To cel­e­brate and offi­cially wel­come their new 7″ sin­gle, last week Tasseo­mancy played a rare Toronto head­lin­ing show at The Tran­zac. I first encoun­tered the twins Sari and Romy Light­man when I moved to Toronto in 2008. They were actu­ally the first group I inter­viewed (when they were known as Ghost Bees) for the National Post, and their album Tasseo­mancy was one of my favourites from that year. In the two years since then their music has evolved to have a much darker and atmos­pheric sound, per­fectly suited for their macabre lyrics and style. The addi­tion of keys and drums and switch to elec­tric gui­tar should help turn a few more heads, espe­cially those who had them painted as just another folk band with nice harmonies.

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When Rick White asked me to help film the Blue Fog Revue last week, there was no way I could say no. Besides play­ing in one of my all time favourite bands, Rick is also part of the Blue Fog Record­ings fam­ily, hav­ing released 3 solo albums for the label he helped start close to ten years ago. Some other bands on the label include $100, André Ethier, Castle­mu­sic… basi­cally a bunch of bands I really love. The entire active ros­ter was on the bill last Fri­day at Lee’s Palace, but if you hap­pened to miss it you can check out selec­tions from the evening on YouTube. I filmed the whole night along­side Rick, and he’s been busy edit­ing the footage all week.

I also bought a dig­i­tal cam­era, finally. Maybe I’ll start post­ing photos?

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