gettin’ high out on the front porch, with the sunshine in your hair. – David Vandervelde

With summer coming at us, its time to pop in David Vandervelde once more. This Chicago artist makes music that goes perfectly with a long, windows open, summers drive to the cabin. Especially “Nothin No”, which after the first two heavily distorted guitar strums brings me back to one specific amazing summers day with Julia. [...]

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‘friday night and i didn’t go to Kanye.’ – A Playlist

photo: postmarks
I always find myself making playlists at the most bizzare moments. Like sitting at a red light, trying to scroll through your ipod in 2 minutes to come up with a decent “on the go” before it turns green. Or spending hours making the perfect playlist to accompany something so insignificant like the cleaning of my room, [...]

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and the ripped ones say goodbye – Adem

I only recently discovered Adem because of the small hype around his new covers album “Take”. I went back and listened to his other albums and have fallen in love with his debut album, ”Homesongs”, which was released in 2004. The music is quite unique, with an acoustic back bone, but topped off with autoharp, double bass [...]

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With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly – Sigur Ros

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust , is the name of Sigur Ros’ fifth LP which is going to be released on June 23rd. The first single off the record, “Gobbledigook”, was released over ‘Radio 1′ a few hours ago, and is quite different then previous Sigur Ros, and it’s almost impossible not to point [...]

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you’re a wolf, boy, get out of this town! – Sea Wolf in Calgary!

Sea Wolf is coming to Calgary! Sea Wolf is coming to Calgary! I hope no one has forgotten about how amazing Sea Wolf is and always will be. The bands name is from Jack London’s book written in 1904, called, (obviously), The Sea Wolf. The band is fronted by Alex Brown Church who writes songs about [...]

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island’s in the stream, that is what we are.

Now this post is very cliche. Everyone knows Feist and everyone knows The Constantines. But no matter how much i try and hold back my love for these canadian bands, they always find a way through, this time, in the form of a collaboration. And, Plus, I don’t think anything bad could ever come out [...]

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we all want to be like modest mouse- A Playlist

How many artists have covered Modest Mouse? If copying is the most sincere form of flattery, Modest Mouse should be the cockiest band in the world (besides, maybe, Bob Dylan..and The Beatles). Some of the most famous Modest Mouse covers probably go out to Sun Kil Moon, with Ben Lee’s “Float On” close behind. My favourites [...]

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She knows which way the wind blows!!

Thom Stone has been a staple summer artist for me. He has this incredible energy in all his songs and his voice is one of the most amazing/unique voices in music. I just bought his new EP “Harmony On a Jet Plane” which i already know will be played an extensive amount. A couple years [...]

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i’ll watch to make sure that you stare

Culture Reject could have been the name of one of the punk rock bands i listened to in grade 9, but Toronto based Michael O’Connell, makes a slightly different genre of music. Culture Reject’s music is infused with clapping, xylophones, trumpets and everything else that makes a song perfect. Many of O’Connell’s musical friends helped him [...]

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whatever went away, i’ll get it over now. i’ll get money, i’ll get funny again.

Everything has stopped. Slow motion.
The National- Green Gloves
The National- Start A War
 
 
 

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