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21st Century Schizos PT.2

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:32:09 +0000

Busted cabaret. Psych ooze. Wasted wastelands. Salted slugs. Weird Canada digs digs digs through every musky attic and in every webbed corner throughout this vast unforgiving icy new found land we call Kanada. For the sleepless and the slept on we have this document of the weird.

Weird Canada's Guest Pick on Pitchfork's Blog Collective, Altered Zones

21st Century Schizos PT.1

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:34:53 +0000

"Now this would be a beautiful death."

One year ago Cecil Frena and I nearly died in a terrifying car accident. Moments before the time disintegration during the flip over we dissected at length how anyone could ever (quote unquote) make it in the world of music. The answer was murky then but now seems monumentally clear: do right. Don't just make good music but make great music. Just good enough is not good enough. Don't just perform your songs, die for them. Anything worth living for is worth dying for. These guys are living out a dream on the road, adventuring from city to city but don't be fooled, this is no game, they're on the frontline every single night wearing their hearts on their sleeve. They are making it by making it. Die for your passions. Irony and apathy are over. We have new sincerity. Believers know it already -every second of a Gobble Gobble show is a reminder of how you felt on the best day of your life.

GOBBLE GOBBLE @ Myspace
GOBBLE GOBBLE @ Tumblr
GOBBLE GOBBLE on Pitchfork 1
GOBBLE GOBBLE on Pitchfork 2
GOBBLE GOBBLE on Altered Zones
GOBBLE GOBBLE on Stereogum

Everything Everybody's Telling You Is Not True

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:17:26 +0000

Summer days weigh on every molecule of your body. Just heat and humidity and unpaid loans and street chatter and cheap food and phoned-in love affairs and unnecessary bar bands and hazy illusions of grandeur and all the things that just weigh on your body every single day for sixty days when good people should be doing good things for one another, arms wrapped around each other's shoulders, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air...I would give up on everything with everyone if it wasn't for Jim. Hold steady.

Click to Stream and Download Jom Comyn's "Balcony" EP

Summer Time Bronzer

Sun, 02 May 2010 18:42:18 +0000

Psst...
Psst...
Hey, come closer...
No, closer still...
I have a special secret...
Just for you...
...
(Bronze Leaf)
Pass it on

Click to Stream and Download Bronze Leaf's hotly anticipated full length, "Bread Crumbs"

Cross Canada Tour dates to be announced soon.

Happy, Birthday Tentacles

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:22:27 +0000

Photo by Lando Speers

Down to the ghost words
Sharpening our bodies like knives
Rest assured of a certain end
In the waking hours we are thin wolves with no collars - surviving on the scraps of each other
Between impossible things, our sacred tryst caught on the lives of uncomprehending others.

Stream and Download "Birthday Tentacles" the Bronze Leaf | Likewise Vultures digital split

You disappear but everything is coming out all right

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:08:56 +0000

Delicate. Effervescent. Humbling.
Set in a place far, far away, the debut album of Jom Comyn holds us in our familiar yearnings of greatness and guides us to lose ourselves and to reach for those fleeting sparks. All of us owe Jim Cuming a rousing cheer for the lessons he has taught us in honesty. All of us need reminding of how to be courageous.

Stream and Download "From Far, Far Away"

All we have is our HEALTH

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:38:57 +0000

Two years ago I was hanging out backstage trying to divulge the secrets of the Smell from the drummer. I knew some amazing stuff was coming out of L.A but I never expected it to be a futurist version of the lost art of math rock. So tech.

One year ago kids finally caught on. So much so that it felt like I was on the set of Teen Spirt - bodies flailing, rowdy crowd surfing, just capital "M" melee onstage and off. But the music we were moving to wasn't all melodic at all, oh it was dancey and poppy. No at the core it was actually just was noise, unadulterated fuzzed out noise.

HEALTH are the future of punk. dance. No, they are simply the future.

I just wish I could be there to see them trip out on Desi.

Oh followup: two years ago i gave the drummer the first Desi cd, one year ago Cherk got high with him and tonight they're playing with them.

If you miss this show all I can say is have fun loving in the past.

Slip Through

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:57:22 +0000

Artwork by Landon Speers

What happens when a modern day Brian Wilson obsesses over technoise, frequencies and boom baps instead of cheeseburgers, L.S.D and destroying the Beatles? Slip Through, that's what. Master crafted by the most slept on producer in Canada, Réal Cardinal aka Comaduster isn't on the production game anymore, he's on the perfection game.

Download the full album at the official Comaduster site.

comaduster.com
myspace.com/comaduster23

Never Slept

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:25:12 +0000

You heard this Ennio Morricone record yet? of course you haven't, it doesn't exist. On your planet. That's what you can expect from Sombre Reptiles, music blog of Listen Records' Kris Burwash. Remember Alien Nation? Think of those dudes flashing forward to a 3rd generation weirdo alien kids making music in Mumbai...that's what Kris would turn you on to.

The Big Sandwich is electronics, straight-up. No question Markus Vuorensola can easily out-name you both 20 n0-wave live bootlegs and flying lotus beat tapes but dude knows blips and bloops to boot. no skronk electro here. Real, please.

CJSR superstar Aaron Levin's Weird Canada is the home of n0/new-school:freakbeat/psych/kooky.
Think Headphone-Bedroom.
This be all for the love of the basement.

listenrecords.net
sombrereptiles.tumblr.com
bigsammich.blogspot.com
weirdcanada.com

Designarrs pt.4

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:46:51 +0000

Of the ten 2009 Polaris Prize Shortlist Artists, three of the poster designers hail from Edmonton: Lyle Bell (for Elliott BROOD), Jeff Kulak (Hey Rosetta!) and Kirsten McCrea (Patrick Watson).

Lyle also plays in tons of awesome Edmonton bands including Shout Out Out Out Out and Whitey Houston.
Jeff does fantastic sketches of bicycles and tshirt designs for Pop Echo Records.
Kristin makes anarchist trading cards.
Cool.

Check out the full poster images after the jump.

auxgang.com
jeffkulak.com
hellokirsten.com

Designarrs pt.3

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:37:39 +0000

Justin LaFontaine's geometry = New Math. No one can touch him on posters right now. That Obits print was the most iconic image of this year's Sled Island. It even became the face of the band's website - if it's good enough for Jehu-ligans it's good enough for every human.

Lando Speers is an immensely talented photographer with a keen sense for capturing energy and aggression. Little wonder that the best Red Hot Daggers photos were his. He also has an intimate understanding of gizmos, which makes his musical projects, "Headaches" and "St. Gilles" so fascinating.

omgjhq.com
landonspeers.com
myspace.com/headacheswontstop
myspace.com/stgillesandthehind

Designarrs pt.2

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:12:47 +0000

Can't be on 780 design without mentioning Raymond Biesinger. Hands down one of the realest fellows around and also a true DIY institution. Integrity- if he fronted a punk band it's name would be Fugazi.

Same goes for Bryan Kulba and Kobot Industries. Actually if he fronted a punk band it'd still be called Bayonets!!!

When it comes to hustle though, no one can touch Given Collective aka Kevin Boothe. This kid has game on lock. Basically his older self must have built a time machine to transport work back to younghim, cause no other explanation will do. Check out Kevin's Document Magazine. so trill.

fifteen.ca
kobotindustries.com
documentmagazine.ca

Designarrs pt.1

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:48:12 +0000

Outside of being the reigning champs of "Best Dudes in the entire Universe, beating out Turbo Buddha and the Hulkster, Taylor Schaerer & Andrew Benson are both incredibly talented illustrators and designers.

Armies of musicians especially owe each of them a debt of gratitude for all the incredible poster and album artwork they've done.

They're also responsible for your summer looking like this:

Photo courtesy Claire Noren.

Taylor = Hat, Andrew = Emo.

Get learned.

andrewbenson.squarespace.com
guerillustrate.wordpress.com

which also features the awesome of work of Phil Chan, Scott Carmichael!!!

Joe, Joe, JoeJoeJoeJoeJoe Joe!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:19:34 +0000

Old Ugly is a cool new Edmonton label started up by swine-flu tattoo snackpack swagger jack backpacker spitter, The Joe. Peep game y'all, the label features not only raps but Joe's already on some d-i-versifying with fantastic stuff like Flora and Doug Hoyer's "Bike Month"

olduglyco.com

European Campaign

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:23:45 +0000

photo courtesy painteverything

Eamon McGrath takes on Europe this fall. Along the way will he be playing with Millions, the new project from ex-members of Small Brown Bike.

Complete schedule after the jump.

myspace.com/millions
million's label seventh rule