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Not to be a downer but has anyone heard anything about the suicide at Jones Beach or when it occured in the show?

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Haven't attempted a review as such yet but here is the setlist and two movies made from stills of Young Empires triumphant hometown gig.

www.northernheads.blogspot.com

Fuck I just checked out the lineup it looks pretty strong this year, The Trio, Chicago Underground Duo, Marc Ribot (), Kid Koala a bunch of other great shit.

Well they haven't released a single track officially or an album but they're charting pretty high on NME aren't they? There was also a ton of coverage of their UK and Scotland dates including News of The World (UK). I haven't read it yet but was told NME just did a brilliant live review the other day. They also did a remix for Sunday Girl which is telling if only because again - everything they've done has been in bedrooms, bathrooms and are really very raw demos (White Doves and Against The Wall) which labels or individuals have suggest are perfectly good for release as is. The Empires are definitely from the bigger is better category.

Really Shain, just OK, I'm pretty sure they're doing a bit better than OK in the UK but then again you're the expert.

There hasn't been much talk in the Canadian or American press about these 3 Toronto blokes but they've blown up huge overseas and done a short UK/Scotland tour all the while pushing up NME's charts. I would imagine their return home will be triumphant. Definitely worth catching, their opening set for the surprise Japandroids set at Dakota during NXNE blew everyone including Japandroids off the map.

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/young-empires-return-home-to-toronto.html

I just got granted an interview with Sean P. What would you want to ask him, anything whatsover, Thorgnor.

As much as I'm really excited to see how Serena is progressing as a musician, and I'm sure her friends are excited to see her, I'd imagine the band of Eaton, Hersh, Little and particularly this guy Rob mutherfuggin' Drake will slay.

His bandmate in Zeus, Carlin Nicholson, likes to say 'top 5 drummers in Canada' (lately I've honestly thought the top of that list is 'Lucky' Pete Lambert from Samantha Martin & The Haggard and The Kensington Hillbillies)- I'd have to handily agree, he's the new new Levon.

This boss photo was taken by Leon Switzer, at the Byward Market during Collett and Zeus' performance, http://totalphoto.zoomphoto.ca/viewphoto/12962-111-12275879/3/

I found a rare cut of Heltah Skeltah and Originoo Gunn Clappaz as The Fab 5, the track's Lafleur Laflah Eshkoshkah. I posted it with a revised entry:

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/detroit-legend-sean-price-plays.html

I'm totally in. Bellwoods was awesome before during and after the rainstorm yesterday.

No turns out he's from Brownsville, NY - outside of his underground work I only know him through his collaborations with Black Milk, a handful of others from the D and the forthcoming supergroup Random Axe (Sean Price, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson). I took slack on stillepost over that gaffe already.

I'm not sure how many people would be into this but this is a really huge and rare show for one of the most formidable and raw voices in Hip Hop today, Detroit's finest: Sean Price.

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/detroit-legend-sean-price-plays.html

This is one of my favourite of the Bluesfest movies (if you look close enough you'll see our own former nero bandmate Shane in the huge crowd).

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/metric-love-is-place-ottawa-bluesfest.html

You're an 'avatar' man, you're some dude in a crowd. I have no doubt that I may have come off that way. I FUCKING HATED BEING AROUND ALMOST ALL OF THE OTTAWA CREW (you know who you are exceptions to the rule, even if you hated being around me at times). It just seemed so fucking shady and everything you just accused me of. Fuck I was at an afterparty after the Furthur set that the entire crew I was with blacked out at (collectively?) - seriously I've never experienced something like that. It just drove home how The Dead Is Dead, this Scene Is Dead, people have families, and homes and wives and kids and dogs - I get that. It's just not my trip.

I met so many beautiful people in Ottawa just not from this scene. People into learning about new music and open to new types of music (I don't believe that's the case in the 'jamband scene'). I also met a great many musicians I respected and have corresponded with them, and their publicists, management and whatnot since and basically if I wasn't ultra professional and polite I wouldn't get the access that I get.

I don't know what to tell you man - you've got a valid perception from your perspective- I was acutely aware of people recoiling just as I was acutely aware of people at Ween recoiling. The big difference is that I'm actually working - it may not look like it but I am - I'm keeping tabs on a million little details, taking hundreds of photos, trying basically to project a readership that doesn't have the opportunity to be their in the flesh. I guess because I look like some molly gobbling buffoon (mind you I don't know alot of you that wake up at dawn each and every fucking day go straight to the gym, eat like an Olympic athlete etc.) that's what I am. Maybe we're all judging books by their covers.

I don't really much give a shit. Really I don't - I know who my friends are - I know who my family is - I know which bands I believe are important around the globe (and I have a fair amount of statistical evidence based on the very links that you choose or don't choose to click on) and that's really what I'm on about.

I'll give you an example Bear In Heaven didn't go over at Ottawa Bluesfest and from what the guys told me Blitzen Trapper didn't go over at High Sierra. Does that mean two of the most important bands in the world right now, with incredibly prolific songwriters, composers and players are somehow not significant or is it that their performances were lost on the audience?

Sorry I need to go back to this for a second - sorry to belabour the point and not to I guess rank people's misfortunes (which is what I'm about to do) but truly truly truly that fire was really devastating. Truly the worst, I remember it like it was yesterday and how deeply it affected you, Dave, the community (when there was one).

I think that being beaten literally almost to death by very very big inmates, then very big (baton weilding) guards, then finished off by captains to the point that I had blood clots on my brain that induced a seizure - well I'm pretty sure that qualifies as some serious post-traumatic stress. Frankly I'm surprised I haven't offed myself, the memories are fucking horrifying.

Don't you think - and ask yourself this in your heart of hearts- that alot of people think the Old Kung had it coming to him. In which case isn't that sort of like wishing the absolute worst on a person?

Put another way everyone's so upset about how civil liberties were trammeled upon during the G20 when they locked a bunch of hippies in the same little Greenpeace cells but nobody really cares about the day in and day out horrifying abuses that go on inside mental health and penal institutions.

Anybody moved by the music of Rural Alberta Advantage and their definitive album Hometowns will likely enjoy this pastoral footage of the band's set at the Bluesfest about a month () back.

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/rural-alberta-advantage-dont-haunt-this.html

Whatever man, there's some seriously misplaced bad vibes floating around. I thought I was taking the stuffing out of myself. Jason's just my neighbour seriously we don't talk about music and shit- I've seen him 3 times today it's sort of comedic actually. He seems like a relevant person in Canada to get a take on how the McCartney show was and like I said he and his wife the next day were pleasantly surprised.

I do find it really really laughable though that people think that humility is something that is best judged by someone else. I'm not hiding behind some mental health card I'm taking responsibility for my physical and mental health, I work out often twice a day, take my meds, say my prayers, eat my vitamins, watch what I eat. I'm not sure how we're going over this ground again but by all means spin out the hateful venom. I sense it's amusing for others.

'Judge not, cause while you're judging others someone else is judging you' - Bob Marley

'Just don't judge me by my shoes' - J.R. Robertson

Yeah or what - I`m the Ferrari Fucking Kid (and that ain`t a namedrop).

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Luke says `Jason Collett was genuinely impressed the morning after the show, it was `more than he expected`.

Vetiver and Avi Buffalo are going to be phenomenal. Avi's only 18 but just fucking shreds on the guitar and has a really great melodic sense - his whole very young band is very strong.

It seemed odd to me at Bluesfest that nobody seemed to have Bear In Heaven on their radar. Their album Beast Eat Rest Forth Mouth (I think I got that right) is phenomenal and they were definitely in Pitchfork's top 50 last year and really the new vanguard of psychedelia.

I can't begin to describe how much Bear In Heaven's music has grown on me over the summer after their (notoriously slept upon) set at Ottawa Bluesfest. I think they're a band that needs to be seen live (and preferably with an audience more engaged or at least versed in their material than Ottawa's was). They're definitely up there with their presumed Brooklyn peers like Yeasayer and Vampire Weekend.

I like the Twin Shadow remix more (for another George Lewis Jr. track as Twin Shadow check the ultra-melodic Castles In The Snow - it never occured to me from his photo that he could be THE George Lewis Jr., likely now that I think about it) than the Arclike one so I synced 185 stills of their set to it. It was actually the first of a long series of these projects and the song length, limitations of the pixellation of the camera, a handful of other dynamics, and just basically a happy edit left me with this piece I'm really chuffed about.

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/bear-in-heaven-lovesick-teenagers-twins.html

Back to the conversation at hand... can you point me to those relevant threads about Jil tearing a strip off the crew. I totally felt something like that would've happened in the backstage. Eliminating the crew as a source means they'd move onto the security, those in the backstage (liability at every level), then the venue. It's a huge huge health issue and shouldn't be treated any differently than a girl being roofied (not assaulted just drugged, the musicians and friends I've showed this to were disgusted within a couple of minutes while a handful of people thought inappropriately it was funny).

I would say they gave him more than a toke or two. Charcoal is not really the course of action for something like that but they definitely would have given him valium not likely thorazine (i.e. Thorazine Shuffle) unless he was way out of it. I'd imagine he got a physical once over from their touring MD if they have one or the venues or left the venue pronto and got health care elsewhere.

Thanks for the insight to the actual topic at hand.

Back to the conversation at hand... can you point me to those relevant threads about Jil tearing a strip off the crew. I totally felt something like that would've happened in the backstage. Eliminating the crew as a source means they'd move onto the security, those in the backstage (liability at every level), then the venue. It's a huge huge health issue and shouldn't be treated any differently than a girl being roofied (not assaulted just drugged, the musicians and friends I've showed this to were disgusted within a couple of minutes while a handful of people thought inappropriately it was funny).

I would say they gave him more than a toke or two. Charcoal is not really the course of action for something like that but they definitely would have given him valium not likely thorazine (i.e. Thorazine Shuffle) unless he was way out of it. I'd imagine he got a physical once over from their touring MD if they have one or the venues or left the venue pronto and got health care elsewhere.

Thanks for the insight to the actual topic at hand.

I really think Wolfe Island is the up and coming new festival but this years programming (barring my brohemes the Sadies and are you fucking kidding me you slept through Bahamas - he's probably the rippingest live guitarist in Canada - like a less technical balls out Kevin Breit literally) looked pretty weak sauce on paper. I wasn't making the trip.