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New Beach House!
Teen Dream Beach House (Sub Pop) . Step back Grizzly Bear, Baltimore's dreamy alternative pop duo Beach House is back with a new album sure to garner as much acclaim as their 2008 work Devotion. Their laid back, reverb-soaked tunes are starry-eyed and pensive, and are...
New Woodhands Video for “CP24”
Yar these guys are amazing. Video's from the first single off their newest album, Remorsecapade. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfvqaNCTEU]
Top 5 Viral Videos of 2009
Some call it ridiculous, others call it the making of history. One thing is sure: the Internet viral video was spawned from the technological womb of the 00's. With a bit of research I found what the five most globally watched viral videos of 2009 were. According to...
Why we love Dexter
He's television's sexiest serial killing loving husband and father. It's been three days since the big showdown — the haunting season finale with the even more shocking death — and yet hushed conversations in coffee shops and crowded buses are still rampant. Allow us...
Zero 7
Zero 7’s leading female vocalist Sophie Barker has a robust, yet dreamy quality to her singing style that would have made the opera heroine Maria Callas nervous. Coupled with her antique, hand-pumped organ at her hip, Barker filled the Commodore with sweeping...
SPIN earth: Raincity Nights
DJ Heroes vs. Stephen Harper
Miné Salkin JRNL 502 Dec. 03/09 Final Feature Submission DJ Heroes vs. Stephen Harper It's a mashup world. Get over it. My living room is throbbing with the posthumous glory of my favourite dead music star. It's a mashup party for one. The strained and tortured sound...
Woodhands
... I wanna do it one more time The Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC November 28 Plaid shirts. Bearded hipsters. Women dancing in their bras. These are the fundamental elements that Woodhands brings to the realm of indietronica rock. The...
Watch Oh No Ono’s “Swim”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukxu8FgrW10] An eye-popping delight for the indie-experimental lover. I don't think I've seen a decent music video since the 1990s. I believe the last "good" one would either be Radiohead's "Just" (1995) or "Californication" by...