I was a really lucky boy on Thurs­day night. A favourite band of mine, The Bar­mitz­vah Broth­ers, played a reunion show at The Sil­ver Dol­lar to help cel­e­brate their old label (weew­erk)‘s 8th anniver­sary. I’ve always liked how record label’s feel the need to cel­e­brate each anniver­sary with some kind of event, and (weew­erk) cer­tainly pulled out all the stops this time ’round. Nearly every band on their ros­ter, past and present, showed up over two nights, but the band I was most excited for was actu­ally the one that kicked off the festivities.

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Tags: (weewerk), Silver Dollar, The Barmitzvah Brothers · 1 Comment

Hello, I’m going to try some early morn­ing blog­ging here. I’m in a bit of a rush, my ride for Austin leaves in half an hour, yet I’m still sit­ting here scarf­ing my face with peanut but­tered toast and 2% milk. Yes, that’s right, if all goes well on the way down, I shall be at SXSW again this year. I had a blast last year cov­er­ing the fes­ti­val for the National Post, but this time ’round I’m doing it on my lone­some. No fancy media pass (no pass at all yet, though we’ll see if my for­tunes change), but unlike like year, I actu­ally feel like I know what the hell is going on as far as cool bands to see (work­ing in a record store has helped tremendously).

So yes, I must be on my way, but I’ll leave you with some fun videos from this past week­end. Didn’t have time to edit them or any­thing, just dumped the footage on YouTube. First up, it’s PS I Love You fea­tur­ing Dia­mond Rings per­form­ing “Facelove” at the Sil­ver Dol­lar on Friday.

And here’s The Magic play­ing their hit song “Down­town Line” in some weird sort of tomb off of Oss­ing­ton, at 4 AM, tech­ni­cally Sat­ur­day morning.

Tags: CMF, Diamond Rings, PS I Love You, Silver Dollar, SXSW, The Magic · 3 Comments