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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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Welcome to My Zoo

July 28, 2014 by ebembo

I’m a sucker for a good bass line. This song by Glass Animals – an indie rock band from Oxford, England – delivers. When you grow up living with a sibling who plays the bass guitar non-stop, you cannot help but develop an ear for new, distinctive, groovy bass riffs. In fact, it is to your advantage to recommend new tracks to your sibling, otherwise you’re just stuck listening to “Aeroplane” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on repeat. I also […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: animals, bass, British, British Music, Glass Animals, indie, Indie Rock, music, photography, psychedelic, psychedelic pop, trip hop

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Sing With Me Whale

July 7, 2014 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Whale! Port Stephens, NSW, Australia I had mixed reviews the first time I heard this song: loved it to start, but then found the constant repetition off-putting. I brushed it aside as a non-starter for Snapshots– only to have it slowly invade my subconscious over the next two weeks. Now it plays all the time– both in my head and in my apartment. I’ve found it ideal for hanging laundry, preparing lunch, cleaning out the cupboards… This lo-fi track “Whale” […]

Categories: art rock, Indie, Lo-fi, Rock • Tags: Australia, fisherman, indie music, Indie Rock, lo-fi, music, NSW, photography, yellow ostrich

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A little thunder’s good

December 9, 2013 by ebembo

In movies and TV shows, there is a trope that, if properly executed, can be utterly charming, and if poorly handled, can be the most grating thing in the world, and that is the oft-used character of the Wise Beyond Her Years Child. In the movie 500 Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character seeks life advice from his kid sister, played by a pre-teen Chloë Grace Moretz, as she waxes philosophical from the sidelines of her soccer game. At first, […]

Categories: Canadian, Folk, Indie, Rock, singer-songwriter • Tags: Canada, Canadian music, indie, indie folk, Indie Rock, Montreal, singer-songwriter

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Gold fleur-de-lis gates at the jardin tuileries, Place de la concorde, Paris, sun flare

White, Gold, Wild

June 25, 2013 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Looking out through the gates of Jardins des Tuileries towards Place de la Concorde, Paris The Montreal Jazz Fest starts this Friday, which makes me unbelievably jealous. That city is just the greatest place on earth in the summer. Jazz Fest is only the first in a long string of festivals of all my favourite things: music, art, music, comedy, music. Resulting in former-Montrealers to think of the City in wistful tones “Oh Montreal…” We use the same air of […]

Categories: Alternative, Dreamwave, Folk, Indie, Rock, Symphonic • Tags: alternative, art, dreamwave, indie, indie folk, Indie Rock, Montreal Jazz Fest, music, Paris, photography, travel

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Espace Go Theatre loading dock, graffiti mural, black and white

Espace Go

September 10, 2012 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Montrealers might recognize the photo as that cool garage up on St Laurent. What they might not know is that this is the loading dock to Théâtre Espace Go. The company had been having problems with vandalism so they held a competition with artists from the two biggest graffiti collectives in the city, En Masse and Mu. Together they created <<Quai des Arts.>> Here’s an awesome vid of the work in progress: The track is from the always fun Matt […]

Categories: Alternative, Dance, Electropop, Funk, Indie, Pop, Rock • Tags: Canada, electropop, En Masse, graffiti, indie, Indie Rock, Matt and Kim, Montreal, Mu, mural, music, photography, pop, quai des arts, Quebec, Rock, speed painting, street art, Theatre Go

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