In Your Light

We recently purchased Gotye's album "Making Mirrors" and M. is OBSESSED with "Somebody That I Used To Know." She asks me to play it every morning and afternoon when I drop her off and pick her up from the dayhome. It is, admittedly, a great song but my favourite track from the album is "In Your Light." It's one of those songs that just makes me want to dance.


 
Have a great weekend!

Rumour has it

Happy Friday! It's the 5th day of spring and I'm still holding out hope that it will arrive in the Prairies one day soon.

We are obsessed with Adele right now and this is my favourite song from her album "21." Enjoy!

They Might Be Giants

Now this is kids music I can get behind. I'm hoping to pick up their album "Here Comes Science" for our road-trip. Maybe I can turn M. onto science AND good music! All in good time.

I'm loving...

In other music news, the Juno nominations are out and one of my favourite artists, Serena Ryder, is nominated for New Artist of the Year.

Please, just go away...

Higher by Heidi Montag

I think my ears are bleeding and I am definitely stupider for having watched that.

Who let Celine out?

As someone who has never been a big fan of Celine Dion I thought this post at fourfour and the included video was hilarious! Who knew she was so delightfully strange?

Mother Mother

On Thursday night I am going with some friends to see The Most Serene Republic, Mother Mother and Dragonette. I had never heard either The Most Serene Republic or Mother Mother but thanks to CBC Radio 3's New Music Canada site, I was able to listen to some MP3s and I must say, I quite enjoy both bands.

*Edit: I couldn't figure out how to stop the mini-player from launching everytime you visit the blog so I've just included the link to the song instead.*

Here, for your listening pleasure is Neighbor by Mother Mother.

I'm (still) loving... Handle Me

I already posted this video on Facebook but I love this song so much I just couldn't help it.

Sweden's Robyn (yes, she of "Show Me Love" fame) is reentering the spotlight with this catchy song. The video is kind of bizarre but I've been playing this song on repeat for the past couple of weeks and haven't gotten sick of it yet!

On with the holidays

So Halloween is here which can only mean one thing - it's time to start thinking about Christmas. One thing that always gets me in the Christmas spirit is all of the holiday music. I'll listen to anything from an N'Sync Christmas to the classic standards. Stereogum has a nice list of new Christmas releases.

One of my personal recommendations are the Maybe This Christmas compilations.

Any particular Christmas albums you'd recommend?

Time After Time

I was listening to Z95 on my way to work this morning and they had an interview with Cyndi Lauper. She talked about her appearance on Canadian Idol a few weeks ago and her new acoustic album, The Body Acoustic. Then they played the new, stripped down version of Time After Time (which is a song I've always loved) featuring Sarah McLachlan and I was blown away. I'll admit that Sarah has a beautiful voice but I've never been a huge fan. However, the more I listen to her stuff, especially covers like this one and the Beatles' Blackbird, the more I start to like her.

Download: Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (featuring Sarah McLachlan)

Your Cover's Blown

The Belle & Sebastian show was Friday night and it was amazing. I loved every single minute of it and would have sat there all night, despite feeling like complete ass, if they had been willing to play their entire catalogue. I dragged A. along and we got in line at around 7:15pm because I wanted to get a seat since I didn't think I'd be able to stand all night without passing out. I expected there to a long line up but we were amazingly close to the front. Once inside I stopped at the merch. table and picked up a wicked tote bag. Would have liked a t-shirt too but they only came in smaller sizes. I can't even do the show justice so why not read a recap by Hanson who is much better with words than I am.

I'm feeling a lot better today but my voice is being slow to return to normal. Damn colds - this one was nasty.

Funny Little Frog

Who wants to go to Belle & Sebastian with me on March 24th? I'll be buying tickets tomorrow so let me know. (They're $39.50.) A. what do you think?

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Also, don't forget to vote on Monday!!

The wait is over...

Eeee... after hoping and praying for years, the wish has finally come true - Belle & Sebastian are playing the Commodore on Mar. 24th! I am sooo there.