Playlist:
Graham MacRae – “The Papers” – Dundrearies
Georgiana Starlington – “Gust” – Paper Moon
Mama Rosin – “I Don’t Feel At Home” – Bye Bye Bayou

She & Him – “Sunday Girl” – Volume 3
Myron & E – “If I Gave You My Love” – Broadway
Mal Blum – “Altitude (This Party Sucks)” – Tempest In A Teacup

The Uncluded – “TV on 10″ – Hokey Fright – Clean
UN – “Wicked Child” – Untitled
Sabo Forte X Bebop Cortez – “Grandin Gangsta (*SHIT*)” – The Delay Remedy

The Child of Lov – “Living the Circle” – The Child of Lov
Standish/Carlyon – “Subliminally” – Deleted Scenes
James Blake – “Life Round Here” – Overgrown

Richard Walters – “Blossom” – Regret Less
Gold & Youth – “Time To Kill” – Beyond Wilderness
Jadea Kelly – “Lone Wolf” – Clover

We Are Loud Whispers – “Western Town” – Suchness
Violeta Vil – “Aguamarina” – Lápidas y Cocoteros
Bibio – “A Tout A L’Heure” – Silver Wilkinson

UBT – “John The Painter” – Ego Orientation
Tunng – “Follow Follow” – Turbines
Pure X – “I Fear What I Feel” – Crawling Up The Stairs

Kisses – “Air Conditioning” – Kids in LA
– “18-01 Moonchild” –
Xenia Rubinos – “Whirlwind” – Magic Trix
Bad News From Houston – “Invisible River” – In the Valley of the Cloudbuilder
Black Bug – “Reflecting The Light” – Reflecting The Light

Moon King – “Dreamtrap” – Obsession II
Guided By Voices – “Noble Insect” – English Little League
Cold Warps – “Don’t Haunt Me, OK_” – Don’t Haunt me, OK? b/w Stuck On An Island
The Postelles – “Caught by Surprise” – …And It Shook Me
Fortress Social Club – “I Had to Laugh” – Dreamin’ The Life

Fitz & The Tantrums – “Out Of My League” – More Than Just A Dream

Ponderings:

Can’t talk long as I’m eating ice cream in Disneyland!

Playlist:
The Down Hill Strugglers – Eighth of January – Home Recordings Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
Whiskey Spitters – G Rag – Jalopy’s Very Own String Band (Jalopy)
Marshall Lawrence* – Canned Heat Blues – House Call (Self-Released)

Bones Malones* – Eyes On The Sky – Boomhaüs (Hybride Park)
Jon Gant & His Band** – Wheatfields – Flaneur (Self-Released)
Oldfolks Home* – Garland’s Moving To Vancouver – Black & Blue (Head In The Sand)
Lucid 44** – Song For Edward & The Trap Line – Sweep/Sweep (Tonto Is Jesus)

Mia Dyson – When The Moment Comes – The Moment (The Co-Op)
Daughter – Still – If You Leave (Glassnote)
John Grant – Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore – Pale Green Ghosts (Nevado)

Valleys* – Living Normal – Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? (Kanine)
Small Black – Only A Shadow – Limits of Desire (Jagjaguwar)

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Except Death – Thr!!!er (Warp)
Major Lazer – Scare Me (feat. Peaches & Timberlee) – Free The Universe (Secretely Canadian)
Tarantula X – Requiem – EP (Pretty Pretty)

A Tribe Called Red* – Electric Intertribal – Nation II Nation (Pirates Blend)
Adventure – Nervous – Weird Work (Carpark)
Neon Neon – Shopping (I Like To) – Praxis Makes Perfect (Lex)

Pretty & Nice – Yonkers – Golden Rules for Golden People (Equal Vision)
Human Eye – Surface of Pluto – 4: Into Unknown (Goner)
Believe – Please Go Home – The Warmest Sun In Winter (Metal Mind)

El Mato A un Policia Motorizado – Chico En Oro – La Dinastia Scorpio (Laptra)
Clutch – Unto The Breach – Earth Rocker (Weathermaker)
HighKicks** – Not Enough People – HighKicks (Self-Released)

Wolf People – All Returns – Fain (Jagjaguwar)
Ghost BC. – Ghuleh/Zombie Queen – Infestissumam (Republic)
Savages – I Am Here – Silence Yourself (Matador)

Milk Music – Coyote Road – Cruise Your Illusion (Fat Possum)
Bazooka – Ravening Trip – Bazooka (Slovenly)
Reversing Falls* – Curse This Place – Reversing Falls (Self-Released)

Kurt Vile – Never Run Away – Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)

Ponderings:

It is so hot today my cool cucumber is sweating. The heat has come seemingly instantaneously to Calgary. People packed the greenish-yellow spaces with picnic blankets and sandwiches. ‘Tis a merry time of year.

Playlist:
Jared Klok* – La Poderosa, mi Moto – Honky/Tinker (Self-Released)
Morlove* – There’s A Light – Old Tomorrow (Self-Released)
The Good Family* – Leaf In A Storm – The Good Family Album (Latent)
The Abramson Singers* – Déjà Vu – Late Riser (Copperspine)
Jim Guthrie* – The Rest Is Yet To Come – Takes Time (Static Clang)
Kingsley Flood – Hard Times For The Quiet Kind – Battles (Self-Released)

Laura Stevenson – Telluride – Wheel (Don Giovanni)
The Features – Won’t Be Long – The Features (Serpents And Snakes)
Caveman – In The City – Caveman (Fat Possum)
The Good Graces – (Everybody’s Got A) Bug – Drawn To You (Pretty New Songs)

Subtractivelad* – Little Flood – The Language Of Flowers (Self-Released)
Beacon – Split In Two – The Ways We Separate (Ghostly)
Elifantree – Tic Toc – Jazz from Finland 2013 (Music From Finland)

The Mackrosoft – Life Is Too Short – S.E.M.E (Self-Released)
Futurebirds – American Cowboy – Baba Yaga (VL/4L)
Ólafur Arnalds – Reclaim – For Now I Am Winter (Mercury Classics)

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet – Les Barres de la Prison – From Bamako To Carencro (Compass)
Dubmatix* – Free Up (ft. Manchez) – Rebel Massive (Renegade Man)
Jimmy Preacher Ellis – Puttin It On Your Mind – Movements 5 (Tramp)

Hooded Fang* – Wasteland – Gravez (Daps)
My Friend Deceiver** – Concrete Heart – My Friend Deceiver (Sovereign)
Tera Melos – New Chlorine – X’ed Out (Sargent House)

Rainbow Arabia – Math Quiz – FM Sushi (Time No Place)
Sound/S/Lab** – Airstrip One – Fugitive Colours (The House Ablaze)
Sandra Kolstad – The Young (Evil) Woman And The Ocean – (Nothing Lasts) Forever (Trust Me)

Mo – Pilgrim – Pilgrim (Neon Gold)
IAMX – Sorrow – The Unified Field (61Seconds)
The Thermals – Born To Kill – Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)

Ponderings:

Lots of thoughts about art this weekend after hanging around Wreck City a bunch. There are so many different perspective on what makes art. It’s also interesting to have a project like Wreck City bring so many artists together who create so many different kinds of art. How people see this art in the context of a home and not a gallery is quite astounding too. I’ve always been fascinated with temporary art, like that created by water. I love the idea that only a few people will see something and it won’t be available for collection and monetization. It just is when it is and that is that. To some degree a lot of art is like this in that it’s original “showing” can not be recreated but that is a large and in depth discussion I won’t get into here.

Playlist:
John Sebastian and the J Band – Minglewood Blues – Classic Harmonica Blues (Smithsonian Folkways)
Red Sammy – Friends – These Poems With Kerosene (Self-Released)

Kopecky Family Band – Change – Kids Raising Kids (Dine Alone)
Leroy Justice – Blue Eyed Blues – Above The Weather (Elm City)
The Growl – John The Revelator – What Would Christ Do?? (Self-Released)

Rokia Traoré – Mélancolie – Beautiful Africa (Nonesuch)
Zac Crouse* – Oh My Soul – Paddle To The Ocean (Self-Released)
Michael Feuerstack – Modern Warfare – Tambourine Death Bed (Forward Music Group)

Colin Stetson* – Who The Waves Are Roaring For (Hunting II) – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
Ceramic Dog – Ritual Slaughter – Your Turn (Northern Spy)
Zs – NYC (Excerpt) – Grain (Northern Spy)

Boundary* – Dilemma – Boundary (Self-Released)
Letherette – Space Cuts – Letherette (Ninja Tune)
Har Mar Superstar – Prisoner – Bye Bye 17 (Cult)

The Knife – A Tooth For An Eye – Shaking the Habitual (Mute)
The Flaming Lips – You Are Alone – The Terror (Warner Bros)
My Gold Mask – Burn Like The Sun – Leave Me Midnight (Goldy Tapes)

Young Galaxy* – Pretty Boy – Ultramarine (Paper Bag)
The Belle Game* – River – Ritual Tradition Habit (Boompa)
Rosie June* – Airport Lines – Listening Post (Self-Released)

Born Ruffians* – Needle – Birthmarks (Paper Bag)
Ace Reporter – Untouched and Arrived – Yearling (Ooh La La)
The Van Allen Belt – Songs – Songs (Self-Released)

The Brains* – Rest In Pieces – The Monster Within (Stomp)
Gaytheist – Poocano – Hold Me… But Not So Tight (Good To Die)
Greenback High* – All Of Us Or None – Bombs Away b/w All Of Us Or None (Self-Released)

Cold Water** – Wolf Willow – Wolf Willow 7″ (Revolution Winter)

Ponderings:

What makes certain animals so cute? And, from an evolutionary perspective, why does this matter?
Let’s figure it out and GIF it.

Playlist:

The Ruminants** – The Note – The Ruminants (Self-Released)
Shovels And Rope – Johnny 99 – Johnny 99 b/w Bad As Me (Third Man)
Woody Pines – Train That Carried My Gal From Town – Rabbits Motel (Self-Released)

April Verch – Jeff Sturgeon – Bright Like Gold (Slab Town)
Laura Cortese – Life Is Good Blues – Into The Dark (Self-Released)
The Chase* – The Things I’ve Done – Groenland (Bonsound)

Beams* – How Wonderful – Just Rivers (Self-Released)
The Wilderness of Manitoba* – the Escape – The Leslieville Sessions (Popguru Sound and Vision)
Ghostkeeper** – HCWT – Horse Chief! War Chief! (Saved By Vinyl)

Bombino – Niamey Jam – Nomad (Nonesuch)
Chico Mann – Edge Of It – Magical Thinking (Soundway)
Saturday Monday – Amends Withdrawal – The Ocean (Despotz)

El Far3i – Harra (The Street) – Khat Thaleth (Stronghold)
Swollen Members* – Death To You – Beautiful Death Machine 7inch (Suburban Noize)
Sayknowledge – Lap Up – Vibe Called Quest (Heavy Keys)

Malcolm Mooney – She Brings The Rain – White Columns (White Columns)
Wand* – Mt. St. Helens – Weird Pop(?) From The Peace Country (Peace Country Diaspora)
The Mouthbreathers* – Standards – Stone Soup (Killer Haze)

Violence** – Calm Seas Never made A Good Sailor – Misinterpretations, Lies and Revelation (Self-Released)
Purling Hiss – Mercury Retrograde – Water On Mars (Drag City)
Broadheds – Nothing That I Care About – Broadheds (Dangerbird)

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine – Hollywood Goof Disease – White People And The Damage Done (Alternative Tentacles)
The Tontos** – Cody Jay – The Tontos (Self-Released)
Crime & The City Solution – My Love Takes Me There – American Twilight (Mute)
Io Echo – Addicted – Ministry Of Love (IAMSOUND)
Merchandise – Anxiety’s Door – Totale Nite (Night People)
Implodes – Scattered In The Wind – Recurring Dream (Kranky)
Villagers – Passing A Message – Awayland (Domino)
The Reflections – Daydreamer – Limerance (Self-Released)
Deptford Goth – Union – Life After Defo (Co-Op/Merok)
Luxury Liners – Lash By Lash – They’re Flowers (Western Vinyl)

Ponderings:

With the upcoming Calgary Underground Film Festival and watching a Youtube vlogger ramble off about his least favourite movies I’m trying to compile my list of all-time least liked movies.  Right now I can think of Cosmopolis, and I don’t know because I usually forget the names of movies I hate shortly after I’ve seen them. One involved a roman warrior, one involved stupid science fiction and one was really sexist (oh, that was probably James Bond…). But I am not going to see shitty movies this week. I promise.