Your choice: 1) An interview with a guy who tests tape including questions like this: CLB: Does it usually come off? G: Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t, you know—that’s the excitement of it, really. OR 2) Sussudio – Phil Collins Is it just me or does this song remind you of getting kicked out of a [...]
It’s raining and grey in Montreal. It’s one of those days you forget ever happened. Here’s a song by The Band that Bahamas covered in Montreal last week. This song just fits the day: If you want to listen to Bahamas play it you can check out this National Post podcast (it starts at 0:40).
Hey! Getta load a this guy. Southern Souls, aka Mitch Fillion, filmed over 150 bands on their home turf in his first year of operation–for free. That’s dedication. You’ll find The Acorn using a railroad track as an instrument, Diamond Rings having a Christmas recital and Bahamas chilling by the fire. These videos are so [...]
Check this out. The NPR interviewer just gives this guy, Volker Bertelmann, everyday items and Bertelmann uses them to get amazing new sounds out of a piano. You can watch the first part below but the NPR website has a bunch of other videos too.
I had a post about daylight savings all lined up but then I came across this and got completely distracted. How many bands can you identify by their pictogram? Check out AUX for the answers.
RadarLake is one year old today. I think the first year was pretty successful. We had over 5,000 visits from 66 countries. Here’s a map of where our visits have come from: Not bad. This is a low-ball estimate too because for the first 8 months the code used to track RadarLake’s popularity wasn’t installed [...]
Life is getting way too busy. Check out this photographer known only as JR who recently won TED’s $100,000 annual prize. I particularly like this photo. I lived in the Rio de Janeiro for a while and it’s easy to forget that those shacks house families, children and communities.
If you’re in Montreal you can catch Jason Collett tonight at Il Motore. Torontonians can catch him November 11 at Church of the Redeemer.
