Yes, we loved every single second of it. It was all quite spectacularly superb. From the delightful melodies to the rock out moments. From the times were held our breath to the feeling of being as one. Feist lit up the Enmore Theatre Tuesday night in a way few performers can. She is so engaging, so charming, so talented. Love. For just on two hours Feist proved that she is one extremely talented and unique performer. Such a personable one too, she had us at hello you could most possibly say. As the booming "Undiscovered First" rang out across the ...

Constellation is one of Canada’s most influential and respected independent record label. The label is based in Montreal and for over a decade it has become known for its contributions to experimental genres of music. It has released albums of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, Colin Stetson, Sandro Perri, Vic Chesnutt, Tindersticks and Silver Mt Zion just to name a few. Read More

The folks over at The Silver Dollar on Spadina have only your needs in mind as they've put together a great series of shows throughout the holiday season. Here's a sample of what they've got in store: Dec 3- Del Bel (album release from Do Make Say Think 's Jimmy P. Lightning) w/ Skeletones 4 and Lowlands Dec 9- The Two Koreas , w. Powers (ex-The Ghost Is Dancing), Sports, and Planet Creature Dec 10- CATL w/ The Speaking Tongues , Bradley "Boy" McArthur Dec 16- James Chance w/ Slim Twig , Ell V Gore , Grand Trine , The Soupcans Dec ...

What do you get when you mix members of Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, The Happiness Project, Bry Webb Band, Ensemble, Flowers Of Hell, Ohbijou, and Sun Parlour Players together in one band?  An amazing collaboration that deserves your immediate attention is what. Del Bel, the above mentioned collective, is primed and pumped [...]

Tell us what music you've been enjoying recently, and listen to some recommendations Things get a bit heavy in this week's playlist, with Iron Maiden and Enslaved bringing a large dash of metal to proceedings. To temper that we have Belle & Sebastian on fine fey form, and we kick off our selection from last week's thread with Joanna Newsom , that actual living embodiment of whatever the opposite of heavy metal is. Listen to all these songs in one go via this Youtube playlist . Silgen I've been continuing my exploration of the music of Joanna Newsom. She has one of those Marmite voices, you either hate or love it. But once you get passed how odd it is you find her singing just drips with emotion and has it's own weird style of beauty. After an operation on her vocal chords her voice is more conventional now. She still sings beautifully and her skills as a songwriter are undiminished, but I miss the quirkiness of her original voice. Listen to: Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie Owlyross Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome. Listen to: Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner daveportivo This week I'm enjoying Bad As Me by Tom Waits, it's really knocked me for six, it's not Rain Dogs, but he actually sounds younger than the man who wrote that record. Bad As Me just has so much energy and charm. It reminds me why I love Waits's records, it feels like it's just rolled in on the mist, it could be from any place or anytime. It has that kind of New Orleans flophouse quality to it. Waits is just too barmy to place. Listen to: Tom Waits - Bad As Me jonana After learning today that Norwegian prog/black metal band Enslaved have won an award in their home country for their songwriting, I'm having a listen through their back catalogue, starting with 2010's Axioma Ethica Odini, one of my favourite albums of recent times – hell, of all time. They've been going for around 20 years now and have never stopped evolving musically – surely an example to bands in all kinds of genres. Compare their old material with their new stuff, specifically the song The Beacon from AEO. It's still black metal, still heavy, but it's certainly not orthodox, and not afraid to try new things. Listen to: Enslaved - The Beacon JezebelDulac Duchess – Walker">Scott Walker from Scott 4. It makes me weep almost every time i hear it. It was chosen for me by a very difficult, very beautiful man – when I was a young woman at art school – who was one of the great loves of my life. It was an apology for his desire and emotional fecklessness. On those rare occasions I allow myself the indulgence of listening to it, it unfolds in my imagination like Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's film version of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes. Listen to: Walker">Scott Walker - Duchess mickredsun Swans, I'm listening to the sound of nowave genius band Swans. If you don't like them you aren't trying hard enough at life. Listen to: Swans - Power and Sacrifice MaxCairnduff I've been listening to the first Belle & Sebastian album, Tigermilk. I totally missed B&S; first time around somehow, but tried If You're Feeling Sinister after someone here wrote an article about it being their favourite album . The track of the album for me is Expectations. The lyrics are sharp, funny and true and capture adolescence more precisely than is entirely comfortable. Musically it seems simple, but builds up and the ...

by Willcoma • October 2011 Haven’t checked yet, but I’m sure the nicknames are out there — ‘Boardwalk Mopepile’ or ‘Carnival of Old Souls’ or ‘Bummershoot’ or something like that. Not that folks weren’t rowdy at ATP’s Portishead-curated I’ll Be Your Mirror event, but there was a pretty noticeable cross-section of us who weren’t. I can’t speak for everyone in attendance, but the preponderance of dirge and post-apocalyptic skree made me feel rather somber. But ATP, being the extraordinarily keen event that it is, did present the more lighthearted side of decomposition. I’ll start ...

Click image to download more songs by this artist Sounds like: Apostle of Hustle, Stars, Do Make Say Think "Broken Social Scene - The World At Large (Modest Mouse Cover)" What's so good? Last night Broken Social Scene played a 40-minute set atop an “Occasionally Perfect” Heineken billboard in Chicago across the street from Wrigley Field. With an impending hiatus looming, it was a fleeting opportunity to catch the band, but skirted the lines in the art of selling out. Drew stopped at a couple points to justify the gig, citing TV On The Radio’s support, and then ending ...

Biography: The sixth full-length from Do Make Say Think defiantly features four long-form tracks, three of which clock in at over 10 minutes, and all of which trace the inimitable musical arcs that have made this band justly celebrated for their unique sonic palette and vibrant distillation of compositional forms and influences into some of [...]

Year: 2011 Genre: Jazz, Post-Rock RIYL: Do Make Say Think, Tied & Tickled Trio Country: Sweden Link: Myspace Bitrate: vbr Tracklist: 01. Bergman 02. Hofalkemist Nordenskjöld 03. Chasing Cars 04. Onsdag Leaves 05. Skära Vatten 06. Kål Torsdag 07. Adb 08. Aguéli Download Buy Requested By The Label (Kapitän Platte)

Year: 2011 Genre: Post-Rock RIYL: Do Make Say Think, Magyar Posse, Yndi Halda ... Country: UK Link: Myspace / Facebook Bitrate: v0 (vbr) Tracklist: 01. Afterglow 02. Amongst Your Earthiest Words The Angels Stray 03. Portarlington 04. Eskimo Kiss 05. Carnival Prelude 06. Nothing Of Cities 07. Lola 08. Carnival Download Buy 1 Buy 2 Buy 3 I want to thank Futurerecordings that allowed me to post this on my blog.

The Dramatics – In The Rain Batrider – Test of Time Peak Twins – Waiting Room Do Make Say Think – In Mind Ty Segall – You Make the Sun Fry Kid Sam – We’re Mostly Made of Water The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Magnetic Heads – Wild Eyes Interview with [...]

[ British Wild Life ]: MAGNAPINNA are a Leeds trio who(se) influences ranges from the the likes of [ Slint ] ~ [ Faraquet ] ~ [ Do Make Say Think ] and [ Shellac ] all shine through beautifully. Stoppy starty dare I say funky funky riffs and ingeniously crafted songs will leave you [...]

Click image to download full album Sounds like: Kevin Drew, KC Accidental, Stars "Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes" What's so good? I love discovering old albums again. You know, the ones that were on daily repeat for a while but then suddenly were gone from your life, and (almost just as quickly) are back again. These are the best types of albums — ones that you can listen to over and over again, allowing you to realize and then reflect upon the differences in times and places you were at when listening endlessly before. Albums like this are what connecting ...

Do Make Say Think – A Tender History In Rust A Tender History In Rust is a beautifully gentle bit of music that starts as a sculpted moody mist which then subsides into a simple recording of what sounds like 2 people laying down the gem that came from an absent minded jam. Whether that’s [...]

Not many young bands aspire to be instrumental post-rockers. And why should they? Bands like Do Make Say Think and Godspeed You! Black Emperor already [...]