February 2012
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My Half-assed 2011 Year in Review and January 2012...
I didn’t give up on this blog, I swear. I think I just forgot about doing it. I’m back though. I’ll try to be more regular about it from now on.
In case you were wondering, since I didn’t do a full on top album list like last year, my favourite album of 2011 was probably The Black Keys – El Camino? It came out pretty late in the year but the riffs were mind blowing, it was...
November 2011
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Music Monday 11/21/11
Check it out here!
All 90s music! No boy bands. This is the quintessential 90s music primer for when we figure out how to thaw out cavemen and want to make them awesome. Jam packed with 100 songs from the most awkward decade, although some straddle the line from ‘89 and 2000 because they still exude the 90s feel. Enjoy!
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Tell me if I missed anything, because I’m...
October 2011
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Music Monday 24/10/11
Ok, this week I have some new songs from some albums released recently, and some other ones from bands that I’m seeing soon! I am so excited to finally see Cage The Elephant and one of my favorite bands growing up, the Foo Fighters. Wilco, M83, Real Eastate and Coldplay have some really great new albums. Check them out.
Cage The Elephant - In one Ear
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Foo Fighters -...
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Music Monday 17/10/2011
Listen up:
Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing
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Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
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The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight
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Phantogram - Don’t Move
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She & Him - In The Sun
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Yeasayer - Ambling Alb
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The Head and the Heart - Lost in my Mind
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Dragonette - I Get Around
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Music Tuesday : Turkey Hangover Edition! 10/10/11
Happy late (Canadian) Thanksgiving! In my head, Canadian Thanksgiving is the story of the Canadian version of Christopher Columbus, Jacques Cartier, force-feeding pumpkin pie to a turkey while native Canadians thank him for helping them harvest yams. Classic. I am thankful this year for my excellent memory for Canadian history.
I’m experimenting with HTML5 audio tags so check that out...
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Music Monday 03/10/2011
I have a whopping 11 songs today. Ok, 11 isn’t really a lot but I’ve always wanted to use the word ‘whopping’ but never understood it’s use as an adjective. Someone please explain it to me.
Anyways, here are some songs that have been on repeat recently. I’m a big fan of all the artists. Girls and St. Vincent have released incredible new albums which you should...
September 2011
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Hey... I made you a mixed CD. ( Bawahong's Summer...
So I’ve been neglecting this blog pretty good. If this blog were a baby, it would probably be out picking up girls while buying groceries for the family. Oh? Did you think neglecting babies would lead to bad things? Wrong friend, my babies would be smart, independent and resourceful. Anyways, it’s fair to say that summer is very much over. I start my last year of University today, on...
August 2011
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Music Monday 15/08/2011
Hi.
These songs are dope.
Plastik Hearts - Dirty Pretty Things
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Camilo (The Magician) - Said The Whale
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Everlasting Light (The Mummers Remix) - The Black Keys
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Wrecking Ball - Mother Mother
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I’ll be less lazy with this…later
July 2011
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Music Monday.
Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse -...
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Music Monday 18/07/2011
Yes, I missed last week. Get over it already. I have a whole bunch of songs this week to make up for it. They are good. I promise.
Trojans -Atlas Genius
Great song! I don’t think there’s anything else out by them, but I like it so far.
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Beirut - A Candle’s Fire
New album The Rip Tide due out at the end of August. These guys always have fantastic...
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June 2011
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Music Monday 27/06/11
I wrote this while sitting on the Prairie Chicken hill at the University of Calgary and there were a couple of things I realized :
1. Having the internet outside is probably one of man’s coolest creations. The university is so nice in the summer. It’s too bad that we can’t have this weather all the time.
2. Can I see my screen in direct sunlight while wearing sunglasses? Not...
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Bawahong's Spring 2011 Playlist
So the first day of summer is tomorrow. If you’re like me, you’ll be busy celebrating the summer solstice by dancing around a bonfire for several hours and making animal sacrifices to your various pagan deities. If blindfolding a goat and shoving it off into a quarry isn’t your cup of tea, then I have a milder alternative for you. You can kick back, listen to some tunes, and enjoy the longest day...
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Music Monday 13/06/11
Can you believe that it’s summer already? If you do, then you are foolish! The first day of summer is next week. That means next week, I will be compiling all of my blogged songs into an easy-to-manage little playlist for all of y’all. So I’ve been looking at the songs I’ve been posting, most of the artists are guys. That’s okay though, right? Ladies, I got your back....
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New Beirut! + other favorites - Music Monday...
Beirut - East Harlem
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New song from these guys. Its been a long time, 2 years exactly since the last EP March of the Zapotec.
Local Natives - Who Knows, Who Cares
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Kind of old track but I love the drums in this song. I’m a big fan of their album Gorilla Manor.
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don’t Haunt This Place
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I love these guys....
May 2011
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Music Monday 30/05/11
I keep skipping weeks. Last Monday was Victoria Day. I don’t know who this ‘Victoria’ is but I’m glad she was born to give me the day off. Since it was a holiday, I was busy with various family activities. I also had alcohol and hockey related issues to deal with. Playoffs. Whadya gonna do? How about this, from now on, if it’s a holiday Monday, I won’t do a...
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Music Monday 16/05/11
Hey what’s up? I’ll tell you whats up, Calgary, a new song from Bon Iver (pronounced en francais as bonne hiver), from their upcoming second (self titled) album. Check it out, it’s a great song, and it’s named after my favorite city in the whole world! Good for them for showing the #YYC some props.
Bon Iver - Calgary
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Here’s another few tracks to...
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Music Monday 09/05/11
I was in Idaho last week so I definitely did not post anything on Monday. I’ll make up for it by giving you a few new songs today.
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
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This is from the new album which I really, really, really like. As far as I’m concerned, it is one of the best albums this year. It came out last week, so find it if you like what you hear.
Beastie...
April 2011
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Music Monday 25/04/11
Is it bad that I’m already thinking of summer? We’ve barely let spring creepily blow it’s warm soothing air into our ears. Yes, I just anthropomorphized spring, and it is a weirdo whose company I enjoy.
For a very brief second, I thought about ‘saving’ this week’s batch of songs for the summer because they are about the summer, but then I realized how cliché...
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Music Monday: What's in a Remix?
I’ve always frowned upon remixes. I’ve always thought of them as disrespectful to the original artist. Like as if someone took a song and said “I know this is your work of art that you perfected enough to share with the world, but I’m going to make it better.” It’s a strange phenomenon only seen (heard) in music. I mean, you don’t see anyone...
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March 2011
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Music Monday : Childish Gambino
Donald Glover is one of the hardest working people in showbiz. Between being on the funniest and most underrated comedy on TV and his stand-up, he somehow manages to be an amazing rapper. Under the pseudonym Childish Gambino, Donglover has some of the most creative rhymes I’ve ever heard. I’m almost convinced that every comedian needs to become a rapper. Could you imagine Louis C.K...
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Bawahong's Winter Playlist 2011
Kind of Blalock-esque but, I’m bringing you a playlist of the songs I’ve blogged about so far this winter all zipped up in an easy to use, microwavable, all-in-one package. If this works out ok, I’ll keep doing it. Check it out, give me some feedback, and have a good week!
Track list :
1.Hello (Feat. Dragonette)- Martin Solveig
2.Cool Kids -The Fast Romantics
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Review of Friday by Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black’s single ‘Friday’ is a perverse social commentary on life and the monotony of the fixed schedules that we put ourselves through. It is as well a commentary on the lost art of meaningful lyrics. She employs heavy satire in the way she cleverly disguises well thought out and intricate poetry as a mere pop song for children.
We take comfort in an arbitrary...
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Music Monday.
Smith Westerns - Weekend - Dye it Blonde, awesome album. One of the best so far this year.
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Something Good Can Work (Ted & Francis Remix)- Two Door Cinema Club - Love this song as well as any remixes of it.
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Words I Never Said - Lupe Fiasco ft. Skylar Grey -Gird your loins North America, Lasers drops tomorrow.
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February 2011
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The Strokes are Back!
Music Monday: The Strokes -Undercover of Darkness.
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I am extremely excited for Angles, the first album in a long time from one of my favorite bands ever. Although this song is good, it didn’t blow me away. I don’t know if I was expecting it to though. I do miss the way they make 2 guitars sound like they’re making love to each other. So good.
The band was...
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Metric Covers
Love Metric. I’ve seen them live a couple of times now and they are better each time. Make sure you have a listen of their new iTunes Live Session that just came out a week ago. It’s damn good. They’ve also done some pretty good acoustic covers in the past. Here are some :
Bob Dylan - Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright. - Probably one of my favorite Bob Dylan...
January 2011
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I'm not a big rap guy but...
This week I have 4 solid rap artists for ya. I don’t even like rap that much to be honest. Like a lot of popular music, rap has become more style over substance and in an era where dance music is becoming more and more popular, the style is getting tired and boring. There are just so few really good rap artists out there today. I won’t get into the whole money, hos and rims argument,...
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Music Monday #450ish
Somebody has a case of the Mondays, and no, I don’t mean that in the traditional way, nor do I mean it in a weird infection-slang-type way either. It means I feel like sharing some music on a day that contains alliterative similarities to the word music! This week: 3 very different songs. Enjoy.
Home - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros- Kind of an old song, but I saw a vewy adowable...
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I Just Came to Say Hello...
It’s Monday. Whoever told you that it’s Tuesday is a liar, and you shouldn’t trust them. This means that it’s Music Monday. I feel a bit lazy this week so I’m going to give you a couple of songs that I’ve been listening to over the past week or so. Check it out.
(PS, I promise next week, I’ll get it done on Monday for sure.)
Hello -Martin Solveig and...
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Music Monday : Phoenix - Long Distance Call.
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December 2010
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My Top 25 Albums of 2010
I don’t know what to say. I’d hate to be a cliche Facebook profile, but “music is my life! LOL.” It is in fact part of my everyday life, from when “Wake Up” by The Arcade Fire wakes me up at 7 a.m everyday until the night when I listen to some gangsta ass lullabies to help me sleep. It seems a bit weird to rank music. I don’t rank other aspects of my every...
No Music post this week but I promise next week I will have my list of Top 25 Albums of 2010!
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November 2010
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Music Monday : Matt & Kim - Where...
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October 2010
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Music Monday: Too Afraid to Love You -The Black...
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Music Tuesday? (Late). Talib Kweli - Get By...
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New Hockey Season!
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am, and always have been a huge hockey fan. I’ve been so antsy over the start of the season that I’ve been looking up other hockey leagues in the world. One thing that I think that the NHL is lacking, is the originality in their team names. I’ve found a gem when it comes to some of the most hilarious team names I’ve ever come across. I am...
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