Mario Meets the Philharmonic

I’m not a big video game soundtrack fanatic. That actually might be an understatement. I did however find something that piqued my interest this week.Read More

FREE MUSIC MONDAY – Walk Off The Earth

Walk Off The Earth is offering some of their music for you to try out. Come and fall in love with these guys like I have.Read More

FREE MUSIC MONDAY – Leslie Hunt

Check out Leslie Hunt’s album, Your Hair Is On Fire for FREE!Read More

Getting Music To Your Ear Holes

Mysti Mayhem delves into the world of free music services to tell you which one ranks highest.Read More

A Love Song

Yes, so love songs in general are pretty bad. They’re slow, boring, soppy, only played at weddings and the ladies can’t get enough of them. So I felt I needed to do something about it.Read More

Gascoyne Dash

Okay, so I picked this reason for 2 reasons.

The first reason is that I love watching this race, it’s an awesome rally that’s not to far from where I live, and I have a mate who use to ride … Read More

On The Rocks – Bad Romance

If you answered “A group of men singing it in ‘a capella’, I’m going to have to ask you to kindly stop spying on me…Read More

Album Review : Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

One of six alternate covers of The Suburbs

I’ve taken a lot of crap from a lot of people for my glowing reviews of past Arcade Fire albums.  This article isn’t going to help me in that regard in any way at all because I plan on gushing yet again.  Get your raincoats on and come with me as I gleefully slobber, gush, and get other body juices all over this Canadian band’s newest masterpiece.

Win Butler and his wife, Regine Chassagne, started Arcade Fire back in 2003 and have been blazing an exciting trail for modern music ever since.  Their first full album, Funeral, released in 2004, was a sprawling work, with a musical backbone that felt too sturdy for a first album.  The range of sound that was pulled together in that album was stunning, and a feet rarely achieved by a band until after they have been playing together for decades.  It couldn’t have been done without the myriad of other artists that they pulled together, but with the group consisting of 7 members playing multiple instruments, Arcade Fire required a masterful orchestrator to keep the music from turning into a jumbled mess of noise.  The Butlers did it, and they haven’t stopped since.

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