“‘Cause we’re not trustworthy.”
Drinking orange blossom tea and watching some of my favourite M*A*S*H episodes. In other words, enjoying a perfect Monday night.
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The Wooden Sky House Shows
House shows are always fun.
The Wooden Sky are in the middle of a North American Tour (dates here) and have decided to play some living rooms of very lucky contest winners. If you live in Western Canada / Prairies / Northern Ontario, head over here to enter for a chance to have The Wooden Sky perform in your living Room. Below, read Gavin Gardiner’s experience from the first two house shows the Wooden Sky played on this tour.
“That sounds like the premise of an eighties horror movie!” was the response a friend of mine had when he found out that we had decided to run a house show contest. Be it naiveté or maybe just plain ignorance that thought had never crossed my mind. House shows, and other unconventional shows, have been a big part of this band since it became “The Wooden Sky” and embarked on The Bedrooms and Backstreets Tour. In fact house shows had a big impact on my understanding of music and the community it can inspire. Growing up in rural Manitoba the only real DIY shows I went to were in church basements and high school gyms. It wasn’t until I started going to shows in the basement of the “Bellwood’s House” that I started to see and understand the kind of community music can inspire. I think those shows had a similar impact on a lot of people I am now lucky enough to consider some of close friends.
So it was with this in mind that we decided we wanted to take the house show idea and once again spread it across the country. When the first round of submissions came into us it was pretty clear that we weren’t the only ones who thought this idea could work. I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to put together a submission, there were lots of great ones and maybe down the line we’ll make good on all the invitations!
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is the name of the Lips’ collaboration-filled Record Store Day release, and the guest list is impressive: Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono, Neon Indian, Ke$ha, Prefuse 73, Tame Impala, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lightning Bolt, Biz Markie, New Fumes, Chris Martin of Coldplay, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. It’s out April 21. Photo via Billboard.
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Great Toronto blues.
Listen to catl’s new album, Soon This Will All Be Gone.
Titus Andronicus drop ‘Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol. 1’
exclaimdotca:
Features new single “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus.” Check it out here.
Megan!
Single Mothers - S/T EP
Grimes at the Pitchfork SXSW Showcase at the Central Presbyterian Church. Photo by Will Deitz.
Revisiting Rescue Me. Starting from the beginning.
Wish I was at SXSW. Maybe next year.
