Category: music
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Josh Tillman is probably already weary of talking about it, but when you pack up your drum kit and quit a band as successful as Fleet Foxes, people are going to ask questions.
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I just created a page on SoundCloud where I will posting tracks I have created at home by myself, some new and some old. These are all things that don’t generally fit into my current musical project, the Starling Effect. But, who knows, they might morph into Starling Effect songs somehow.
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His picture is on the cover, but Timothy Showalter insists that he is not, in fact, the person primarily responsible for the existence of the latest Strand of Oaks album, Eraserland.
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“It’s practically a diary entry,” Showalter admits. “It’s almost uncomfortably honest at times. I didn’t intend for it to be that way, but I just wanted to go there. I didn’t want to hide behind metaphors anymore.”
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A belated Happy New Year! And yes, I realize everything I do with this blog is belated. Nonetheless, this is actually new news! Well, newish. The debut EP by my band, the Starling Effect, came out last year, but it took us a while to get it everywhere. And by “everywhere”, I mean Spotify, iTunes,…
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Oops, I keep forgetting to post stuff here. But this one is pretty important to me, since I haven’t released any new music in a long time. My band the Starling Effect has just put out a self-titled EP, and you can check it out below:
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Greetings! I haven’t been around here much lately, which is what happens when you decide to prioritize doing things that make you money over things that don’t, like blogging. To start the year off, here’s a remix I recently did of a song that my old band Hinterland first released in 2003. This is that…
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This week the Georgia Straight celebrates some of the coolest things in the city with its annual Best of Vancouver issue. I have some content in there, including an item on Vancouver’s most disgustingly beautiful piece of public art. (Can you guess which one I mean?) As part of the Best of Bands feature, I…
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Just revisiting another of the stories I wrote for Concrete Skateboarding. Click here to read my article about Australian psych-rock wizard Kevin Parker and his musical project Tame Impala. Impressively, Lonerism certainly sounds like the product of a group of people. It’s all Parker, though, and while the Fab Four vocal harmonies and acid-washed guitar…
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For this week’s Georgia Straight, I interviewed Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe about her most recent album, Pain Is Beauty, and her film project, “Lone”. Here’s a bit of what she had to say: “A lot of the album was inspired by natural disasters, and the way we think we have our lives under control,…
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