Tag Archive for the term: guitar

Did I mention we’re doing an Indyish Monthly Mess tomorrow at Sala Rossa? Well, this guitar god crooner with his lovely band is playing, ie’ Patrick Krief and Black Diamond Bay.

Heads up - For our show they are collaborating with an awesome experimental women’s choir we’ve worked with before and are fans of, called […]

Dystopian Dreams
Songs:
Dystopian Dreams-Coma Blues
Dystopian Dreams-I Would
Dystopian Dreams-The Aftermath
Biography: Dystopian Dreams is a 4 member group from London ON. The group formed in 2006 with vocalist and guitar player Kailen and Graham. After playing many shows around London and recording a 7 song EP in 2007 the guys picked up a bassist and […]

I recently interviewed Dan Livingston, a musician and ‘amateur ethnomusicologist’ as he says, who tours Europe regularly but just got back from a first ever tour of China where he crossed the country north to south several times over. In many cases his playing these songs, American traditionals, country, bluegrass pre-1940, was the first time […]

Ideal Lovers opened Saturday’s Suoni Festival show at a packed Sala Rossa. They played funky blues that would be well-suited to an outdoor venue at the Jazz Festival. The standing crowd danced a bit and the band did a good job of warming us up, but I was anxious to see Vic Chestnutt and tired […]

On the 8th of June (Sunday! tomorrow!) at Casa you can catch the post rock/punk, jazz improvisational sounds of The Nels Cline Singers. If you do you will notice a lot of guitar and no singing.
Im pretty excited from what I’ve heard. The music covers a lot of ground. From dark swelling guitar soundscapes […]

I’m not big on showy playing, but I definitely like watching guitarists who are much better than me to get a sense of what’s possible if I practice. A few months ago, when I was first taking up guitar, a friend mentioned Kaki King as someone to listen to if I was looking for interesting […]

Flier!

There’s plenty going on this weekend to enjoy in the music cat-er-gory, but if you find yourself with a hankering from some grit, country and blues, go check out Maica Mia Machnik at Divan Orange.

Maica

Check out Maica’s “My Bad Old Habit” on her myspace page…voice of melancholy and reason. Play it three times in a […]

Last night I joined a couple of folks from Indyish on a talk radio spot for Holder Tonight, a midnight AM radio show on CJAD hosted by Peter Anthony Holder. It was a last minute thing and Tristan Brand had asked me to come to the studio and bring along my guitar as there might […]