Arcade Fire – Everything Now
“Everything Now” pushes further along that path. With its new songs, Arcade Fire insists that even the frothiest pop can still reach deep and perhaps even save lives. Arcade Fire has always been acutely conscious of music history, using stylistic allusions to underline or tease against its messages. The band’s producers for “Everything Now” are Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, an expert in retro synthesizer propulsion, and Steve Mackey, who played bass in Pulp. They help locate much of the album’s sound in the late 1970s and early 1980s of disco, new wave and electropop hybrids.(New York Tines)
BADBADNOTGOOD – Late Night Tales
Keeping with the careful thought and high production values that have marked the Late Night Tales series since 2001, this isn’t a soundtrack; BadBadNotGood are disk-jockeying your late night experience, overlaying tracks to bleed into and out of each other perfectly. It’s an album of movements, not songs.(The Skinny)
grej – i/variations
Notes
Yes, Arcade Fire was listed last week but apparently, I mixed up the dates and it should have been this week. So for this weeks post, I have changed the review source to the New York Times.
I didn’t add a review for Grej because I couldn’t find one unless you count the post we ran yesterday and it felt strange quoting ourselves.
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Good morning!
Thank you for the emails Russ. I have added the releases to the schedule.
Good morning. (Family cottage yesterday) (surprisingly few mosquitoes)
Hello hello!
q is interesting today. An Iranian-American comic doing comedy in Trump’s America. 1st item.
Is it Maz Jobrani? He’s one of my favourite Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me panellists.
janet, bang on! http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q
I should actually call him an American-Iranian, not vice-versa. Not sure if he was born in the US, but it sounded like it, unless he was just a baby when his parents came over. (It’s a bit like my balking some at “African-American”, when they don’t know the first thing about Africa. Or me: am I a European-Canadian? Nope. I feel “native Canadian”.)
edit: Replace “when they don’t know the first thing about” with “when they’ve never even been to” (Africa). Let’s be fair, people are not idiots, Donald Trump notwithstanding.
I get the q podcasts, so I’m looking forward to hearing Maz. According to his wikipedia page he was born in Tehran, and moved to California when he was 6.
@Janet, I’m sorry to hear that, I hope it clears up soon
Hello all! Pretty good new releases up there.
Hi DBS
How’s your week been? How’s the weather? We are apparently in a drought in Southern Sask. It’s pretty hot and dry and dusty around here. This blog isn’t the only place tumbleweeds roll by. 😉
It started raining heavily while I was out today, hence the facebook post
Sorry about the drought, Darbar!
The weather here has been less hot than the 35 degree from last week, but still pretty humid.
17°c here
We have a Heat Warning in Effect for the next few days. It will be low to mid 30s and not cooling down enough at night.
http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-and-services/list-of-programs-and-services/drought-watch/canadian-drought-monitor/?id=1463575104513
It’s not as hot as some places and there aren’t forest fires though.
Yukon Blonde are releasing a 2-song 10-inch vinyl album tomorrow Album is not the right word, considering it’s 2 songs. I think the songs will also be available digitally:
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/yukon_blonde-crazy?&utm_source=twitteren&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=entwitter
I tried to see that Yukon Blonde on another page and it didn’t work. And it seems it won’t play for me on Exclaim either.
Just kidding! No advance Yukon Blonde! I couldn’t get it to play either.
It looks like Yukon Blond have had their video blocked on youtube (at least in the UK) by Universal Music who are presumably their label
Have you listened to Alvvays track Dreams Tonight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdHdP7J8RQ&feature=youtu.be
I am listening to it now and I have added the album to the schedule (thank you)
Bend Sinister claim to be back.
http://www.bendsinisterband.com/
also added (thank you)
No prob!
@DBS, should I just give you admin privileges for that calendar?
@Garf – Could do. Between the two of us we might catch most of them.
I added you
Thanks 🙂
what is the theme for tomorrows playlist
I have two right now. Last weeks Summer playlist and Gateway Music Fest playlist. I will try to remember to actually post it tonight. :p
How do you add to the calendar?
just click on a date
are you logged in to google?
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=l16mhg6p8v3bb69o13js8brjf8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London
Okay got it. I was in transit on the way home and I just added Elliott Brood on Sept 15.
I almost made sense but not quite.
🙂 I knew what you meant (I think)
g’night
Night!