This final edition features TUMBLING INTO LIGHT, a multidisciplinary performance that examines the journey through darkness.
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The press release for Metric's new album, Fantasies, stated that the title was intended to evoke a dream-inspired feeling. The suggested feeling does occur as the material seems to be motivated by subconscious thoughts. Listening to Fantasies in one sitting is very similar to an actual dream. The album's tone and emotion changes frequently, even in the middle of a song. It also depicts the feeling of waking up. For example, the album's fourth track, "Twilight Galaxy," is very calming and encourages one to fall into a trance. This is followed by "Gold Guns Girls," which is the literal equivalent to a noisy alarm clock.
Friday, April 17
Friday, April 10
With all of the talent in Canada you have to wonder why Jiam Gomeshi decided to have the Boxmasters on at all. The Boxmasters, in case you don't know, are a thoroughly mediocre country-ish band headed by burned out actor Billy Bob Thorton. It turns out that Thorton is not only burned out as an actor but is pretty burned out in general and is still egotistical/douchy enough to think that he deserves credibility as a musician without having to mention his acting career.
Peter Project's self titled album is a fascinating experience. It is also an album that will have its supporters and opponents.
Thursday, April 2
Friday, March 27
So far the new NxEW.ca Canadian music blog is off to a great start. It has 28 contributors signed up and 3 people who have said they are interested but have not actually signed up yet. Out of those people 20 have sent in their bios so we know that we have 20 people representing 11 cities in 7 provinces. 
8 Apr 2009 Duck Creek Gallery Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
10 Apr 2009 50/50 Collective Victoria, British Columbia
11 Apr 2009 Blim (Prairie Cat Will Be at This One Too) Vancouver, British Columbia
12 Apr 2009 Little Mountain Studios Vancouver, British Columbia
14 Apr 2009 TBA Osoyoos, British Columbia
17 Apr 2009 Broken Jug Calgary, Alberta
18 Apr 2009 The Hydeaway Edmonton, Alberta
19 Apr 2009 All Citizens Bruno, Saskatchewan
21 Apr 2009 The Exchange Regina, Saskatchewan
22 Apr 2009 Lo Pub Winnipeg, Manitoba
23 Apr 2009 The Apollo Thunder Bay, Ontario

The new Canadian music blog NxEW is up and running. That means, to an extent, I'll be dividing my time and yes I'll still be posting music stuff here, but not as much as there. Canada has been called unworkable as a country, it has been said that a geographically impossible country. With a population roughly the size of California and a land mass larger than the U.S. or China Canada is divided by vast empty spaces, by immense mountain ranges, by harsh winters and of course by language. Add to all of that the fact that most major Canadian population centers are closer to the US than they are to the next major Canadian population center and there are very few things that unite Canada.So, if you get a chance check it out. Also still looking for writers and the Facebook group is over here.
Much to the chagrin of Stephen Harper much of what ties Canada together is cultural. The CBC, certain Canadian authors and most especially music. CBC Radio 3's New Music Canada site houses profiles of thousands of Canadian recording artists from every part of the country. Cities like St. John's, Moncton, Charlottetown, Guelph and Sudbury (all of which are smaller than Springfield, Missouri) have thriving, vibrant music scenes. The large cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are essentially perpetual music festivals - a recent count in Toronto showed 326 musical acts playing 37 venues and that was just a normal week (the week before Canadian Music Week).
Thousands of Canadian artists criss cross the country, despite the geography, all year round serving as kind of cultural ambassadors between the maritimes and the oil patch, between the prairies and Ontario, between Ontario and the west coast and form a sort of disbursed community among Canadian music lovers.
NxEW, takes it's name from the NxNE and SxSW festivals but demonstrates both the geographical issues of Canada as well as the relative unimportance of Geography in the internet age.
The hope is to bring together music lovers from across Canada, from the east and the west, the prairies and the north, from small towns and big cities to talk about music - what's going on nationally and what's going on locally. In other words to create a Canadian music blog with "boots (or sneakers) on the ground" in every part of the country.
Thursday, March 19