Wow this is kind of exciting! 200th post, seems like a landmark! Instead I’ll tell you abut a little Vancouver band called The Orpheans. Blues rock. Fucking awesome, kickass, amazing, heart-wrenching. If you live in Vancouver, you’ve probably seen DB Buxton performing on the street (probably Granville) with a guitar bag in front of him. Give him your money. If you haven’t seen him…

He’s in a band, with Nick Eccleston, and Randy Kramer. They are called the Orpheans and they are playing tonight at the Cobalt. Definitely check this shit out. They’ve also got a 7″ available at Neptune records. We’ve got it here and it’s definitely worth the $7.
And remember, support your local music scene. Especially when it is fantastically great.

Take a time machine back to 1979, if you may. A little band out of California called Suburban Lawns makes wacky new waveish hits. A weird Devo/B52′s combination of frantic guitar riffing, bleep bloop synths and sometimes tame sometimes wild back and forth male female vocals. A rather short lived band Suburban Lawns only released one full length (self titled) and an EP between the years of 79-81. Too bad because this stuff really shreds. Anyone into a bit of fun, a lot of artistic license and more then one song about genitals should check these guys out.

Suburban Lawns – Green Eyes

Suburban Lawns – Janitor

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A field recording made of Ghana post workers canceling mail.  The rhythmic sounds are a combination of the following:

• Light Thud - Slapping of the letter to bring in position on the table to be canceled.
• Lowest Thud - The stamp being inked one or more times.
• High Thud – The letter being stamped and canceled.
• A High Pitch Snap -  Scissors being snapped together for rhythmic effect
• Hand Clap – Done by the whistler

There are four men in this recording, two doing the stamping, one man handling the scissors and one man who carries the tune and hand claps.

Absolutely breathtaking.

Aaron chapman, John bowers, James mitchell are from Portland and make up the band Nurses. Their music makes me happy that I have ears.

Sweet So Sleeping – Nurses

Caterpillar Playground – Nurses

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A great local band that was around a couple of years ago. I just rediscovered it while perusing my itunes library. I don’t really know what’s going on with them lately, but here’s a couple of songs that are a little bit old and a lot bit synth-tastic.

Where did you guys go anyway? Are you still a band?

Ms. Poppin – Culte Du Cargo

One Way – Culte Du Cargo

It seems that Lo-Fi has been all the rage lately. One could only guess as to how long this trend will last (my money would be on not much longer). But for the time being it is here, and there is some great music being made which utilizes certain Lo-Fi criteria, mainly, a lot of fuzz or reverb and an apparently lower recording quality. This renewal of the Lo-Fi sound has typically tended to lean in a tropical, ‘Endless Summer’ direction (think Wavves or Surfer Blood).

Well, this is different. There is a definite Country Western vibe going on here, mixed in with a bit of 50′s era rock. This is relaxed and  pleasant to listen to, and still fuzzy enough to cash in on the Lo-Fi resurgence. Get it while the gettings hot. Spectrals have released a split 7″ with Fair – Ohs, It’s out now from Toughlove records, check it out.

Birthday Kiss – Spectrals

Keep Your Magic Out Of My House – Spectrals

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The stupid internet gods have gone and screwed us again. For some reason, which I would presume to be some sort of e-voodoo, we are currently unable to post any music or pictures. I know right? Lame. Hopefully we will be able to rectify the problem soon by finding whoever or whatever it is that has felt the need to curse us, and utterly destroying it.  We will probably send it into oblivion using these totally awesome laser swords I just got at the Richmond night market. BOOYA!

You better watch out buddy, we are coming for you.

UPDATE: We are back up-and-running. So we can go back to posting regularly again! TAKE THAT INTERNET

Sunday night on a long weekend. In the kitchen eating pepperoni sticks and cooking a lasagna. It’s a little bit chilly outside but the day has been nice. It wasn’t one of those hot, lazy, beautiful summer days. But it was good, you got shit done. The sun is going down now, the night is relaxed as music flows through the speakers. No one is talking, not precisely because there is nothing to say, but because it isn’t needed. You sway to the melody and lightly bob your head.

All Those Animals – Listening Party

Campanology – Listening Party

The new album from Listening Party, ‘I Was Young’, is out now. Go get it, because it is amazing. They’ll be playing a show here in Vancouver this coming saturday at Goody (at Hawks and Hastings) at 4pm.

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Novels has finally given up the ghost and allowed their fans to download their whole album for free! There is a catch however. You must follow these insturctions carefully:

Step 1:
Click here to download the whole Novels album.

DOWNLOAD NOVELS

Step 2:

Listen to all the songs

Step 3:

Give this link to your friends

Step 4:

Burn the Novels songs to some CDs

Step 5:

Share those CDs with strangers. Hide them at the supermarket! Leave them at your doctor’s office! Have fun with it!

Step 6:

Send us an email with a photo and the city of where you hid the CDs. Send us a photo of the random person you shared a disc with! We will put it up on the blog!

I for one am so so happy about this, so lets all do the right thing and burn Cd’s for our friends and brighten up their week, if there is any Cd that could do that, it would be this one!

-lionsteeth

We’ve been so busy making a tasty record for everyone to enjoy. keep updated here.