Bob’s Songs
Tuns – We Stand United
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Bike Lane
Parquet Courts – Human Dimension
This is a great interview with Parquet Courts that Bob has shared, pretty interesting! Nardwuar is new to me. This is really fun – Parquet Courts get lots of albums here and Nardwuar asks some great questions including where the band would go to get beer on Friday nights.
Little Barrie – Better Call Saul
Paul’s Songs
Barr Brothers – Kompromat – suggested by Donna Clark – thanks Donna!!
Terry Presume – Did Me Wrong
Arkells + K.Flay – “You Can Get It”Anyway Gang – Big Night
Half Moon Run – Grow into Love,
Here is the link to our show on VoicEd radio – we store all the shows here on Spreaker.
The great thing for me this week is that we actually got a song suggestion from a good friend Donna Clark. I asked her to let me know why she chose the first song and this is what she wrote:
First heard The Barr Brothers music on CBC a couple of years and especially loved the driving and insistent beat of Kompromat as a great road trip song. Could see myself driving across the prairies in a convertible, ahem, trying to adhere to the speed limit and blasting this tune. Lyrics are pretty deep and angry and when I saw them on paper gave me food for thought. Maybe not the best song to listen to as travel is curtailed, but you can always crank it up as your heading out to do essential shopping in your SUV!
Here are some of the lyrics Joan was talking about. Yes, dark, but a great song!
Look at the sun go behind the hill
Look at the country through a dollar bill
I can’t see the bottom of the hole that we’re trying to fill
I think we’re in love with your abuse
You got one hand on the driver’s wheel, in the other a noose
You can call it whatever you want, I say we call it a truce
My next choice was Terry Presume, Done Me Wrong.
From the Guardian This Week’s New Tracks James McMahon – this guy writes great columns every week. Many of his picks he really doesn’t like all that much, but this makes for very entertaining reading.
From Nashville via Florida comes a rap cut so gentle it’s unfeasible its creator recorded it standing up. Less a song than a daydream, here Presume (pronounced like “résumé” – remember that, his inevitable ubiquity will require it) has delivered a tune at odds with the chaos of the modern world. Lyrically he’s just wanging on about being dumped. Philosophically, he’s eating an ice-cream while the world burns.
Terry Presume is the voice we didn’t know we needed. Unpolished for good reason — Terry’s style is more stream-of-consciousness, not perfection — and backed by emotion, the Florida rapper’s work is a welcome addition to fellow talk-music artists, especially on his new EP, I Got Nothing To Lose, produced by Willie Breeding.
The Arkells + K.Flay
Quitting You from Campfire Chords was going to be my choice, but then I read this in their blog. You have to love a band that has their own blog. Pretty interesting reading, especially in the middle of Covid.
While we were setting up the track, K.Flay shared a pointed quote about the tune: “This song is about finding your momentum, the potential energy that’s inside of you. The future doesn’t just feel unknowable – it feels impossible. We wanted this song to feel like possibility. Like the world is opening up. Like you are powerful.”
We hope this song gives you that jolt that you’re longing for these days.
March 21, 2021 – Arkells + K.Flay = “You Can Get It”
The Anyway Gang was our second Canadian super band of the show. Interesting, both TUNS and The Anyway Gang have Chris Murphy from Sloan in them.
I chose – Big Night, you can see them play here in what I think is the CBC Q studio.
CBC Radio Q did an interview with the band last January. It is a great way to get a sense of how the band formed and also how much fun these guys have playing together.
CBC Radio interview with Tom Power Posted: Jan 21
Here are some notes about the band. I love the idea that they get together to tell dad jokes!
Dave Monks – Tokyo Police Club, Sam Roberts, Menno Versteeg – Hollerando, Chris Murphy – Sloan
Last summer a few friends from some of Canada’s most notable bands – Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Sam Roberts (Sam Roberts Band), Menno Versteeg (Hollerado), and Chris Murphy (Sloan) – got together to write some songs. They mostly made dad jokes but also jammed on a bunch of 3 chord songs they all had lying around. They recorded a bunch of stuff in a few days and over the year added some ideas here and there and all of a sudden a year had past and they realized they kinda had an album so they said let’s name ourselves the first thing they thought of and release it. Anyway, they’re called Anyway Gang
Talking about the Tokyo Police Club, Bob mentions a tour video with a bunch of band members, including Brendan, Bob’s son. He sent me the video footage of a night on the road. I wonder how they were all doing the next day 😃
One last note for this week. Bob has mentioned Zunior several times, so it seemed like a good idea to add some information about them here. Here is their website.
They are also on Twitter here
That’s all for this week – our show now starts at 7:45 so that we can get all the music in. You can hear us LIVE next week on the VoicEd Radio Stream.
Whole-Hearted 