Sonic Life

Fifth best show I've ever seen. I was sore for a couple of days. The best part: Every. Song. They. Played. Was. A. Hit:

Julia Holter - "In the Same Room" (Live)

Julia Holter was one of my favourite shows of the year. As good as this video is (not from the show I saw), imagine it with a violin and saxophone too. 

Read my live review, with photos by Jon Vincent of Labless, at Vancouver Weekly.

Don't You Just Love This Photo of Neko Case?

Diane Birch Announces New Album Speak a Little Louder (Oct. 15 on S-Curve Records)

Four years after Diane Birch's debut album Bible Belt, my favourite album of 2009, she finally returns with her full-length follow-up Speak a Little Louder on Oct. 15, again on S-Curve Records. The fact that I could be seeing her in Seattle a week after Loretta Lynn is the stuff of dreams. Listen to the title-track, "Unfked" and "All the Love You Got" here.

The Fleshtones Coming To Pat's Pub Nov. 15

Of all places. $20 + s/c:

FULL STREAM: Weed - Deserve LP (Couple Skate Records, 2013)

Finally. I have waited two years for this. Album review to come? ... In the meantime, catch Weed's album-release show tonight at THEY LIVE Video, with Seattle bands FF and So Pitted. $5:

First Concert of 2014

The first concert I'm going to in 2014 announced. January 24 at the Commodore Ballroom, $29 + s/c: