To all the bedroom lap top musicians out there, this is the real deal. Gold Panda is a reclusive English producer with glitchy tendencies accompanied by amazing soundscapes and melodic sampling. I personally found it shocking this stuff could be played live, and with such band on accuracy. Never again do I want to see some useless Macbook sporting chill-bro. I hope these guys learn to take a page from Gold Panada’s book, or maybe I’m just a super fan boy.

Gold Panda – Snow & Taxis

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The Person Who Did Stuff To Me

Run Chico Run have been making music together since 1997,  a Victoria mainstay.  Heavy keyboard action, baroque pop nausea, nuage psychedelia.  R. C. R. consists of 2 Dudes  (Thomas Shields and Matt Skillings) The two also play in   The Pale Air Singers with The Cape May and work producing and mixing records for a number of local acts. Check them out!

RUNCHICORUN-Jacques and Madeline

RUNCHICORUN-Broadcaster

RUNCHICORUN MYSPACE

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The Last Day of Summer is the new album by garage-rockers White Denim, which is available by donation on their website. I have always been a big fan, but this new stuff blew me away. The album as a whole is much softer and soulful compared to their earlier work and is probably my favourite material to date. This self-released album is meant as a pacifier as we wait for their third album. With this album so good, I am very very excited to see what they come out with next.

White Denim – i’d have it just the way we were
White Denim – home together
White Denim – tony fatti

Tennis is so wonderful. Sadly for us internet fans, they only really have one 7″ record which is sold out and a handful of MP3′s which I’ve listened to at least a hundred times already. But rejoice! Daytrotter has saved out souls once again. A delightfully light and cherry session showcasing Tennis at their best. Download the session here. And if you’ve never seen Daytrotter before, their a website specializing in incredible live recorded sessions with every single band you like, so got do some hunting, you’ll be happy you did.

Tennis – Pigeon

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Sometimes you come across something that just makes you happy to be wherever you may happen to be. My Friend Wallis is from Vancouver. They make beautiful, gorgeous, relaxed music. Like that feeling you get when you go on vacation somewhere warm and you are sitting outside in the sun for the first time. The ice in your drink is melting and the condensation is building on the glass. It is keeping your hands cool, it feels nice. A slight breeze is winding through the air, gently blowing your hair across your forehead and you are thinking to yourself, “Ahhh…this is nice.”

I posted a couple of songs, but you can get the whole album for free on their bandcamp.

Running – My Friend Wallis

Free Day – My Friend Wallis

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I’ll admit it, like a blood thirsty pirate I hunted this leak like some sort of buried treasure. I do feel bad about it, but exactatic at the same time. Surf City’s self titled EP caught me so off guard I couldn’t help but cave to my desires and see what they had in store for me this time. Kudos picks up where their last album left off, a mix between dreamy garage indie and sometimes sombre angular guitar strumfests. Alot of elements are still present, distant vocals and 90′s indie themes, but this time we do see a bit more of a mature side to Surf City. Best described as a cross between Pavement and The Jesus and Mary Chain. With some songs like Icy Lakes clocking in at over 7 minutes Surf City does take some generous time to jam out some sweet guitar riffing and shoegazey melodies.Totally awesome, if these Kiwi’s ever cross the Pacific I will be upfront and center singing right along.

Surf City – See How The Sun

Surf City – Retro

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Forestry is a pretty low key affair, four friends from Victoria, B.C.  Pretty melodies, nice sounds.

Forestry-Over Judged

Forestry -The Loneliest Man

Forestry Myspace

On another note another kind of forestry is destroying our most valuable, natural resource world wide. Support sustainable logging efforts and local groups like The Ancient Forest Alliance!

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Gorgeous video, cool dudes, and rad tunes. nuff’ said.
You can see it bigger right here: Vimeo

Saw these guys in the summer in a back parking lot BBQ. They totally rocked and where super rad dudes to boot. Just grabbed a couple songs off their new release Doing What I Want EP. Quarky country influenced punk rock, oddly disturbing lyric and slurry vocals. Nice one dudes! Check Brazilian Money out here, a few songs below and a video of them playing in our Goody parking lot.

Brazilian Money – Bones

Brazilian Money – Ghetto Lungs, GET ALONG NOW

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