Kat Flint – Dirty Birds
Kat Flint – Anticlimax Kat Flint – Fearsome Crowd She unrolls with tight discordance on the left channel for a full a half minute before the guitars are killed. Her voice has arrived. “Shall we kiss on the lips or shall I say that I’m sorry? That on any other day of the week I [...]
The McDades – Bloom
The McDades – Pull The Anchor The McDades – Dance of the Seven Veils The McDades must put on one hell of a live show. On several of these tracks, the band hits their instruments hard. I appreciate the fast, joyful sections, but I feel trapped outside of the moment because they never seem to [...]
The Annex
The action has moved to the annex for the time being. I’ve put up 17 posts in the last five days over at B-Sides. I expect it’s going to stay crazy for awhile. I’m working on an updated version of my mp3 scraper which pulls from Elbo.ws and Hype Machine. The downloader is pulling in [...]
Manada
Speaking of Canadian music, hearken to the words of the immortal Pansy Division: “There’s Scott in Halifax Benjamin in Medicine Hat There’s Laurent in Montreal In Manada I want them all”
Kara Keith
Continuing with my Canadian series, this week I present Kara Keith‘s latest single, Kick This City. Ms. Keith previously fronted the band, Falconhawk – which I had never heard of and seems rather ordinary on first listen. To be fair, Ms. Keith’s EP as a whole sounds rather ordinary. Kick This City is simply a [...]