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Man, what a week. I had a test Monday, a genre comparison of Batman (1989) and X-Men (2000) in the form of a 10-12 page essay, and then my compy died ( Read more... )

I don't really have time for a full-out, proper post and won't for the next week due to school work. That will give me a lot of time to catch up with my music listening, though. With the high number of anticipated [and leaked] Spring releases, it's going to be quite the season. To get your interest going, here are six songs from six albums to look ( Read more... )

Most importantly, someone out there has to go with me to The Flaming Lips show at The Phoenix on April 4th. $39.50.

Check out some pictures I took of The Old Soul over at i (heart) music. There should've been a lot of better photos but my camera battery died on me. I wanted to cry, cos the lighting was so great. I also didn't realize who the lead ( Read more... )

So my Magneta Lane interview is up at i (heart) music. It was a great experience. The interview got interrupted once when someone came in to use the washroom, so we turned on a tap so we weren't listening to them pee. French and I agreed that Jay Ferguson is marriage material. Before leaving, I went up to Lexi to say how much I enjoyed the show and ( Read more... )

Brief update from Ottawa:

Yesterday I interviewed Magneta Lane in the women's washroom of Zahpod's. As you can probably guess, it was an insane pleasure and the current highlight of a supremely awesome week. I now have to transcribe it so it can go up on i [heart] music [I can't say when it will go up, but obviously I will link-it-up whenever it ( Read more... )

Last night was the Images Film Festival fundraiser with Final Fantasy, Gentleman Reg and The Two Koreas at Lee's Palace. It was moderately full at 9, about fifteen minutes before Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett) took the stage.

It wasn't surprising that most of the songs were off of the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons inspired album, He Poos Clouds ( Read more... )

It appears tomorrow will be then en [at least on Fox] of the much-loved Arrested Development. As much as people will ask "How can this show leave?", the question is really "How did it stay on the air for three (partial) seasons?" I will actually give Fox some credit, not only for allowing such a show to be made, for not messing around with it's ( Read more... )

Today is the official release date for Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit. Initial reviews are quite good, overall, but when you look at the sources that gave them not-so-great reviews [60 and 50 from Rolling Stone and Alternative Press, respectively], you can bump up their overall score by a couple of points. I think it's a great pop record, one ( Read more... )

There's not much I can tell you about Field Music. The info on their website is a bit exagerated ["Field Music are something of a North East supergroup", "Field Music's sound is like all of the best pop you ever heard it once"], but notice I only said a bit. I was worried about them being British at first, cause most of the stuff they're giving us ( Read more... )