New Releases
June 30, 2009 9:00 AM
- Def Leppard - Adrenalize & Pyromania Deluxe Ed.
- Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
- Moby - Wait For Me
- R.E.M. - Reckoning Deluxe Ed.
- Rick White Album - 137
- Timber Timbre - S/T
- Wilco - S/T
New Releases
June 23, 2009 2:41 PM
- Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
- Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
- Don Henley - Very Best Of
- Earth - Radio Live LP (3000 copies)
- John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band - Live in T.O. '69 DVD
- Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (2LP)
- Pavement - Brighten The Corners (4LP)
- Royal City - 1999-2004
- Stuart Murdoch - God Help The Girl
- Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
- Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
- Voivod - Infini
New Releases
June 16, 2009 12:12 PM
- Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (RM 2cd/slp)
- Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (180g lp reissue)
- Major Lazer (Diplo & Switch) - Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
- Oscar Peterson - Songbooks (5cd Box Set)
- Spectrum - War Sucks EP
- Spinal Tap - Back From The Dead
- Spinerette - S/T
- Tubeway Army - Replicas (180g lp reissue)
New Releases
June 9, 2009 10:41 AM
- Acid Mothers Temple - Are We Experimental
- Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
- Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
- British Sea Power - Man of Aran (cd+dvd)
- Chicks On Speed - Cutting The Edge (2cd)
- Cosmos - (Pollard/Davies) - Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks
- Deer Hunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
- Iron Maiden - Flight 666:Live(2lp/2dvd/2 blu-ray/2cd)
- Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs(6x10inch Box Ltd.3000)
- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (RM)
- Mos Def - The Ecstatic
- Ohbijou - Beacons
- Placebo - Battle for the Sun
- Sonic Youth - The Eternal
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June 16, 2009 5:20 PM
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Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
Timber Timbre stops you. The elements are deceptively simple: a
confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings and keyboard
flourishes, and a subtle percussive beat. Timber Timbre front man
Taylor Kirk is making pop as if it was meant to sound haunted.
Over the course of two records, 2006's Cedar Shakes and 2007's Medicinals, Timber Timbre has gained a devoted following. Spellbinding performances opening for noted Toronto musicians Bruce Peninsula and Ohbijou have earned Kirk more fans. The years have also marked a rapid progression from a dusty, low-fi bedroom blues to the sophisticated, cinematic studio work found on his newest self-titled record, set for release in January 2009 by Toronto based record label Out of this Spark. Despite Timber Timbre being the project of Kirk, the recording of this record was a community affair. Guests on the record include some luminaries of Toronto's pop underground. Mika Posen (Forest City Lovers) contributed string arrangements, as did the singers of Bruce Peninsula.The sum of the parts, however, is something grounded in a strange place where genre descriptions like blues, country, and folk intersect becoming secondary to the precision of the moods being conjured.
Wilco - The Album
Wilco's seventh disc, Wilco (the album), took shape quickly in January
'09 after the band traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to participate in
an Oxfam International benefit project. The band began cutting tracks
for the new album, producing it themselves with the help of engineer
Jim Scott. The sextet completed the disc at its Chicago studio and
performed some of the new material in April at the New Orleans Jazz
& Heritage Festival; where the Times-Picayune praised the band's
'thrilling, nuanced set.' Wilco (the album) combines the intimacy of
its previous studio disc, Sky Blue Sky (2007), with the experimentation
of A Ghost
Is Born (2004) in a set that boasts strong melodies and gorgeous, often unabashedly pop arrangements. Wilco has clearly laid out the welcome mat to admirers of all aspects of its career; in fact, the disc opens with 'Wilco (the song)' originally unveiled in the group's performance on The Colbert Report last October in which Tweedy & Co. offer their fans 'a sonic shoulder to cry on,' promising,'Wilco will love you, baby.'
June 16, 2009 5:20 PM
Vetiver Live @ Sonic Boom
June 2, 2009 6:37 PM
Sonic CD Reviews
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
Timber Timbre stops you. The elements are deceptively simple: a
confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings and keyboard
flourishes, and a subtle percussive beat. Timber Timbre front man
Taylor Kirk is making pop as if it was meant to sound haunted.Over the course of two records, 2006's Cedar Shakes and 2007's Medicinals, Timber Timbre has gained a devoted following. Spellbinding performances opening for noted Toronto musicians Bruce Peninsula and Ohbijou have earned Kirk more fans. The years have also marked a rapid progression from a dusty, low-fi bedroom blues to the sophisticated, cinematic studio work found on his newest self-titled record, set for release in January 2009 by Toronto based record label Out of this Spark. Despite Timber Timbre being the project of Kirk, the recording of this record was a community affair. Guests on the record include some luminaries of Toronto's pop underground. Mika Posen (Forest City Lovers) contributed string arrangements, as did the singers of Bruce Peninsula.The sum of the parts, however, is something grounded in a strange place where genre descriptions like blues, country, and folk intersect becoming secondary to the precision of the moods being conjured.
Wilco - The Album
Wilco's seventh disc, Wilco (the album), took shape quickly in January
'09 after the band traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to participate in
an Oxfam International benefit project. The band began cutting tracks
for the new album, producing it themselves with the help of engineer
Jim Scott. The sextet completed the disc at its Chicago studio and
performed some of the new material in April at the New Orleans Jazz
& Heritage Festival; where the Times-Picayune praised the band's
'thrilling, nuanced set.' Wilco (the album) combines the intimacy of
its previous studio disc, Sky Blue Sky (2007), with the experimentation
of A GhostIs Born (2004) in a set that boasts strong melodies and gorgeous, often unabashedly pop arrangements. Wilco has clearly laid out the welcome mat to admirers of all aspects of its career; in fact, the disc opens with 'Wilco (the song)' originally unveiled in the group's performance on The Colbert Report last October in which Tweedy & Co. offer their fans 'a sonic shoulder to cry on,' promising,'Wilco will love you, baby.'