Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Turnpike Glow Video: "1986" Highlight: "We were supposed to shoot the whole video in a theatre," vocalist/guitarist Sandro Schiena tells Spinner. "Then a heavy snowfall hit London the night before the shoot, and because it's a song about a snowfall we had no other choice than to freeze outside for four hours wearing only our shirts. We woke up next day very happy and flu-ridden!" Watch Turnpike Glow's "1986" Video

Sea+Air @ The Painted Lady: photo by Michael Ligon Another year's edition of Canadian Music Week / Canadian Musicfest has come and gone and one of the most striking aspects of this year's edition as how mild the weather was. It was pretty much the mildest weather for Canadian Musicfest I've ever experienced to the point it almost felt like NXNE . Consider that, in stark contrast several years back, The Breeders, who were on their reunion tour stopped in during Canadian Music Week to play a show at the Phoenix Concert Theatre, right smack dab during a blizzard ...

Picture the scene. It’s 1934 in the small town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. It’s cold outside - actually, it’s bloody freezing - and the snow, as it tends to on America’s East Coast, has fallen thick and fast. People are wrapping up, trying to keep warm, rushing from to home to work, or vice-versa, while after school and at the weekends kids play in Honesdale Central Park. Richard ‘Dick’ Smith sees this and pens some words that will later be set to a tune by Felix Bernard. For years - and imagine this as a montage spanning decades with the ...

Waking up to new Beach House  feels something like waking up with a once-lost partner who, having previously fled the nest, returns to warming and moreover familiar embrace to generate a feeling similar to that lovingly squeezed into every one of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's wondrous tracks. Myth, released just gone midnight across the pond, is alleged to be lifted from their forthcoming and indeed fourth Sub Pop/ Bella Union LP, Bloom and although Legrand may coo and swoon of "a new direction" this is, quite unquestionably, quintessential Beach House. Cascading guitars fall like the softest snowfall, layered ...

Much in the same way that sweet, sweet fellow Swedes The Radio Dept. are innately inextricable from frontman Johan Duncanson, so too are Simian Ghost  from their throbbing heart: the melody-hounding mind of Sebastian Arnström. In banishing the more languid and, arguably, consequently lethargic routines of 2010 debut Infinite Traffic Everywhere Arnström may bound gayly toward sugared mellifluousness and blithe tunage in search of pop-girded recognition within a popular culture long-since slaughtered brutally by David Guetta or Will.I.Am or Logic or (a lack of human) logic. Arnström's scrounging as such yields a knapsack's worth of exclusively ...

Rogue Valley's tour diaries are written by frontman Chris Koza and edited by bandmate Peter Sieve. You can read their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth installments. Atalesca: 72 degrees

Emergency Essentials can be needed and may save your life from a number of situations. The basic idea is to keep you alive and get you out of the situation as intact as possible. The situations can involve the natural disasters or man-made calamities. Natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, storms, tornadoes, heavy snowfall etc. In [...]

This week's Newtown Radio show was a bit of a cluster; terrential snowfall hampered the arrival of Derek's color comentary man. Instead of discussing how weird it was to have snow sandwiched inbetween two days in the 50s, we drank away our thoughts. See if you can hear the exact moment Derek blanked on having anything to say. That didn't stop us from playing some rad music though. Make sure to tune in every Wednesday from 6-8pm on Newtown Radio. Sixth caller gets a free Skrillex hair...

Dear Dr. John, With the recent short-lived snowfall and the anticipation of more cold weather and snow, I have...

“In the lane, snow is glistening,” describes the view outside my window. The snowfall is heavy, and there must be a few of inches or more already on the ground. The weather report won’t pin down the total amount but throws around words like considerable and steady all day. I was going to go to [...]

I discovered Peaking Lights just recently, upon hearing their remix of a Wooden Shjips song. Peaking Lights is the husband and wife duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, recently relocated from the Bay Area to rural Madison, Wisconsin. On the band’s sophomore record, 936, they combine elements of dub, psych, and krautrock - applying some synth, organ, tape loops, guitar, and layered vocal harmonies - resulting in beautifully hipnotic, psychedelic, dub-pop. In 2006 when Indra and I connected things had done changed. I had just got back from living in New Zealand and Australia for two years and Indra was ...

by Polly Bresnick I'm half Jewish, half Christmas. Jew-ISH. My family lights the menorah when we remember to, usually uncertain of which night we're on, and we mumble out the prayer that even my father barely remembers, with a crescendoing finale of SHALL HANUKKAH! Or is it with a "Ch-"? Does it have an "h" at the end? (I'm barely "culturally Jewish," which is to say that I'm not really religious at all.) In grammar school I learned that, for Hanukkah, kids traditionally received eight presents — one on each of the holy, candle-lit nights. Also, there ...

Dear Santa Family ,                          I live in Buffalo & i would like to personally thank you for this mild winter season. We broke all records for least amount of snowfall accumulation and I really love fifty in late december. Im pretty sure since mother nature is your first cousin you had something to do with the healthy break.                          For Christmas I have only one wish. I understand your pretty tight with God so i thought you both might be able to help me out with this one. I wanna get "Tebow'd" . In turn, i would like to Tebow everyone who ever ...

A Bathing Ape has rolled out its GORE-TEX 1ST CAMO SNOWBOARD JACKET just as the snowfall is making itself persistent in North America and other places feeling winters touch. Draped in the classic BAPE camouflage pattern, two different colors are available and feature vertical pockets and a GORE-TEX finish for extreme functionality. Pricing has yet [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

Tony Bennett’s warm, inviting delivery would seem perfectly suited to seasonal music — and it is. You can hear the very best of his Christmas projects, from a seminal 1968 Yuletide release to this burst of holly-jolly projects in the 2000s, on this terrific new compilation. Classic features five tracks from ’68′s Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, arranged and [...]