This weeks playlist is mainly poached from a monthly seven hour-long music file known as “Indie Rock Playlist” that floats around the internet every month. If you’re into nerdy things like torrents just do a search for that on any of the sites and it’ll come up. If you’re not into torrents just download [...]

Zee Germans are coming! This Saturday, the Dirt Crew and Chopstick, both from Germany, will be rolling into Signal at the Lotus to perform at the official Soundwave preparty. Presented by Intimate Productions, The Dirt Crew and Chopstick have remixed for the likes of Madonna, Who Made Who, Deep Dish and Miss Kittin. Be prepared [...]

Robert Dayton has a bone to pick with me. About four years ago I wrote an article about a film he starred in, Male Fantasy, and said he resembled Terry Richardson. Dayton wants everyone to know that he’s had his look since 1993 and it’s inspired by Richard Harris or Lee Hazelwood and not Richardson [...]

You can download it from here or from the link on the sidebar.
Tracklisting after the jump

Do you ever dream of hopping on a ferry to Nanaimo to hang out on a farm all day? Saturday July 19 would be an ideal day to act on this uncontrollable urge for the second annual Green Mountain Music Festival. The festival boasts an impressive lineup of folk, country, thrash, indie and rock acts [...]

Some hetero life partners of ours, DJs El Rizzy and Wigglesworth, host a weekly live hip hop show on the internets and just did a new mix. Check out the really funny white guys playing Hip hop here. If you’re lazy or hate streaming audio, you can download their whole mix here.

You can download it from here or from the link on the sidebar. Tracklisting after the jump.

You can download it from here or from the link on the sidebar. Tracklisting after the jump.

I was afraid. I’ve heard that talking with Stephin Merritt can be terribly awkward and difficult. It’s hard enough not being intimidated by his endless body of work, ranging from film scores to musical theatre to brilliant projects such as The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, The Gothic Archies and of course, The Magnetic Fields. Then [...]

On the verge of releasing a new album next month, Vancouver’s Black Mountain should poise itself for another tidal wave of accolades. In the Future is an album too ridiculously good to fully comprehend at first. It unveils as an arsenal of meticulously assembled, yet freely executed songs that plunge the listener into a familiar [...]

Have you ever lost someone close to you? I’m not talking about a pet or someone you went to high school with but never actually talked to, I mean someone really close. One of those friends where, as the cliché goes, if your entire life was represented as a series of footprints on a beach [...]

The Go! Team is a team that always wins. When they aren’t making you clap and cheer with a b-girl stance, they’re lulling you into a tropical holiday dream. Their new album, Proof of Youth, delivers no less variety and excitement than their amazing debut, Thunder, Lightning, Strike. This new album is like one of [...]