Tuesday 30 July 2009

ROCKONLONDON Podcast - Issue 13 (31.3 MB, 27 mins, mp3 file)
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Gang Violence - Serious Face

Sarah Cordingley - vox Rob Andow - synths/sampler/guitar Bobby Siadat - drums

Newish Vancouver band. This song is unreleased. I begged Rob to give me a copy of his music before I left Vancouver and this is one of the 2 songs he burned for me. Rob and Sarah have both been in a TON of Vancouver bands previously. Not sure about Bobby as I only met him 2 weeks ago when I was visiting. He's probably a veteran too. Love his drumming.
www.myspace.com/gangviolencevancouver

Women - Black Rice

Chris Reimer Mike Wallace Pat Flegel Matt Flegel

From Calgary Alberta, friends with the Doers, another Canadian signing to Jagjaguwar. Most un-google-able name!
www.jagjaguwar.com
www.myspace.com/womenmusic

The Pointed Sticks - The Real Thing

Tony Bardach – Bass Nick Jones – Singer Bill Napier-Hemy – Guitar Gord Nicholl - Keyboards Ian Tiles - Drums

The bass player in this band taught me how to play bass! No joke. It was weird though. He drove me to highschool once. I think I was 18. I wanted to learn this song but he said it was their hardest so I learned Somebody's Mom as it was a LOT simplier. My first band even covered it in recorded form. Anyway, amazing Vancouver band back together (after a break of 25 years). You can get more mp3s on their web site and the new album out this September!
www.thepointedsticks.com
www.myspace.com/pointedsticks

Ice Cream - Hidden Microphone

Sarah Cordingley and ?

Defunct Vancouver band that I can find absolutely no where on the internet anymore. Ooops! Good song though.

Lioness - You're My Heart

Vanessa Fischer Jeff Scheven Ronnie Morris

Toronto band. Vanessa made me an amazing dinner my last night in Toronto. It had quinoa in it. Mmmm. She's also an ex No Dynamic who have been played here before. Jeff & Ronnie are from controller.controller another defunct Toronto band that were pretty rad.
www.myspace.com/lionesslionesslioness

Pony Da Look - Dancin'

Rebecca Mendoza - drums Temple Bates - composer/keys/vox Amy Bowles - lyrics/vox/keys Catherine Stockhausen - keys/vox

Another Toronto band. All girls too! This song is from their 3rd album 2008’s “Shattered Dimensions” on Sloan’s label Murderecords. Rebecca and Chris Murphy of Sloan are also happily together with a little kid too! Awww. The first time I EVER did karaoke was with Temple from Pony Da Look. We sang Billy Idol's White Wedding at the Thursday night karaoke night at Pat's Pub in Vancouver, BC circa 2003. Now I've done karaoke all over the world and it's one of my favourite things to do on a night out. Still have NEVER seen Pony Da Look live though.
www.myspace.com/ponydalook

Lightning Dust - I Knew

Amber Webber - vox/guitar Josh Wells vox/keys Ryan Peters - drums Ashley Webber-vox/sometimes bass

New side project of Amber & Josh of Black Mountain also featuring Ryan Peters from Ladyhawk AND sometimes featuring Ashley Webber twin sister of Amber formerly of the Organ. This song is from their debut album, Infinite Light, out in August on Jagjaguwar.
www.lightningdust.com
www.myspace.com/lightningdust