RADIOHEAD: IN/RAINBOWS

I don't think I've ever heard anything so amazing in my life, besides Fink..

I'm not going to go into detail about Radiohead.. For one because I'll do a huge Thom Yorke/Radiohead post later on.. Number two, if you don't know who Radiohead is, you're not experiencing music properly at all.

IN/RAINBOWS is mind blowing, haunting, gripping, beautiful, sad and awesome. It sounds like it was recorded in a church, that's inside of a castle, during a full moon. It is absolutely unbelievable.

I love 'House of Cards', '15 Step' and 'All I Need'...

I've included the link where you can purchase 'IN/RAINBOWS' on vinyl. You could download it for free from the same site for a while but that expired. I'm getting it on vinyl soon, just because. Enjoy ;)

===>'All I Need'<===

Radiohead's Myspace is HERE
Radiohead's Homepage is HERE
Buy 'IN/RAINBOWS' on cd HERE
Buy 'IN/RAINBOWS' on vinyl HERE

Patrick Watson is a Daydreamer...

Patrick Watson is an amazing musician.

If you listen to him, or his band, should I say, it might remind you of the vocal ramblings of Radiohead or the distinct strange sounds of Amon Tobin. Some people say he sounds like if you took classical music and mixed it with indie rock. His voice is soft and relaxed, yet it will echo through your walls. The piano and orchestra type melodies will fill your room and the catchy guitar riffs will leave you listening over and over again..

He was born in California in 1979 and raised in Hudson, Quebec. He is signed to Secret City Records in Montreal along with 'Plants & Animals', which of whom I did a post of earlier this month. He has toured with artists like James Brown, The Cinematic Orchestra, Feist & The Dears. He received an award for New Artist of the Year at the 2007 Juno Awards.

His album 'Close to Paradise' (2006) is absolutely wonderful and has incredible replay value. 'Daydreamer' is my favorite track on the album, it's beautiful... Enjoy ;)

Patrick Watson's Myspace is HERE
Patrick Watson's Homepage is HERE
You can Buy 'Close to Paradise' HERE

Listen===> 'Daydreamer' <===Listen

I Heart Fin Greenall..

If I was a girl, I'd stalk him..

His name is Fin Greenall and he goes by the name Fink. He is a Brighton, England based singer, songwriter, producer & Dj. He is signed with Ninja Tune, has played at over 250 different locations around the world and has toured with Zero 7. This man has one of the most amazing voices you'll ever hear, period. It's beautiful and haunting. I think someone else said this but it actually sounds like he eats cotton balls before he goes to bed and when he wakes up, he massages his throat with baby oil.

Do you like folk music? at all? Guaranteed that even if you don't, you will appreciate and most likely fall madly in love with Fink. His first album 'Biscuits for Breakfast' is a more bluegrass folk sound with a lighter approach. I strongly advise that you listen to 'Biscuits for Breakfast' first so that you get a good idea for what his original sound was. I believe that by doing this, you'll actually appreciate 'Distance & Time' that much more..

'Distance & Time' is the name of his second album released just two months ago in November. This album is alot deeper; the guitar, the chords, his voice, everything. Every song is amazing. You rarely get that on an album nowadays. I could go on about him forever but I'm not going too, cause I don't have time.

I've enclosed two of my favorite tracks, one from each of his albums. Please, go buy his music, it's all SO GOOD, all of it. Links are below. Enjoy ;)

Fink's Myspace is HERE
Fink's Homepage is HERE
You can Buy his music from HERE

===> 'Little Blue Mailbox' from 'Distance & Time'

===> 'Pills in my Pockets' from 'Biscuits for Breakfast'

Plants & Animals...

Okay, so definitely the biggest picture I've uploaded too my blog so far...

These guys look really crazy but they're actually quite tame when it comes to indie rock. Based out of Montreal (Yes they are Canadian, awesome), Plants & Animals is comprised of two guitarist/vocalists, Warren Spicer and Nic Basque & a drummer/vocalist Matthew Woodley. They are signed to Secret City Records, a Canadian independent label that has signed artists such as Patrick Watson and The Go! Team, both very awesome artists. I LOVE Patrick Watson and I will be going over him, his band and Secret City Records later on this month.

Plants & Animals have two releases so far. Their first (2002) is self titled and contains 5 tracks. It is mostly ALL instrumental, but I mean, if you love intstrumental, than you'll love this. The song 'Jacques' has to be my favorite on that release.
Their second release (2007) 'with/avec - EP' contains only four songs, this time you're able to hear their wonderful vocal talents. 'Lola Who?' is my favorite on that release and is the track that I will make available to all of you for download..

Their full-length debut Parc Avenue is tentatively slated for a March 2008 release.
Click HERE to read a concert review on 'Patrick Watson & Plants and Animals'

If you have an ipod, you can go to the Itunes Music Store and purchase both of their albums for only 13.95! That's actually the cheapest place to get it, cause on Amazon.ca it's $7.99 for the 4 track Avec EP alone. Itunes is also the only place where you can purchase their first album.
Psst.. if you dont know how to convert itunes into regular mp3's it's really easy, click HERE..

Go listen to Plants & Animals and let me know what you think ;)
Enjoy the music!

Plants & Animals ===> 'Lola Who?' off of 'with Avec-EP'
===> for Myspace click HERE
===> for their Homepage click HERE

December is here...

I was going to post a picture with snow in it but I don't have any pictures of snow in my huge database because it never snows here. The sky in the picture reminded me of snow, I think that's why I put it up. Umm, let's see, December is going to be really busy so I'm only going to do about 5 posts for the whole month.

There's a couple good shows this month; B Traits @ Hush on the 7th, Hyper on the 29th @ Hush and MSTRKRFT the night before in Van which I am SO EXCITED ABOUT! Okay that was my little freak out.. I had too though :)

Also people, NYE is coming up sooo get ready to party like it's 1632 + 376?

Go outside and have fun!