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Museboxing

John — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:09:12 +0000

Hey Yo,

Our friends from the Musebox put together a podcast highlighting some of their top picks for NXNE. Follow the link to hear songs from our pals Green Go as well as a full interview with yours truly. Lots of juicy gossip and such.

Oh yeah! Come on out and shake your tailfeather at the City Sonic party tonight at the Drake in Toronto. We hit the stage at 10:30 pm.

John O

Forever Young

John — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:46:43 +0000

The Toronto Star’s Ben Rayner was kind enough to ask me to contribute to an article in today’s paper coinciding with the Neil Young tribute concert at Massey Hall tonight. Ben basically asked a bunch of local musicians to pick their favourite NY tune and explain why they like it so much. Check out the full story here to see what I picked!

John O

Whoa, Canada?

John — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:17:48 +0000

Just a quickie this time. The good folks over at the UK blog The Line Of Best Fit just put together a great compilation featuring a whole bunch of really awesome Canadian acts and we made the cut! Even more exciting is that fact that our pals Ohbijou, Forest City Lovers, and Timber Timbre also earned a spot on the team. Click here if you want to download the entire comp for free!

John O

Magique Arrows

John — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:32:22 +0000

Lest you think we haven’t been keeping busy, it’s my sincerest pleasure to let y’all know that we finished recording our track for the upcoming Friends In Bellwoods compilation album a few days ago. It’s a Timber Timbre cover, but I’ll leave it up to your imaginations to figure out which one. Hint – the title of this blog post? The comp itself is coming out this summer on (where else?) Out Of This Spark.

Big thanks to Jamie Bunton of Ohbijou fame for pressing all the right buttons on this one. Here’s an artistically blurred photo he snapped during a break in the session. Before I sign off, I wanted to mention two things as well.

Thing #1. Although Kyle is pictured in this photo, his physical self is actually in Europe, where he’s touring with Forest City Lovers. Check their website for updates.

Thing #2. You’d be forgiven for thinking that instead of recording, we were actually partaking in some sort of strange, basement library session. In actual fact, the three of us are totally engrossed in brand new copies of a zine that our friend Thomas DiNinno from the band Mt. Royal put together recently. It’s called Fan Club and it features beautiful illustrations of some of Canada’s top indie bands, alongside a selection of songs that the band members have compiled as a sort of imaginary mixtape. Band secret – Kyle actually picked all of our songs. Don’t tell.

Spring has sprung,

John O

Rayner!

John — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:32:39 +0000

As young(er) suburbanites growing up pre-Internet, pre-blog, pre-whatever, and smack in the middle of the 905, one of our only real connections to the music scene was through the musings of journalist Ben Rayner in the Entertainment section of the Toronto Star. Whether profiling the sadly missed Barmitzvah Brothers or reviewing something by the Cons, Mr. Rayner always came correct.

So when my Mom called and woke me out of bed this morning to let me know that we had made the print edition of the Star (as well as the web version which you can check out here) my first thought was that my 18 year old self would have been a pretty happy camper today. Not to say that my 23 year old self isn’t happy, either. You know what I mean.

Thanks, Ben!

John O