Archive for May, 2009

28
May

GUEST COLUMN!!

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Remi from The Comic Hunter and formerly of the “room down the hall at my old apartment” wrote a review of the Nebula record that is better written than anything i could pull out of my hairy ass. check it out.

While it would be nice to say that Nebula has grown over the years, and that singer/guitarist Eddie Glass has moved the band leaps and bounds away from what he did with his former band mates in Fu Manchu, it isn’t really the case. Fortunately for fans of the band, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing!

Over their first few albums, Nebula perfected their Fu Manchu meets psych.-rock sound, and have kept it going on space cruise control ever since. Heavy Psych might even be arguably better than their last few outputs, Apollo having not grabbed me as much as Atomic Ritual had, which was just “bad” enough for me to pop on To The Center whenever I got partway through the album.

While Heavy Psych seems to be a step in the right direction for the band, it’s actually a re-issue of the EP of the same title that came out in 2008, and not a new album per se, with a handful of tracks added to expand it to a full length. The band has a history of releasing good EPs, with their first two, Let It Burn and Sun Creature, being two of my three favorite releases of theirs, which leads me to believe that the band might be better when they limit themselves to EPs over full length albums.

The re-issued Heavy Psych also marks the return of the band to their original home on Tee Pee Records, who put out Let It Burn back in 1998. Lets hope that the label will help the band get more attention than they’ve been getting over the past few years, and push the band creatively, as they’ll be sharing a home current stoner/psych rock favorites Witch and Earthless!

20
May

fun.!

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one of my favourite “pop” records of all time is “dog problems” by the format.

anyhow, one of the guys from the format has a new project called; fun. Here’s some news about fun.;

fun. ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM,
AIM AND IGNITE

SET FOR AN AUGUST 25TH RELEASE ON NETTWERK RECORDS

ON TOUR WITH MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

Nettwerk Music Group is proud to announce the release of AIM AND IGNITE, the
highly anticipated debut from fun., out August 25th. AIM AND IGNITE was produced by Redd Kross’ Steven McDonald and is a stunning array of diverse inspirations from three extraordinary musicians-former front man of The Format Nate Ruess, ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Steel Train’s Jack Antonoff. When combined, they create an irresistible album that rethinks classic 70s pop, where ornate arrangements and inspired orchestrations meet present-day rock ‘n’ roll. The band recently joined Manchester Orchestra for a 34-date North American tour in April and has been hypnotizing sold out crowds night after night in major cities such as New York, Boston, Nashville, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Chicago.

From the album-opening “Be Calm” which melds finely wrought chamber-pop orchestrations with guitar-fueled rock ‘n’ roll, to the richly intricate melodic twists and turns on “All The Pretty Girls,” from the brash and brassy blue-eyed soul of “Barlights” (which was arranged by longtime fave Roger Joseph Manning Jr. of Jellyfish) to the Randy Newman-esque “Light A Roman Candle With Me,” AIM AND IGNITE is an irresistible collection of freewheeling pop songcraft full of passion, imagination and creative vigor.

fun. recently debuted their song, “At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be),” on their MySpace page, and it was met with immediate excitement, receiving close to 500,000 plays and a tremendous amount of action on message boards. The song is now available at digital stores.

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AIM AND IGNITE Track Listing:

1. Be Calm
2. Benson Hedges
3. All The Pretty Girls
4. I Wanna Be The One
5. At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
6. Light A Roman Candle With Me
7. Walking The Dog
8. Barlights
9. The Gambler
10. Take Your Time (Coming Home)

TOUR DATES:

May 19th Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA (sold out)
May 21st Troubadour West Hollywood, CA (sold out)
May 22nd Voodoo Stage @ HOB San Diego, CA (sold out)
May 23rd Club Congress Tucson, AZ
May 24th Clubhouse Tempe, AZ
May 26th Emo’s Austin, TX (moved to bigger venue)
May 27th The Loft Dallas, TX
May 28th Walter’s on Washington Houston,TX
May 29th Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, LA
May 30th Proud Larry’s Oxford, MS
May 31st The Bottletree Birmingham, AL
June 2nd State Theatre St. Petersburg, FL
June 3rd The Social Orlando, FL
June 4th The Social Orlando, FL

18
May

Metric Fantasies

Matthew Stewart
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Metric Fantasies

Metric Fantasies


When I first recived an email from Sneak Attack Media containing the Toronto based band, Metrics latest album, Fantasies, I said to myself ‘Self’ I said, ‘Self, it’s late right now, and with your current work schedule, you’d better wait until you have enough time to actually listen to the album.’ So almost a week later, I finally got a chance to listen to it the whole way through.

I think the wait was worth it.

The first track, Help I’m Alive, kicks off and lets you know this is going to be a good album. During this whole album I found myself getting lost in Emily Haines’ haunting voice, and the bands equally entrancing guitar riffs of tracks like, Blindness and Collect Call. Of course there are also good, fun songs like Satallite Mind, and Stadium Love, that give us that extra bit of rock out that Metric is good for. The lyrics are matched perfectly with the music, and coming from Haines, are fantastic. This album has an almost perfect mixture of songs for sitting and watching the rain with a cup of coffee, or going ape shit running downtown on a summer afternoon with friends.

If you get a chance to listen to Fantasies, I suggest a good pair of headphones, or sound system (anything but laptop speakers basically) to really enjoy it. It’s fun no matter how you listen to it, but you really get the full effect the closer it is to your brain. The only thing I would change about Fantasies, is the amount of songs. With only ten tracks, it makes me long for more Metric.

No ones getting out, without stadium love.

Either way, later.

12
May

Colonial Quarrels

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Colonial Quarrels – The End Was an Honest Mistake

I grew up on 80’s AM radio. So when it inevitably came time for me to choose between spending my money on Nirvana cds, or Sonic Youth cds, I chose Nirvana. As a result, I never really got into the noise rock thing. I mean, some of it I dig, but for the most part, I don’t quite get it. It’s just a bit too chaotic for me.

But when I found out about Colonial Quarrels, I got pretty excited. The Peter Parkers were one of the few “noise rock” bands that I really got into, so to hear some of them doing something else, it was a pretty rad idea I thought.

The End Was an Honest Mistake doesn’t lose all of its Peter Parkers influence. Most of the record sounds like if Sonic Youth was hanging out with Ryan Adams, while listening to The Bends. That being said, a few tracks sound like Sonic Youth spending some time with the Beach Boys listening to Ryan Adams.

It’s a far enough cry from The Parkers that people won’t mistake one for the other, but they’re close enough together that Parker’s fans will carry over easily!

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11
May

Somebody needs to write this book

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as a dude, i should know certain things, but when it comes to cars, i don’t know shit.

what i need is a book that tells me “here’s what you need to do to your car today”.

check the oil
get gas
check the power steering
check the tires

everybody says “this needs to be changed after this much time, and this needs to be changed after this much time, etc etc ad nauseum (i’m nauseous) but nobody has put all those things in one place.

somebody do that for me, please.

10
May

Tonella Roy.

Matthew Stewart
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I’d never seen Holophonic Porno live, but I heard a few tracks on their album, Obsession, (which I plan on picking up soon) and I thought they were great. Everytime they played around here since I’d heard of them, I was too busy to go to the show, so when I heard Tonella Roy, the lead singer from Holophonic Porno, was playing at Crumbs, I was pretty excited to go.

I showed up a bit early to get a coffee and grab a seat. She ended up being a little late, but I was surprised she was playing so early in the evening anyway. When she got everything set up and everyone had ‘had time to have a fag’ and she started playing, the first thing I thought (aside from ‘wow she’s pretty’) was “Damnit, she’s going to talk/sing into the mic.” Almost nothing pisses me off more than a singer talking musically into a mic and trying to pass it off as singing. A minute into her first song I was taking from the ‘aww crap’ mood to ‘Holy Shit!’ skin-crawling-goose-bumps mood. The yell she let out in the chorus sent a shiver down my spin, and I was caught for the rest of the show.

I don’t know the names of her original songs, but every one of them was beautiful, and she sang them with passion. You could almost hear the tears, or anger, and laughter in her lyrics.

She had a few covers as well. Dredson Dolls Coin Operated Boy. She looked like such a sweetheart while singing this cute little pop song, it fit very well, and was a lot of fun to listen to. Everyday is Exactly the Same originally by Nine Inch Nails, and Hallelujah. I’m not sure who is the original artist, but I’ve heard it by Rufus Wainright.

If you are in the Toronto area, where she now lives, and have a chance to see her live, do yourself a favour and do it. If she comes back to Fredericton, I’ll definitley see her again. I’m hoping to get a copy of her album On Display which should hopefully be coming out sometime this summer, which I will likely write about at the time.

http://www.myspace.com/tonellamusic

Either way, later.