Montreal’s Karkwa follow in the footsteps of friend and collaborator Patrick Watson to take home the Polaris Music Prize 2010
September, 2010
Fujiya & Miyagi Announce New Album
Fujiya & Miyagi have announced plans to release a new album, along with a free track. The new album will be called Ventriloquizzing and will be released on the 17th January 2011 through Full Time Hobby.
BRNLV Tour Week Interview // Napoleon IIIrd vs Lone Wolf
It’s BRNLV Tour Week here on TLOBF, and we have each member of that tour being interviewed by their friends. Today we’ve got the lovely Lone Wolf firing questions at his mate Napoleon IIIrd.
Kevin Drew & Charles Spearin’s bedroom recordings get release
Before Broken Social Scene there was K.C. Accidental. The lo-fi bedroom recordings of Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin. Their hard to get EP’s are getting a proper reissue on Arts & Crafts in November.
Plants And Animals – La La Land
While there are glimpses here of the fresh innovation that made their debut so memorable, these new songs ultimately fail to find a proper balance between Plants And Animals instinctive desire to create something new and their tendency to overtly honor their influences.
The Posies – Blood/Candy
An album demonstrating just how varied, diverse, beautiful crafted and deceptively complex a band can become while still producing songs that lift the heart.
Blackbird Blackbird: ‘Pure’
The hardest working man in chill-wave? Most definitely. Having only been releasing music since May this year, Mikey Sanders has been an unstoppable force within the blogging community.
How to make a debut album, the Copy Haho way | Part 1
Read all about Copy Haho’s crazy tales of debauchery, tooth-ache and overflowing urinals in this, their very own studio diary from the making of Copy Haho LP #1.
SOTD #134 // Eric Chenaux: ‘Warm Charleston’
Eric Chenaux, Toronto based and released by legendary Montreal label par excellence Constellation Records, is one of the best country folk song writers and singers around
Ten Kens – For Posterity
Whilst inconsistent, Ten Kens’ second LP shows significant promise in its raucous doom-rock bluster.
Lloyd Cole – Broken Record
Those years in Massachusetts have obviously had an effect on the boy from Buxton, as Lloyd Cole turns in an album full of hints of Nashville.
Brian Eno’s Apollo – QE Hall, Southbank Centre 16/09/2010
The audience of the Queen Elizabeth Hall take to their comfortable, leather seats to watch the 12 musicians of Icebreaker attempt to recreate those warm, ambient tones of Brian Eno’s Apollo work, with the aid of BJ Cole on pedal steel guitar.
BRNLV Tour Week Interview // John Brainlove
This week on TLOBF we’ve got a full-on BRNLV Records attack. As the label trek across the UK in a large van full to bursting of label talent, we speak to label boss John Brainlove about his baby…
Wish You Were Here this weekend in Cambridge
This weekend sees Cambridge’s very first multi-venue festival Wish You Were Here!
Abe Vigoda – Crush
Crush, casts an eye over at its predecessor, at times succumbing to its bold method, but apart from that, Ave Vigoda bring forth one of the boldest re-inventions of a band over the past 12 months, when a shake up wasn’t even required.
TLOBF Interview // The Walkmen
With a new album just on the horizon I talk to The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauer and Peter Bauer about what inspires their soundscape, overcoming their fears and their ‘love’ of breakfast slots at festivals.
