tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115427172014-10-28T07:08:43.343-04:00cleverLazygetting away with it since 1971Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-92099036156116392792007-03-07T09:42:00.000-05:002012-08-01T14:16:39.085-04:00Been thinking about it for a while and after two+ years, I think I'm done with this blog! I've left everything up for the time being. Thanks to those who came around, 'twas lovely.Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1169828079806013732007-01-26T10:52:00.000-05:002007-02-05T08:23:04.130-05:00An interview with Patti Schmidt in yesterday's Hour (the Montreal weekly), official word on the show's fate revised / erased here (caught in the act by these adorable BNW geeks; see 22/01/07 update) and, in case you didn't catch it in the comments section, a link to a recording of the unofficial last broadcast of Brave New Waves propa.It's in ogg vorbis format; splendidly helpful tech notes here.Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1169270913042505832007-01-20T00:02:00.000-05:002007-01-24T09:20:07.023-05:00Career Day With The Arcade Fire [video] From the moment we walked up to Canterbury High School in Ottawa last night, things were wonderfully surreal: the stage visible through the cafeteria windows, the anxious buzz of student volunteers pacing the lobby, a coat check improvised from labelled garbage bags, teachers with laminates smiling nervously, visibly starstruck. The line for the full-length mirror in the girls' bathroom Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1169193209040510762007-01-19T01:34:00.000-05:002007-01-23T23:34:21.583-05:00Young LionsThe only proper way to end such a wildly emotional day: The Constantines.The kickoff to an intense weekend, the first night of a nonstop three-day schedule for me (which will include the following elements: trains, snow, shows, Ottawa, Arcade Fire, Montreal and "secret"). I skid along Neeve St. and cross the tracks to downtown Guelph. The Constantines are playing CFRU's 27th birthday party Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1169143901666882252007-01-18T12:11:00.000-05:002007-02-06T09:44:46.351-05:00so long, Brave New WavesThis morning brings official word from the CBC that, after almost exactly 23 years changing the lives of teenagers in backwater towns everywhere, Brave New Waves on late night radio is no more. There were some ambiguous mumblings that the show will continue as a podcast, and on CBC's Sirius satellite channels, but no further details are forthcoming.update: follow the discussion as it evolves on Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1166828041059760142006-12-22T17:10:00.000-05:002006-12-30T15:56:51.866-05:00I'm writing you from Montreal. Bye bye.Another year shudders to a close like a VIA train being decommissioned, and I wave bye-bye to 2006 with a great sense of relief. I think some of what I love about this work got killed off this year by the sheer oversaturation of music and music coverage - it's just NOT that important, people - but at the same time, the impulse to get away from the endless beige blather yielded a lot of new Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1166308367061584502006-12-16T17:32:00.000-05:002007-02-03T15:21:26.726-05:00photo by Christian MorinI didn't know just how very ready I was for Howe Gelb and Ottawa's Voices of Praise choir here on Friday night. It unfolded perfectly: we walked in to a candle-lit room and the last two available chairs; the lights dimmed as we took our seats and Jim Bryson took the stage. He played the best set I've ever seen him play and left the crowd swooning - somewhat to his surpriseSpitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1166141354061270982006-12-14T18:56:00.000-05:002006-12-15T12:41:31.310-05:00Sure, you could sit there all night with your neck aching downloading new music from blogs, or you could listen in bed to the radio. I almost never give you advance warning, but today I must because tonight's show is KILLER.I had so much fun programming it, my grin is going right 'round back of my head.Okay, that sounds gruesome. but really, you will be sad if you're just up late aimlessly Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1166102981767066212006-12-14T00:01:00.000-05:002006-12-14T08:35:48.743-05:00[post]cardTrike - Bring The Shit Back - The New Album (indie) +Winning - This Is An Ad For Cigarettes - This Is An Ad For Cigarettes (ache) +Subtle - Return Of The Vein - For Hero: For Fool (astralwerks)Califone - Pink & Sour - Roots & Crowns (thrill jockey)OOIOO - UMO – Taiga (thrill jockey)Choir And Marching Band - Enemy Alien - Until Never (indie) +David Macleod - Sweatin' It Out - Strange Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1166027662512652432006-12-13T00:01:00.000-05:002006-12-14T08:38:50.376-05:00In case you're wondering, oh I dunno, just what became of my pithy observations here on life and music and such, and my podcast, and my other writing, well darlings, I'm working 14 hours a day, programming this show + writing + scouring music + doing it mostly by myself. so send me something lovely to play already. two weeks left![MP3] De Kift - The Millerisn't North Carolina beautiful in Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165900581148185212006-12-12T00:01:00.000-05:002006-12-12T00:16:46.143-05:00[post]scriptEvan Gordon - Deadstock - Classical Gas Mask (indie) +Lonesome Organist - The Moped - Forms and FolliesFrida Hyvonen - N.Y. - Until Death ComesMúm - Now There Is That Fear Again - The Peel Session (fatcat)Jeremy Nischuk - I Swallow Sheets - Copies of Copies (indie) +East River Pipe - Arrival Pad #19 - Garbageheads On Endless Stun (merge)Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People - Lacrymosa Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165785037582492692006-12-08T23:59:00.000-05:002006-12-10T16:15:33.293-05:00though our bones they may break and our souls separate, why the long face?Mads Mouritz + Bleeding Hearts - the Office - unreleased (produced by chris brown at the cathouse) The Raincoats - Don't Be Mean - Extended PlayThe Operators - Citizens BandMagda - duoteque -> She's A Dancing Machine (m_nus)Bonobo - On Your Marks - Days To Come (ninja)Quintron - Miniature Breakdown - Are You Ready For An Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1166073101959203312006-12-07T23:59:00.000-05:002006-12-14T00:15:47.590-05:00A Taste Of Ra - Final Embrace - A Taste Of Ra (Hapna)Múm - Scratched Bicycle / Smell Memory - The Peel Session (fatcat)Tamsen And Elliott - Apartment No. 8 - Tamsen And Elliott (burnt oak) +Johnny And The Moon - Kid Heaven - Johnny And The Moon (indie) +Derrick Denholm - Bastard Out Of Nowhere - New Old Folklör (indie) +DSD - Kapuskasing Wishbone - Norsk Drag (indie) +DSD - The Colour Of Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165555019083891172006-12-07T23:11:00.000-05:002006-12-08T00:35:40.376-05:00The best discoveries are the stumbling, inadvertent kind. In the ladies' today, I was speaking with a producer from Ideas; she'd ended up using a track from Nico Muhly's lovely new CD for a talk by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. The Muhly had found its way to her desk via another producer I'd given it to, a fellow working on a classical show; the record made its way into my life when I Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165470500278711022006-12-07T00:48:00.000-05:002006-12-07T07:57:04.280-05:00is there anything in the world better than scotch whisky?[post]script:Shipwrecked (from The End) - The Gothic Archies - The Tragic Treasury: Songs From A Series Of Unfortunate Events (nonesuch)Silas Stingy - Petra Haden Sings: - The Who Sell Out (I love her)The Freedom - Swan Lake - Beast Moans (jagjaguwar) +Turkish Delights - Mixel Pixel - Music For Plants (kanine. woof).Friendly Fire - FriendlySpitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165465234546256052006-12-06T23:11:00.000-05:002006-12-07T02:09:55.606-05:00where letters land in 100 year old mailboxes.save the Bynum General Store.[post]scriptA No No! - Danielson Famil(y)e - Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin Block (tooth & nail)Poor Ellen Smith – Neko Case - Canadian Amp (lady pilot)Maplebees - The Acorn - Tin FistGeese - Jordan McKenzie (Elfin Saddle) - Far And Few (indie) +[recent history of Bynum, by jay]Wild Sage - Mountain Goats - Get Lonely Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165300759443440242006-12-05T01:10:00.000-05:002006-12-05T01:40:41.336-05:00photo par izzy (lebonmulticolore)[post]scriptThe Slits - Kill Them With Love - Revenge Of The Killer SlitsThe Blow - Pile of Gold - Paper Television (k)Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business - Singles & Sessions (5RC)The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Soon) - The Crane Wife (capitol)Love Is All - Ageing Had Never Been His Friend - Nine Times That Same SongBritt Daniel & Brian Reitzell Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1165194862449995462006-12-03T19:58:00.000-05:002006-12-04T09:18:59.370-05:00"I do not unconditionally love Bob Dylan"headphone photo by janI knew there was good reason to unconditionally love Robyn Hitchcock.Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1164954112662844592006-12-01T01:07:00.000-05:002006-12-03T20:15:42.353-05:00it figures. 13 hours too late, I come across this link on a random blog.Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1164949655249014492006-11-30T23:55:00.000-05:002006-12-01T15:56:25.806-05:00are you sitting comfortably? arms should be bent at a 45 degree angle, wrists should be relaxed.[post]script:DSD (derrick denholm) - I resort to Books - Norsk Drag (indie) +Chris Yang - - - - - - - - - - - Devil In The clock (burnt oak) +Hanne Hukkelberg - The Northwind - Rykestrasse 68 (leaf)Broadcast - Tears In The Typing Pool - Tender Buttons (warp)Bell Orchestre - (Typewriter Duet) - Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1164867074721457452006-11-30T00:40:00.000-05:002006-12-01T01:11:02.876-05:00One of the nicest things about programming for a national (albeit sleepy) audience is the thrill of discovery; coming across an unexpected little bit of loveliness and being able to share it with anyone who chances upon the frequency. That element of chance, that synchronicity in time and space is still, I feel, something unique to radio. The shared space, shared time and place. Radio was the Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1164687851830353262006-11-27T23:23:00.000-05:002006-11-27T23:24:11.843-05:00we are typing, quietly.Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1163606003142571562006-11-15T11:59:00.000-05:002006-11-16T10:55:21.320-05:00The Blow – Babay - PDX Pop Now (pdx)Dogbowl – Hello Helen - Live on WFMU (lithium)Asha Bhosle & R.D. Burman – Duniya Mein (from Apna Desh) Dengue Fever – Tip My Canoe - Escape From Dragon HouseKocani Orkestar – siki Siki Baba - Borat Soundtrack (atlantic)Tipsy/Seksu Roba – wig out Dialogue from Borat Swan Lake – bluebird - Beast Moans (jagjaguwar)+Madvillain (four tet) – money folder - Four Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1163571294687761002006-11-14T11:59:00.000-05:002006-11-15T01:19:18.780-05:00 Copy – Closet Face – PDX Pop Now 2006 (pdx)The Remote – Pretty Girls Make Mothers – Too Low To Miss (global und)Junior Boys – In The Morning – So This Is Goodbye (domino) +Squarepusher – Rotate Electrolyte – Hello Everything (warp)Senor Coconut: my name is Coco / Yellow Magic /Coco Agogo - Yellow Fever (essay)Tipsy remix by World Standard - Papaya Freeway – Remix Party (aspho)Spank Rock – Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542717.post-1163484344751212052006-11-13T23:59:00.000-05:002006-11-14T01:06:47.060-05:00Menomena – Shirt – PDX Pop Now 2006 (pdx) Swan Lake – Are you Swimming In Her Pools – Beast Moans (jagjaguwar) + Svarte Greiner – The Boat Was My Friend – Knive Indian Jewellry – Partying With Jandek – Invasive Exotics (monitor) DSD – Kapuskasing Wishbone - Norsk Drag (indie) +Sandro Perri – Requiem For A Fox – Sings Polmo Polpo (constellation) +Plaid & Bob Jaroc – Launching of Big Face – Spitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036372719583731684noreply@blogger.com1