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Brighten My Corner
Glasgow’s Merchant City Just a quick indie rock fix this week. Like Wonderland’s own frightened [White] rabbit, I feel there’s ‘no time to say “hello” goodbye!’ Time is seems to be getting the better...
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Moos and Grooves: Part One
Between sets. This weekend I went to my first Australian Music Fesitval, Groovin the Moo. The guiding shtick of this festival is to take over the fields of small town Australia and bring ‘local and...
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Moos and Grooves: Part Twos
The adventure continues! After our first three acts, we decided that it wasn’t absolutely necessary to be in the crowd for Alpine. So we went out to pasture. Pas de <<moshing.>> SILENT...
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Dissolve Me
Temple of Kukulkan, Chichén Itzá, Mexico All week I’ve been thinking up a completely, mindblowingly awesome post- it didn’t happen. Sorry kids, time has once again escaped me, as it has done so...
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Canadian Gold
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA! I spent this Canada Day’s eve as a happy little ex-pat: baking maple cookies, wearing red flannel and unabashedly, albeit ironically, belting out Sloan lyrics– “One thing I know...
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Live a Little
Belated birthday celebrations in Ottawa. Thanks, ST. Giving just a little today. Take it away, Florrie. “Live a Little” by Florrie
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Dreams of Cannibalism, Waves of Sound
Dawn in Tulum, Mexico I like this week’s tune for it’s rolling waves of sound in the intro. It’s like the Japanese tetris version of Phil Spector’s “wall of sound.” “Dreams of Cannibalism” by Typhoon...
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Merry Happy
Lavender lattes with Nams makes me merry happy. In two years of music blogging, I cannot believe I have not shared a Kate Nash tune. I often go months without listening to Kate, only to stumble across...
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On the Road
A secret beach. Tunnel access only. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” - Jack Kerouac, On the Road Well, I’ve done it again. I’ve turned my life upside...
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Boom, she clack-clack
Waiting for my connection, just my water and I, at Heathrow At the moment, I live with two kids on a South Australian farm. There are many advantages to this rural life: running with the farm dogs past...
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Carry Me Home… to my Australian Christmas
Now excuse me for getting sentimental with you all, but Christmas is a time for family. Whether with your own homegrown kin, or some hand-selected, family-like creatures of your own choosing, it’s...
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The Secret Life of Vappz
Sunrise, Tulum, Mexico Have you seen The Secret Life of Walter Mitty? I recommend it. I believe it was written for me and a handful of my friends: travel, photography and music are the films three...
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Osheaga Playlist 2014
Three fans mourn the end of Metric’s set while The Black Keys rock out 50ft to their left. As Canadians outside Montreal are becoming increasingly aware, for the August long-weekend there is nowhere...
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Paris, 2am
2am, Rue du Bac, 7e arrondissement de Paris I chose this photo because today’s song reminds me of some sort of chase scene through Europe– like it belongs on Jason Bourne’s running mix. This is...
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Go West, Young Woman
Running of the bulls in the Camargue marshlands, France, 1998 I recently rediscovered my old high school diary. It is a treasure trove of late 1990s pop culture gems; no page goes by without some...
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SS&ND Reviews: This is All Yours – Alt-J
They say a band’s sophomore album is the hardest. In this age of music, if your first release flops– that’s it. In Greg Kot’s book Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music– my all time...
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Top Drops 2014
It’s been a scarce couple of musical months, guys and dolls. Life has taken on a new kind of intensity after starting my new job– which I love– but unfortunately leaves me with little time for musical...
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Boom, she clack-clack
Waiting for my connection, just my water and I, at Heathrow At the moment, I live with two kids on a South Australian farm. There are many advantages to this rural life: running with the farm dogs past...
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