I ♥ Canadians
Chels at Narrow Crafts does it again with a great concert review and (brief) interview with You Say Party! We Say Die!
So I scored a couple of tickets to see Vancouver’s You Say Party! We Say Die! do an acoustic set at a local radio staion. I was pretty pumped for this intimate set, and YSP!WSD! delivered. Not really surprised.
I was privy to a most amazing experience tonight. I got to sit, like a fly on a wall (almost literally) to Basia Bulat’s soundcheck at Hotel Utah in San Francisco, CA. After listening to, and trying to keep my cool during, an almost private screening of “Snakes and Ladders,” I thought I was going to lose my cool. Luckily, I escaped with only a mild scolding from the tour manager as I was buying Basia’s new CD, Heart of My Own.
Joel Plaskett swept the East Coast Music Awards stage in a multiple of threes as the iconic rocker’s triple-disc album ‘Three’ earned him six ECMA awards out of his leading eight nominations.
CBC Radio 3’s most talented producer, Chris Kelly, has put together an amazing playlist of 100 bands you have to see while at SXSW next week! I know what I’m listening to all day tomorrow!
Yet another Oh! Canada! release The Line of Best Fit blog. Volume 8 features:
1) Japandroids – Art Czars
2) PS I Love You – Facelove
3) The New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)
4) The Pack A.D. – Crazy
5) Jason Collett – Love Is A Dirty Word
6) Deromantic – Drunk & 35
7) Paul Pigat -John Henry Part 2
8) Madison Violet – The Woodshop
9) Woodpigeon – My Denial in Argyle
10) We Are The City – There Are Very Tiny Beasts In The Ground
11) KASHKA – Hands In
12)Danny Michel – Sweet Things
13) The Fugitives – All This Trouble
14) The Gertrudes & PS I Love You – Sailor
15) Old Man Luedecke – The Rear Guard
16) Dinosaur Bones – Ice Hotels
17) Brasstronaut – Slow Knots
18) Memoryhouse – To The Lighthouse
19) Forest City Lovers – If I Were A Tree (J-Buntz Remix)
Here are the nominees for the 2010 Juno Awards. From the Juno Awards website:
Each year, artists across Canada submit their best work for consideration in to 39 categories. This year, CARAS (Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) received the highest number of submissions in the awards history. To facilitate the nominating & voting process, CARAS works year round to ensure the process remains credible and is inclusive of many genres within Canada.
Alt-county songstress Neko Case is starring in a new show for Adult Swim that recently won a fan vote to be picked up for a full season. The show is titled Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge and Case provides the voice of the titular character, who according to show creator Dave Willis is “a Strawberry Shortcake pop princess that lives in a candy wonderland just outside of Detroit. She comes into Detroit and helps solve problems of racism and teen pregnancy with the power of love and teen pop songs.”
RightsFlow, a leading provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced a deal to handle Canadian royalty reporting for Amie Street, the fast growing online digital music retailer with a one-of-a-kind demand based pricing system.
