Bonnaroo Lineup: 1 band at a time

Posted by Patrick Boyle in Srsly, You Guys

In case you hadn't noticed yet, Bonnaroo is in the midst of announcing their 2010 lineup 1 band at a time: every few minutes, the flash thing on their myspace page chimes and a new act is revealed. Click here to check it out.

I must admit, I am more tempted to check it out this year than I have ever been. The prospect of seeing a completely unhinged, multi-hour Flaming Lips set including their rendition of Dark Side of the Moon (which is awesome) is pretty huge. As I learned at Coachella 2008...

Prince-chella

Oh, WHAT?

... headliners matter. Still, a great undercard doesn't hurt, and a quick glance at the lineup (so far) reveals some of my favourite, including a good balance of "seen 'em, love 'em" and "gotta see 'em." Among others:

  • the National
  • Dr. Dog
  • Steve Martin (yes, that one) & the
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Comments (1)      more in Music Previews     |     posted Feb 9th, 2010 at 1:32pm

Mass Effect 2: Pretty Frickin' Sweet

Posted by Patrick Boyle in Srsly, You Guys

ME2
I just linked the logo from Google Image Search. Is that cool?

I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but yeah... this game is rad. I picked up my pre-order copy last night and plugged in around 10 PM. It took me about an hour to unlock the galaxy map then I just stumbled around until 1 AM, avoiding story-ish missions and getting a feel for changes to the overall game mechanics.

Like I said, I can't allow myself to write too much or I'll get nothing else done today, so here are a few things that are new and awesome followed by a few minor gripes, all in LIST FORM. First, the awesome:

  • The way you navigate the world at the system/cluster level now is way cooler. Previously it was just a "drag your cursor and pick where you want to go" type thing. Now, there's
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Comments (1)      more in Video Game Reviews     |     posted Jan 27th, 2010 at 10:35am

Attack in Black & Julie Doiron, Jan. 22 at Broken City

Posted by Patrick Boyle in Srsly, You Guys

Attack In BlackPhotos by Charles Gunn

Last night, I had the chance to have a quick chat with the guys from Attack in Black before they took to the stage at Broken City, warming up the crowd for Julie Doiron and Fred Squire a guy who looked sort of like Fred Squire (more on this later). This band has always struck me as one with tons of potential but not a lot to show for it. Sure, I can listen to their shows and make it through their records, but it always seemed like too much of a mixed bag of middle-of-the-road folk and rock for me to get into.

Then again, the continue to crop up on my radar and every time I feel like I must be missing something. Most recently, this came in the form of the Daniel, Fred, & Julie record, featuring Attack in Black front-man Dan Romano … Read More

Add comment      more in Music Features     |     posted Jan 22nd, 2010 at 7:35pm

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Posted by Patrick Boyle in Srsly, You Guys

Owen Pallett @ Sled Island 2009, c/o Charles Gunn

Final Fantasy Owen Pallett at Sled Island 2009 (photo by Charles Gunn)

Dearest readers,

In this week's issue, I wrote a review of the new Owen Pallett record, Heartland. If music editor Peter had let me, I would have written another 1000 words about this record. Here are a few nuggets:

1. This is Owen's first record on Domino, a much bigger label than his previous home (Toronto's Blocks Recording Club.) This might have something to do with the name change. However, the promo copy that I reviewed (it still says "Final Fantasy"--collectibles 4tw) was stamped with "FOR GREAT JUSTICE" and the liner notes included a link to this site.

Do you recognize the style? For those of you who aren't as well-versed in Early 00s … Read More

Comments (1)      more in Music Features     |     posted Jan 8th, 2010 at 1:19pm

La Blogotheque - Phoenix

Posted by Patrick Boyle in Srsly, You Guys

The Phoenix takeaway show on La Blogotheque is way too good to be missed. When this showed up in my RSS reader this morning, the flywheels on my brain's blog post machine started whirring, let me tell ya.

So, in case you hadn't heard, La Blogotheque is a Paris-based music blog that records videos of "Concerts à Emporter": bands playing impromptu live sets in the many, many cheeky public venues offered by the city of lights. Previous highlights have included Caribou (watch how they "fade in" the drums around the 2 minute mark,) Man Man, and Volcano!

UPDATE: I forgot to mention Charles Gunn's excellent piece from April 2008, in which he summoned all the strength of his Franco-Albertan ancestry to interview Blogotheque founder Chryde.

But the  … Read More

Add comment      more in Music Features     |     posted Dec 3rd, 2009 at 2:55pm

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