May 2009
10 posts
BLOOD, SWEAT AND BEERS! EPISODE 4: "DIANA ROSS...
May the 4th be with you this May 31st. We probably recorded roughly an hour and a half’s worth of material to be edited down to the ten minutes of talking you hear this week (Episode 4: Diana Ross Rebagliati), but about an hour of the cut material was Craig Evans talking about various tour-related poo stories. Instead, we kept the classy stuff like: golden showers, late night drunken...
ANDREW WK HAS A MESSAGE FOR CALGARY
One of our favourite human beings in the entire universe — Mr. Andrew WK — is coming to Sled Island ‘09 and was nice enough to spread the word about it!
Download: Andrew WK “Party Hard at Sled Island” (MP3)
A TASTE FROM ABROAD #3: MONOTONIX
Quick question for you — is there an Israeli Cuisine joint in Calgary? Because if we’re working with this whole music-food analogy, and if Monotonix are representative of Israel, then we need to gorge ourselves on it. Luckily, you’ll be able to at Sled Island, because Monotonix are playing a shit ton of shows that are guaran-damn-teed to leave your jaw on the floor.
Watch:...
THE LOCAL DISH #3: WOMEN
Who-they Tuesdays returns on, er, Thursday…our bad! Consider this week’s update akin to one of those tucked away restaurants in which it takes a solid two hours to even get the waiter or waitresses’ attention…but the thing is, once the food arrives you forget the long delays because it’s just so scrumptious. Women are putting Calgary on the global map. They are a...
A TASTE FROM ABROAD #2: ANVIL
This week on our tasting menu of music we introduce you to the band that we are probably all most excited to see at Sled Island ‘09: Anvil. If BRAIDS are fusion cuisine and Sub-linguals a local ginger beef-like treasure, then Anvil are honest to goodness fan-fucking-tastic street food. Anvil is unhealthily fast, has guiltily tasty licks and is something that, well, Calgary just generally...
THE LOCAL DISH #2: BRAIDS
Who-they?-Tuesdays return with festival favourites, BRAIDS. This week we’re cheating just a little bit with the whole ‘local’ thing, though. You see, BRAIDS live in Montreal, but up until recently were known as Calgary-favourites The Neighbourhood Council. Make no mistake, my fellow Albertans, we’re calling them our own. Just pretend like we’ve got some Chowhound...
THE AVERAGE TWY-Q IS RAISED! EPISODE 3: "SLEDNOG...
In it’s third episode, and arguably three episodes too late, the Sled Island podcast (Episode 3: Slednog Millionaire) gets a much needed injection of smarts from the bestest illustrator on the planet, Twyla (she’s responsible for making this website look gorgeous like whoa). Anywho, we learn how Sled Island’s viking bunnies came to be, how Drew has a paralyzing fear of...
A TASTE FROM ABROAD #1: HEALTH
Each week we’ll be profiling one of the bands from outside of Alberta playing Sled Island ‘09. If Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations was about club shows instead of street food, and viewed online instead of on TV, and being made by a bunch of over-worked nerds instead of a world-renowned chef, well, it still probably wouldn’t be anything like this…but don’t let...
THE LOCAL DISH #1: SUB-LINGUALS
We’ll be serving up a profile on a different local band every Tuesday (Who-they?-Tuesdays?) from now until the festival kicks off. Consider it the musical equivalent of ginger beef and the Caesar. First up, a band who absolutely stole the show at the Sled Island pre-fest party and wow’d our guest curator, Colin Newman…Sub-linguals.
In Calgary’s current wave of weirdo garage...
THE (POD)CAST CH-CH-CHANGES! EPISODE 2: "SCARLETT...
Howdy ho! Podcast numero B (Episode 2: Scarlett Johanjob) sees a number of changes to the format we were slaves to for all of one episode. Most notably, we got tanked and talked more despite having a smaller cast. This week we play a smörgåsbord of tune-age (er, 9 songs!) from bands playing at Sled Island ‘09. We talk about how most indie rock festivals have a token hip hop show but...