It was just a matter of time until one of us blogged about Michael Jackson and his recent exit from the stage of life. Most of you will know that he was scheduled to do 50 shows at the 02 Arena in London. Well, now that he’s a gonna, [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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Listening to CBC on the way home yesterday I heard songs from Polaris Music Prize 2009 short list winners. The winning band will win $20,000 and be celebrated as the best new Canadian music artist. See the shortlist here See the longlist he [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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Young at Heart is by far the best documentary I have seen in a long time. It follows the Young @ Heart Chorus, learning new songs for their upcoming show. The difference with this group is that they are all aged 80 and up. This is not just [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, June 29th, 2009
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Those who know me know I’m a real sucker for live music. I play it, listen to it, live it…hell, I’d eat it is it were possible. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is just around the corner this summer featuring some [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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It was just a matter of time until I did a blog post about Prince (I am a big fan). Well here goes. When a musician can charge US$2,100 for a book and an ipod they are obviously doing something right. Last year Prince released a book of pho [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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Did you know there is a formula to writing a hit pop song – yes, all you need is 4 chords. I heard this whilst listening to my usual English Radio 1 Scott Mills podcast, it is by an Australian band called The Axis of Awesome, they rem [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, January 30th, 2009
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It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Music, Typography | No Comments »
Oh boy. It’s back. A few years ago we were amused by the Maya Hee kid and his silly video and our blog post shot to the top of our stats, getting thousands of hits as people Googled the song looking for this silly boy. Well today I he [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | 3 Comments »
Almost a month ago, we launched our new identity: new logo, new website and blog, door sign, nice t-shirts and jackets, a big paaarty….and when you think it’s all over, here it comes: an amazingly long list of financial document [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, December 12th, 2008
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As a Partner and Design Director at a thriving studio, I tend to spend more time bringing in new business, dealing with clients or taking care of administrative duties more than actual design and production these days. Par for the course I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 31st, 2008
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As we near the final launch of the our new brand identity, we’re putting the final touches on promo items such as a new demo reel. For the music, we asked our good friend and frequent collaborator Alan Wong-Moon to compose an original [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand, Music | 1 Comment »
I gave up band in grade 10. After that it was too serious a commitment to practice and performing. Clearly Nathan “Flutebox” Lee kept it up. This dude is doing some seriously amazing shit on his flute. And that’s not even [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 4th, 2008
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As much as I love music, I rarely find that it transcends a simple performance to something a little more ethereal. Miles Davis is a musician I absolutely love and adore, but his music has always remained academic for me, always appealing t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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Lots of jazz played ’round these parts recently. The modern stuff is OK, but the classic stuff really moves me. Check out these two collections of online videos of live jazz performances on YouTube.com and Dailymotion.com. There goes [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Music | 2 Comments »
That’s right, I’m blogging about American Idol. Deal with it. I watch it in passing (never longer then 30 seconds at a time) with the same fascination that I watch my dog lose a fight with a chain saw or my left foot hacked up f [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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I have to admit that the name Pete Turner doesn’t didn’t mean that much to me. Names like Reid Miles and Francis Wolf are rightly given a lot of recognition from their association with the Blue Note style. But what about Impulse [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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So when I think retro music I think maybe a little music from the mid 90′s. Perhaps a little Pearl Jam or Nirvana. Perhaps something a little older, like some Pet Shop Boys or Huey Lewis and the News. Perhaps, to stretch it, retro goe [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 14th, 2008
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Pitchfork Media has released it’s list of the 20 worst album covers of 07 and the list is worth a look if you’re looking for some creative inspiration! ;) Unlike many “worst of” lists, this one includes some big name [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 14th, 2008
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Because other people’s music always sounds better. Muxtape.com could be the best online music sharing site I’ve found since Pandora announced it was deeply, deeply sorry to all Canadians. Care to share more sites? Comment below.
Posted by: Graham Huber on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Categories: Music, Pop Culture, Websites | 2 Comments »
The Canadian National Jazz Awards (NJA) were handed out last night in Toronto and a bunch of our friends and colleagues received some of the awards! Billed as a celebration of Canadian Jazz the Awards have traditionally been very Toronto-ce [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Categories: Music, Websites | 2 Comments »
A few months back I wandered down to my usual watering hole, The Jazz Cellar, to see singer songwriter Jesse Harris perform. Normally a jazz venue, the Jazz Cellar is a remarkable live music venue of all styles. Harris played a a great set [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
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I received somewhat bad and disturbing news when I got home tonight. North America’s last remaining Radio Orchestra, Vancouver based CBC Radio Orchestra, has been shut down. The culprit? You guessed it, budget cuts. While symphony orc [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Categories: Music, We love | 1 Comment »
Pamelia is one of the most precise and talented thereminsts on the planet. Her walking bass theremin technique must be seen to be believed! Watch it here. I have heard people play the Theremin but never like this, the video is 20 minutes lo [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, March 7th, 2008
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This past week Jeff Healey passed away after a long battle with cancer. For those of you new to his name he was one of Canada’s top jazz and blues musicians who achieved critical and commercial success both at home and abroad. Do your [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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Q: What’s the only kind of music a violin is good for? A: Camp Fire Music OK…. I jest. The world has been inundated with solo violin works ranging from every Suzuki student playing Twinkle Twinkle up to stunning performances at [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Categories: Art, Music | 1 Comment »
For over 10 years, local funk band extraordinaire Soul Stream has been playing every Monday and Tuesday night at Bar None in Vancouver. One of the best house bands in Vancouver, Soul Stream mixes covers of Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fir [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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During the iDesign conference in London I heard Bill Thompson talk about design’s role in the world of technology and he mentioned the locking down of Apple’s newest portable products. I did some reading and found quite a lot un [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Categories: Articles, Music, Technology | 2 Comments »
As part of the London Design Festival I attended a new opera called “The Corley Conspiracy”. The event was cowritten by a friend and collaborator Sean Starke, who is also part of the MIRROR project that I’m involved with. [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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For the past 3 years I’ve been working on a project called MIRROR with my good friend Thomas Anselmi. Our collaboration began with a breakfast meeting about a website and quickly evolved into us writing music and visually refining the [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, September 16th, 2007
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These silkscreened posters by Jason Munn, the man behind ‘The Small Stakes’, make me want to rack up a really big visa bill…
Posted by: Sarah Reid on Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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A cool little demonstration of information design in action: a behind-the-genius peek at Michel Gondry mapping out the video for the Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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From Visual Complexity: “Using information design principles and graphical techniques, the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band. [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Sunday, July 15th, 2007
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Our friend Kuba has been on a creative streak lately, releasing a new single and a sexy music video call Brotherman, directed by Noah Davis. Listen carefully to the lyrics, they’re quite moving.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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Man, I remember when I used to sit around listening to the Beatles, thinking “this is really cool and all, but I’d like to hear some of these songs as James Hetfield would sing them.” Thanks to Beatallica, I no longer have [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
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As a fitting follow up to Mark’s recent post, watch how this impromtu performance of “In The Air Tonight” by Naturally 7 on a Paris subway gradually wins over their fellow passengers. Except for the one guy who is right up [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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This video has been getting a ton of press already, but it’s too great to ignore. I think Leslie Feist is destined for big things… Oh. great song too.
Posted by: Mike Withers on Monday, April 16th, 2007
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If you arrived in a transit station as you hurried to work and there was a nondescript young man in jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap masterfully playing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor on the violin, would you notice? If you noticed, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Categories: Inspiration, Music | 4 Comments »
History has proven time and again that if the powers-that-be put up a wall, the people will eventually tear it down. Such was the case at last night’s Bloc Party concert at the Orpheum when 80+ fans, grown tired of the formal sit down [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
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Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John has a habit of getting into your head permanently. We’ve been playing the fantastic video for the song in the studio a lot lately. I didn’t know you played the bongos Steve…
Posted by: Mike Withers on Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
I’m usually so sick of Christmas music by this time of the year that I’ll listen to almost anything else. Of course this doesn’t go over very well at my traditionalist in-laws’ place so I was excited to find out that [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 21st, 2006
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The real lyrics were: She moves in mysterious ways But I misheard them as: Shamu the mysterious whale More aural blunders over at kissthisguy.com
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, December 14th, 2006
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Frank Wess is a jazz saxophone legend (Basie et al) and once answering machines rolled around he layed this heavy message down on his machine. It’s classic!
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Sunday, November 19th, 2006
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The latest rage for iPod gadgets is the vibrator attachment (or so I’ve heard.) the OhMiBod, the iBuzz and the Audi-Oh iPod Vibrator have all come out with iPod attachments that vibrate in synch with the music you’re listening t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 10th, 2006
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Music, Technology | 1 Comment »
Shifting effortlessly from entrancing accoustic banjo hymns to bombastic life-affirming-full-horn-section-anthems (usually within the same song), Sufjan Stevens makes amazing music, and that’s all there is to it. Last night Sufjan bro [...]
Posted by: Mike Withers on Sunday, October 15th, 2006
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Our musical friend Clive has been mentioned here before. He’s equal parts code monkey, tortured artist and genius savant. He’s a real inspiration to all who know him actually. Well, this time Clive has tossed a little home recor [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 13th, 2006
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The day after finding a bus that had crahsed into a building, I found myself wandering aimlessly around London’s South Bank and found what vaguely resembled an empty orchestra pit. In fact it was a project put on by the Philharmonia O [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, October 6th, 2006
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Concerned that his own brand of interstellar-junkyard-funk-hop was no longer enough of a selling point, Beck has decided to up the album artwork anti with his new release, The Information. Included with the album is a large sheet of sticker [...]
Posted by: Mike Withers on Thursday, October 5th, 2006
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I first heard Madeleine Peyroux on her album Careless Love about a year ago and fell in love with her dynamic, sultry voice. I had envisioned a sexy chanteuse emerging from a smoky Parisian cafe, and listening to her transported me back to [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 29th, 2006
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
Banksy has doctored copies of Paris Hilton’s album in stores all through the UK. Personally, I think it is an improvement. Read about it at frederiksamuel.com
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
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All day, every day, the effects of downloading are constantly making news on one wire service or another. Looking to shake things up and give people a reason to buy a CD instead of downloading the single, Beck (also a cool site!) throws a w [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, August 28th, 2006
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Take a bunch of treadmills, add some clever choreography and your independent band’s music and what have you got? A unique music video. Kind of renders MJ’s moonwalking redundant.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Check out the new selection of mixtapes at Designer Mixtapes, including one by me.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, July 10th, 2006
Categories: Design, Music | 1 Comment »
Last week at Vidfest there was lots of talk about content. Who makes it, who takes it, what happens when it forms the basis for new work and who owns what. Everyone had their own say and perspective of course, even the lawyers. Terry McBrid [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Categories: Events, Marketing, Music, Technology | 1 Comment »
iTunes Signature Maker analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. Check out mine here and send us yours.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, June 19th, 2006
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That was the message that the CBC delivered on the closing of the second day of Vidfest. Indeed, after a long hiatus last year by CBC Radio 3, during which time terms like blogging and podcasting became household words, it has returned stro [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 16th, 2006
Categories: Film, Music | No Comments »
Check out this innovative music video for the Presidents of the United States of America, for their Australian single “Some Postman”. This is the first music video in the world to be shot using mobile phones. Film Headquarters&# [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
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This entry almost seems more fitting over on our Kitchen Blog. Beck performs his tune “Clap Hands” on German TV as only Beck can.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, April 17th, 2006
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Came across this insane Norwegian group called Hurra Torpedo that’s part Stomp, part…oh I give up. You just have to see them doing this cover of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. Percussion is a large chest freeze [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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C-Mon & Kypski is a four man band from the Netherlands that compose original tracks in their home studios from funk, rock to polka and hip hop. They’re sort of the Dutch Beastie Boys. This innovative video for their track Shitty [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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Stereogum has a great review of the live Gorillaz show in NYC last Wednesday. The show featured a fourteen-piece string orchestra and the plexi-glass encased silhouettes of Cass Browne, Morgan Nicholls, Simon Tong, Simon Jones, and of cours [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, April 10th, 2006
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently stumbled across a television series which originated out of Vancouver and has made it’s way to broadcasting in 44 countries. Oasis International (televsion and film distribution company) says “fat blue sky [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Categories: Art, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Travel | 3 Comments »
What happens when the Beastie Boys hand out 50 video cameras to their fans at a concert at Madison Square Garden? Always pushing the limits, Awesome..I F**ckin’ Shot That looks…well…f**kin’ awesome. Another brilliant [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Categories: Film, Music, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
Why is it every time I’m in Seattle I find myself in some intimate little venue enjoying an amazing music performance? They get such great acts here and have such a healthy music scene in Seattle. After a long day of seminar presentat [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
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Watch the first video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album Show Your Bones, Gold Lion.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
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Here is a Valentines Day treat. Enjoy. Off their new album, Show your Bones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Let me Know.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
Some days there is just too much good stuff floating to the cyber-surface and you want to blog it all but you also have the bills to pay. So here is the best of it: Trailer for tortured soul musical genius documentary.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 27th, 2006
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Touch the Sound is a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a world class international solo percussionist, composer, and teacher. She is also almost completely deaf. The film is centred around an improvised recording session with her and Fred F [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
A collaboration between Urbanmedium and DJ Spider, The Heavy Ammunition Project” is a limited edition mix of urban sights and sounds from the streets of LA. Love the Che Troopers. Eye Candy Galore!
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Music, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe I’ve never posted about this before. I’m so ashamed. One of my favourite movies and soundtracks ever is the double Grammy nominated film 1 Giant Leap. Everyone should see this film. Amazingly shot by musici [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 13th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Music, We love | No Comments »
Early on in my consumption of podcasts I discovered Kurt Anderson’s Studio 360. Kurt covers the arts and culture scene on KCRW, the California based public radio station that used to be home to another favourite, Joe Frank. Anyway, in [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Check out the “Gorillaz: Demon Days Live” from the Manchester International Festival. This video is basically the whole Demon Days album animated by Jamie Hewlett.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
If you are like me and the minute you walk into a record store (or iTunes) you forget every album you liked and wanted to buy, then this is the list for you. Pitchfork has just released their Top 50 Albums of 2005. So quickly print this off [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
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I love giving our resident pop culture princess a hard time about the new Madonna album, but the fact remains: Madonna is one of the most successful marketers of the last century. Now she seems to have caught a new wave: social software. He [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
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A couple years ago I was fortunate to hear the Grammy-winning Béla Fleck and The Flecktones play at the Vancouver Jazz Festival. People had been telling me I had to see the amazing bass player in person to believe it – some cla [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Categories: Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
The GDC has done it again. This time hosting a fabulous Cuba-themed holiday party for it’s members called Colours of Cuba featuring a live performance by the sultry Latin sounds of La Candela, the hottest new Afro-Cuban band to play a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Categories: Associations, Events, Fun, Music | 2 Comments »
An unsolicited video for Grandaddy’s “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)” programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM. Seriously.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, November 28th, 2005
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Recently, we reported that the virtual band The Gorillaz would be going on tour using cutting edge 3D holographic format. It would seem that all of the accolades they have been racking up with their 2005 album Demon Days (Album of the Year [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
Check out Beck’s newly redesigned site.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Categories: Music, Websites | No Comments »
Not too long ago we set up a blog for our client Nathan over at United Nathan Productions. He’s already posted some terrific entries, but my favourite is the one about ukuleles. When I hear the word ‘ukulele’ I usually thi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, November 21st, 2005
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Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, November 21st, 2005
Categories: Music | 3 Comments »
*Update* The video is now online.Beck is not exactly known for doing things that are considered “normal” so who better to have a music video starring the only four functional QURO robots dancing? A trip down memory lane will rev [...]
Posted by: Brandon Tennant on Monday, November 14th, 2005
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The Beastie Boys have posted a cappella versions of their songs for free downloading, encouraging their fans to create remixes of their own. Then they invite all comers to share results by sumitting to their Beazley Boys Remix Forum.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 14th, 2005
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I think we all agree that music piracy is wrong, it’s just so much fun to share music you love with friends. But what happens when you get caught? Here’s an interesting situation where an 18 year old student named Delwin Olivan [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 14th, 2005
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I didn’t think I’d be a big fan of Broadway musicals, but when a new friend starring in the hit Rent got us 3 tickets, we figured when in New York… Wow. It was incredible! Our kind host, Merle, plays Joanne in this emotion [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 10th, 2005
Categories: Music, Pop Culture, Travel | No Comments »
“My heads getting bigger, squarer, more like a cube.” New White Stripes Video “Denial Twist”. Directed by Michel Gondry. Do not watch if you have fear of Funhouse mirrors.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
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I am probably the only person here who is anticipating the November 15th release of Madonna’s new album ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor‘. It is guaranteed to be better than her last attempt ‘American Life’, and I [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Categories: Music | 2 Comments »
One of our favourite music streaming channels Soma FM has compiled a collection of scary, dark Goth/Industrial music called “Soma Haunt” just in time to set the mood for Halloween. They claim some of the selections are quite rar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 31st, 2005
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Bukowski’s, the popular restaurant & live venue on Commercial Drive, has announced it has been sold to a local businessman who plans to revamp the kitchen and rename it Sash. A regular Sunday night hang out of ours, we’re s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
OK Stop. Back up. What is it about this rapper M.I.A. from London via Sri Lanka? On Friday, October 7th she played to a sold out room at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom. The fierce delivery of her zany, politcal songs – often sou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, October 8th, 2005
Categories: Music, We love | No Comments »
For those of you who like M.I.A., you might be interested to know (I just heard this yesterday) that she was originally into film and directed an Elastica video, which is actually who gave her a Roland 505 and encouraged her to start making [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Categories: Film, Music | No Comments »
Remember our rock star friend Kuba? He’s just putting the final touches on the music video to accompany his award-winning hit single I Never Meant To Hurt U. I love the Kube-Dog moves.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
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Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like and turn it into a custom radio station just for me? YES.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
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Gorillaz plan to tour the world… Just not until the technology become available. The cartoon band are set to break new technological ground by appearing on stage in 3D holographic format, although due to financial and creative technic [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
If you are anything like us, you are still playing the heck out of Bloc Party’s debut album “Silent Alarm”. For a band that could have easily ridden the coattails of fellow UK new wavers, Franz Ferdinand, they have demonst [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
BC's answer to Burning Man without the risk of burning down their most valuable natural resource is Shambhala Music [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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I thought raving was dead. Guess not. Apparently there’s a group of people who never stopped. They’re called Grayvers and they’re partying like it’s 1993. Must be kind of weird arranging for both a babysitter and sco [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
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Song of the moment at the IBC studio is Death Cab for Cutie’s new single “Soul Meets Body”, available online as a free download. The album comes out on August 30th.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
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Following the public release of the NIN “Hand that Feeds” Garageband files, Trent Reznor has released his newest video for “Only”, Directed by David Fincher. The video promotes more Apple products than the first rele [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, July 18th, 2005
Categories: Music | No Comments »
Wake-up calls are a long-standing tradition of the NASA program. Each day during the mission, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center will greet the crew with an appropriate musical interlude. I wouldnt mind being woken up in space [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Categories: Music, Technology | No Comments »
“The baile is at the top of the hill, where a bend in the street has created a large space between ramshackle homes. There’s a gigantic wall of speakers and, again, more than 1,000 young people dancing, flirting and hanging out& [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, July 8th, 2005
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Executives at Sony BMG and EMI have said they plan to begin rolling out CDs with technology designed to limit copying. The technology allows buyers to burn onto CDs only three full copies of a disc’s songs, and the burned discs cannot [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, June 20th, 2005
Categories: Music, Technology | No Comments »
Found posted on The Skinny, Mark Morford offers forth a spot-on and hilarious analysis of the Coldplay phenomenon.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 17th, 2005
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CrimeWire is developed as a response to the growing number of illegal music downloads that happens via peer-to-peer software. You will now hit a ‘steal’ button instead of “download”, be asked to “select crime&# [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 17th, 2005
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Today Michael Jackson was acquitted of all 10 child molestation charges laid against him in the most publicized trial so far this century. Whether or not he did it, he certainly BEAT IT.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 13th, 2005
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Our friend Alan Wong Moon’s band The Almighty Truth is competing Friday, June 3rd on 99.3 the Fox’s Cage Match Band Battle Royale. We invite you to check them out and then rock the vote!!
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
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Apple says the next version of iTunes will give people a way to find and subscribe to podcasts. Listeners subscribe to shows for free, the latest of which is sent automatically to digital music players. Free programs have been built to do t [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, May 27th, 2005
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I’d like to thank Blur’s hiatus for this amazing follow up album from the Gorillaz. If you don’t already have their new album, GO GET IT. Produced by DJ Dangermouse, the “Virtual Band” also collaborated with Ne [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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The generation that grew up listening to Fugazi and Black Flag can now be assured that their kids are raised with the same anti-establishment and DIY ethics by tuning into Pancake Mountain. Who doesn’t want to rock out to Arcade Fire [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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I had the pleasure of catching my old friend Kevin MacKenzie perform at The Cellar the other night. A few years ago he enjoyed success with his Vancouver-based band Damn The Diva and I was honoured when asked to design the artwork for their [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 19th, 2005
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A very cool cross reference of sampling and source in hip hop. via Coudal.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
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You just never know who’s going to walk in off the street. Especially when your office has a shady, beautiful garden inviting people to walk through your open door on a sunny afternoon. A few days ago a hip looking guy followed his do [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, May 2nd, 2005
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“Giving this away is an experiment. I’m interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are.” – Trent Reznor While the record studios are calling for Congressional aid in shutting down [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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Now, up until today, I thought the only way to ‘Shank’ (or as we like to call it at IBC, ‘iPod raping’) someone elses iPod was to connect it to your computer, use iRip, then disconnect and reconnect your iPod and add [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, March 17th, 2005
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After two and a half years, 105 issues, and some great awards, CBC Radio One is serving up there last call. Their final issue was released on March 4th and will run until March 10th. Make sure you check it out before it is gone for good (Al [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, March 7th, 2005
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Back in the day, before Bling and Courvoisier, hip hop was a new energy rising up from the inner city streets of America. These flyers from the early 80′s take it back to its roots.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, March 7th, 2005
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We’ve already made this guy (Levy Lorenzo) an offer to come work for us. I mean, music made by hamsters, that’s brilliant. Making it transparent too, genius. The Habitrail is already in the garbage. So is our CD collection. (via [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 25th, 2005
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Grime is an amalgamation of UK Garage with a bit of drum n bass, a splash of punk and a touch of hip-hop thrown in. It is fast becoming recognized as one of the UKs most musically innovative and creatively cutting-edge subcultures. Grime cl [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
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I am starting to see a trend in music videos lately. Maybe there is something in the water dish? Or maybe cats are slowly taking over the world? Anyways. Enjoy the new Fatboy Slim video.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, February 10th, 2005
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We are in the process of creating the soundscape for our new website. As inspiration for our sound designer Alan Wong Moon, we sent over these incredible photos of the Tokyo underground.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
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Bjork newest video, Triumph of a Heart, the next single from Medulla. The video is directed by Spike Jonze and shot on location in Iceland. It is one of Bjorks stranger videos. MEOW…
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, January 27th, 2005
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Boom Selection want to remind you that music piracy supports terrorism. But it is hard to adhere to this with all of the amazing music they offer.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
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It has been 8 years since Portisheads last album, a long enough wait for any fan… But thankfully a new album is in the works. Founding member Geoff Barrow says “We’ve just had our heads down really, we’ve never actua [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, January 24th, 2005
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We’re constantly looking for cool new music because we’ve got the tunes on all day long. Although other people’s “Top Pick’s” lists are usually really subjective, they are also great ways to source out ne [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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It is always a pleasant way to start the morning with a remix of your latest song waiting in your InBox. firstChild is a project that Alan Wong Moon and I have been working on for the last six months or so. This is song number three, curren [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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