Over the past few years, my music listening habits have been really mixed tape focused. Primarily it’s been PDP mixes but more recently I’ve been listening to a lot of streaming music. Last year, I was using 8tracks quite heavily, which continued the whole mix tape vibe. But this year I’ve recently started using Rdio…

I was at a Goodbye Summer party the other week and I ended up making conversation about music. We chit chatted about a few bands and what not but it dawned on me — and not for the first time recently — that I’m not listening to as many new artists as I used too.…

So how awesome is Midlake!? When two people said “Young Bride” was good enough to put on their PDP8 mixes, I thought I’d take an effort to find out more about them. They have a great quote by Jason Lee on their MySpace account. “The Trials of Van Occupanther is now one of the most…

Here’s something a little bit personal about me. One of my best friend’s parents are old-world Italian and I love the whole family. If I could describe the particular feeling of happy I get when over for BBQs or Christmas dinners with the family and friends, it would sound like beirut. So when I go…

If you were sitting around, thinking to yourself, ‘Self, I wonder what Paul’s favourite song is right now?’… If one were curious about what song truly defined Paul at this exact moment in his life… What song would this be!? It’d be The Wonder by Danish band The Figurines. This cut comes from their current…

Dan, Carmen and I were hanging out one day and we went through our PDP3 CDs and kinda talked about the different songs and reasons we put them on. It was fun so I thought I’d waste a lot of time and write up an annotated track listing for my CD. monochromatic 1. Relm and…

So I was sitting around working (procrastinating) on my thesis on Thursday when Dan instant messaged me. He told me Carmen had said she thought the matt pond PA concert was that night. Naturally alarmed, I quickly checked my ticket confirmation (I had ordered the tickets online through Ticketmaster) and they said Friday March 3.…

So I just went on a concert ticket buying spree. I picked up some We Are Scientists, Josh Rouse and some Ladytron tickets to go along with the matt pond PA and Mike Relm tickets I’ve already got. I think this means I don’t have money for Metric but I’ll try and get the work…

10. Ladytron – Witching Hour I really like bands that have that almost-cheesy electronic sound but are actually quite good. Basement Jaxx are a band like that and so is Ladytron. Their third album, Witching Hour is the natural progression from 604 and Light & Magic. Apparently, as part of the effort to make the…