Hello Vancouver

MIA is hitting Edmonton so my crystal ball says she'll be announcing dates in Vancouver soon.

Didn't get good seats for Kanye in Van? Well guess what? You're fucked!
Aftermarket price for good seats in Edmonton is upwards of $1000/ticket.

Have fun with that!



Metric is also coming to town if you haven't noticed the sidebar. I'm tempted to get tickets but I just really hate the Commodore so much! I've ranted about it before so I'll just give the bullet points of why it's a lame venue:
-Too big
-Soundsystem is boomy and sucks
-People cram up at the front so if you want a decent view you have to stand at the front and elbow people for 4 hours. If i wanted that I take a bus to Richmond!

Here's your mp3 dance music fix:
Edward Graves - Zoinks mix (yousendit)

Labels: commodore, richmond, shows

Take a look at Slate's Delegate Calculator. Now plug in this little zinger.

Also take into account that Obama has not released his fundraising numbers for Feb which by some inference could exceed a mind-boggling $60 million.

Also many have speculated that Bill Richardson will endorse Obama very soon.

After today, which poses to pretty much be a tie throughout the Ohio + Texas vote, Hillary will have no chance to make up the gap. She certainly gets point for tenacity but I believe we'll be hearing a reluctant concession speech from the Hillary camp sooner rather than later.


Also Crystal Castles got into a car accident or something so they wont be showing up tonight. damnit!

Labels: politics, shows

Finally got easy event posting up!

I remember why I hate coding now, ugh.

Keep an eye on the main page for more show listings

Labels: shows

Northern voice is this weekend, and had the kickoff last night
where I rand into a whole lot of people I hadn't seen in a while
which was quite nice.

Also, Happy birthday Boris!

There's a lot of good shows coming up, I'm trying to integrate
a sweet listings display in the new site design so you can keep
up to date, so hopefully that'll be this weekend.

Twin Crystals is at the Astoria tonight

Shearing Pinx and mutators at the Emergency Room on Saturday

Crystal Castles at Richard's on March 5th.

Labels: shows, vancouver

Had a nice chat with the people at 6S marketing today which was great fun. The people running the place seem like good folk and hopefully we'll get to work together in the future.

The real news today is *GASP* John McCain is in bed with lobbyists!!!

no I mean he literally he used to fuck one.

I had heard rumors about something like this for a while now and cudos to the New York Times for waiting until the most devastating moment to drop this bomb on the republican candidate. I hope they don't start trumpeting non-partisan coverage now though.


So sasha and diggers are coming to town, that's also news.

Black Kids + Cut Copy are coming to town, as is Daniel Johnston. I'll be going to both and so should you.


Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You."

Cut Copy - Music and Lights (Moulinex Remix) DOWNLOAD


I'm really fucking excited for Cut Copy. I've got their first release / first pressing on vinyl and I'm thinking of getting them to sign it for me.

b00yah

Labels: mp3s, politics, SEO, shows, youtube

Sasha + Digweed are playing Plush nightclub on the 23rd of April.


This is a big deal.
Tickets on sale now for about $50/ea

booya

Labels: shows, techno

The Clic Clic - My Dunks <--- I havent decided if this guy is a loser or just making fun of people who collect old sneakers. It's funny either way. (warning: bad music)

Those who have been paying attention (both of you!) may have noted that I'm not posting a whole lot of electronic hyphy dance music lately. Well there's a reason for that. There hasn't been a whole lot of good stuff coming out. Everyone sort of latched onto the Daft Punk / Justice electro-rave revival and nobody seems to know what to do next.

These things come and go and there's plenty of other great music around so wipe those tears. The sooner you can accept that then the sooner you can actually try ignore hype and enjoy good music for what it is.

Speaking of good music:

Held By Hands - Trading on Past Treasures <- Depressing tune pro-click

"If It's the Beaches" - The Avett Brothers

"In the Night" - Basia Bulat <-- Steve Nicks fan pro-click

Oh, and speaking of dance music, Justice is coming up really soon, and Chromeo announced an April show at the Commodore on the 3rd. Their live shows kill so check it.

Labels: boring, mp3s, music snobbery, shows

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Labels: mp3s, shows