Just a note that I’ve started a mixed media blog at Tumblr. It’s a bit more of a catch-all interest dump and should be updated multiple times weekly, if not daily. You can find it at AdamWhite.org.
2:59 will continue as a repository for record reviews and will refocus on music from this point forward. There’ll be no more babbling about comic books or wine or the Niagara region here. For that, go visit Adam White.
This is so cool. I don’t really need another reason so be excited about the new Neko Case record, and neither do you, but the alt-country chanteuse and ANTI- Records have launched a fantastic bit of marketing to promote it. For every blog that posts a link to the new single “People Got a Lotta Nerve” Case and the label will donate five dollars to the Best Friends Animal Society. So here we go:
Download:http://www.anti.com/media/download/708
Interestingly ANTI- will be counting the blog posts via services like Google Blog Search and Technorati. It’s actually rather refreshing to see a label leverage social media in this way. Not only is it completely on the level, but it’s relying on the good will of people to propogate. A lesson for others.
Neko Case’s new record, Middle Cyclone, arrives on March 3rd. You should buy it.
My Best of 2008 article is online now at Punknews.org. It features a list of a my top 20 albums, a bit of commentary and some of my music videos from my favourite acts of the year. The lists features bands like Fucked Up, the Constantines, Kathleen Edwards, Parts & Labor, Jason Collett, Vivian Girls, Deerhunter and many more.
Punknews recently posted several year end retrospectives. We have lists from our editors, lists from our reviewers, our readers’ choice list, and a look at the most popular articles of the past year. Happy new years!
Elliott Brood had the unfortunate luck of hooking me with what’s become one of my favourite songs. “Oh Alberta” is, in purely academic terms, an awesome little ditty. It’s a catchy banjo driven ode the provinces of Canada. It’s campy, nonsensical and more fun than your most fondly remembered children’s song. Everyone I’ve played it for loves it — and it’s pretty much completely out of character for this band. Elliott Brood is a three piece from Toronto, an alt-country act for lack of a better term. The better term, by the way, is death country as far as the band is concerned. Seriously. Their last full length was recorded in an abandoned slaughterhouse. This one is named after Utah’s Mountain Meadows massacre. You can see what I’m working against when I throw on an Elliott Brood record looking for a good time. « Keep Reading This Article »
There’s a truly spectacular class of independent music coming out of Canada, and it’s so frustratingly genre agnostic and post-everything that to even bother labeling it is an exercise in futility. Toronto duo FemBots are often lumped into some quasi-fictitious indie-folk genre, and that’s an absolutely uncomfortable fit. The duo of Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier once toured as members of the Weakerthans, and that connection’s far more revealing. The groups share an aesthetic, if not a worldview. FemBots are more ambitious and experimental than the Winnipeg favourites, more of an ongoing studio project than a traditional band. They’re content to toy with melancholy atmospherics and layers of sound, and that probably prevents them from cranking out anthems as effective as Samson and company’s. So I’m hesitant to to call FemBots a folk act. The group exude none of the knowingly-clever nouveau hippy smarm of so many freak-folk and jam acts. They’re too urban, too working class. Their songs are more about craftsmanship then a lofty ideal. « Keep Reading This Article »
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