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Top songs from 2014

Top Drops 2014

January 13, 2015 by snapshotsandneedledrops

It’s been a scarce couple of musical months, guys and dolls. Life has taken on a new kind of intensity after starting my new job– which I love– but unfortunately leaves me with little time for musical exploration or blogging. However, missing out on listing Snapshots and Needle Drops’ top ten drops and shots for 2014 was never an option… even if it is late. Once again, I plan on posting last year’s photography on the Snapshots and Needle Drops […]

Categories: Alternative, Australian, British, Canadian, Dance, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Irish, Jazz, Lists, Playlists, Pop, Remix, Rock, singer-songwriter, Soul • Tags: 2014 music, best of, Canadian, indie, jazz, music, photography, pop, Rock, top ten

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SS&ND Reviews: This is All Yours – Alt-J

November 4, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

 They say a band’s sophomore album is the hardest. In this age of music, if your first release flops– that’s it. In Greg Kot’s book Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music— my all time favourite book about music– he references Joni Mitchell’s remarks on how, when she was signed, record companies offered multi-album deals.  Joni’s first contract gave her something like eight albums. Mitchell claims this allowed her to grow naturally as an artist, hone her writing and musicality. […]

Categories: Album Review, Alternative, art rock, British, Dreamwave, Electronic, Experimental, folktronica, Indie, indietronica, New Wave, Rock, Sample, synth rock • Tags: album review, Alt-J, art rock, Indie Rock, music, photography, Rock, This is All Yours

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Toronto Pearson Airport at dawn

Ria Sia

June 16, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Toronto Pearson International Airport, dawn, New Years Day 2013 Sia’s smash-hit “Chandelier” and its incredible music video have infected the internet with a healthy dose of power vocals, phenomenal dancing and mainstream-busting unconventionality. If you happen to be one of the 12 people who have not seen the video yet, I’ll link it through after today’s track(s). All this talk of Sia, however, reminds me of a remixed version of her 2004 “Breathe Me” that I became obsessed with in […]

Categories: Alternative, Australian, Ballad, DJ, Dreamwave, Electronic, Experimental, Indie, indietronica, Pop, Remix, singer-songwriter, Soul • Tags: Australian, Chandelier, dreamwave, indie, music, photography, pop, remix, Sia, travel, travel photography

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Treasure Hunting

March 17, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

The Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, South Australia A few weeks ago, I wrote briefly about a trip my friend Matt and I took to Kangaroo Island. Matt and I make the perfect travel companions. We’re relaxed, adventurous, spontaneous, and we like climb all over shit. One big hangup we had about visiting Kangaroo Island is that most people do it in a day or two. A DAY OR TWO??! We had a full week there and felt like we had […]

Categories: Alternative, Dance, Dreamwave, Electronic, Experimental, House, Indie, Instrumental, New Wave, Unreleased, Unsigned • Tags: adventure, Australia, dance, dreamwave, electric, experiemental, indie, Kangaroo Island, music, photography, Remarkable Rocks, South Australia, travel, unsigned

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Fans by the concert stage barricade

Osheaga Playlist 2014

March 11, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Three fans mourn the end of Metric’s set while The Black Keys rock out 50ft to their left. As Canadians outside Montreal are becoming increasingly aware, for the August long-weekend there is nowhere else to be but Parc Jean-Drapeau. Starting the year before I moved to Montreal in 2006, the Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts has really exploded in the last few years, reaching 135,000 attendees in 2013 (apparently 70% from outside Québec)- practically busting out into the Saint Lawrence […]

Categories: Alternative, Australian, British, Canadian, Dance, Dreamwave, Electronic, Electropop, Experimental, Folk, House, Indie, Kiwi, Lists, Playlists, Pop, Rock, singer-songwriter, Soul, Swedish, Synthpop, World • Tags: 2014, Canadian, Concerts, convert, dance, festicals, festival, Montreal, music, Osheaga, Osheaga 2014, Osheaga 2014 playlist, Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts, osheaga music festival, Parc Jean-Drapeau, photography, Rock, world

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Top Drops 2013 Close up of sheep

Top Drops 2013

January 7, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

As promised in last week’s Top Shots 2013, I have painstakingly culled my precious music selections from the past year and whittled down a top ten list for 2013’s Needle Drops. It was no simple task. I hummed and hawed, listened and relistened, made lists and reversed them and eventually came up with the following. Am I obsessive? Probably. Did I put too much time into this? Most likely. Am I happy with the results? Yes… I think so… Yeah…………. […]

Categories: 80s, Acoustic, Alternative, art rock, Australian, British, Canadian, Cover, Dance, Dreamwave, Electronic, Electropop, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Kiwi, Lists, Playlists, Pop, Rock, singer-songwriter, Soul, Synthpop • Tags: alternative, Australian, best of, Canadian, indie, Kiwi, music, music lovers, photography, top ten

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Sydney night reflections

Slow Blow

December 4, 2013 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Sydney reflections Sorry guys and gals, Snapshots and Needle Drops has been taking a brief and unintentional hiatus. Fortunately, I’ve been taking loads of Snapshots-worthy pics and Emily is on deck waiting to publish another stellar post next week. The photo above was taken the night I ran Sydney’s City2Surf. To read about my amazing time in that that epic race, click here. Wolf Alice is a relatively new north-London band who released their debut EP this past October. This song […]

Categories: Alternative, art rock, British, Dreamwave, Experimental, Indie, Post-Punk, Unreleased • Tags: album release, alternative, art rock, British, dreamwave, experimental, indie, music, photography, Sydney, travel

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The Echo from the Mountain

October 7, 2013 by ebembo

View from the Ubisoft rooftop terrace in Montreal Pop Montreal has come and gone in a flash. This year’s line-up was particularly strong and the festival was made all the better by gorgeous, unseasonably warm weather.  As is often the case at Pop, deciding which concert to see when there are so many amazing acts playing at the same time proved to be especially challenging. But there was one show in particular that I knew, hands-down, I would not miss: […]

Categories: Canadian, Concert Pics, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Pop, singer-songwriter • Tags: art folk, Canadian, concert photos, experimental, festival, folk, indie, indie folk, indie pop, music festival, night photography, photography, pop, Pop Montreal, Swedish, Thus:Owls

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The Nature of a Renaissance Girl

September 30, 2013 by ebembo

It is my pleasure to be back with yet another SS&ND guest blog! Oh Land’s “Renaissance Girls” is like an updated version of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl”; a 21st century tongue-in-cheek take on femininity – short bangs and all! If the mid-90s were about ironically playing on the “dumb blonde” stereotype (in addition to Gwen Stefani, we had Buffy and Cher Horowitz , to name a few), the 2010s have been about addressing the expectation that girls be all things […]

Categories: 90s, Dance, Electronic, Electropop, Experimental, Indie, Pop, singer-songwriter • Tags: American, Danish, electronic, electropop, experimental, fun, indie, music, Oh Land, photography, pop

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