Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ photo: Brendan Meadows Even though his character in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus claims to be an albino, Reg Vermue, aka Gentleman Reg , is not. Pale yes, but albino, no.… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ It wasn't until the other day, after the dust had settled from the Polaris Music Prize celebrations, that I remembered that Final Fantasy had a pair of new EPs available.… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ photo: Adam Penny Hey Rosetta! hail from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. I don't think I've ever heard of a band from Canada's youngest province, although I know it has… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ photo: Helena Söderman It's raining today. Not a steady rain, but one of those that sort of lurks around corners, watching to see if you're going to try and make… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Montreal's Land Of Talk have been living up to their name; it seems every time I have or hear a conversation about music recently, their name comes up. There's much… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Any awards show that honours a band named Holy Fuck , and then allows a broadcast to go out across the (Internet radio) airwaves where the words "Holy Fuck" are… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ This week, Jenny Lewis released her second solo album, Acid Tongue , and I was fortunate enough to receive an advanced copy of the album for my "listening" pleasure. Unfortunately,… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Back in July I brought you word of quirky indie-folk band Noah & The Whale and their self-proclaimed 'song of the summer', "Five Years Time". Last week the band's debut… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ It feels like it was just yesterday that QBiM introduced you to the bespectacled, kalimba-playing Laura Barrett , and her EP, Earth Sciences . Barrett is back on the scene… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ It's not a secret that by now, many bloggers and music critics are contemplating--if not spread-sheet building and playlist-analyzing--their year-end best-of lists. Yours truly has opted to stay away from… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ We Canadians are a curious bunch. With a country whose land mass is larger than the U.S., and the vast expanse between settlements (i.e. cities) slowly narrowing, distinct regional cultures… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ It's been a few weeks since we've had a proper 4FTW offering, and there's some choice material among this week's picks. At the end of the week, I'm putting these… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ I was reading a review of The Acorn's Glory Hope Mountain on Drowned In Sound this week, by a UK reviewer who had just discovered Ottawa's best kept secret. He's… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier have been bagging on pots and pans and making musical noise with a variety of junk instruments for 8 years now as FemBots . In… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ I was disappointed by Rilo Kiley 's last album, Under The Blacklight , given how much I loved Blake Sennett's work on The Elected 's Sun, Sun, Sun , and… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ photo: Caroline Desilets Last year's Polaris Music Prize winner, Patrick Watson, and nominee Miracle Fortress were/are label mates. At the time of last year's nominations they actually made up the… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ There's a new EP to add to your collection of Stars recordings (you do have all their albums, right?): Sad Robots was quietly released digitally on the first of the… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ I wasn't all that impressed with Deerhoof when I first heard them, and didn't really buy into the fuss around their 2007 release, Friend Opportunity . That's not to say… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ I don't know if Jim Guthrie and Nick Thorburn took the name for their collaboration from Neil Young's Human Highway movie, but there are some definite parallels between Human Highway… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Rae Spoon . Where do I start? He is prairie-born, a product of the 80s. He is one of the world's only transgendered country singers, and in his early twenties,… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ You may have noticed that this week's postings have been a bit on the slim side. This is a direct correlation to the fact that as of Monday, my summer… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ To actually try and define Toronto's Spiral Beach may cause synapses in your brain to degenerate and melt, because impulse tells you to say they're "pop" or a "teen band"… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ I go through periods where I immerse myself in a particular pursuit or interest that starts to occupy a great deal of my waking (and sometimes) sleeping hours. It started… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Double bass, accordion, cello and Amy- Millan -like vocals make Wendy McNeill a welcome reprieve from the standard indie-pop in my inbox. Hailing from the Canadian prairies, McNeill's songs sound… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ photo: Steve Gullick The Stage Names was one of last year's most critically lauded indie albums, and placed it's creator, Okkervil River , at the vanguard of the music scene.… Read full post »
Quick, Before It Melts. ❤ Fujiya & Miyagi have left me speechless with their new single, "Knickbocker". In just 3:20 they manage to set the most stream of conscious, nonsensical lyrics I've heard all year… Read full post »
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