Archive for 'Music you need'

Jul200801

Phil

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Canada Day tunage

In honour of Canada Day, here’s a selection of great Canadian music for you.

First up, Toronto’s Holy Fuck, who buck the system (fuck the system?) by giving themselves a name that can’t be pronounced on the radio, thus forcing radio & tv stations to either bleep their name every time they play them, or simply not play them at all.

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Feb200814

Phil

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Music you need: Wintersleep, Hey Rosetta, Weakerthans

Every so often, as I listen to the random songs that play on my iPod, I think to myself, "I should really blog about this band", and then the song changes, and I forget to do it.

But not today.  Today I’ve remembered, and I promised myself that I would blog about a couple of bands that are rocking my world at the moment.

Wintersleep is a band from Halifax, NS.  They’ve been consistently on my iPod for about a year now.  Especially this song, Jaws of Life (Video from the ECMA’s…ignore the Trailer Park Boys at the beginning):

Something about that song makes it difficult to sit still.  This is particularly difficult on the bus or subway.  Some other Wintersleep songs that you should check out are Fog, Lipstick, and Weighty Ghost.

Hey Rosetta is a band from a bit further East, from St. John’s, Newfoundland.  I stumbled on Hey Rosetta a couple of months ago by accident and they’ve had a permanent place on the iPod ever since.

You should also check out Swing the Cellar Door, and Lions for Scottie.  I love a band that rocks with a violin and a cello, and uses them as part of the whole band, and not as a gimmick.

The Weakerthans are from Winnipeg, Manitoba. I first heard them opening for The Low.  They stay in pretty permanent rotation.  They can rock, and they have also been known for reducing jocks to tears with their songs at live gigs.

You also need (NEED) to check out Tournament of Hearts (its a song about Curling! CURLING I tells ya), also The Reason (which is an awesome choreographed video).

I think that’s enough for now.  If you dig this little feature, let me know and I’ll do it again sometime soon.