the list was announced, Timber Timbre was on the cover of Exclaim with the headline "Band of the Year." Fact.This is spook folk at its finest.

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My first obsession with Death Cab came from Plans, the album following Transatlanticism. I remember seeing Transatlanticism at HMV when I was in high school but I wasn't as enlightened to music then and the name seemed too strange.What I loved about Plans is painted all over Trans. The wispy, alto vocals about being sad sometimes, happy sometimes, in all kinds of seasons is found here -- just

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While at LOLA fest in London this weekend, I took a break from my booth with the Open House Arts Collective to interview Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy. One of my favourite bands, Owen was happy to talk to us about his new tour, his new album, and his old EPs. I also had a chance to film his entire set from the stage, which I'll be posting in its entirety soon. Check out the interview and let me

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