Punk, Emo, And Dave Wenger

This is the latest mix of what I've been listening to lately, this time its from between september 24th and 30.

We start off where the last one ended with some tracks from the full length debut of Kill Matilda. I saw them last week on their Zombie Apocalypse tour and they are awesome female fronted punk.

Things get emo and more rock and roll with Into It. Over It. Evan Weiss is great. Though as much as I like II.OI. I really do prefer Stay Ahead Of The Weather.

Now its time for some modern screamo courtesy of  Reno Dakota. There's nothing brand new or groundbreaking here but it is good, modern screamo with few fills.

We stay with the screamo and get a lot more mainstream with the first three tracks of La Dispute. This is the 
first time I've actually engaged with these guys though the vocals can be a tad samey through these songs.

Now we get to the beginning of the output of a Canadian emo punk rock genius Dave Wenger. He started in high school with Moral Decay then played in M Blanket, Ache Hour Credo and Daddy's Hands.

 

Moral Decay is a metal band and M Blanket are a seminal emo punk band. More from Dave Wenger next time

the King is dead (long live the king)

This is the latest song I wrote. I had some riffs but then I forgot it so I wrote a new riff. It’s way more punk than it was before and this is rather rough and fresh but  I think it’s kinda good. It is an electric guitar which by itself doesn’t all that full. I think its ok but not much more than that.

Who Programmed This?!? 9/20/2011

This is the first episode of my radio show on Trent Radio handily cut into a nice little mp3 for your podcasting pleasure. I played Animal Faces, Todos caeran, Book of Caverns & Lizards Have Personalities

http://www.mediafire.com/?u7lj64twk6kfndk

Who Programmed This?!? 09/27/2011

This is the podcast of my radio show on Trent Radio. It was broadcast yesterday between the hours of 10 & 11 am. I played By A Thread, Wrought: Ironsmile, 30 Second Motion Picture, Rocket Science & IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing.

 http://www.mediafire.com/?ho4mks6bgut6rh1

latest mix

this is my latest mix that comes from what I've been listening to. I listened to a bunch of stuff between September 12th and 24th. Hope there's something here for you.


We start off with a softer emo band The Warren Commission. Pretty obscure. Good stuff though

Way more people will know Weezer. If you don't then i don't know where you've been or doing with your life. Even if you hate them you are aware of them, they were relevantish at one point.

Things get way more pop punk, upbeat and downright happy with The Wombats. These are very danceable indie rock songs with more than enough exuberance.

Now one song from portugal the man. It's a tad weird but I think it's pretty cool.

Now we have a whole bunch of angry, pissed off Hardcore, coming straight at you from Finland. My favourite bands from this compilation are: Riistetyt, Nolola Nolla Nollam Kaaos, Laahaus, Klimax, Appendix, Antikeho, Maanalainen Pelastusarmeija 

We head over to China from Finland for some Sonic Youth style post rock courtesy of  Carsick Cars. The can write some really good, catchy rock and roll songs and don't really care if they throw in a disconcerting time change or a wall of feedback in the middle of that catchy song.

We head back to the states and get screamy with IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing. This dude has been so productive this year. He's working on yet another tape which will be his 7th. He's talking about doing 10 by the year's out and if they all sound like this I am so down.

We stay punky but lose the screams for a bunch of punk from Witches With Dicks. These guys plast fast, pissed off orgcore punk pop. They like the simpsons. Nuff said.

I saw this band two week ago with Tin Vespers. Cousins play a bluesy style of weird garage rock punk. It's very distorted and the singer shouts a lot but it's pretty sweet.

I saw Kill Matilda last week with local punk bands Bumping Tacos and TV Casualties. On these songs they do a hard rock thing, on their debut lp they do a more punk thing. It's great either way.

Emo, Screamo and some power thrash

This is my mix of music I listened to from August 8th through August 9th. I am eclectic in my taste so some transitions may be jarring...

We start things off with some emo pop punk courtesy of a rather unknown band Your City/State. If your into underground music you might know Joie De Vivre, who these guys became. This is less midwest emo, more pop punk. Still quite good

Things get techinal and industrial with Andrako. I randomly found these songs online and they pound away at your brain until you surrender to the industrial metal.

 We stay metallica but get thrasy with Armor Column. They have a tad too much power metal in their music for it to be a regular listen right now but I will definitely be paying attention

We get way more chill with A Garden Overgrown. They play a very post rock version of screamo. A lot of the time there's more post rock than screamo and there's very little post rock that I actually like. They reformed this year and these are tracks from their new ep.

We shift out of post rock but stay emotional and finish with Talis Vita. They could be compared to Your City/State but screamo instead of emo and way more punk.. These guys are loud and they don't really give a shit if you care or like it.

In Between

Think a more hardcore oriented version of Joyce Manor. Emocore, emo with some punk attitude. Starts off emo but gets core pretty quick. Its entirely too short but pretty good all round

Radio show!

Listen to me on the radio tomorrow between 10-11 am eastern time. I will be playing vancouver emo outfit By A Thread, Wrought: Ironsmile a lo emo band also from Vancouver, 30 Second Motion Picture an emocore band who I think are from Ontario, Rocket Science, an emo band from either east London or Cape Town South Africa, IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing a one piece screamo band from Lansing Michigan and if there’s time Ampere who are from Amherst Massachusetts

You can listen online here http://www.trentradio.ca/stream.htm

new Cheers, Mate!

Cheers, Mate! is a great screamo band from Ukraine. They've got keyboards, they sing and scream in either ukrainian or russian and have some sweet alternating vocals if my memory serves.

They put out an Owl EP a while back and I really liked it.

I haven't listened to the new song yet but I'm assuming its just as good

listen to me on the radio!

Tomorrow between the hours of 10 and 11 am I will be broadcasting on Trent Radio. My show this week is all screamo. Animal Faces, Todos Caerán, Book Of Caverns, Lizards Have Personalities and Xerces are on tap for tomorrow 

listen here! 

Cousins, Tin Vespers, Candle Cave Ensemble Pt. II, Jos Fortin & Claire Ryan

The Planet Bakery was packed on Friday as four bands put their own stamp on the night. There was something for everyone. It started off with singer songwriter Claire Ryan, followed by folk singer songwriter Jos Fortin. Tin Vespers linked the folk of the previous singers to the rock and roll of the Candle Cave Ensemble Pt. II and Cousins who finished the night.

 

Claire Ryan started the night off with her heart on her sleeve. Her songs were sad and slow but had a good solid rhythm to them. The symbolism in her lyrics can be a little overwrought at times but mostly her lyrics were melancholy and filled with details. Think a deeper voiced Julie Doiron.

The next artist,Jos Fortin, is very similar to Claire Ryan but a better guitar player. Jos songs have more of a folk feel to them, with a little bit of country mixed in. His songs are more story telling songs and I don't know many songwriters that use words like tincture. There was lots of volume difference inside his songs and in a room where people won't stop talking those softer parts tended to get lost.

Tin Vespers where up next, the bridge between the singer songwriters that started the evening and the rock and roll that would finish it out. They are a five piece band and are fascinating. They have an accordion, drums, keyboard, a three stringed guitar and a cello. Meg is the lead singer, plays the three stringed guitar while both the accordionist and the cello player contribute to the lush harmonies.

Their music is rather hard to explain. They have a majestic sound that reaches out and grabs you in a bear hug only reluctantly letting you go for the next song. They know exactly when to push forward and when to hang back. Either way they're great and utterly captivating. 

After Tin Vespers the CandleCave Ensemble Pt II made things a lot louder. They played a very straight ahead, danceable style of rock with surf and garage rock thrown in to flavour the riffs. They had a great wall of sound, straight up with no frills to get in the way of dancing.

Cousins closed out the night with their thumping brand of aggressive, noisy rock and roll. They are a reverb soaked two piece from Halifax with riffs going off in every direction. They have a sharp, pointy guitar tone that rips out of the speakers and a singer that never abandons his desperate, searching vocals that usually stay melodic. They play a kind of blues. It is very distorted and put through a noisy punk rock filter but it is still blues at the basis.

The night had really had an evolution. Claire Ryan and Jos Fortin where rather soft and Tin Vespers was not particularly loud though they had their moments. The Candle Cave Ensemble Pt. II were the loudest band and Cousins topped everything nicely with their rather unique primitive bluesy punk rock.

Jowls & The Reptilian

They're both on tour right now. Gonna be in Toronto tonight. $5 show but the train ticket to Toronto is 6 times that. Anyway. Both Jowls and The Reptilian are awesome bands. One is a an awesome newish screamo band and the other is a harder to categorize twinkly, indie shouting band.

Jowls debut ep Cunt Punch is one of my favourite ep's of the year. The name may put some people off but that's okay. They are a two piece from Grand Rapids Michigan. They play what I think is screamo but could just as easily be post hardcore. Their split with the Reptilian sounds like they're more of a post hardcore band but only time will tell.

Jowls - Cunt Punch

Jowls & The Reptilian Split

The Reptilian have been around a while longer and they have a rather unique sound I think. They're is a  lot tapping, a lot of twinkly guitars and a whole lot of shouting. They are one of the shoutier bands on the Count Your Lucky Stars roster.

 

The Reptilian - Full Health

The Reptilian -  We Have Become

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing started as a three piece Jeromes Dream worship band. Then they became a two piece and are now a one man band. Regardless the music is awesome. They have evolved from being a worship band to being a really solid screamo band. Lots of high pitched screams and some pretty sweet guitar riffs. This is their complete discography, in order I think.

5 Track Demo

iwontstopwondering - split with Half Awake

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing Split With In Braille

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing - Rehearsal/Live

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing - Motionless

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing - IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing

IWontStopWonderingUntilYouStopBreathing - New Horizons

witches with dicks

Angry pop punk if there is such a thing. There are dashes of speed punk throughout but it all stays rather poppy in construction but the execution always come across as pissed-the-fuck-off. They’re a power trio and they fit nicely in with the other orgcore band’s I’ve heard. Think an angrier RVIVR, with just as much energy as the Menzingers but they’re more focused on kicking the shit out of their tunes.