November 2010
9 posts
Jungle Cat World
Although slightly unrelated to the band I thought I’d post up some pictures of the trip we took this weekend to Jungle Cat World for my lovely girlfriend’s 23rd birthday. If you are an animal lover I highly suggest you check this place out, the ‘zoo’ is a not for profit organization and signifcantly less busy (aka there aren’t a million shitty kids running around...
October 2010
19 posts
Local Band You Might Already Know (The Fourth)
Dinosaur Bones just got signed to Dine Alone Records, Dinosaur Bones are a great band, they play a very brooding, dark and ambient style of music that to me sounds like Phantom Planet’s self-titled album mixed with The Smiths or The Cure. I’ve known their bass player Branko since the days of Cain and Abel when I first found out he was the world’s most loyal fan and the...
TILLMAN SINGS TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT.
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2010/09/13/j-tillman-tillman-sings-tonights-the-night/
Let me begin by saying that I’ve never been a huge Neil Young fan. I have always enjoyed his staple songs (Old Man, Needle and the Damage Done etc..) but I’ve been able to get into his other stuff.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I’m reading Peter’s Rolling Stone greatest...
Real Life Is Scary (Can't Hardly Wait)
We played an interesting show on Saturday, it was at a Frat house and none of us have any personal knowledge of fraternities other then that which we’ve seen in the movies. If I’m allowed to be candid, this one in particular was everything we hoped for and more, it was as if we had walked into an American Pie movie and we had been cast as a mid to late 90s Blink 182 or the Offspring...
Getting To Know A Local Band (The Third) -...
If you don’t recognize the crotches pictured above, don’t worry (I’m sure you’re worried) because soon you and these here crotches will be like brother and sister. The nether regions I am speaking of belong to none other then Cobourg’s Gentlemen Husbands; I’ve known some of these handsome well-dressed fellows since 2006 or so, when we were both just wandering...
Peter's "Buy A Record A Week 2" and In The Land of...
Jeff absent mindedly left out my record for this week, this is ironic seeing as he had to buy my record due to a bet he lost in which we tried to determine which brother Pat likes the best (he likes neither of us). My record purchase is a two-parter for this week, part one was Hollerado’s “Record In A Bag” which many of you are probably aware of is actually in a bag, with...
TAKE IT DOWN TO DOUBLEDOWN TOWN.
The KFC Doubledown came out this week in Canada, and we just had to try it so we made a band outing of it. With photos.
Peter and Cam, obviously stoked to get the Doubledown. Peter and I had been talking about it all day.
I couldn’t wait!
Neither could Peter :( He even got in the way of the lowly, Iranian, plainclothes janitor!
Then Pat showed up, but who cares? He wasn’t...
From Across The Sea... Norway! I don't believe...
Google translator has informed us that someone from Norway wrote a nice little blog about us, we guessed Swedish, but there’s a chance Google could still be wrong. Whoever you might be my foreign friends, thanks for the write-up!
Here is google’s crudely translated version:
“Teenage Kicks is not a cult band, according to them anyhow. Vocalist Peter van Helvoort said this in an...
A RECORD A WEEK - WEEK 2
So this week I bought Soundgarden’s “Telephantasm” on vinyl. Yes, I realize that Soundgarden don’t need my support, but how could I resist six sides of them? Also, the cover is absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know if it’s a joke or not, but it was definitely a selling point.
Soundgarden were one of the bands Peter and I grew up listening to. As a kid, you...
Buy A Record A Week
Jeff and I decided this week that it would be a good idea to make a point of each buying one record a week. This week I bought Band of Horses’ new record ‘Infinite Arms’ on Patrick’s suggestion and Jeff went digital with Birthday Boys’ ‘Tin Head’ (highly recommended). Our reason for doing this you might ask? We download a lot of music, and we do buy...
DEMO' MONEY, MO' PROBLEMS.
Spent most of the weekend demoing new songs you probably won’t hear, but it’s good for you to know about.
Otherwise, it’s cold outside, and as a result, it’s cold inside our house as well. Bummer.
Final words? Buy more music.
- Jeff
