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Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD The Rock Opera has never had an easy time of it as a genre. Over-indulgence and excess only works when it’s finely tuned, and any album with an overarching concept tends to get shoehorned into this category regardless of actual intent. From “Tommy”, “Ziggy [...]

This is 100% true: at university, I was officially designated a Sexy Voiced Person. What this meant was that I got to do the voice-over for the student radio station idents. Since most of you probably never heard those, I hope you’ll humour me and imagine, for the rest of the post, that I sound [...]

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Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Dan Boeckner has grown increasingly political in his outings with Handsome Furs, the dance-rock duo he formed with his wife after achieving success with Wolf Parade. While the group’s first album, “Plague Park”, was a series of sparsely-arranged tales of loss and restlessness, they [...]

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Click on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

Click on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

I don’t think the music business is quite as glamorous as most of us think really. Sure we’re used to the big houses and fancy recording studios that we see in the movies but for most bands the reality is a little more low key and closer to home. Sometimes it is home, as in [...]

It was almost exactly a year to the day when Arcade Fire started dropping some 12″ vinyl singles in record stores across the world, much to the surprise of everyone.  People were cropping up online posting pictures of this vinyl that wasn’t announced by the band, something that shoppers were finding randomly littered amongst other [...]

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This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

I make no secret of loving early ’90s music, so I’m being totally spoiled by this shoegaze revival that seems to be under way at the moment. I mean, obviously I’m one of the people who would say that it never went away, but for once the rest of the world seems to be agreeing [...]

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It’s been six weeks since we heard the first snippet of new music from the Canadian outfit Junior Boys‘ upcoming fourth album “It’s All True”, and today Domino announced that they’re not only releasing said fourth album (June 13th/14th), but there’s another new jam to listen to. Nine-minutes-plus, “Banana Ripple” has been the soundtrack to the last [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]