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Ohbijou, Great Bloomers and Evening Hymns at the Opera House in Toronto
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... In addition to their new record, Ohbijou have curated a second volume of their Friends In Bellwoods benefit compilation, due out later this Summer. Just as the first one gathered two CDs worth of the finest independent artists in the southern Ontario region, the second will feature rare and unreleased contributions from the likes of The Acorn, ...
2009 Polaris Prize Short List nominees announced
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David WaldmanSo yesterday was P-Day – the announcement of the short list for the fourth annual Polaris Music Prize – and perhaps the biggest surprise with the results was the fact that there weren’t any surprises. Of the ten, six were previously nominees from years past which, some might say, just shows they’re among the country’s elite artists and while they may well be, I can say personally that few of the final ten albums really stirred me in a significant way – certainly not as much as any of the ones on short list. I should note that ...
Ohbijou, The Artel, Kingston, 23 February 2007
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Photo by Chromewaves, taken at The Opera House in Toronto on June 25, 2009 (more photos here)
A very quick post to say Wolfe Island Music Fest kicks off TOMORROW! It is going to be two days of amazing music and you would be crazy not to take the ferry out to the ...
Oh! Canada vs Ohbijou
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Oh! Canada had the chance to catch up with Casey and James from Ohbijou to talk about their upcoming UK tour and the latest edition of their ‘Friends in Bellwoods’ compilation, a charity cd with over 40 tracks from the latest and greatest in the Canadian scene.
So, First Up….how are things in the Ohbijou camp? What have you been up to since we last saw you on these shores?
Things have been good in the Ohbijou camp! Busy and good! Since seeing you, we’ve released Beacons in North America with Last Gang Records, so that’s been exciting! ...
The D’Urbervilles and Forest City Lovers at The Theatre Centre in Toronto
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Frank YangWhen the Summerworks festival last year decided to incorporate a music program into its already-established showcase for independent theatre, it seemed an ambitious yet eminently logical way to introduce fans of one art to the other – see am up-and-coming play, stick around for a couple up-and-coming bands. Has it worked? One can only hope, though considering Thursday night’s show was the first one I’d made it to either last year or this and I didn’t come early for the play, I may not be the best sample group.
The bill that finally got me ...
Bry Webb & Casey Mecija cover The Velvet Underground
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friendsinbellwoods.comI suppose you can be forgiven if the names above are unfamiliar at first glance, but if you don’t recognize either of Bry Webb or Casey Mecija’s day jobs as frontpersons for Constantines and Ohbijou respectively, then you must be new and not from around here. Welcome, sit a spell. The Cons’ white-knuckle, blue-collar rock and Ohbijou’s sweeping orch-pop don’t have much in common, stylistically, but on this Velvet Underground cover, Webb’s hard-living rasp and Mecija’s honeyed voice come together like the ...
You Choose To Move Slow
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Canadian Wildlife “Winter’s Moon”
It may be odd to be listening to this very autumnal/wintry song in late summer, or it could just be wishful thinking on my part as I’m pretty ready to move on to the next season, or fast forward straight to the dead of winter. That’s where this song is — you can nearly feel the bite of frigid January air on your skin in the negative space between Jennifer Mecija’s spectral piano chords, the bright notes evoking white and yellow lights illuminating the blue-black cast of the early evening. The melody is rather sad, but ...
TCNH: New Releases for August 25th, 2009
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Whoa. This may be the busiest day ever on The Craig Norris Hour! Not only will I be playing songs from albums that are being released today, I have an exhaustive collection of amazing 2sday Song Connections, too! ...
With friends like these…
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Friends in Bellwoods 2 is out today.
I don’t know if it’s quite zeitgeist material, but there certainly is the sense that Friends in Bellwoods, a compilation album curated by Casey Mecija and James Bunton of Ohbijou, captures a musical moment ...
The Wooden Sky at Sonic Boom in Toronto
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Frank YangIt’s funny that though I offered readers an introduction to The Wooden Sky just last month, watching them play an in-store at Sonic Boom on Monday night, the eve of release for their new album If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone, it felt like I was the one being introduced to them for the first time.
Previously, I’d regarded them as very good with moments of great roots-rock band – terrific at what they did but unlikely to turn anyone’s world upside down. And initial listens to the new record backed that up – it was ...
New music on Wednesday
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Beanie Sigel – In the Ghetto (From Cocaine Blunts) Judging by the weaker-by-the-leak sound of The Blueprint 3, Jay-Z has "got mad at it and don't want it no more" (again). Enter Roc-a-Fella veteran Beanie Sigel with a taste of his new album The Broad Street Bully – a ...
Everything All The Time, The Magic and The Balconies at The Horseshoe in Toronto
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Frank YangYou need only look as far as Monday’s post to see what I was doing at the Horseshoe on Wednesday night. What I hadn’t mentioned in the writeup of The Balconies’ debut album – out officially September 15 – was that I had been trying to catch the band live for some months now, based on numerous rave reviews, but while they’d played no shortage of shows in the 416 I’d not been able to make any of them until now. The fact that I’d been able to familiarize myself with their album was just a happy coincidence.
And to ...
Everything All The Time, The Magic and The Balconies at The Horseshoe in Toronto
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Frank YangYou need only look as far as Monday’s post to see what I was doing at the Horseshoe on Wednesday night. What I hadn’t mentioned in the writeup of The Balconies’ debut album – out officially September 15 – was that I had been trying to catch the band live for some months now, based on numerous rave reviews, but while they’d played no shortage of shows in the 416 I’d not been able to make any of them until now. The fact that I’d been able to familiarize myself with their album was just a happy coincidence.
And to ...
The Clientele stokes Bonfire
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MySpaceI should be packing for my trip to New York City instead of blogging, so I’m just a-gonna clear out a pile of stuff that had been gathering over the last little while. Y’understand.
And what better way to begin than with a second taste of what is one of my most-anticipated new records of the Autumn – Bonfires On The Heath from The Clientele. It was exciting enough that Stereogum premiered the new MP3 yesterday, but I was over the moon later in the day when a digital promo of the album – not out till October 6 – showed ...
Basia Bulat, Grad Club, Kingston, 28 March 2008
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photo by Staciaann Photography in Minneapolis on 13 Oct 2007 (check out the entire set here.)
On Saturday, the Grad Club stage will be graced by the lovely, lovely Basia Bulat and her lovely, lovely band (so lovely it needs to be said twice). I am told there are only a ...
Review Of Evening Hymns’ Spirit Guides and giveaway
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eveninghymns.comThey say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep, and nowhere is this more true than in the case of Peterborough’s Jonas Bonnetta, aka Evening Hymns, who first earned notice in these parts back in June opening up for Ohbijou. The liner notes of his second album, the just-released Spirit Guides, reads like a who’s who of the Bellwoods crew, including members of Forest City Lovers, Ohbijou and The Wooden Sky, to name but a few, and if you want to take that as an implicit ...
Review Of Evening Hymns’ Spirit Guides and giveaway
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eveninghymns.comThey say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep, and nowhere is this more true than in the case of Peterborough’s Jonas Bonnetta, aka Evening Hymns, who first earned notice in these parts back in June opening up for Ohbijou. The liner notes of his second album, the just-released Spirit Guides, reads like a who’s who of the Bellwoods crew, including members of Forest City Lovers, Ohbijou and The Wooden Sky, to name but a few, and if you want to take that as an implicit ...
