Is Cage the Elephant the new Everclear?

Am I the only guy that hears Everclear in Cage the Elephant's big hit Shake Me Down? It doesn't sound exactly like one particular Everclear tune, but it sounds vaguely like many of them. Maybe Cage the Elephant takes a lot of inspiration from the commercial "grunge" era, I don't know. The Elephant singer reminds me of the guy from Tripping Daisy, too. Perhaps I'm just getting old. What year is it again?



Everclear - Father of Mine by mike inpain1

Canada Day is Every Day, Isn't It?

Canada Day has come and gone and all I did was post some Jr. Gone Wild. But hey, I'm not on any timetable, I can post Canuck music any time I want. Like now. Listen, watch, grab some free and legal downloads, some very new, some very old, all there just because I can. I especially like Abstract Artform's Winnipeg, The Express's Nobody Knows, Matt Masters's Highways (Manitoba references!), and The Warped 45s Grandpa Carl (our country's answer to Drive-by Truckers, maybe?). How 'bout you? Leave a comment at the bottom, please!,

Feel by GregArcade

Winnipeg ft. Fashawn by AbstractArtform

I Am Canadian by AbstractArtform

Time Breaks Down by bendsinister

Wrong Piano - Cowboy Junkies by Cowboy Junkies

The Details - Weightless in the Dark by "http://soundcloud.com/killbeatmusic">killbeat music

Peter Elkas - Cool Thing To Do by woasong

"The End of the Day" by FemBots by (weewerk)

The Golden Dogs - Travel Time by Nevado

Lester by The Golden Dogs by littlestsounds

Handsome Furs - What About Us by subpop

Handsome Furs - Repatriated by subpop

Mysterio by The High Dials



Grand Mystifyer by kidsonfire

Ariel vs Lotus - Limblifter by wellsound

Mark Davis - Eliminate the Toxins by killbeat music

Matt Masters - Highways by killbeat music

Mike Angus - Swallow It Whole by killbeat music



Meligrove Band - Halflight by amediamindset

Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle - Canada Day Toronto by user5341127

One Hundred Dollars - Black Gold by Outside-Music

Joel Plaskett - When I Go by Le parallèle



Quinzy "Self Defense" by Frontside



Sloan - Follow The Leader by Outside-Music







What You Do To Me by thevibratingbeds

The Warped 45s - Grampa Carl by killbeat music

The Wilderness Of Manitoba - Orono Park by Jackplug

The Wilderness of Manitoba - November by tinyogre

Can we pretend the Express starts with an X? I can't think of any worthy Canadian artists that start with an X, can you?

The Express - Nobody Knows by killbeat music

Yukon Blonde - Wind Blows by DawsonCityMusicFestival

Zumpano - Oh That Atkinson Girl by subpop

Mike McDonald, Jr. Gone Wild, and Idyl Tea

It's Canada Day, plus Mike McDonald's Birthday a week ago, so I bring you one of my favourite bands of all time, Jr. Gone Wild. McDonald and his cohorts used to make me smile widely on a regular basis at the Spectrum with their unholy blend of rawk and roots and punk and pop. The following tune, I Don't Know All That (from the perfect album Too Dumb To Quit), may hold my personal record for most deliberate spins, if I kept records of such useless trivia. I definitely played this song so much at the record store I worked in that one (or more) of my co-workers tried to hide it, but my fellow Jr. fan sniffed it out so we could convert more unsuspecting locals to the fine flavours of JGW.

I Don't Know About All That - Jr. Gone Wild by scruffy the yak

McDonald also sings on Idyl Tea's new song, listen to the lyrics if you want to know why that is the case.

The Same Thing by Idyl Tea













Jr. Gone Wild music may be hard to find for purchase these days, but you can try contacting Mike at his record store, you can get the Idyl Tea there for sure:

Permanent Records
8126 Gateway Blvd NW
Edmonton, AB T6E 4B1
(780) 988-2112