“It’s best not to make any major life decisions on tour” - DiS meets Japandroids
"Give me that night you were already in bed / Said fuck it, and got up to drink with me instead."
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"Give me that night you were already in bed / Said fuck it, and got up to drink with me instead."
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After going through my music collection and some old blog posts, I realized that I somehow managed to skip over some of my all time favorite albums thinking I already posted on them.
Read MoreIn their seminal works, both Sherwood Anderson and Italo Calvino practice the delicate art of circumnavigation.
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Ever have a song that seems like a bizarre scenario, but when you listen it has the power to utterly devastate you?
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He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he's also the managing editor and co-founder of a small publishing house, ARP.
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Frank Yang Though his punk credentials are beyond reproach thans to his tenure in Propagandhi , John K. Samson has always cut a bit of a curious figure in front of The Weakerthans.
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The motivation behind a solo record is different for every artist who splinters off from the confines of their established band to go it alone.
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It's hard to imagine Bruce Springsteen being from anywhere other than New Jersey, and in much the same way, John K. Samson 's affiliation with his home province of Manitoba has become the stuff of CanRock legend.
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As previously discussed , The Weakerthans completed their four-night stint at Bowery Ballroom on 12/10.
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When The Weakerthans walked on stage at the sold out Bowery Ballroom Friday night (12/9) to play their 2003 album, Reconstruction Site , you could see the appreciation of the crowd's enthusiasm on John K. Samson's face before he even picked up his guitar.
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The Weakerthans played their first of four shows at Bowery Ballroom last night (12/7).
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Winnipeg indie rock favorites The Weakerthans are playing all four of their incredible full length albums in four nights in NYC and San Francisco.
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My brain wonders why I only slept five hours last night, and my stomach wonders why I felt it necessary to eat poutine four times in the last three days.
Read MoreThe original "Falcon Lake Incident" from which this album took its name refers to an alleged UFO encounter which occurred near Falcon Lake, Manitoba on May 20, 1967 [ Wikipedia.com ]. Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans 2011 Canadian tour dates after the jump.
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I've noticed people texting at concerts before, but never before have I seen a performer texting onstage.
Read MoreRoughly a year ago, during a lunch date between Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans drummer Jason Tait, Bryson off-handedly said it would be "really fun to record something together sometime."
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After a few attempts to connect through online annals, the ever-eclectic Jim Bryson and I finally connected and he graciously spared me a few minutes from his chock-full schedule on his home phone line (not his 'field phone').
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Usually when a touring musician spends his nights completing someone else's thoughts and creating textures to help define a mood, the time allotted for their own compositions results in reserved, spare arrangements.
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The first track is from Jose Delhart's "Little Red Buddha" album that is immensely moody, slightly mexi-cali influenced and a great headphone album.
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There is nothing more terrifying to me than dying.
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