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And so my obsession with Canadian music continues. Montreal’s La Descente du Coude (descent of the elbow, I think) knocks one out for indie rock. More at their MySpace page.

So I did a short film earlier this year, an all-volunteer cast & crew, to protest the passage of Proposition 8 here in California, which bans same sex marriage in favor of opposite marriage. The Supreme Court just ruled it constitutional, and the finished PSA was uploaded just after the decision. Click the video for [...]

Because who wouldn’t? [video from Free Radio on VH1]

Well, they have the word “Lion” in the title, anyway. Bishop Allen – The Lion & the Teacup Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma Sam Roberts – Lions of the Kalahari

Yeah, twice in three days I made it over to The Troubadour. The previous post gushed plenty about Roberts’s amazing stage presence, but the photos I took are pretty and they need to go up. For a tiny club, the lighting was beautiful. The band started off the set with Love at the End of [...]

This is amazing work. Jazz pianist Henry Hey did an outstanding job creating a song out of spoken words. We don’t often think about it, but words have musical pitch (which is obvious to anybody in China, where they use pitch & tone as an integral part of language). Hey used the pitch of George [...]

I finally remembered this thing was in my parents’ neighborhood, and we drove over just after Christmas to check it out. I know it was a decade ago and all, but it was still disappointing that the house had been repainted the same bland neutral as the rest of its fellows on the street. And [...]

I’ve liked those French dance scamps since I first heard the sexy, growling beat of ‘Genesis’ on a TV ad. It took a while to find who did that smokin’ groove, because I rarely connect the music to the product, ubiquitous silliness like the freecreditreport.com ads aside (that’s French-Canadian Eric Violette, just for the record). [...]

I nearly forgot – October marks the 13th anniversary of the debut of Greymatter. View the O’Shea part of the comic series in the archive.

Unrevolution 12 – In which some things are explained, some questions are answered, and more questions arise, erm, therefrom. UPDATE, Feb. 5: The fire had died to embers and was cool enough for Ronidez and his guest to sit close together on either side of it. Ronidez had seen much in his many years on [...]