A Certain Ratio have something new too. I didn’t know they were still making music. Nice!
The description below the YouTube video above says that A Certain Ratio intended to do this cover with Grace Jones! Too bad that never came to fruition. A Certain Ratio is one of the more underrated acts on the old Factory label.
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I don’t have any videos to link, they’ve been linked before in this thread, but I wanted to pop in to say the new PUP album is absolutely killer! Well worth the listen. This band just keeps getting better.
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I don’t have any videos to link, they’ve been linked before in this thread, but I wanted to pop in to say the new PUP album is absolutely killer! Well worth the listen. This band just keeps getting better.
Loving the new PUP too. Easily my favourite Canadian band at the moment.
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In the Valley Below is back. The album is apparently the audio that accompanies a film called The Pink Chateau, which was co-directed by vocalist/keyboardist Angela Gail. They are scheduled to play the entire album live in a theatre in Brooklyn tomorrow during the screening of the film.
Partner are a Canadian duo who love smart-ass stoner humor almost as much as they love insta-classic alt-rock riffs. That formula worked wonders on their 2017 debut, In Search of Lost Time, where singer-guitarist BFFs Josée Caron and Lucy Niles sold songs like “Everybody Knows” (about being really high at the grocery store), “Angels from Ontario” (like “California Girls,” but for Canada’s most populous province) and “Sex Object” (about finding more than you bargained for in your roommate’s sock drawer) with wild-eyed musical sincerity straight out of 120 Minutes.
Their commitment to the bit continues with “Long and McQuade,” from their upcoming EP Saturday the 14th. It’s a fantastically catchy slack-core tribute to a music-store chain that, as I understand it, is their nation’s answer to Guitar Center. I’ve never stepped foot inside a Long and McQuade, but Caron and Niles make its fluorescent aisles come alive, with hilariously literal-minded lyrics (“Guitar straps with flames/Drumsticks and strings/Long and McQuade has all of those things”) and an all-in fake-grunge mope-yowl arrangement. It’s very funny, but it also totally shreds. Who else could make this song work? Maybe Weird Al or Adam Sandler at their Nineties peaks, but truthfully, neither of them had riffs this tight on deck.
Very cool ... @MastersMatt and @s_leishman of the @calgaryfolkfest just announced The Rheostatics are playing this summer. And Dave Bidini texted Matt to tell him the first Rheostatics album in 14 years will be called Here Come the Wolves. #canadianmusic#music#yyc#yeg
Very cool ... @MastersMatt and @s_leishman of the @calgaryfolkfest just announced The Rheostatics are playing this summer. And Dave Bidini texted Matt to tell him the first Rheostatics album in 14 years will be called Here Come the Wolves. #canadianmusic#music#yyc#yeg
Cool I was just listening to Whale Music the other day. I’m excited to hear something new.
The Fontaines DC album (Dogrel) is finally out after releasing a bunch of singles over the last year or so. Only listened through once so far, but I'd probably say it's my favourite of the year so far. 10/10 for me.
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I did not know that Poster Children is back! Amazing. I did some research to find out what they've been doing during the interim and apparently both Rick and Rose are now professors at Illinois State University.
I think they hit their peak in mind-90s, when they became competent with their instruments and moved from short, fast anthemic punk-pop songs to more complicated songs. But I fell in love with them during the Flower Plower and Daisy Chain Reaction era.
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