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In Slow Motion

November 28, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Happy Monday! I do have a non-blurry version of these two who are standing along the Seine, but I think this one better suits the music. I just found this beautiful song and I couldn’t resist sharing it immediately. I heard it in a great ad that I’ll put up as well, it’s definitely worth watching. “Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion” by Oliver Tank

Categories: Alternative, Dreamwave, Electronic, Experimental, Indie, New Wave, Soul, Symphonic, Unsigned • Tags: Australian, experimental, France, indie, music, night photography, Paris, photography, Seine, soul, unsigned

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Close up on Barr Brothers' guitar and harp

Releasing the Brothers

November 13, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Eeeks! I had got complaints, but I hadn’t realized it had been nearly two weeks since I had posted! Sorry, it’s been fast-times in the world of VApps, and at the moment, I’m writing to you from my best friend’s place in Paris. Alright, so about a month ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the album release concert for The Barr Brothers. The Brothers have been a big hit on this blog. For previous posts click here (coincidentally a photo […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Concert Pics, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Rock, Soul • Tags: album review, alternative, Canada, concert, experimental, folk, guitar, Harp, indie, La Tulipe, Montreal, music, Paris, photography, Rock, soul, The Barr Brothers

Red ball on reflective water, cloud reflections

Making Mirrors

October 26, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Feel like having a xylophone song break your heart? Here is Belgian-Australian Gotye and Kiwi artist Kimbra, who will, with layers of synthesizers, cowbells, and xylophones, rhythmically give off a vibe that is both quirky and bleak. Gotye spent eight weeks at number one on the Australian charts this summer with this single off his 2011 album Making Mirrors. He is the first Australian act to do so since Savage Garden and their hit “Truly, Madly, Deeply” (a song that I still […]

Categories: Alternative, Experimental, Indie, Rock • Tags: alternative, Australian, balloon, Canada, experimental, indie, Kiwi, mirrors, music, photography, reflections, Rock, Vancouver, water

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View looking up at colourful fall autumn tree from trunk

Happy Thanksgiving

October 10, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Enjoying the holiday? Enjoy it a little more with choral symphonic pop rock band The Polyphonic Spree and this feel-good number. Light and Day by the Polyphonic Spree

Categories: Alternative, Choral, Experimental, Indie, New Wave, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock, Soul, Symphonic, World • Tags: alternative, Autumn, Canadian, colours, indie, music, perspective, photography, pop, Rock, Thanksgiving, The Polyphonic Sree, tree

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Rolled up sound wires hanging on radio station wall

….And Now For Something Completely Different

October 5, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s the pre-recording day of Total Eclipse of the Chart on cKut 90.3! The show, which plays tracks from the station’s most played albums from the past week, airs at 6am on Thursday- so we’re not so keen on doing it live. Last week we had a particularly strong set list. If you’re interested you can listen to September 29th’s show and hear me DJ with Karen R. The earlier show ran long, so you’ll hear […]

Categories: Canadian, Electronic, Experimental, Hip Hop, Mashups, New Wave, Pop, R&B, Rap, Rock

Band Mother Mother live at Concordia University Frosh, Montreal

It takes a dedicated hand to put it through the wall

September 29, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Just some Mother Mother for you- because some Mother Mother is infinitely greater than zero Mother Mother. Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Concert Pics, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Rock • Tags: alternative, Canadian, concert, indie, Montreal, Mother Mother, music, photography, rock experimental

Setting the Arcade on Fire

September 26, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

On Thursday night I was part of “the most polite giant mob” Win Butler had ever seen. Hometown heroes, Arcade Fire, drew a crowd of 75,000 people for their free show which, both concluded their international tour and kick-started the 10th annual indie-music festival, POP Montreal. This has been a fantastic year for the band, in August 2010 they came out with their third studio album, The Suburbs. The Suburbs received wide acclaim by both music critics and fans. The NME’s […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Concert Pics, Experimental, Indie, Rock

Montreal la chine canal, sunglasses, filter, picnic

Nine Types of Light

July 22, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Huzzah for sunglasses as makeshift filters! Last week I spent some quality time in my radio station’s library. My wonderful DJ partner and I were in this musical paradise into the early hours of the morning. We went through a bunch of the new promo CDs we’d received over the past three months… um… yes: Jackpot. I had already heard and liked the new TV on the Radio single Will Do, so I gave the album a listen and discovered that […]

Categories: Alternative, Experimental, Funk, Indie, Jazz, Rock, Soul • Tags: experimental, indie, jazz, living in montreal, Montreal, music, photography, Rock, TV on the Radio

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Mother Mother Concert in Mac store July 2011, Molly Guldemond

Mother, May I?

July 19, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

So far I’ve avoided listing a song by the same band twice, but yesterday I attended a free Mother Mother concert at the Apple Store in downtown Montreal (I know!) It was fantastic and deserving of a post. As I lined up alongside fellow music hipsters/snobs, cars on the street and passerbys stopped to ask “what’s the new gadget?” Our response that it was a concert upstairs by a group called ‘Mother Mother’ only served to increase their looks of confusion. I’d […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Concert Pics, Experimental, Folk, Indie, Rock • Tags: Apple, Canadian, concert, indie, Mother Mother, music, photography, Rock

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Category Archives: Experimental

In Slow Motion

Releasing the Brothers

Making Mirrors

Happy Thanksgiving

….And Now For Something Completely Different

It takes a dedicated hand to put it through the wall

Setting the Arcade on Fire

Nine Types of Light

Mother, May I?