If only I lived here..

This festival seems to get bigger and bigger every year..

Cool Video Funtime #199 - Her Disappearing Theme

Happy Anniversary Admac♥

A few new interesting things..

The guys who started Broken Social Scene are releasing "rare" tracks from their K.C. Accidental day's. The double album "Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub/Anthems For The Could've Bin Pills" comes out October 26th via Arts & Crafts.
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Have you heard Helios' new album "Unleft"? Soooo good. Classical meets Ambient Space..
also

Squarepusher's new project "Shobaleader One".. Sounds like a "Garage Metal band "attempting "Daft Punk-isms (yep, it's a werd)". I am curious about this project..

Good (free) music laying around the interwebs..(expanded edition)

Wet Wings - Whisper Always
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The Vacan Lots - Confusion
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The Gamut - Distandland
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Tangles - Yay
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Sex Tape - Lubricated Intimacy
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Houses - Endless Spring
&Fiveng - Give Me A Taste
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Fight Bite - Celeste
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Efterklang - Alike(Glitterbug Remix)
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DD/MM/YYYY - Van Tan
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Broken Social Scene - All To All (Skeet Skeet Remix)

~njoy

(I've been toying with the idea of streaming music for a while now.. hopefully you like it..?)

Broken Social Scene US Tour 2010..

Broken Social Scene '10

07-16 Chicago, IL - Pitchspork Music Festival
08-28 St. Louis, MO - Lou Fest
09-08 Pittsburgh, PA - Byham Theater
09-09 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
09-10 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
09-11 Richmond, VA - The National
09-13 Washington, DC - The Warner Theatre
09-14 Philadelphia, PA - TLA
09-17 Boston, MA - House of Blues
09-18 New York, NY - Central Park, Rumsey Playfield
09-20 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
09-21 Northampton, MA - Calvin Theater
09-22 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
09-24 Ithaca, NY - State Theater
09-25 Buffalo, NY - Town Hall
10-01 Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
10-03 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
10-04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-15 Seattle, WA - Paramount
10-16 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
10-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

Finally got to sit down with the new album today and soak it in, not too shabby. Maybe on par with the last release (which wasn't my fav -- but a few shining moments). The B-Sides companion though, ..oh my.

Pre-order the new BSS and get a FREE b-sides album..

From Broken Social Scene:

I know that some bands write their songs, rehearse them and then record them. Not Broken Social Scene. In recording Forgiveness Rock Record we did it our usual way: swimming in chaos and making it up as we go along. We started by loosely sketching out 30 songs in my garage, driving to Chicago, recording 20 of those, and then writing 20 more. The point was to never stop working. Whenever we got exhausted or overwhelmed we would take a breath, pick up our instruments and jam purely ‘for spirit purposes’. It was musical-therapy of sorts. Part of what kept the ideas flowing was Soma’s smaller, second studio where we could test out new ideas and experiment with overdubs. While John worked in the main room, this B-Room quickly became our musical kitchen where we cooked up soups of sound without the pressures time and money.

One evening, as a kind of exercise in spontaneity, Kevin, Brendan and I each took turns writing and recording minute-long “songs” with minimal overdubs just to see what would happen. We kept saying to John “we’re making you an EP!” It was a sort of first-thought-best-thought approach to music making. Within a few hours we had six lovely little soundscapes, one of which ended up being the closing song on Forgiveness Rock Record, ‘Me & My Hand’, and the rest became the beginnings of Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights.

As we continued to work on Forgiveness the B-room became more and more important as both a musical and social outlet - there are a lot of us in Broken Social Scene and it’s hard for us to sit on our hands – so naturally Ohad, Sam and Sebastian each recorded a song in the same spontaneous way. ‘Song For Dee’, the only traditional “song” on Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights, Brendan, Kevin and I recorded when we found out that our good friend Wayne’s dog died and we wanted to cheer him up.

All of the songs on Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights were recorded in Soma’s B-Room while Forgiveness Rock Record was being made. What these songs have in common is that they were all written in a spirit of playfulness and fearlessness where we could throw our discrimination to the wind and let the judges and critics take the night off. This tiny B-Room sanctuary fomented a very positive frame of mind, ultimately leading to one of the most enjoyable album-making experiences we’ve ever had. We hope you enjoy listening to these songs as much as we enjoyed recording them.

"Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights"
Tracklisting
1. New Instructions
2. Sudden Foot Loss
3. Shabba Lights
4. Song For Dee
5. Eling's Haus
6. Professor Sambo
7. Never Felt Alive
8. Paperweight Room
9. Turbo Mouse
10. Far Out

Pre-order here. Did you ever watch any of the promo videos?

REVIEW: Bullets In Madison - We Became Your Family When You Died

7.75 out of 10
Find it here.

Bullets In Madison are a (relatively) newer group hailing from Chicago, the kind of music they create is lush & cinematic Post-Rocky Shoegaze. "We Became Your Family When You Died" is their latest offering (2nd LP) of terrific "should have been more popular by now music". Imagine a meshing of Broken Social Scene, Mogwai, Labradford, Radiohead, and maybe a little Sigur Ros. If you're reading this and you already know about this project chances are you know that this whole album is free.. If you have haven't heard of this group by now chances are you will download the album and spread the word like wildfire (trust me, this IS up your alley).

Within the walls of "We Became Your Family When You Died" lays gorgeous strings swelling and drowning underneath a plethora of washed out guitar plucks & reverberations, epic drumming, alluring sprinkles of piano, and vocals that are melancholy, romantic, and somewhat relaxing. Each song on this ridiculously under priced album is somewhat of an epic adventure from start to beginning. The tracks just build, build, and build, what they unleash can sometimes come as a surprise. I can guarantee you this, if you're a fan of Post Rock with vocals you will LOVE this band. If you're a fan of extremely polished Indie Rock records or Nu Gaze music you will also love this. IF YOU'RE A FAN OF MUSIC AT ALL YOU SHOULD LOVE THIS. Is there any reason your still reading this? Go, go download NOW.

This is the kind of music you want to play live if you're in a band. The kind of music that you can REALLY connect to on an emotional level. Every note, every sound, every lyric puts this deep seeded feeling inside of your ear heart that just won't let go till it explodes causing your body to quiver from buoyant rhapsody (kind of orgasmic I suppose). How often has the word "F-R-E-E" let you down? Highly Recommended.

Standout Tracks: Animals, Joel Found His Angel Cowering In The Garden (love this track), Riots (should be called "Sigur Social Scene"), St. Jude (mmmmmmhmmm), Crimes

New Broken Social Scene track..

Broken Social Scene "World Sick" off of the upcoming new album "Forgiveness Rock Record" which comes out May 4th via via Arts & Crafts.

This is a pretty sweet track, I am more than looking forward to hearing what these guys have been up to for the past 5 years or so..