Boxer The Horse - Material Christmas

A christmas song. By Boxer the Horse. You listen here: http://www.myspace.com/boxerthehorse

Hold on to your hat, babe.

HAT - Racoon Bandit from Adam Perry on Vimeo.

Please let me introduce you to Postdata...

I have been waiting to share this for quite some time. Paul recorded some songs with his brother Mike and now it's going to be released on Jan. 26th as a little record. I really love it. Here are 3 songs + 1 download at postdatamusic.com. you can 'share' or embed it as well.

APPRECIATION POST: Burdocks - Airplane Tracks

Do you remember when you bought Airplane Tracks and listened to it for like, 10 months straight? If you answered, "no", then I'm not sure we can really be friends anymore... I'm sorry (kind of).

I am not going to lie. I go long periods of time not listening to this EP. I meet new records, become involved with them, sometimes fall in love, but when I'm reminded of my beloved Airplane Tracks, I run straight back with open arms and hug it and hug it and hug it. What a wonderful piece of art you are, AP. I'm sorry i don't say it often enough, but i do care for you, very much. Here are a few reasons why:

1. Pop Cult
2. Icicle Knife
3. Receipts
4. Save The World
5. We Seat Ourselves
6. Room Temperature
7. Battle Of The Band

Listen to some songs - http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/BURDOCKS
Buy it - http://dogdaymusic.com/discography/

Larry Blackberry

Ah, Larry David. I'm not saying I approve, but I do understand...

Paul Westerberg - Things

a little something to help us get through 'hump day'. i hate that term, but i used it anyway.

New Pearl Jam

yeah man



and:

Do The Collapse

It's friday before the long weekend. Listen to Guided By Voices.

Pearl Jam Loves Wintersleep too...

Man, i just really really love this. and when he says wintersleep, i'm sure he also means me. i was there last time they played with them. on stage and all. ed wouldn't forget me, right? of course not.

The Novaks Media Player

It`s been requested that I present to you the new Novaks media player - featuring songs from Things Fall Apart. Embed it anywhere you'd like too. Visit The Novaks website (media section), launch the player under "Audio" and find the 'embed', or 'share' button and there you go... magic.

Appreciation Post: This Year's Model

I've been listening to this Costello record every day this week. It's damn good. His second record. Released in 1978. Pure awesome.

I just found out that pitchfork gave it a 10.0, so if you don't believe me, then believe Pitchfork, i guess.

Just put it on.

Boom Boom I Got Me A Gun...

I don't really got me a gun. I'm not a fan of guns. However, I am becoming quite a fan of Myles Deck and The Fuzz. A punk band that lives here in Halifax that reminds me of the Stooges. I suspect they remind themselves of The Stooges, which is fine if you can pull it off.

I saw them last Spring at the Seahorse after seeing Death Cab For Cutie at DAL and had a blast. Definitely a completely different show, but no less of one, that's for sure. Luckily none of the beer or powder thrown on /in to the audience landed on me, but if it had I don't think I'd have minded because it all made sense at the time. Great show. punk rock.

A Myles Deck and The Fuzz audio player
[click on 'music']. song 2 and 3 are my favourite - from the EP Police Cops.

The Chiffons

In the last 15 minutes I've become obsessed with The Chiffons. Sometimes you're just in the mood for old school awesome. this is it.

Woo! New Yo La Tengo!

Yo La T is the FSOTW on iTunes.ca. Yay! New! Yo! La! Tengo! From Popular Songs - Due out Sept. 2009. You can also download the track (called "Periodically Double or Triple") here.
Have I ever mentioned that they wrote / recorded / perform one of my top 3 songs of all time? Love the Yo La...

You Can Have It All:

New Nick Rose

I've been meaning to post this for about a week, but I continually get sidetracked. Now it's time... There are a few new Nick Rose songs posted on his myspace. "Run Tom Longboat" is worthy of repeated listens. go. go now.

In other news, in case you've not seen the posts on the band's sites, Wintersleep will be opening for Paul McCartney when he performs his only Canadian date - this Saturday, July 11th on the Halifax Common. :)

Bonus: HELP!


Extra Bonus: Hayden - Dynamite Walls (just because i love it so)

Polaris Prize - Long List

Leonard Cohen, eh? that's some tough competition...

The list is posted below but you can visit the Polaris site for more info on the jury, the process, etc.

Who do you think will be on the short list? I have my ten picked out. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours...

• Arkells - Jackson Square
• Jill Barber - Chances
• Beast - Beast
• Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
• Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
• Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth
• Cœur De Pirate - Cœur De Pirate
• Leonard Cohen - Live In London
• D-Sisive - Let The Children Die
• Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
• Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
• Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
• Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
• Handsome Furs - Face Control
• Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
• Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs
• Japandroids - Post-Nothing
• Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
• K'NAAN - Troubadour
• K-OS - YES!
• La patère rose - La patère rose
• Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
• Lhasa - Lhasa
• Malajube - Labyrinthes
• Metric - Fantasies
• One Hundred Dollars - Forest Of Tears
• Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
• Joel Plaskett - Three
• Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize
• Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
• Rae Spoon - superioryouareinferior
• The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
• Think About Life - Family
• Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
• Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
• Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
• Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
• Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
• Women - Women
• Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada
C/W Houndstooth Europa

Goin' to Acapulco

I must admit I'm not much of a MMJ fan, but I do love this. From the Dylan pic "I'm Not There", Jim James w/ Calexico:



Bonus (and possibly the best thing ever) - Beastie Boys with The Roots!

Grizzly Bear Black Cab Session

oh yeah. that's good. that's real good: http://blackcabsessions.com/sessions.php?id=1243002825

Grizzly Bear on Myspace. New album "Veckatimest" is out tomorrow.

Cat in a box

this has very little to do with anything... but i felt the need to share.
I'm as happy that it's friday and 30 degrees out as this cat is with that box...

Box Cat is back!

Songs I Never Tire Of

There are a lot of songs on my ipod that I have been listening to for QUITE a while now with no real big breaks in between. Just go-to songs that I love and never tire of. Some of the main ones are below... what are yours??

Leonard Cohen / almost anyone - Hallelujah
Snailhouse - Daylight
Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio
Neil Young - Unknown Legend
Radiohead - Idioteque
The Roots - Thought @ Work
Sonic Youth - Androgynous Mind
Eminem & Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre
Gord Downie - Chancellor
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Christopher Robin Device - Parade Day
Dan Griffin - She's A Drug
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
Hayden - Home By Saturday
Jim O'Rourke - Halfway to a Three Way
Museum Pieces - Old Cathedral

the wonderfully wonderfully weird

Tom Waits' Mule Variations is just so great. On a rainy afternoon, there's almost nothing better. Give it a spin sometime this rainy season and you'll see. Watch Tom perform "Chocolate Jesus" on Letterman:



BONUS: "Come On Up to the House" Video:

sONIC yOUTH

oh yeah.

Favourite Song of the Week

It turns out the christopher walken twitter wasn't the real walken after all. and the account seems to have been suspended. oh well... on to new things.

There are so many new records to listen to... majors acts like the Hip, Neil Young, DCFC, Kos... some of these are better than others... but the song that I can't stop listening to on repeat comes from Jay Smith's Myspace. Check out the song "Romantic Fool". Good stuff.

BONUS: Arkells live at SXSW. I see danny g...

Christopher Walken... is it really you?

I'm not sure if this is real chris walken or not (as opposed to 'the real shack' on Twitter), but who ever it is (and I really hope it's real christopher walken), he / she is hilarious. I will accept Twitter into my life now, happily. Thank you Mr. Walken, or whoever you are, for providing my new favourite light reading material.

Some Excerpts: from http://twitter.com/cwalken

I am now invited to a dog wedding. I don't have the words to make that stupider than it already sounds. They're registered at Whiskers. 9:16 AM Mar 24th

A friend mailed me her new book but didn't sign it. I hope that doesn't mean she wants it back. I'll tell her I sneezed on it or something. about 20 hours ago

There's a kid on a Pogo stick in front of my house. It's nearly midnight so let's assume he's been drinking. This should end well for him. 10:41 PM Mar 18th

Someone corrected my last post; said it's "frightened by" not "frightened of." Know what else I'm frightened of? Crazy people. 9:29 AM Mar 18th

No. I'm not really Tina Fey. That was an odd question but I applaud its random nature. 9:57 AM Mar 13th

Bonus:
A video on the "Twoubles with Twitter"

Too Cool For (old)School

Thanks again to Matt for sending me an awesome video that I can now steal and post on my blog like I knew it was there all along...

"Come On Out..."

it's spring! officially spring! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY!



Bonus: Rainn Wilson's "25 things about me" from here:
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/office-star-rainn-wilson-25-things-about-me-2009193

The Office's Rainn Wilson -- next up in Monsters vs. Aliens (out March 27) -- filled out the "25 Things" Facebook chain letter for Us Weekly.

1. I would make a beautiful woman.
2. My wife is way funnier than I am.
3. I once thought it would be a good idea to be a pipe smoker like Sherlock Holmes or The Hef. I was 19.
4. I am "just not that into" seeing that new dating movie.
5. I know why the caged bird sings. To make female birds think he's sensitive.
6. I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky. This causes a lot of injuries for me.
7. I've got 99 problems and a fish ain't one of them.
8. Fact: My mother wanted to name me Thucydides.
9. Maize: My people call it corn.
10. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? One, with my ­incredibly acidic saliva.
11. I believe in universal health care for every planet except Earth.
12. Unlike most, I feel John Oates is overrated.
13. I am 6-foot-1 and 5/6 inches.
14. I frigging hate negative people. They suck.
15. I once took a girl on a date and refused to pay for her movie ticket because, as a feminist, I was ideologically opposed to the idea. Never saw her again. I was 19.
16. If I see a fire extinguisher, I have to play with it.
17. When I was a child, I stepped on my pet gerbil, Frederick. My dad gave him a funeral flush.
18. I think Mary Todd Lincoln was a ­stone-cold fox.
19. I always thought the lyrics to "Jet ­Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band went "Big ol' Chad and the lineup."
20. I once put my left foot in while ­doing the hokeypokey and was unable to take it out for three days.
21. I'm an expert juggler, chess player and Call of Duty sniper.
22. I dance like a girl when Madonna's "Into the Groove" comes on.
23. Fact: My two favorite shows are Lost and Sesame Street.
24. My stunt double on The Office is a marionette.
25. I wish there was a Home Surgery Network.

PIECE OF CRAP

I was just complaining about my home computer being a piece of crap (PIECE OF CRAP), and i remembered this tune. now i can't stop listening to it. and it's made my day better... but the video itself is a piece of crap...

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Piece of Crap
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Tom Petty - Runnin Down A Dream

Such an amazing documentary. Everyone must watch it.



Bonus: "I Need To Know" (live)

15 things to help get you through until the weekend...

1. The Magnetic Fields - California Girls
2. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Stand and Deliver
3. The Replacements - Buck Hill
4. Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything
5. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
6. Bruce Peninsula - Crabapples
7. Chad VanGaalen - Bare Feet on Wet Griptape
8. Constantines - Easy Money
9. Nirvana - Aneurysm
10. Husker Du - New Day Rising
11. Fugazi - Life and Limb
12. Smothered in Hugs - Money Came Through
13. Sebadoh - Gimme Indie Rock
14. Sonic Youth - Androgynous Mind
15. Mudhoney - Overblown

"California Girls"


"Plaster Casts...."


"Life and Limb"

"Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west..."

happy friday. dance and sing.

Soft Airplane

WHAT is wrong with me that I put off listening to Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane until recently? I ignored everyone having listed it on their top 2008 albums lists, I ignored it when Glen (who sits not far from my office door) played it during the day, I ignored it for way too long and I deserve every i-told-you-so and kick in the butt you wish to dish out. I liked other Chad VanGaalen stuff, but I do believe that I love this. Don't make the same mistake I did... if you like brilliant indie pop, this is for you. Although I do recommend you listen to it as an album, and not download random songs. It's worth the .99 per track to have the entire thing.

Snow Storm

it's storming out. like, snowing sideways type o' deal... let's sing it off:

Stevie Wonder drum solo

i stole this from Jeremy (of boxer the horse)'s facebook. holy crap.

Podcast: Is This Thing On : Sunday

These songs are great. the podcast as a whole could be better. but i went out last night and don't overly feel like playing the perfectionist today... enjoy.

1) Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero / No Limit
2) Neil Young - Winterlong
3) Nina Simone - Aint Got No / I Got Life
4) The Faces - Flying
5) Elvis Costello - Lip Service
6) The Band - The Weight (last waltz version)
7) Koko Taylor feat. Willie Dixon - Insane Asylum
8) Candi Staton - That's How Strong My Love Is
9) Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue
10) Velvet Underground - Rock n Roll
11) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream

"The reactor's down. I guess for Labour Day..."

There's a new Hip song, "Morning Moon" on their website from the upcoming album (due out in April). It sounds like it might be a mellower effort this time.

I can't even begin to put how I feel for Gord Downie into words. I've met him twice and both times I made an ass out of myself. I dont tend to get starstruck, but I felt like a deer in the damn headlights. The first time we talked about our jackets. The second, Mike O'Neil. But that's ok. If you can't be weird around Gord Downie, who can you be weird around?

"Grace Too" (SNL)

Listen All Y'all...

Appreciation Post: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...

I just played this really loudly while trying to sort through some stuff here at work. The office didn't seem to mind. SO SO SO good.

Now, you go play it loud too. you deserve it. so do the people around you. and DON'T give me any of that "i'm not really a bowie fan" stuff. that means you just dont know any better... this record is worth setting all of that crap aside. trust.

"Five Years" Live

"Is This Thing On" feat. Dan Griffin (Or "JB & DG got a case of the Mondays")

It's been almost an entire YEAR since my last podcast. A year!? How that happened, I just dont know. However, I had the pleasure of collaborating on the first episode of Is This Thing On 2009 with my buddy Dan Griffin. Dan came into my office yesterday morning only a short time after waking up and I was in my office working away / fighting to stay focused as I was out much too late (yes, on a sunday, but it was worth it), and I was exhausted. A great way to start a monday for both of us. However, putting this little episode together over lunch was a nice addition to the otherwise not very awesome day. So, I'd like to thank Dan for chosing the artists and most of the songs, and for taking care of the introduction (again, we're sorry for the mic sound)...

As stated, the theme of this podcast is 'Monday'. ..From waking up on Monday morning to going to sleep on Monday night. We hope you enjoy it.

- JB&DG

1) Yo La Tengo - Little Eyes
2) Nick Rose - Light At Dawn*
3) Bon Iver - Beach Baby
4) Magnolia Electric co. - Hard To Love A Man
5) The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (Acoustic outtake)+
6) Arkells - I'm Not The Sun**
7) Paul Westerberg - Dirty Diesel+
8) Loose Fur - Answers to your Questions+
9) Fleet Foxes - Quiet Houses
10)Constantines - St. You


*A big thank you to Nick Rose for sending me "light at dawn" for this podcast. To all of you in Toronto on Jan. 30th, head down to the Riv for his cd release show w/ guest...Dan Griffin :)
**Dan plays in Arkells. See these guys live. so great.
+Really love Paul Westerberg. And Jim O'Rourke.

THIS Sunday - Dan Griffin & Ryan Cook solo show

Dan Griffin is in town playing with Arkells at The Marquee with Matty Mays, and while he's here, he'll also be performing a solo show at The Carlton on Argyle st. 9 pm sharp, with Ryan Cook. What a great way to end the weekend. I definitely told you all about Danny G, already. you know this is special...

Dan live solo - "She's A Drug":


And the wonderful Ryan Cook, covering Hank Williams' "Ramblin Man":

Luke Temple - Daytrotter Session

"...is that a weight, my dear?"

What a lovely lazy Sunday find. I currently have "Thankful Survivor" on repeat. Listen or download here.

Bonus:

The catchy song - aired on Grey's Anatomy and in the short film Fortune Hunters (which I just watched - rent it on itunes). This is some type of fan made video: "Make Right With You"

LIVE: "Medicine"