Blunderspublik - Reason (Hushfeed cover feat. Jay Churko)

Blunderspublik's new ep Kittens & Shit: Blunderspublik's Homage to '90s Winnipeg is now out for your listening pleasure and edification. Hushfeed, Kittens, Mikimoto, Bonaduces and Shit covers/reimaginings. You can download here, physical copies should be available soon from Sfeericle Records.




 I love the idea of paying tribute to your own hometown.

Here's a few originals from the originators. It would be fun to hear newer acts like Greg MacPherson, Sons of York, Cannon Bros., Attica Riots, Warsaw, etc. do Streetheart, Stretchmarks, Breath Grenades, Harlequin, Liquid Bone Dance, QCK, or Grand Theft Canoe etc. and vice versa. Who can make this happen?

Hushfeed - Reason


The Bonaduces - Judy Blume Weekend

Newer Bonaduces:


Kittens - Butterfly

Winnipeg and Manitoba Artists To Keep Your Eyes and Ears On

Federal Lights - I See Love



Les Jupes - Hold Me Down


Les Jupes - Love is a Battlefield


Greg McPherson - 1995




Slow Leaves - Life of a Better Man


Pop Crimes - City Head


Ken Pinchin - Why Do You Call Me

Warsaw - Carrion Talker



Sybil - April Showers


Attica Riots - Talking in Your Sleep


Del Barber - Everything is Not Enough


Cannon Bros. Soft View


Cannon Bros. - Out of Here


Scott Nolan - You Rock We Roll


Matt Epp - Learning to Lose Control


KEN Mode - Romeo Must Never Know


KEN Mode - Counter Culture Complex


Royal Canoe - Exodus of the Year


Sights & Sounds - Nothing at All


JD Edwards - Going down to Mexico




JD Edwards Band - Going Down to Mexico from Procter Bros. Industries on Vimeo.


Distances - Tangled Feet

Shotgun Jimmie - Suzie


Shotgun Jimmie - Captain Howdy


Shotgun Jimmie - Mind Crumb


Les Sexy - La La La

Former Winnipeggers you may want to give some attention? Here you go.

Garfield/Odario Williams keeps getting more ambitious and broadening his palette. If he becomes a star in music, film, television or otherwise I will not be surprised.

Grand Analog - Howl (Like Wolves)


Jahmeel Russell has been putting out his own stuff with Red Vienna, working with Fine Times, and is now playing with San Angelus. Quit being so lazy, slacker.

Red Vienna - Lights Out


San Angelus - All Bets on the Slow Kid


Fine Times - And it Happened at Midnight


Luke Doucet is doing pretty well with Whitehorse. It's about time he got the respect and success he deserves.

Whitehorse - Devils's Got a Gun


Upcoming/Due for some new music?
The Mariachi Ghost - Mariachi Ghost


JP Hoe - Nothing's Going to Harm You




Ridley Bent - Crooked and Loaded
Ridley Bent - Nine Inch Nails


John K. Samson - Letter in Icelandic From the Ninette San


Scott Hinkson - All I Need


The Rowdymen - Ode to Possum


The Rowdymen - Rode Hard

Greg MacPherson Band - 1995 and Fireball

Greg MacPherson. New album = Fireball (lean, mean title there). Tough, raw, rock 'n' roll. Cool cover art from Pip Skid. Official release date is Tuesday, October 29. Get in time for Gate Night.


1995

Forcefield


FIREBALL Track List:
1 – 1995
2 – Goes Like This
3 – Fireball
4 – Motel Hotel
5 – Sandhand
6 – Forcefield
7 – Tourists
8 – New-jazz Trios
9 – Space and Time
10 – Scientist Cowboy

Some older stuff if you haven't been paying attention.

Frequencies



Live in the radio studio

Selkirk - Nova

Selkirk (Matt Copper Remix)

Party at Greg's

Eastern Canada Tour:

Oct 10 – Guelph, ON – The Ebar
Oct 11 – Toronto, ON – Magpie Taproom
Oct 12 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo
Oct 15 – Trois-Riveres, QC – Gambrinus
Oct 17 – Sydney, NS – Elks Lodge
Oct 18 – Halifax, NS – Gus’s Pub
Oct 19 – St. John, NB – Harvesting the Art
Oct 20 – Chicoutimi, QC – Le Sous-Bois
Oct 21 – Quebec, QC – TBA (Solo)
Oct 23 – Kingston, ON – The Mansion House

Western Canada Tour:

Nov 14 – Saskatoon, SK – Village Guitar & Amp
Nov 15 – Calgary, AB – Palomino
Nov 16 – Edmonton, AB – ARTery
Nov 17 – Lethbridge, AB – Slice
Nov 18 – Kelowna, BC – Habitat
Nov 19 – Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore
Nov 20 – Victoria, BC – TBA
Nov 24 – Revelstoke, BC – Big Eddy’s
Nov 25 – Canmore, AB - TBA

Bonus song!

Nova - Midnight Midnight and Blue Star

Nova's debut album Midnight Midnight is now out, so you can once again revel in the intense delivery of Greg MacPherson as well as bandmates Jackie Hogue and Molly McCracken. Tension seems to play a strong role in the songs I've heard so far, with restraint and simplicity seemingly more important than brute power or overwhelming the listener. You can purchase the disc here or at your finer Winnipeg record shops. If you are quick, you can download Blue Star from the Manitoba Music website (only until Thursday).


Blue Star courtesy Dan Gordon's Song of the Day.

Falling from Danishka Esterhazy on Vimeo.

Comments are welcome below.

Greg MacPherson - Frequencies

The mighty Greg MacPherson has released a video for Frequencies, which was shot almost a year ago, produced, filmed and edited by Rod Bailey aka Mcenroe. It's an amazing song and an excellent video. However, I couldn't help think that MacPherson's dancing style is eerily similar to Merl Bryck's in the Northern Pikes' Teenland video from back in the day. It doesn't hurt that they both chose to wear simple white shirts and jeans, either. But maybe the movements are just the regular for vocalists who are used to having a guitar strapped on - I seem to remember Springsteen shakin' a rug the same way. Hey, he had on the white t-shirt and jeans too. Maybe the clothes make the dancin' man.





Get Frequencies from the fine album Disintegration Blues right here.





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Greg MacPherson - Party at Greg's video

Winnipeg's Greg MacPherson has unveiled a superfine new video for Party at Greg's from the album Disintegration Blues. I love when the animated arm starts pulling out reconstructed animated record covers, such as Greg's or Slint, for example. Has a Winnipeg artist ever released a video as cool as this?

The Weakerthans live, Smallman is dead(?)

Today The Weakerthans released Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre, a cd/dvd package celebrating the band's 13 years and 4 albums. I missed the April 2009 show(s) (I think they played two nights) at which they recorded this stuff, but I did make it out to an aftershow party at the Albert, which was doubly good because the band played for fun and The Wind-ups opened up in their regular wildly energetic fashion.



Here's the track listing, you can stream the whole thing at Spinner.com.

01. Everything Must Go

02. Tournament of Hearts

03. Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris in 1969)

04. Night Windows|Reconstruction Site

05. Aside

06. Civil Twilight

07. Bigfoot

08. Plea From A Cat Named Virtute

09. The Reasons|Sun In An Empty Room

10. Left and Leaving|Wellington's Wednesdays

11. Benediction

12. Manifest

13. One Great City!

14. This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open

15. Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure

In somewhat related news, John K. Samson's former band Propagandhi has announced a search for a new label and disclosed that Winnipeg's Smallman Records is closing down. I have not yet seen an official announcement and am anxiously awaiting a confirmation that it is not true, but sites such as Exclaim.ca are reporting it as reality. I sure hope it ain't true. Besides Propagandhi, Smallman's brought us fine recordings from Sylvie, Sights and Sounds, Comeback Kid, Sick City, Choke, Our Mercury, and Moneen, among others. It was also set to release Greg MacPherson's Mr. Invitation album March 30. Say it ain't so, Smallman!

Greg MacPherson - First Class (download here)



Greg MacPherson - Outside Edge (download here)



Propagandhi - Humane Meat (download here)



Sights and Sounds - The Only Time (download here)



Sylvie - Dark Ages (download here)



Our Mercury - Shawna Don't Wanna (download here)

Sylvie - Rise and Fall from Smallman Records on Vimeo.

Sick City - Smiles and Cries from Smallman Records on Vimeo.