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those fucking moe bastards

The Jayhawks tune? Anyone confirm? That'd be cool.

Greatest Hits performed by other people... interesting, not sure if I'll be running out to get this though... Woulda been nice to hear some different choices... Jawbone... Cheset Fever... stuff like that.

As if you save that story for this thread! Amazing!

Tonight at Zaphod's there are 3 good bands playing. Headlining are Jon-Rae and the River (indie gospel country), along with Wooly Leaves (Will from the Constantines) and Ottawa's excellent The Soirée. Tickets are only $8. Here is some hype from Zaphod's website. Signed to Permafrost Records in 2005, Jon-Rae and the River have shared a stage with The Arcade Fire, Magnolia Electric Co. and Cuff the Duke to name a few. Their amazing new album, "Knows What You Need" is out now on LP courtesy of We Are Busybodies and will be out on digital compact disc October 4 on the Baudelaire Label. Wooly Leaves While Woolly Leaves' debut album, Quiet Waters, is as gentle as its name implies, it is also packed with resonant imagery that paints 11 vivid pictures. Quiet Waters is the work of one man, Toronto's Will Kidman, with a few friends helping out, most notably singers Jennifer Castle and Melissa Boraski, who add another layer of beauty to this fragile record. With his voice raised barely above a whisper, Kidman evokes intimate times around a campfire, where words linger in the smoke before evaporating in the night air, only to return hours later, creeping out of the mind's recesses to catch you unaware. Like ghosts, these songs are remnants of past experiences and people and places; memories that drift in and out of consciousness, but will always return, especially when you least expect it. While Kidman is currently best known to music fans as the keyboard player for one of Canada's most beloved rock 'n' roll bands, The Constantines, Quiet Waters proves that Kidman is the next link in the formidable lineage of Canadian songwriters. With songs that are tender and comforting, while simultaneously evoking gut-stirring emotions, Quiet Waters is more complex than its simple, spare arrangements would suggest. The Soirée Musically, The Soirée cannot be easily categorized. Songs are not written to conform to a particular style, instead the songs are given license to develop independently, in the way that each requires. The band's takes influences from alt-country, post-pop, rock and folk, and combines them to construct unique and catchy songs that stay with the listener long after the music stops. In 2004, The Soirée released a debut 5 song EP, recorded with Dean Watson at Attic Recording Studios in Ottawa, which, despite a very limited mailout, reached #42 on the canadian campus/community radio charts and remained there for 5 months. The songs contained therein survived the close scrutiny that all the band's songs are subject to. "We practice a lot, and try out lots of different song ideas. Most of them don't survive more than a few weeks, and we like it that way. The songs that do have stuck around for a reason". This metered and creative approach to songwriting creates a kind of quality-control, and gives songs the opportunity to evolve and mature. "We throw a lot of things out there, and see what sticks..." They are currently completing production of their first full-length record at Little Bullhorn Studios, due for release Fall 2006.

Brad, any word on whether your recording will see the light of day? Also, you're the one to ask - Are there any must-have HQ (preferably soundboard) recordings that you know of for the Golden Dogs? Trying to turn a friend on to them at the moment and I don't know where to turn....

I quit almost two months ago and it's been way easier than I thought it would be. Another benefit - you save a ton of money, and in a year your life insurance payments go down.

Yup, but it does work in iTunes as well. As for lossless formats... AIFF, WAV, etc... Not sure that's what you mean though.

one of the new itunes / ipod features that was released about 3 weeks ago is gapless playback. so, they fixed that.

i had on old itrip and it sucked. i had another fm transmitter put out by another company and it sucked. the ones that work the best are the big clunky ones from radio shack. i'm doing the same as bouche, waiting til the next round of alpine decks come out so i can get a CDA9857 cheap. fully controls the ipod from the stereo controls, displays all the info in the dash, etc etc...

Well put.

and i loved looking at your signature. i think t-shirts or coffee mugs are in order.

never said you did! (aren't you glad I was thinking of you though?)

Ha! Temperatures in Pond / Mary River were about a high of -5 to -2, lows down to -10 / -12. Wind chills were -20 and less. Crazy windy up there. Didn't really meet any Inuit locals (I think that's who you're talking about?). Camp was full of drillers and geologists and engineers and pilots. The only Inuit there were general labourers. Met the locals in Pond Inlet who ran the guest house where I stayed a couple nights but didn't talk about anything other than the room and the water temperature of the shower. This was all the English they knew (or cared to share with me).

sweet. tickets are bought. only $25 US for general admission tickets. all in an order for 2 tickets came to $73 US. very affordable for that bill. now to find a place to stay. priceline here i come. with basher's help

Interestingly, according to google maps there is only 16 km difference in distance from Ottawa to both cities. Boston is 691 km while Philly is 707 km. I did not know that.

$50? Wow.

The pre-sale starts today at noon for the Boston My Morning Jacket and Slip show. Pre-sale password is mmj. Anyone else planning on making the trip? I have some vacation time coming up, never been to Boston for more than a couple hours, so gonna make a long weekend out of it. Just have to win the lottery.

If anyone is interested in my pictures, they can be found at this link. The trip was a week longer than expected, colder than expected, and fairly interesting. Missed my birthday and Thanksgiving because of it but it was a good time and I saw stuff I never would have had the chance to see otherwise. Enjoy

Can someone record a tv show tonight, either VHS or PVR or what have you... The show is the biography of Walter Ostanek, it is one channel 40 (Bravo) from 8 until 9 tonight. If someone could help you would make a girl who is not me very happy. thanks, please let me know if you can answer the call

SmoothedShredder can probably answer that question for you Gateaux. I like typing Gateaux.

Oct 18 at Capital is what I have.. But I can't find much info either. Maybe it was cancelled... ah yes, ticketmaster lists it as cancelled. sorry for the erection there, gateaux

Excellent Ox website Weewerk Ox site Ox myspace

Indie snob. THIS should be on all yer radars, they don't play around here much at all and are very very good. Look 'em up. Thursday Oct 26 - Ox - Black Sheep A snippet of their hype, er, PR - "In the tradition of the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa - Ox is the incarnation of deconstructed pop & vintage indie from the fertile soils of the Canadian heartland. Studio weary fragments, fragile masterpieces, sonic accidents...’lo-fi’ at its best." I love 'em

Here are some good shows coming up in Ottawa that I will be attending if all goes to plan. Feel free to add. Thursday Oct 12 - Jon-Rae and the River, Wooly Leaves, The Soirée - Zaphods Thursday Oct 19 - Matthew Barber, The Spades - Zaphods Thursday Oct 26 - Ox - Black Sheep (definitely going to this) Sunday Oct 29 - The Hold Steady - Zaphods Wednesday Nov 1 - Greg Keelor, The Sadies, possibly Andre Ethier - Barrymores (definitely going to this) Sunday Nov 12 - Julie Doiron, Shotgun + Jaybird, Wooly Leaves, Poorfolk - The Rainbow (definitely going to this) There are lots of other shows in the city coming up, like Sloan, Propaghandi, Raising the Fawn, Death Cab, M$M, J5, Elliot Brood, HiLoTrons, the Dears, Acorn, Jetplanes. Dial 613 has the best show listings I find.