What with working a lot and spending most of my free time with my girlfriend, my music consumption in the last while has been mostly limited to promos and a handful of things I've actually bought. I almost forgot that one of my favourite things in the world is music piracy ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow night's Atlas Sound/White Rainbow/Valet show in Vancouver is cancelled due to a snowstorm. I don't know where the snowstorm is. It's sunny here ( Read more... )

No Gold killed it once again tonight, but they're going to have to tighten up a bit if they are indeed opening for Vampire Weekend in May (which makes too much sense to not be true). Only stayed for a couple songs of Mahjongg -- those guys are too old and trying to hard to be playing such a mediocre show to such a small crowd ( Read more... )

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After a couple months of increasingly grinding poverty, I finally decided to suck it up and get a second job. The low-stress (i.e. three days off a week) lifestyle I was cultivating was turning out to be more stressful than working a lot after all, since I couldn't pay any of my bills, and I tend to covet things beyond my means even when I have ( Read more... )

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I have a lead on a new job that I'm really excited about. I really want it, and I think I have a good chance.

I was happy to see Vampire Weekend get love and a very sensible review on The 'Fork, plus a great Guest List by VW keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij. I was worried about a premature backlash, but maybe it'll be avoided after all. The reviewer ( Read more... )

The new Black Mountain only got a 7.4, with the reviewer concluding (perversely) that it wasn't as good as the first album ( Read more... )