Blog Profile / Chromewaves
| URL : | http://www.chromewaves.net | |
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| Filed Under: | Music / Indie Music | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1906 | |
| Posts / Week: | 7.2 | |
| Archived Since: | May 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Solange is coming; it’s True.
Elias TahanThere are many routes to Solange. Some may know her because of the surname she shares with her superstar sister. Others for her thespian endeavours which so far, have peaked with the starring role in the third chapter of the competitive cheerleading saga Bring It On. And her music career – two albums since [...]
Wavelength to shake you out of your Winter doldrums with, well, Doldrums and more
Ali BiddellIt hadn’t occurred to me until just now, but there’s a bit of a parallel between this site, right here, and Wavelength. They got a couple years’ head start on me, but both of us spent a solid decade servicing the Toronto independent music community – Wavelength with a weekly concert series that helped [...]
David. Bowie. Is. Back.
Frank YangFew things merit a 1AM blog post. David Bowie announcing a new album is one of them. Watch the video for the first single, “Where Are We Now?”, at his website. You can buy it now at iTunes. It’s a stately return, all steady build and chiming guitars; it’s hard to say if the [...]
Suede. Are. Back.
viinyl.comAnd there it is, the first new Suede song in a decade – since “Attitude”, from their 2003 Singles compilation – and being a bit nervous about hitting “play” is reasonable. Accepting that it won’t be on par with anything from Suede or Dog Man Star – Bernard Butler isn’t back in the fold, and [...]
New Mendicants welcome the new year new the welcome Mendicants New
Time OutHappy New Year, everyone; hope 2013 has been good to you so far and if not, geez. It’s only been 36 hours or so. What the hell. We’ll kick off the new year with some old faces under a new name; The New Mendicants. So new they don’t even have a website or Facebook [...]
Lightspeed Champion covers ABBA
thepiratebayKind of an arbitrary selection to close out the year – and the regular cover of the week thing as a whole – but hey, it’s timely. Dev Hynes doesn’t operate as Lightspeed Champion anymore, and even his new Blood Orange persona is presently taking a backseat to his role as Solange’s producer/co-conspirator, he was/is [...]
Pulp, Wild Beasts, Frightened Rabbit, and more clear the closets for Boxing Week
PulpHope everyone had a nice holiday. Just popping my head up to clear the decks before taking seasonal cover once again. Because despite very little technically happening over the last few days, a few noteworthy things floated their way up to the top of the internet, not least of which is a new old song [...]
Richard Hawley covers Father Joseph Mohr
Frank YangWait, who? No, that’s not a misspelling of Father John Misty. Joseph Mohr is the 19th century Austrian priest who wrote the Christmas carol that would become know as “Silent Night” in English. Read about it at Wikipedia if you want to know more. And click on the MP3 and video below if you [...]
Happy holidays from Yo La Tengo and also me but mostly Yo La Tengo
Carlie ArmstrongSo here’s one last housecleaning post before basically winding down for the holidays. Which isn’t to say I won’t pop back next week, but let’s not assume so. Happily, Yo La Tengo have made it easy to wrap things up – whereas most quiet down in December, the trio traditionally have their busiest run [...]
Dry The River dry the Shallow Bed
Dry The RiverLondon’s Dry The River may not have had quite the world-conquering 2012 that I’d predicted for them back in the Spring, but they’ve still had a very good year, their debut album Shallow Bed delivering on the buzz that they’d built up at home and also translating trans-Atlantically, justifying a couple of North [...]
Joel Plaskett Emergency and Always at The Horseshoe in Toronto
Frank YangA little piece of trivia that surprised even me when I learned it (and is really of no relevance to anything save this opening paragraph) – save for his two appearances at the Polaris Prize galas in 2007 and 2009, I’d never seen I’d never seen Joel Plaskett live. And it certainly hasn’t been [...]
Boy George and Antony Hegarty cover John Lennon
Frank YangIt’s that time of year again, when holiday songs become inescapable, and why should I offer any respite? Christmastime is easy covers, man. Way easy. Trying to contribute a new song to the canon of Christmas songs is no easy feat – there’s no shortage of familiar classics to draw on – but when [...]
The House Of Love return with a fresh coat of Paint
FacebookA pile of this and that from overseas to get to today, so why not start with the item that I’m sure the fewest people – statistically speaking – care about. And that’s the return of The House Of Love. A cult band’s cult band, the Guy Chadwick-led outfit has probably become better known for [...]
Bob Mould leaves the Blue, brings the Silver
Peter EllenbyWhen Bob Mould looks back on his 2013, he should be able to reflect on a very busy and productive year. First, he released his memoirs See A Little Light – a very direct and enlightening, if somewhat dryly written, accounting of his professional and personal life over the past half-century, back in June. [...]
Stars want to sex you up on Spring tour. And also kill you.
Norman WongConsidering their fanbases intersect pretty heavily, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to think that Stars’ Autumn jaunt supporting Metric across Canada’s finest arenas would constitute the bulk of their touring in support of their latest effort The North. Not unreasonable, but also incorrect. Following forays to Europe and Australasia this Winter, Stars will embark [...]
The Deer Tracks take aim at completing The Archer Trilogy
Salmon PauloGetting this year’s best-of post out of the way yesterday, was a big relief, no question, but I can’t pretend the final list was exactly what I’d intended. You see, for most of this year, I’d been holding a spot for Swedish duo The Deer Tracks, who had promised a Fall 2012 release for [...]
Chromewaves’ favourite albums of 2012
I’ve always said when compiling my year-end list that I don’t choose my favourite albums of the year so much as they declare themselves to me. If it requires too much thought, it’s probably more a case of trying to justify adding something that I know probably doesn’t belong. But those albums that do pass [...]
Tokyo Police Club cover LCD Soundsystem
AV ClubHungover, half-assed cover posts seem to have become a theme of late, but at least this time it kind of ties into the track in question. Holiday are here and that means holiday get-togethers and that means being reminded how great your friends are and if you have a blog-like platform on which to [...]
Django Django are are coming coming to to town town
Pavla KopecnaIn mentioning yesterday that winning the Mercury Prize allowed Alt-J to graduate from playing Wrongbar in September to playing The Phoenix in March, we can also scientifically see what only getting nominated to the shortlist gets you. Django Django, who were shortlisted on the strength of their self-titled debut, also played Wrongbar in late [...]
Ultraista, Atoms For Peace only making plans for Nigel (Godrich)
Temporary ResidenceNot many record producers manage to achieve the sort of household name status as the artists they work with, but Nigel Godrich has done as well as anyone in the recent memory. Partly because of his work on high-profile records from the likes of Beck, Pavement, and Paul McCartney, but mainly because he’s the [...]