Metric - Live at Union Station
Director - NOW
Album - Metric - Fantasies
Label - Last Gang Records
Description - A great clip from a recent live set at Union Station in Toronto.
Chad VanGaalen - “City of Electric Light”
Director - martincathrae
Album - Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Label - Flemish Eye
Description - Chad represents at the 2010 Sappyfest in Sackville, NB.
Constantines - “New King”
Director - Vish Khanna
Album - Constantines - Kensington Heights
Label - Arts & Crafts
Description - Vish recording some shaky crowd-surfed video at this year’s Dawson City Music Festival.
Jim Guthrie - ‘Broken Chair”
Director - martincathrae
Album - Jim Guthrie - Now, More Than Ever
Label - Three Gut Records
Description - Jim Guthrie finally playing his first Sappyfest this summer. Vish Khanna of CBC Radio 3 does the intro.
The Burning Hell - “Tired of Playing Music”
Director - Lenny Epstein
Album - The Burning Hell - This Charmed Life
Label - Weewerk
Description - Awesome live clip shot in a Kingston barbershop.
The Acorn - ‘I Made The Law’
Director - Rick White
Album - The Acorn - No Ghost
Label - Paper Bag Records
Description - My favourite track off the new album from the Acorn. Live in Manchester, UK.
PS I Love You - “Starfield”
Director - Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca)
Album - PS I Love You - PS I Love You E
Label - Paper Bag Records
Description - A Southern Souls session in a downtown parking garage.
$100 - “Forest of Tears”
Director - Scott Cudmore
Album - $100 - Forest of Tears
Label - Blue Fog Recordings
Description - A live clip at SXSW. Cooking and singing at the same time?…..cool!
The Besnard Lakes - ‘And This Is What We call Progress’
Director - QTV
Album - The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Label - Outside Music
Description - Live in studio on the CBC radio show Q. I love this song and I heard this live on the radio when they first did it.
Megan Hamilton & The Volunteer Canola - Spring Tour Vlog #3
Director - Megan Hamilton
Album - Megan Hamilton - See Your Midnight Breath in the Shipyard
Label - Familiar
Description - The latest installment from Megan on her western Canadian tour.
Metric - “Satellite Mind”
Director - TBD
Album - Metric - Fantasies
Label - Last Gang
Description - A chaotic live clip from an HMV in-store in Toronto. Gritty but I love the energy.
Matthew Barber - “Suddenly”
Director - Jason Owens
Album - Matthew Barber - True Believer
Label - Outside
Description - Matthew Barber performing Suddenly from his new album, True Believer, available now! Performed at the Gibson Showroom in Toronto, ON.
“Andrew Vincent - When I Heard There Was No Sun”
Director - bagpiper132
Album - Andrew Vincent - Rotten Pear
Label - Arts & Crafts
Description - Recorded in Belfast, this new song features a shout out to Jay Retard and was recorded only a week or so before his untimely death.
Megan Hamilton & The Volunteer Canola - Spring Tour Vlog #1
Album - See Your Midnight Breath in the Shipyard
Label - Familiar Music
Description - Megan Hamilton & The Volunteer Canola practice for their upcoming tour, beginning May 8th in Kingston, ON travelling as far west as Vancouver. Catch the full tour schedule at http://www.meganhamiltonmusic.com or http://www.myspace.com/meganhamilton
Daniel, Fred and Julie - “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum”
Director - martincathrae
Album - Daniel, Fred & Julie - Daniel, Fred & Julie
Label - You’ve Changed Records
Description - Daniel Romano, Fred Squire and Julie Doiron performing their song Hallelujah, I’m a Bum. Fantastic acoustics in the Mount A Chapel.
Bruce Cockburn - “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”
Director - TBD
Album - Bruce Cockburn - Anything Anytime Anywhere Singles 1979 - 2002
Label - True North Records
Description - A solo acoustic version performed at Live 8 in 2005. Check out the rippin’ finger picking solos at the end.
Amy Millan - “I Will Follow you into the Dark”
Director - TBD
Album - Amy Millan - Masters of the Burial
Label - Arts & Crafts
Description - Amy Millan covers I Will Follow You into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie at Harbourfront (July 25/09).
Dan Mangan - “Basket”
Director - Megan Hamilton
Album - Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Label - File Under Music
Description - Watch Dan drop a great live track then get instantly reviewed by a panel. Hilarious.
Old Man Luedecke - “Big Group Breakfast”
Director - katiemck
Album - Old Man Luedecke - Proof of Love
Label - Black Hen Music
Description - “When it began to rain Saturday morning at the first ever Full Circle Festival, Old Man Luedecke saved the day! He played a surprise acoustic set to a group of unsuspecting festival-goers who had just woken up. What’s that they say about silver linings?”
Rae Spoon - “Be The Light”
Director - TBD
Album - Rae Spoon - Superioryouareinferior
Label - Rae Spoon
Description - A great live clip shot on the Old Danube, Vienna.