8 posts tagged “nxne”
The TBS gals hit the town last night to catch some NxNE fun-ness. We congregated at Yonge-Dundas Square to catch The Black Lips performance (prior to them, the stage was host to Burning Brides and Canadian hottie Melissa Auf Der Maur). Nice weather + great music + Mill St. Brew Pub beer tent (serving my very fave Wit beer) = good times.
Then it was off to Sneaky Dees to catch These Are Powers and Japanther. Loved These Are Powers! Super energetic and in the genre of M.I.A. and Santigold. And Japanther was amazing (as long as you weren't pummelled in the mosh pit that formed early in the set!). A special shoutout to the lovely folks in Modernboys Moderngirls. We heart you! Sorry we couldn't stick around for your whole set but we were done like dinner, my friends.
On deck tonight? Perhaps Hunter Valentine at the Bovine Sex Club, Clothes Make the Man at The Hideout, Darlings of Chelsea at the El Mocambo and a little 3 a.m. Beauties at The Dakota to end the night? We'll see. First up for this TBS gal is the Pride Week Launch party at Woody's. I anticipate hot men in tiny shorts!
XOXO
Blair
Photos: 1) Japanther 2) We Are Powers
Is Darlings of Chelsea
ChartAttack agrees with me.
Check out the article here http://www.chartattack.com/news/71162/darlings-of-chelsea-honour-classic-rawk
Much love to the Darlings and any of y’all that make it out to one of their TWO showcases this weekend.
Friday - 2 AM Elmo Upstairs
Saturday - 1 AM Bovine
XO
M
Right on the heels of the upcoming NXNE fest us ladies are so stoked about, the Polaris Music Prize long list has also been unveiled.
The albums are judged by a panel of over 180 members, consisting of music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers. Seriously...why haven’t I been invited to judge?
Below are the ‘nominees’, which will be short-listed to ten in July.
Bolded are ones I may enjoy more than others or ones I may be more familiar with than others. This is kinda my favourite Canadian music prize/award. Again, why am I not judging? …hee!
Arkells - Jackson Square
Jill Barber - Chances
Beast - Beast
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth
Cœur De Pirate - Cœur De Pirate
Leonard Cohen - Live In London
D-Sisive - Let The Children Die
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
K'NAAN - Troubadour
K-OS - YES!
La patère rose - La patère rose
Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Lhasa - Lhasa
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Metric - Fantasies
One Hundred Dollars - Forest Of Tears
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Joel Plaskett - Three
Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize
Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
Rae Spoon - superioryouareinferior
The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
Think About Life - Family
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Women - Women
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europa
totes looking forward to going through ALL the albums and finding a few new favourite gems, I’m sure.
Xo xo
Ang
Oh, NxNE.
It's pretty much our fave time of year here at TBS.
So many bands, so many parties, so little time!
How many bands? you ask.500
How many venues? you ponder. 50
Plus there are panels and film screenings and hotel room parties..errr....I mean.....oh who am I kidding. There's always crazy hotel parties. And somehow, someway, we always end up at them.
NxNE officially hits Toronto this Wednesday, June 17 and ends on Sunday. This year's headquarters are the Hyatt Regency on King Street (formerly the Holiday Inn).
We're looking forward to seeing some of our fave acts including Japanther, Black Lips, The Coast, Cool Kids, Darlings of Chelsea, Modernboys Moderngirls, Jason Collett, Beth in Battle Mode and Still Life Still (to name just a few).
Can't. Wait.
XOXO
TBS
The entire band was seen grabbing a bazzilion drinks and a half at local watering hole Sweaty Bettys right after their Phoenix Concert Hall show in Toronto last night. Super fun boys; were totally into the mo-town tunes, singing and dancing along. Catch them next in Toronto during NXNE!
Waking Eyes, Sneaky Dee's
February 10, 2008
Tuesday nights I usually stay home, get in my PJs early and watch stupid crap on TV, in fact its so stupid I don’t even know whats on, on a Tuesdays. This week I branched.
I went to Sneaky Dee’s for the Weezer Tribute Night put on by Truth Explosion Magazine and We Got the Movement.
You’re thinking, what the hell for man?
At first I thought the same thing. Whatever band that was on when we first got there. Not my scene. They sounded a tad like a broken record and thankfully we only had to endure the last song of their set.
Next up, the Waking Eyes playing the Blue album!! I have to admit, this is the ONLY Weezer album that I own. And I probably only bought it cause it was the thing to do in high school, I’m not even sure if I ever even listened to it. I’m even willing to bet I got it as my freebie from Columbia House Records!! But it had a few hits, My Name is Jonas, the Sweater Song, Say It Ain’t So and of course Buddy Holly. Plus the Waking Eyes are one of the best live bands I’ve seen in recent years. The first time I saw them, I didn’t know who they were. They were playing one of those festivals CMW or NxNE and they happened to be on a bill with other bands I like. So I saw them pretty much by accident, and they were the HIGHLIGHT of that weekend of shows.
As their set progressed, it turned out I did know more of that album than I expected and I was becoming a re-fan thanks to the waking eyes! I might be so bold as to say that they could possibly give Weezer a run for their money, playing their own music!! How could the next band possible top that?
They couldn’t and they knew it, so instead they started playing a track of the first Foo Fighters album and joked that the Waking Eyes “rocked harder than weezer”.
Shortly after this I was six beers in and not looking forward to my 7:15 AM wake up call, so we busted out there to get some much needed sleep and aqua to help ease the Wednesday morning hangover.
So kudos to Truth and WGTM for a good night, and whoever picked the deejay, high fives! There was so much Nirvana I felt like it was really 1994.
xo
M
NxNE Showcase Silver Dollar June 12, 2008
So another band that we famously miss is Diemonds. I also try to avoid the Silver Dollar for reasons I’ll keep to myself. But after a mickey of purse booze, it seemed like a good idea, plus we were accompanied by the entourage we’d picked up over the course of the night.
Diemonds are proudly Toronto’s only sleaze band, with the hair to prove it. They are everything you’d expect from a band with that claim to ‘fame’. They also appear to spend as much time practicing as they do shopping. They’ve put together quite the wardrobe, it’s very 1984, the year not the book. Interesting choice considering most of the members were hardly stable on their feet in 1984, and not from drugs…. I mean because they were toddlers!
Kidding aside, they don’t suck. But I’d rather listen to them on my iPod, than watch them live.
As always, to each their own, keep your hate mail to yourself! They are exactly what they claim to be, kudos for keeping it real, yo. Word.
Muah
M
NxNE Showcase - Bovine June 12, 2008
The TBS girls have never once made it to a HYFY gig, not once. We have good intentions every time… but some how we manage to miss it, even if it's at 4 am!
But against all odds three outta four ladies made it out to the last standing bar in the holy trinity, the Bovine for 11 PM on a Thursday! Ok, we were like 15 mins late. Deal with it.
I have to say, it was worth.the.wait!! The bar was rammed, but not so rammed that you couldn’t maneuver your way to the bar and the beautiful bartenders!
The band was energetic and commanding and the crowd knew the words – we might have too if we ever made it out to a gig before now! Sometimes the bands at the Bovine acts like a musak track at the bar being performed live. I find in that space it's often hard to keep your attention on what’s going on, on stage. Not the case that evening.
I think we’re definitely gonna keep our pretty baby blues open for their next gig, and make it on time!!
muah.
M
