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May 13th, 2011

Wyrd III :: Win Free Sled Island Passes to See SLEEP!

From the contesting ideology of Aaron Levin:
Wyrd III is proud to forge bonds with Sled Island’s mind-boggling dive into festival brilliance. The sheer scope of Calgary’s premier music and art festival has been a huge inspiration behind taking Wyrd onto the intergalactic stage. In step this with partnership, Sled Island was generous enough to offer Wyrd III ticket-holders an opportunity to win a double-guest pass to Friday’s Main Stage where SLEEP is headlining. How the contest works:

1) Take a photo of your Wyrd Ticket or Eventbrite Print-out
2) Upload the photo to the Wyrd III Facebook Event.

That’s it! The winner will be selected randomly from pool of people submitting photos! If you don’t have a ticket, you can purchase a digital ticket here or visit: Blackbyrd Myoozik (Edmonton), Listen Records (Edmonton), Sloth Records (Calgary), Zoo Zhop (Vancouver), Zulu Records (Vancouver), Red Kat (Vancouver), or Waldorf Hotel (Vancouver)!

Hearts,

Aaron Levin
Weird Canada / Wyrd

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May 13th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Dirty Beaches – Badlands

From the 16mm mileage of Gabriel Jasmin:
Badlands is quite a venture. From swaying croons to strenuous screams, we continue to follow Alex Zhang Hungtai’s solo foray into personal fiction. More mature than previous outings, this LP contains his best songs yet, and reveals a more aggressive side to his traditional film noir chic. It’s a scratchy and loopy ride, revisiting the past while staying firmly grounded in a singular breezy headspace of conceptual avant-garde. I’m so glad everyone seems to be enthused on just how good Dirty Beaches’ sounds are right now.

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Dirty Beaches – A Hundred Highways

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Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best

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May 12th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Tonstartssbandht – Hymn

From the cinematic communications of Emily Robb:
Wholly boys, these brothers can shred like angels. So it goes on their new tour tape, Hymn. Kicking it off with “Suzie” and “Jesse,” get excited for a whole lotta love: best classic rock guitar tone EVER, echoed hawk calls, phased drums, and rolling toms. They rise to new levels of godliness with two (plus a hidden) hymns, in which New Agey synths are laced with choir singing and cinematic communication from above. (Am I sensing Purple Rain vibes in “Hymn Our Garden”?) Tonstartssbandht are apparently willing to sacrifice themselves to any genre. Expect their iconic layering and weird chanting but born again and with some psychedelic fuzz. WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! from the annals of classic and soft rock radio.

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Tonstartssbandht – Hymn Our Garden

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Tonstartssbandht – Susie

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May 12th, 2011

Wyrd III :: Announcing Tonstartssbandht!

  • Wyrd III Special Guest
  • Tonstartssbandht
  • (Weird Canada)
  • Edmonton, AB // Calgary, AB // Vancouver, BC
  • ::web/sounds::
From the secreted keystrokes of Aaron Levin:
We are more than proud. We are more than excited. We inexplicably lack the hyperbole necessary to elucidate the subtle vibrations coursing through our bodies as we announce Wyrd III‘s very special guest. They are Tonstartssbandht. For the first time, Western Canada shall bear witness to a wild choralic thunder; irradiated psychedelic punk emanating from a gnarly brotherhood. Let the face-melting begin. Grip your wyrd tickets NOW.

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May 11th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Brazilian Money – This Is Not A Dream

From the sweaty palms of Jesse Locke:
The boys from Brazil (ian Money) throw it all at the wall on their latest c32 dispatch, and — surprise, surprise — everything sticks. Like an overheated Pizza Pop™, This Is Not A Dream bursts at the seams with genre-blurring gunk rockers, bellyaching’ bummer folk and falsetto piss ‘n’ vinegar. Guitars warble and strum with hand-bleeding repetition, horns squeal like a second line and frontman Garrett Johnson hog hollers in a variety of voices. Wake up and grip with the sweaty-palmed quickness.

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Brazilian Money – Party Til I’m Dead

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Brazilian Money – Then You’ll Know

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Brazilian Money – Give Up That Dog

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May 11th, 2011

Festivities :: Ghost Throats [Edmonton, May 13-15]

From the ethereal choral of Aaron Levin:
There is an unusually wild Post-Hardcore scene thriving in Alberta. Untamed teenaged beasts running rampant with empty lungs and fists full of camaraderie. A singularity festering within our western abandon. It all culminates in an annual festival aptly named Ghost Throats. Organized by some familiar names within the Weird Canada cosmos (Kevin Stebner (Bart Records), Andrew Benson (Crippled Children), and Cecil Frena (GOBBLE GOBBLE)), the festival veers from the pop pantheon and remains harshly fringe, obliterating audiences with condensed signals of sound and idea.

Date: Friday, May 13th through Sunday, May 15th, 2011.
Location: Alberta Avenue Community Hall (9210 118 Avenue Northwest)
Price: $10 per day or $20 for a 3-day advance pass
All Ages Welcome (!!!)

Friday May 13, 2011

Crippled Children (Edmonton, AB)
Todos Caerán (Edmonton, AB)
Brain Fever (Calgary, AB)
Auld Beak (Saskatoon, SK)
Book of Caverns (Edmonton, AB)
La Maladresse (Levis, QC)

Saturday May 14, 2011

Slowhand (Edmonton, AB)
Coalspur (St Alberta, AB)
Monkey (Calgary, AB)
Flint (Edmonton, AB)
Watcher (Victoria, BC)
Stalwart Sons (Calgary, AB)
White Ribs (Nanaimo, BC)
Damages (Vancouver, BC)

Sunday May 15, 2011

Mahria (Edmonton, AB)
Maus (Edmonton, AB)
GSTS (Abbotsford, BC)
Wolfgoat (Edmonton, AB)
Cope (Edmonton, AB)
Tempest (Vancouver, BC)

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May 10th, 2011

Ex Libris :: Monster Guarded [Seripop]

  • Monster Guarded
  • Drawn and Printed by: Seripop
  • (Seripop)
  • [20pp. + Folds, Saddle Stitch, Screen Print]
  • Montreal, QC
  • Published: 2011
From the fold-out euphoria of Aaron Levin:
In a swelling statement of fold-out euphoria, Seripop have pushed the limits of saddle-stitched printed matter with their latest treatise on monster mastery. Every ounce of ink-soaked fibre blooms their trademark haze of graphic warpidity undulating within a printed spaghetti of sprawling brilliance. The pages of Monster Guarded are scattered with iconic horrors and facial extremities quintessential to the Seripop universe. Bedtime reading for bad children. Drawn in 2007; printed, folded, and compiled in 2011. GRIPPETH.

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May 10th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Liam Trimble – Ultra Rare EP

From the chimerical yarn of Jessica Faulds:
Oh man, this tape has everything a hollow-toothed pop sucker could want. Sweet crooning, elastic guitar work, qwerty percussion, a waltzified Kinks cover, dinky keyboards, a touch of Tim Buckley (maybe a couple slugs of Buckley’s), guest vox from best-kept-secret Jessica Jalbert, and above all, a craftsman’s ear for song construction. The union of lyrics and (melodic) lines is no marriage of convenience, and the coupling births some extremely well spoken offspring. Take “Money in the Bank,” a complete parable on the transience of local celebrity in two and a half minutes, or “Long Year”, a tangled, chimerical yarn. The tape also comes with a Wing’s Fortune. Mine says: “Someone is speaking well of you.” Well, ditto, Mr. Trimble.

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Liam Trimble – Small Talk

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Liam Trimble – Money in the Bank

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May 9th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Long, Long, Long – Who The Fuck Said Family Ain’t Family No More

  • Long, Long, Long
  • Who The Fuck Said Family Ain’t Family No More
  • (Self Released)
  • Halifax, NS
  • ::web/sounds::
From the geometric fashion of Jesse Locke:
Scrambling assembly line hooks with élan, Halifax’s self-dubbed ‘Factory-Pop’ superstars deliver the goods yet again on this tour cassette. The opening two-song salvo might be the band’s gentlest passage to date, while their trademark three-part vocals sound downright angelic. Yet Long, Long, Long’s complex choreography still spirals, squeals and corkscrews with unpredictable guitarmonies, and by the time eight-minute monolith “You’ll Not Guess Who I Met In Minnesota” hits its apex, we’re in ear bleeding country. Add a sidelong backward-swooping soundscape on the flip, and you’ve got essential listening.

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Long, Long, Long – There Are Tape Machines Down There

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Long, Long, Long – You’ll Not Guess Who I Met in Minnesota

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May 6th, 2011

New Canadiana :: DoT – Mizz Teviak

From the heavy lids of Jessica Faulds:
Jesus, I wish I liked whiskey. A slow glass of the smoky stuff, a rocking chair, and DoT’s Mizz Teviak wafting from the victrola: that’s how this summer’s sweltering twilights should look. Too bad I hate hard liquids, and this album isn’t on vinyl — it’s exactly the kind of dusky, slack-jointed folk that the occasional needle-pop could only accentuate. Without reaching outside of an acoustic palate, DoT does everything from syllable-splitting yarns to softly swirling paranoiac melodies to wurly kitsch. Compounded, these tracks will have you mesmerized on your porch, too heavy-lidded to slap the mosquitos eating your flesh. Bliss.

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DoT – Jimmy Jump

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DoT – October Afternoon

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