Teenage Cool Kids

Out of Denton, The Teenage Cool Kids play some pretty rad music that throws back to the best of the 90's (allowing me to finally have a reason to type the word rad). Their 2 records deep and have a third on the way. The cut below is off their first record Queer Saluations from 2007. If you like this track you can catch another one on my set this week at CHRY Thrusday from 12-1pm.

The Deep Dark Woods

Canadiana, is a tough genre to define, artists that fits into it, just do.
Much like The Band, the Deep Dark Woods mine folk, r&b, country and soul, with a finished product that transcends each of these influences. I wish everyone who has gotten into Mumford and Sons over the last year would be forced to listen to this, as it exemplifies the sound M&S chase but fail to capture. Their latest album doesn't rock it burns slow and steady, check out the epic 'Banks of The Leopold Canal' below.
For you Torontonians their at Lee's on Saturday.

Return of the blog

On the air tonight(August 4th) from 8-10 pm with semi regular co-host Adrian. Going to being play some sweet soul music and some up and coming Canadian garage rawk, also a handful of weird covers and poorly planned out banter.

Show Today on CHRY

On Air for my last thursday slot 8-10 pm. Featuring Kyle Knapp as my guest host and for the first time ever prizes. What Could they be???
tune in to find out.

Eric Mercury (Electric Blackman)

It's funky and soulful and its from Toronto, another Canadian soul classic.

Golden Boys (Plainsman's lament)

On Plainsman's lament off The Golden Boys pull of that Lou Reed cool that so many bands these days try to ape but fail miserably to channel.

The Sadies Featuring the Mighty Pope

This is a Christmas tune and I'm well aware it ain't December but I'm going to post it anyways. Too bad this collaboration didn't stick. I would really love to see the Sadies try their hand at some more soul and R and B, they did a pretty admirable job on this festive staple. As for the Mighty Pope, he's in fine form, and despite his age puts on a hell of a vocal performance. Whoah, I just used the words hell and Christmas in the same paragraph, which pretty much sums up what that time of the year is to a lot of people, fitting!

Show Today

Spinning from 8-10 pm today on CHRY 105.FM (available to stream off the CHRY Website). Playing the usuals soul, rock, garage, punk. Today were going to have an extra dose of Canadian funk and soul including stuff from Toronto's cross dressing answer to Wilson Pickett Jackie Shane.
CBC has a great doc on him/her stream it here

Spoon River (Stare into a river)

Neil Young meets the Band meets Vancouver. They have a record out called Kingdom of the Burned track it down you won't be sorry. Hopefully we hear a new record from these guys real soon

Briann Dunn (Examining the Fallout)

For my money one of the best albums of 2010 I'm awfully suprised it didn't catch on in the Canadian indie scene. Sometimes the good one's slip by with little to no fanfare hopefully this album recieves the attention it deserves in the near future. It's timeless alt country in the best way, a winner from start to finish.

Show from this week (March 10)

Another 2 hours of live off the floor radio including a discussion of everyone's favorite cartoon band the Archies, Hayden telling a disgusting tale of a sandwich gone awry, and lots of good tunes.



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J Mascis (Not Enough)

How does an acoustic album made by a man whose defined his career on fuzzed out Rawk sound? Pretty damn sweet! Not convinced, check him out live for free at sonic boom on Friday, or later in the evening at the mod club.

Ty Segall (Gloria)

Ty covering Van Morrison from his Them days. If Van Morrison isn't going to rock this song out in concert like it deserves to be it's good that someone has stepped up to the plate. Just for kicks here is also a bloated Jim Morrison and the doors covering Gloria, showing that a great song doesn't always make for a great cover.

Dismemberment Plan (The City)

Yeah for awesome reunion tours, boo for awesome reunion tours not coming to Toronto. The Dismemberment Plan play one of my least favorite Dismemberment Plan songs live on my least favorite late night talk show. (I'm more of an Conan, The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified kinda guy. Also for those wondering I don't consider Leno to be late night tv, in the same way I don't consider infomericals to be tv) Inspite of the matchup this is still better than 95 % of tv, and about 50% of what's on youtube you really just can't compete with such a wealth of charlie sheen clips.

Yesterday's Numbers: March 3

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Wavves King of The Beach

This is the kind of music video that makes me glad music video's aren't on tv anymore. The song is awesome but the music video really feeds into the whole Wavves is an immature jerk thing that people are always prattling on about.
Decide for yourself below(don't say I didn't warn you)

Thursday's Show

Here is a link to the show from last Thursday, lot's of good music lot's of mediocre banter.


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Show Today 8-10pm on CHRY 105.5 FM

Back in the studio today from 8-10 on CHRY 105.5 fm. Going to have a special guest (I'll give you a hint its not not not Justin Bieber), new songs by Shotgun Jimmie and The Booze, and a whole lot of soul goodness.
On Another note this documentary looks pretty damn awesome!

Charles Bradley (No Time for Dreaming)

Really been digging the new Charles Bradley album on Daptone No Time For Dreaming. Bradley has a unique voice, it comes across as a hybrid of the funkiness of James Brown and Otis Redding at his most lonesome. Here is the video for the single This World is Going up in Flames in which Bradley dons a suit that can only be described at Eddie Murphy circa raw funeral wear. Its one hell of a jumper and a great song to boot.

On The Horizon ( The Booze At Maximum Volume)

Atlanta's finest The Booze have a new album dropping very soon At Maximum Volume. Here is the catchy single "Down on your luck."

Can't post this week's show so here's some Rufus Thomas Instead

Here is a video of RT Playing his oft covered first hit walking the dog. Rufus is in fine form and so are the lost white kids dancing by the stage.

Show Today

Two hours of soul and blues (Running the gambit from Stax to 70's Quebec funk) today from 8-10 pm on CHRY 105.5 FM

Digging With Tom (The MC5 1965-1968)

This Bootleg captures the original dirty Detroit rock and roll band playing a handful of blues, soul, and R and B covers. Some of the songs are pretty straight covers, but others hint at the manic ballsy sound the band would capture in their first record Kick Out The Jams. The best take might be on the compilation might be the Ray Charles original I Believe to My Soul, give it a shot below.

Video of the Week (Guided by Voices Gold Star For Robot Boy)

A fragment of a Guided By Voices classic that's been stuck in my head recently. Lead singer Bob Pollard provides insight to how got he the idea for the song and a couple other GBV favorites. The story is crazy and maybe he is too but its possible that it's all just bs.
You decide below

5 Enjoyable Blog Postings I Read This Week

1. Chromewaves Wilco's decision to start their own label
2. Aquarium Drunkard  Apex Mannor's debut cd
3. BLOG TO  Another sweet local mixtape
4. Torontoist  The collapse of CKLN
5. Gizmodo  Hiding your ugly computer chords

Yesterday's Show

Yesterday, Hayden and I once again brought the ruckas to CHRY 105.5 fm.
Lot's of soul, lots of indie, some lies, a discussion of Wilfred Laurier  and a valuable lesson that if you pair songs that don't really work you can claim it's a juxtaposition.

                                                                                                                              

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Digging with Tom ( The Flamin' Groovies- Slow Death)

Slow Death captures the LA based Flamin Groovies at a turning point. Caught between their 50's rock and roll obsession and their later faux British invasion phase they churned out a proto punk record that sounds like a cross between the Stones and the Sonics.It was the first for vocalist Chris Wilson, and the cover doesn't make any false promises in advertising "high octane rock and roll". Not many bands were playing as fast and gritty as the Flamin' Groovies back then and few can match their frenetic energy today.

Today's Show (Live ON CHRY 105.5 FM)

Once again Hayden Simpson will be gracing the airwaves to help me through 2 hours of awkward pretentious banter and music. There's going to be lots of new themes, possibly some botched cues, and most likely some rambling that goes absolutely nowhere.
Themes for the Show Today
Moldy Oldies
Double Down
Fun Fact
Derivatives
Freshly minted


TG

Lucky Number 7 (Zeus Hot Under the Collar)

Once again proving that band's save their best songs for vinyl only singles is Hot Under the Collar. The song is originally a King Tobiass track and has become a concert highlight and staple for Zeus.  Zeus might not be the new incarnation of the Beatles, but they could be the new incarnation of Canada's Beatles the Guess Who (except much much better). Is this their "These Eyes" check it out below and decide if it's worthy of a Maestro rap remix.

On the Horizon (The Babies: The Babies)

The Babies are composed of Cassie Ramone from the Vivian Girls and Kevin Morby of Woods. They play highly unambitious catchy garage rock with male-female harmonies. I don't mean to sound offput when I describe them as unambitious, most garage rock is highly unambitious (Ty Segall aside) and that's what brings me back to it. It's dirty fun rock and roll and you catch a nice dollup of it on their self titled record out February 8th.

Video of the Week (Andre Ethier Cop Killer)

Andre Ethier needs to stop torturing us and release a new album already, no more singles Andre no matter how fantastic they are.(check out Running of the Bulls, and Promising Rainbows) Here he is singing a song about a horse that kills a cop and the hijinx that ensue.(including a tongue and cheek Jay Z reference) Check out Andre blatantly copping Dave Byrne when he sings "Cop Killer" below with his fantastic backing band Steamboat. (also due for a new full length)

Last Week's Show

Here is last week's show. Once again it features the talented co hosting of Hayden Simpson. It Started off Rocky(at one point I said "So the Folks"???), but ended up Appolo Creed (*In Rocky 1 ) This week's show is hopefully going to be like Paulie's Robot in Rocky 4.
"Yo could you turn your robot down"
Classic!


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Jayhawks Reunite, Fly Again!

Last Week the Jayhawks kicked off their Reunion Tour in Toronto at the Phoenix. Far from coming off as a nostalgia act, they played songs off their classic album's Tommorow The Green Grass and Hollywood Town Hall with youthful vigor.(although Mark Olson looked extremely worn out by the end of the set, but that also could just be his everyday look) If you get a chance to see the band be prepared to be impressed with the seamless harmonies of Mark Olson, Gary Louris, Tim O'Regan and Karen Grotberg.   They're planning on releasing a new album this year and if the new songs they debuted are any indication the album is going to be less folk inclined and less upbeat than their earlier material.
Here is a clip of the band playing Blue on the original John Stewart Show. Luckily for the members of the band, they've given up their rather peculiar fashion sense seen in this video.

Lucky Number 7 (Calm Down It's Monday)

       7" Heavy Snow and Nice to Come Home released in 2009 captures Fred Squire between Shotgun and Jaybird and his new folk inspired solo career ( see the recently released March 12).   The record has Squire teaming up with frequent collaborator Julie Doiron under the name Calm Down it's Monday. The 2 Calm Down It's Monday songs on the split (Julie Doiron contributes 2 solo songs ) are electric slow burners that any fan of Shotgun and Jaybird, Squire, Doiron, or really any good Canadian indie rock should track down.

On the Horizon (Go Go Boots-The Drive By Truckers)

On February 15 Everyone's favorite Southern rock revivalists the Drive By Truckers release a new record Go Go Boots. Rumour has it the record will delve into the Truckers love of Southern r&b and include covers of blue eyed soul legend Eddie Hinton. They certainly have the chops to be a great soul band  they've backed up Booker T and Betty Lavette, but still I'm sceptical how it will all turn out. That being said, I was sceptical of a concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd and I turned out to be flat wrong on that one.

Below is a live take of the single.

Video of the Week (Greg Cartwright Bound to Let Me Down)

Whether it's with Reigning Sound, the Compulsive Gamblers, or The Oblivions (to name only a few) Greg Cartwright continuously delivers r&b flavoured garage rock that flat out rules . His new band the Parting Gifts features member of the Ettes,  the Greenhornes, and Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.
Here is a video of him performing the standout track Bound to Let Me Down off their debut Strychnine Dandelion. Afterwards Greg chews the fat literally.

Digging With Tom (The Pointed Sticks- Perfect Youth)

Every Wednesday I'm going to recommend a non recently released album that I think is worth tracking down. The First Instalment ie this week I'm going to recommend The Pointed Sticks classic Perfect Youth.   The Pointed Sticks were a 70's punk band from a Vancouver signed to legendary punk imprint Stiff Records (Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Ian Drury). Perfect Youth was their only full length record and unlike much of the Stiff Records output it isn't marred by extremely dated production. The record was produced by Bob Rock who drastically turned course on his career when he stopped producing good records such as this one and a large chunk of the Metalica catalogue and put his talents to work on 311, Simple Plan and Cher.

Sounds Like: Superfriendz meets the best of Hot Hot Heat with a little bit of The Clash thrown in for good measure
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Youth-Pointed-Sticks/dp/B0009IW8H6

New Soundz (Shotgun Jimmie-Late Last Year)

Is it the single for the new album? The contribution to his upcoming split 7" with Joel Plaskett? just a random myspace posting? Does it matter?
http://www.myspace.com/jimjimers

Upcoming Show

Does garage+soul+awkward ramblings= a tolerable 2 hours of radio?
Find out live on Thursday from 8-10 pm on CHRY 105.5 FM

Half Of My Best Of 2010 Show

Because only half of it is worth listening to. (IE I accidentally deleted the first half of the show off my USB key)
Featuring the competent co-hosting of Hayden Simpson.

Listen to Ep 1: Awesome French Band Ruin's Perfectly Good Radio Rant