Because I love Andrea Dorfman (the director of this video) so much, and because the video is so lovely, I’m stealing it from Kickpleat so you all get to see it!

Enjoy!

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I don’t get how the Euro’s are doing it, but it’s getting to the point where I’m not really bothering to listen to music if it didn’t come from a country where they eat a lot of smoked fish.

Alphabeat are makers of such music. There are pretty much a billion ways I could describe them, so I’m just going to mention the most fun ones:

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If you watched the Hills this week, then you probably rocked out a bit to that great French pop they played in between sweeping shots of the Eiffel tower.

Well, I am here to lead you to the source of it’s awesomeness. Although frankly, Jezebel beat me to it.

Her name Yelle, and she reminds me a heck of a lot of a certain other talented young ( Read more... )

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I don’t usually post videos, but I keep running across this same artist’s stuff, and I am totally in love with her:

Her name is Robyn, she’s Swedish, and she used be a teeny-bopper pop-star in the mid nineties (remember “Show Me Love”? It was pretty ubiquitous at one point. Still hear it from time to time on adult-contempo radio). During the ( Read more... )

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I am pretty much obsessed with making Mii’s (little customizable characters on the Nintendo Wii). I’m pretty good at it too.


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First of all: Ron Hawkins showed up to open with an acoustic set!!!
I luuuuuuuurrrrrrve Ronnie! He is pretty much my favourite of all time.
That should have made my experience 100% delightful…
But I could barely hear the show.
Barely.
People yapped through the entire thing, Ron’s ( Read more... )

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Heads up kid, tonight we are going to go see Greg Graffin sing songs off his new folk album. I’m not sure if it’s sold out though, and it’s probably a far way for you to come on a weekday night.
But I promised, so there it is.
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The Toronto Stillepost message board has this really weird habit of sparking a discussion about something, exactly when I’ve been thinking quite deeply about it myself.
So, of course, someone over there was thinking about making a Toronto compilation, right around the time I posted ( Read more... )