You get 19 free tracks - all for download w/artwork or streaming on the site - including the newest Tycho single. There is also a video for the first song if you look down in the lower right corner.
It is the artwork I really like on this project. When I first saw the site I instantly thought “vinyl” in relation to the album artwork and its size on the site. Developing covers that can work as the foundation for the artist’s website to be built around them might be an idea more designers should try pitching to artists and artists should consider regardless. Oh and I think the artwork itself is beautiful.
Record label Ghostly International and modern cult classic programmers [Adult Swim] have paired up for a compilation of new music and art*.
A genre-busting 19-song collection, stretching the entire Ghostly International galaxy, Ghostly Swim explores the Avant-Pop style that the Ann Arbor/New York City label has been been championing for the past 9 years. Ghostly Swim features artists like Matthew Dear, Dabrye, Tycho and Aeroc and features new signings like UK cult band The Chap and NYC producer Michna.
The free collection also includes favorite friends of the label like School Of Seven Bells, and Detroit’s Deastro, Milosh (Plug Research), FLYamSAM (Warp’s Flying Lotus and SAMIYAM), and Dark Party (Mush). Along with the new music, BoyCatBird (Ghostly’s mascots) make their animated debut in the awesome “City Suckers” video by Daniel Garcia/Superfi.
Great mix of recognized bands [some key omissions were done on purpose, read their post] with acts I have never heard of, which I think is part of what it is all about.
Up next is either going to be BC or New Brunswick. So as usual, suggestions are welcome.
So what should you do? Email them your suggestions!
Staff at Music Nova Scotia have started a weekly podcast focusing on NS
The Music Nova Scotia Podcast is a weekly show produced in the Ardenne Resource Centre at the Music Nova Scotia HQ on Spring Garden Road. It is meant to be a recap of your hosts, Jonny Stevens and Laura Simpson, week in music. We cover all sorts of news, music, education and goings on in the Nova Scotian and Canadian music scene. Listen up folks it’s a good one.
Podcast #3 It’s the ECMA show, jam packed with more ECMA than ever before. 30% more news from the Music Nova Scotia Stage at the Back Nine in Fredericton, NB. Music from Kev Corbett, Ryan Cook, The Ghost Bees, Joel Plaskett, Sleepless Nights, Jordan Croucher, Jon McKeil and more. Listen up folks, it’s a goody.
Podcast #2 In the Dead of Winter, Fed Pennies open for Ozzy Osbourne, Daniel Ledwell CD Release, Media Clippings and lots of good music…
The already wonderful and useful music player used on this site has recently been updated:
Besides some bug fixes the player now has a smaller footprint and steady scrolling (eliminating flicker when scrolling up and down a page).
There is now a play this page feature. Things you can do with this feature:
* A podcaster can use their feed as a playlist for their web page without needing to create an additional playlist.
* A musician’s web site can have a single master page for all of their music and use it as the playlist for any other page in the site.
* A developer could mash up audio sites with other sites. For example, you could put a Wikipedia entry about a composer together with Archive.org recordings related to that composer.
* An XSPF playlist with artist, album, title and other metadata could be imported into HTML, which lacks music metadata fields.
* A playlist creator could make their playlist accessible in third party web pages which ordinarily would be hampered by cross-site scripting restrictions.
See the original post for all the details on the above and other updates
This is simply a number of songs that I either listened to plenty while working on this blog and or my own plans in the past year wondering why the powers that be couldn’t get their heads out of their collective asses and embrace some change.
Ok so Chuck Teed robbed me of my planned annual hottest bands on the east coast post [thanks Chuck!!]. So I came up with this instead for an annual recap of the year.
Truth be told, Chuck actually CALLED ME - no emails or Facebook messages there - to apologize for “stealing” “my idea” [which I ripped off i (heart) music, which was inspired by a blog in the US and so on]. Point being, Chuck is a stand up guy.
I really don’t know that many people as nice as Chuck Teed. You can read the Hottest East Coast acts and events of 2007 as compiled by Chuck Teed over on Giraffecycle
Hottest East Coast Acts 1) Julie Doiron 2)Jenn Grant 3) Wintersleep 4) The Superfantastics - Just watch their video for Tonight, Tonite [which we have posted over here] 5) Tanya Davis - I have yet to hear a guest appearance of hers’ that didn’t work - she fits in effortlessly where ever she goes. While her own works own a piece of the east coast all their own. 6) Share 7) Dog Day
Added based on this translated review of Night Group alone:
If we did a study longitudinal of pop music taking as it shows those discs of debut that, by their urgency, their simplicity and its enthusiasm, managed to captivate to all a generation of listeners, the results would be the following ones: at the end of the 70 the Three Imaginary Boys de The Cure. At the end of the 80 the Surfer Rosa de Pixies. In the 90 the blue one of Weezer. In second half of the 00 we have several examples and I am not thinking about the Artic Monkeys, rather in The Spinto Band or, the case that occupies to us, the debut of Dog Day. Rick White - Had a stellar year in his own right while much of the attention went to Ms. Doiron - in no disrespectful terms, easily a reflective moon to her bright sun. he worked on Woke Myself Up, joined Julie in a reunited Eric’s Trip, and oh yeah - had one of the best albums of the year you likely didn’t hear [Memoreaper]. 9) VKNGS 10) Don Brownrigg - We should all expect many good things from this humble yet talented songwriter in the future and hold him to them.
Hottest Canadian Bands 2007 Edition
From there we’ll hit the hottest Canadian acts of the year.
Once again i (heart) music contacted folks across the country for their take on who the hottest + best/whatever bands going were. Matthew was kind enough to ask me to contribute this year. My list is below and i (heart) music has the complete list.
1) Julie Doiron
With her most recent Polaris nominated release, loss be damned, which dealt with personal relationships on a level most of our relationships never reach, Julie gave us a highlight of her career that shows no end in sight with multiple projects on the go.
2) Jenn Grant
Where Woke Myself Up, is a career defining work for Ms. Doiron, Ms Grant puts everyone on notice with a debut almost too good to be a still developing artist’s introduction to us all with her Orchestra for the Moon.
3) Wintersleep and Welcome to The Night Sky
Poppier? Sure. Going to introduce them to a wider audience and lure them to their live show? Definitely and that will only be a great thing for both the band and fans. This album breaks them.
4) Caribou
Caribou’s Dan Snaith recorded an album drawn from the world of electronica that’s more organic and simply better, than most of the albums full bands put out this year.
5) C’Mon
The type of rock these guys [and gal] have mastered is one akin to walking a mine field where any misstep could lead to disaster. After 25 years Ian Blurton and company release as album [C’mon’s best yet] that should embarrass most young rock bands today.
6) The Superfantastics
Too cute for words maybe. Sugery sweet pop music. You would need a heart of coal to not smile upon viewing their video for Tonight, Tonite – the song itself a mini- pop master piece.
7) Bella
With their latest release from Mint Records I have been tripping over this band everywhere I go. Thankfully their synth covered indie dance pop is more than worth having stuck in my head.
Dog Day
9) Dragonette
What’s more rock and roll [or perhaps dance floor fun] than being in a band with your husband and singing songs about adultery? Not much. Thankfully Dragonette’s Galore has all that and more.
10) Fiest
I tried to avoid her. But her/her music are everywhere. She’d had made my list based on shear popularity if it wasn’t for My Moon My Man likely being stuck in my head this time next year.
The Rest of the Best
Rounding out the mix of what I most enjoyed from last year: everything else
Julie Doiron and Caribou make this list as well but are noted above so….
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP
Mark Ronson - Version
White Stripes - Icky Thump + best live show of the year w/10th Anniversary performance
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Battles - Mirrored
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Holy Fuck - LP
Grinderman - self titled
Albums I need to reexamine most:
[Actually I would like to explore their all their releases]
The National’s Boxer
M.I.A. - have only heard parts of this once don’t know why I have never at least downloaded it to listen
Singles/Songs I listened To Plenty Tim Armstrong - Into Action
!!!!!!!!!!!Zoobombs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me
Fiest - My Moon My Man
Be Bad - (I’ve Got No) Positive Vibrations
Black Mountain - Angels
Best band button I have from 2007:
fuck buttons
Year’s Biggest Waste of Talent:
Amy Crackhouse
Non 2007 releases that got plenty of attention in 2007
The Loon - Tapes ‘n Tapes
Your a Woman, I’m a Machine - Death From Above 1979
Maximum Black - Mooney Suzuki
Planets Conspire - Meligrove Band
Already cued up for next year’s list - Black Mountain and possibly Hayden’s new one too.
The fine folks at Herohill have taken on an interesting project, I will be curious to see the future mixes roll out and what places like Manitoba, which you don’t normally hear a lot about, offer up.
Anyway. Back to the post. Shane and I are trying to do a little Canadian based project. The goal obviously is to keep showcasing the splendor that is Canadian music. So the goal is to make a mix for each province, and have you the readers decide who you think deserves to represent each province.
We are going to start with Nova Scotia, as we were born there and really spend a lot of our time trying to highlight the Halifax scene. So next Saturday we will be posting the first installment of this series (tentatively called The Big Doe-nair Rehab). If you have any bands that you think deserve to be added to the NS (or any other province), let us know.
* Mainly focused on bands based out of Halifax, while I am sure there are dozen of worthy bands from all parts of the province omitted, Company House Records in Cape Breton deserves a nod at least for being home to Carmen Townsend and the Shaky Deals, Slowcoaster and the Tom Fun Orchestra.
See that gray box on the left there with the blinking green dot - hover over it!
You now have a playlist for all the songs posted on the page you are viewing [leave the page, lose the music]. Super simple to install on your own site [see below], and straight forward to use for your site’s visitors. I consider it a definite improvement to this blog’s offerings.
The Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist. This is done by adding our JavaScript to your page.
Be interesting to see what else Yahoo! has in store music-wise this year.
The autoplay feature [on EVERY music site/service] needs to, pardon the language, fuck off. What do you think the odds are that I, music loving fanatic I am, have music playing already as many others would as well? Huge pet peeve with MySpace as well as Radio3 - if there`s a way to turn that off please let me know.
Rick White - Had a stellar year in his own right while much of the attention went to Ms. Doiron - in no disrespectful terms, easily a reflective moon to her bright sun. he worked on Woke Myself Up, joined Julie in a reunited Eric’s Trip, and oh yeah - had one of the best albums of the year you likely didn’t hear [Memoreaper].
