Click here to download mp3s from the original Buy Nothing Day soundtrack (free, of course!), featuring NOMEANSNO… and other people I actually know personally (Veda Hille! Ford Pier!)
(Source: buynothingday.org)
SURPRISE SURPRISE! There may have been meth involved!
Amy Honey - Sabbath!
Sabbath Sunday
From the album, Amy Honey (Red Cat Records)
Srsly, click it.
JH: In your project Daniel Bejar/Destroyer (The Googlegänger) you re-stage pictures of yourself mimicking the the poses of Destroyer’s lead singer who shares your name and a similar likeness. Now your images appear confusingly side by side with those of the famous singer in some of the top Google Image Search results. In describing the project as a “search image intervention” can you say something more about the project’s concept?
DB: Well, the concept took some time to solidify after intercepting the initial fan mails, but it evolved out of ideas where I saw Google’s Image Search or even the web as a space that Daniel Bejar and I would share for the rest of our lives. There was also the idea that as an artist working in visual culture you would ideally like images of your works to appear somewhere near the top of search results, and with images of the other Daniel Bejar dominating the search results I saw this as a contested space.
This led to the idea of somehow trying to intervene in the search results, so I guess it was technically born out of an effort to alter search results, but conceptually for me the piece really questions the idea of the original and the copy, and if these questions could be applied to one’s identity, personal history, or even a biological name, inside the context of the internet.
”| — | Rhizome | Artist Profile: Daniel Bejar (via jomc) |
out of the blue (1980)
Best Vancouver band ever?
Awesome! That’s my good pal Tony Bardach on bass (and almost getting knocked over by fighting punks)… can’t get over how young he looks! The Pointed Sticks are, of course, still together and opened for DEVO earlier this week (my buddy Chi from SNFU was like a pig in shit to have his backstage pass).
If you want to see Tony in an entirely different thing, check him out with his Zappa-fied “greasy doo wop” band Slowpoke & The Smoke, playing at A Dental Lab during Face Fest this Saturday the 24th.
(Source: youtube.com)
The Park a.d. - Sirens
Sometimes you just gotta let ‘er rip. Duo Maya Miller and Becky Black sure fuckin’ do. For the first few seconds of this song you think you’re listening to the opening of Black Sabbath. But, no. These Vancouver rockers might have borrowed the vibe, but they’re their own studded leather jacket and snarling upper lip, m’kay?
Pre-order their new record Unpersons from Mint Records.
Let us know when it comes out.
DUDES, IT’S THE “PACK” A.D., not The “Park.” Not trying to be a bish, but they’re homedawgs and I can’t let a typo in a band name I see all over my town go uncorrected, especially when it’s right there on the album cover.
PLATINUM BLONDE - Crying Over You
FUCK YES.
Little known fact: Platinum Blonde’s impossible-to-find debut album was apparently hardcore punk. I also saw them when they came to my home town and, thrillingly, got a backstage pass to meet the band. (I wore it to school the next day, obvs. Most of the guys I had crushes on had hair just like Mark Holmes, which nowadays I find even more hilarious than the “Color Me Badd” aesthetic)
Anne Murray - Snowbird
“Spread your tiny wings and fly away… and take the snow back with you where it came from on that day…”
Happy Canada Day, homedawgs!
GRAMBO ALERT!
Sloan does an awesome job of covering Gary Numan’s “Cars” [The AV Club, via my homedawg Gregory Macdonald’s FB - that’s him killin it on the keybs].
SLOAN! Complete with my buddy Gmacd rocking out tambo-styles, Canucks paraphernalia draping the stage, and off to the side of the stage behind the big bald bouncer on the right, that’s actually me standing there! Epic fun night! (Pic: Misty Reid)
Than catching the eye of the band member that got you guest listed, and you’re rocking out to their songs… and you’re standing next to their mom.
Fucking Sloan fucking RULED. They closed with Money City Maniacs and had the whole stage draped in Canucks colours.
And now I’m going on a dude’s speedboat to catch rays until game time.
Off to see Sloan (thx to Gmacd), reppin my Canucks like a boss.
(Submitted by 90salt): I thought you should get this one.
L O to the fucking L. Bless your heart. Ah, the Moffatts. Yet another questionable Canadian export. They actually hosted our version of the Grammys in 2000. Facepalm.
I don’t remember the Moffats all that well, but I remember this hair cut.
True story: one of my childhood friends started missing a ton of school in 8th grade because she and her mother were following The Moffats around the country. Later, her parents got a divorce when it was revealed that her mom was having an affair with someone involved with The Moffats. Their manager or something.
It was scandalous.
It was also really too bad when she moved away, because she had one of the only in-ground pools in town and the playhouse behind her parents’ house had its own phone line, so we could make the best prank calls to boys from there.
Canadian cheeseband escandalo autoreblog.
