CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE!

Hiya folks! today's theme is celebration, not for any reason, i'm just in a great mood. you'll notice my tenDANCEy towards pop music when i'm in a good mood.

top 5 celebratory songs:
1. snap - world power
2. les dales hawerchuk - le king du triple swing
3. shad - compromise
4. geronimo - just like water
5. black kids - hurricane jane


top 3 celebratory bands:

POP/DANCE
1.black kids
this awesome pop-dance group are a little bit awesome, a little bit old school. they're what bands like fall out boy would have, could have been, if only they had kept their soul. their new album is due out in july, and it sounds great so far
celebratory facts: the lead singer's last name is Youngblood. how cool is that? it's like he's a knight in an old fairy tale or something.
celebratory lyrics: " You are the girl that I've been dreaming of ever since I was a little girl."
celebratory song: hurricane jane
reminds me of: the cure meets morningwood

CHILL DANCE POP
2. no kids
this wicked vancouver band have the shins sound, but a whole different, heartier feel. it's like chunky chicken soup versus campbell's cream of chicken. both soups are technically alike in flavour, but the heartiness is all on chunky. does that make sense? this trio are known to be thought of as the next broken social scene, canadian music wise, and it looks like they're going to be able to either live up to that, or not only fill the shoes, but go up a couple sizes... does that one make sense? my analogies are all off today. also, they have sweet bass.
celebratory facts: they're touring spain right now. that's pretty bad-ass.
celebratory lyrics: "i'm a prisoner of desire, and it feels like there is no one in this whole wide world tonight... so give give gimme your love."
celebratory song: for hallowe'en
reminds me of: the shins

HARD-POP
3. pony da look
four artists team up to make a band... no, this isn't the beginning of a really bad joke that only half of you will get. it's a true love story between four art lovers. these four female musical masterminds have been making waves with their triumphant return. they had all taken the last five years off to do grown-up things, and now they're back with sweet tunes. quoted to being one of the best lyricists in a long time, songwriter amy bowles leads the band forward, not backward, upward, not downward, and always twirling, twirling towards freedom!
celebratory facts: they're signed to murderecords, which is Sloan's record company.
celebratory lyrics: "she's filling out her form with an albatross feather"
celebratory song: dirty nails
reminds me of: the b52's meets tegan and sara on acid

Another update!

look! i told y'all i wouldn't forget about it this time...

here are today's fresh items:

top 5 fresh songs:
1. coldplay - violet hill
2. the i spies - to the city
3. shad - i don't like to
4. be your own pet - electric shake
5. hawksley workman - alone here

top 3 fresh bands:

HIP HOP
1. shad
this freakin' sweet rapper has the sickest beats in town, no joke. and his lyrics are more than bitches and hoes, and gettin' mo' money. his songs talk about things like genocide in rawanda, where his parents are from. he was born in kenya, and rocks the mike hardcore.
fresh fact: he has a business degree and is working on a masters right now. also, he's canadian!
fresh lyric: "music became jail. these bars, i hear you rapped in 'em. wove in the beats like the clothing of sheep, wolf's tracks, spin 'em... I heard you even sang when you spoke... i heard you had a voice like an angel, strange though, you were blinded by the light shinnin' from your own halo..."
fresh song: compromise
reminds me of: k-os

PSEUDO-DANCE POP
2. green go
this guelph band are hot, fast, and sweaty. the produce awesome, dance tunes that are so infectious that you can't help but dance. their music is electro/pop/dance/etc, and they rock out with their respective cocks out. only the singer's a girl... they're finishing their first album right now, and it's supposed to be released sometime this year. hopefully soon.
fresh facts: despite being an electro-dance band, there are no computer add-ons within this band, all the instruments are played, not selected from a list.
fresh lyrics: "don't, don't hold your breath. dance till your death, forget the rest."
fresh song: you know you want it
reminds me of: this is from their myspace page: "daft punk and sonic youth shaking hands"


NEO-PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIMENTAL HARD ROCK
3. black mountain
this is a very neat band. they're from vancouver, have a major connection with the lower east side, also know as the "bad place" to most people who know what the connotation around hastings means. they are experimental, using a wide variety of genres, from lovely simple guitar work, to heavy, fun stuff. their guitar work is very classic heavy, or hard rock, and the vocals are just... well, it varies from song to song, but they're either lovely and powerful, or classic rock.
fresh facts: the trio all work for an organization that helps the lower east side people of vancouver, and they have also toured with coldplay.
fresh lyrics: " We've all seen tomorrow, and there's truth to what they say, demons may be hiding in our shadows..."
fresh song: tyrant
reminds me of: pink floyd meets sunset rubdown meets arcade fire

Ok, it's summer.

Once again, I am back! Hopefully to stay for a little while. I'm not even sure who reads this, or who even cares anymore, but i've got a slew of new music for y'all, and i'll be updating frequently. hopefully.

here's a quick update of neat bands:
jane vane and the dark matter
mgmt
magnetic fields
the bird and the bee

Top 5 currently interesting tunes:
1. raconteurs - salute your solutions
2. Lal - Brown Eyed Warrior
3. the bird and the bee - fucking boyfriend
4. savage - swing
5. the seeds - mr.farmer

top 3 currently interesting bands:

EXPERIMENTAL SPACE-JAZZ
1. Lal
This band just released their third album, "Deportation," and it's great. Think sexy female jazz vocals, a steady and rich musical heartbeat, and the secret ingredient: groove. the songs are clever and lonely, which keeps the title of the album from becoming redundant. the lead singer looks like rosario dawson, and sounds like good red wine.
interesting fact: their sophomore album won Exclaim!'s Best Soul Album in 2004.
interesting lyrics: "i swim the ocean shallow, too scared to go deep. afraid of what i may meet. afraid of my own heartbeat."
interesting song: Shallow Water
reminds me of: sade

POST-PUNK KIWI-STYLE BRIT-POP
2. cut off your hands
these dudes are an awesome four-piece band from new zealand who know how to rock. they're actually quite famous in new zealand, and are often played on the local music channels there. they have a lot of spunk, or energy, their songs are catchy and poppy.
intersting fact: i accidentally came across this band while looking up the portland band the shaky hands. the shaky hands had the same name as cut off your hands, and made them change it. americans, huh?
interesting lyric: "oh darling can we come over to my house? we can do things we have never done. we can just talk, it would be such fun."
interesting song: Oh Girl
reminds me of: the fratellis

POP/PUNK
3. the datsuns
despite their unfortunate genre choice, this band actually has talent. another new zealand four-piece band, they have been touring the world for the last couple of years, including being part of Ozzfest and other biguns of the like. with crunchy guitar solos, driven vocals, and thorough drumming, this band isn't half bad.
interesting fact: they started out playing battle of the bands, they're just like you! their new song, high school hoodlums, reached #1 at a local new zealand radio station within ten days of it's release.
interesting lyric: "hey! one, two, three, four!"
interesting song: high school hoodlums
reminds me of: the ramones meets weezer meets devo