CBC Radio 3 Concerts Trail

Oh Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the style of true defenders of indie culture, our dear good old CBC Radio 3 has stepped up their game by totally revamping the website for their collection of concerts and radio sessions. Featuring a badass flash player, some flash website effects, and a cartoon bubble-talking duck-moose centaur (a duck with the head of a moose) sporting some cool headphones, the collection features the Canadian sojourns of many including Stephen Malkmus and the Holy Jicks, M.I.A., Sufjan, Bedouin Soundclash, Elf Power, Dizzy Rascal, Neko Case and numerous more. If you love live music and are too cheap to go see anything, go there now.

Click here for direct admission.

Arcade Fire - Live, First Avenue, Minneapolis

Coming to us from BigO with love, here's the Montrealers live at First Avenue Club in Minneapolis.
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Crown of Love
Headlights Look Like Diamonds
No Cars Go
Haiti
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
I'm Sleeping In A Submarine
Five Years [David Bowie cover]
Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Rebellion (Lies)
Wake Up

The Return of the Triple Yeahs

As we eagerly await Nick, Brian and Karen O's return to cosmos with the soon to be released Show Your Bones, here's a single from the album that's been making the internet rounds. Personally, I've still got "Maps" playing in my head, so these guys are going to work a lot harder to convince me that song alone was not their career peak.

Sufjan Stevens: Live at Lee's Palace, Toronto, Nov. 16, 2004

SS was indomitable in 2005. Before Illinoise, he stopped by in TO to give us a taste of his genius, and banjo of course. Jam the show by clicking play on Fabricio's cool flash player below.

via Webjay

You can get Illinoise and other Sufjan albums for free by signing up for 50 FREE Downloads from eMusic. Good for your iPod® or any MP3 player.

Arcade Fire Studio Session

"This is not a wedding!" So begins the blessed ones of Montreal as they jam out a CBC Radio 3 session in Toronto, October 2, 2004. Included: An interpretation of the Talking Heads classic "This Must Be The Place" that will make you shed tears of bliss for those them days. Listen here my friends.

Six Demon Bag Grows On Me

Hot damn, the new Man Man disc, Six Demon Bag, finally grew on me. I never knew I had it in me. For those of you who haven't tasted of this vine, here's the lowdown. These blokes sound kinda like the soundtrack for that devil-worshipping orgy you and your hellbound friends have been planning since 12th grade. Now that you went and got hitched, your only chance in hell of doing just that is to stop at a Man Man concert (which Rollingstone tells me is awesomest and the pix above seems to illustrate) sometime before your kids clue in.

Here are two songs off SDB.

English Bwudd
Van Helsing Boombox

And some older cuts:

Spider Cider
Zebra
Manface

Belle & Sebastian

Here's a minefield of B&S songs freely available on the net for your enjoyment. Having taken the pains to aggregate this for your listening pleasure, I only ask that you listen. This has selections from their new album, The Life Pursuit and from the quintessential Push Barman to Open Old Wounds which you can get by signing up for 50 FREE Downloads from eMusic. No Restrictions - Own Your Music!

Another Sunny Day
Step into my office, baby
Boy Done Wrong Again
For the Price of a Cup of Tea
Summer Wasting
Boy with the Arab Strap
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Piazza, New York Catcher
Fox in the Snow
I'm Waking Up to Us
We Are The Sleepyheads

Paging Boris: Pink

This is for all you heavy noise fans out there. Early this year, on the usual prompting by Pitchfork, I sought out the new disc titled Pink by Japanese stoner rock figureheads, Boris. Sitting down to a pretentious cup of chai latte, I plugged in and got a real shocker from this metal veterans. Now, if you know anything about stoner rock, you'll know it's not Coldplay. Somehow this guys found a way to make SR sound like a wall of melodiously harmonised noise, if that even means anything. I kid you not, even if you are one of those soft music people, you should give this disc a try. To prepare you for this, here some songs from Boris' past efforts to compare with when you do buy the Pink LP.

Korosu
Ibitsu
Huge

P.S: Wata is definitely a babe too-she would make the HFL series if she was a lead. However, she's mainly responsible for the crashing guitars.

Africana Series #1: Highlife, Biafra & the Nigeria Civil War

First up in the Africana series is highlife music from Nigeria, West Africa. The songs that follow are drawn from the Civil War era between 1967 and 1970, composed and played by musicians from the seccessionist state of Biafra (from which Monsieur Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedy's fame drew inspiration for his stage name). Sung in various dialects of the Igbo language, the musicians combine various local instruments (gongs, talking drums, udu, ibome etc.) to explore themes of war, starvation, and our earthly existence. Enjoy.

Onwu Zuru Uwa
Onye Nwe Uwa
Nkpake Do Owo
So Ala Temem

Meanwhile, our slick new streaming music jammer is up, thanks to the His Geekness, Fabricio Zuardi and the playlist guys at Webjay. I set this up on autoplay-if you are one of those "no autoplay when I approach a blog" fellas, simply hit the kill switch and read on. At some point you're going to have to face facts though-this is a music blog!

Playlist #3

Let's shuffle it up a bit today, take chances, live a little. Be prepared to hear anything from the weird to the fabulous, from the comic stylings of Dane Cook to retro strummings from the Oriental Brothers. Cheers men, play on.

Streaming musika, all day long through here.

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