LIVEITUP PLEDGE DRIVE SPECIAL
THIS JUST IN: WE MADE OUR $25 000 GOAL! HOT DAMN!
seriously though, that's pretty great. i'm proud of our listeners, and i'm proud of our programmers. nice.
Alot of talkin this week, so not much to report playlist wise.
Here's Ten.
Means - Learning To Be Brave
Comeback Kid - Industry Standards
Buried Inside - Clockwork
Bane - Enjoy (Bjork Cover)
Hopesfall - Only The Clouds
Alexisonfire - Polaroids of Polar Bears
He Is Legend - The Seduction
For eleven i may have another guest host. maybe not.
we'l see.
Stay Posi.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
IX
NEINE.
CJAM Pledge Drive: The Drive For Twenty Five starts TODAY. This is real important; it's THE reason why CJAM is able to exist, and that I and all of the other 200+ volunteers are able to do what we do, and what we love. You'l hear more about this over the air though and, if you want even more info, check out http://www.cjam.ca/
Updated the upcomming shows section for November. Check it.
Big thanks to Kait navigatin this week. First week with a guest host on board, and I liked it. I'l try to get more guests on the air in, and maybe someone permanent...?
Number 9
Comeback Kid - Something Less
Stick To Your Guns - A Badge, A Brand
Lions - From The Blood In My Heart, To The Blood On My Hands
A Death for Every Sin - Holding On To What's Left
The Chariot - If Wishes Were Horses, More Beggars Would Ride Them
Bury Your Dead - Magnolia
Outbreak - Down, Not Out
Gravemaker - Comfort In Concrete
Misery Signals - Parallels
Bane - Ante Up
Comeback Kid - Loreli
xFinal Fightx - It's In The Blood
Casey Jones - Times Up
A Day And A Deathwish - Strength Within
Every New Day - Rise Up
Black Ships - When All Else Fails
Aspirations - Accident Prone
Bouncing Souls - Sing Along Forever
Take It Back - All That Keeps Us Strong
Cicuit For The Blackout tonight at the pickle.
CBK, BANE, MS TOMORROW.
YEAH
Stay Posi.
CJAM Pledge Drive: The Drive For Twenty Five starts TODAY. This is real important; it's THE reason why CJAM is able to exist, and that I and all of the other 200+ volunteers are able to do what we do, and what we love. You'l hear more about this over the air though and, if you want even more info, check out http://www.cjam.ca/
Updated the upcomming shows section for November. Check it.
Big thanks to Kait navigatin this week. First week with a guest host on board, and I liked it. I'l try to get more guests on the air in, and maybe someone permanent...?
Number 9
Comeback Kid - Something Less
Stick To Your Guns - A Badge, A Brand
Lions - From The Blood In My Heart, To The Blood On My Hands
A Death for Every Sin - Holding On To What's Left
The Chariot - If Wishes Were Horses, More Beggars Would Ride Them
Bury Your Dead - Magnolia
Outbreak - Down, Not Out
Gravemaker - Comfort In Concrete
Misery Signals - Parallels
Bane - Ante Up
Comeback Kid - Loreli
xFinal Fightx - It's In The Blood
Casey Jones - Times Up
A Day And A Deathwish - Strength Within
Every New Day - Rise Up
Black Ships - When All Else Fails
Aspirations - Accident Prone
Bouncing Souls - Sing Along Forever
Take It Back - All That Keeps Us Strong
Cicuit For The Blackout tonight at the pickle.
CBK, BANE, MS TOMORROW.
YEAH
Stay Posi.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
VIII
eight.
(plus one = days till pledge drive)
Added a couple more shows to the October Show's post, so check em out.
Sights and Sounds is workin on a full length. According to their website, as of October 1st, they were just putting the finishin touches on it, so watch out
Alexisonfire - .44 Calibre Love Letter
Rise Against - Everchanging
Stretch Armstrong - Set Free
Strike Anywhere - Sunset on 32nd Street
The Unseen - Waste of Time
Spark Of Life - For Every Action
Circuit For The Blackout - Attracted To The Jukebox
Saosin - Seven Years
Year One - Holding On
The Fully Down - Skate or Die
The Reason - Red Sky At Dawn
Hopesfall - With Open Hands To The Wind
Oceans Away - Emotions Away
The Fortunate - Storm's Brewin
Farewell To Freeway - Burnin At Both Ends
Burden Of A Day - The Smile That Kills
Underoath - Anyone Can Dig A Hole, But It Takes A Real Man To Live In It
Everytime I Die - Rebel Without Applause
Sights and Sounds - The Only Time
Only 10 days till CBK BANE MS
get pumped.
Stay Posi.
(plus one = days till pledge drive)
Added a couple more shows to the October Show's post, so check em out.
Sights and Sounds is workin on a full length. According to their website, as of October 1st, they were just putting the finishin touches on it, so watch out
Alexisonfire - .44 Calibre Love Letter
Rise Against - Everchanging
Stretch Armstrong - Set Free
Strike Anywhere - Sunset on 32nd Street
The Unseen - Waste of Time
Spark Of Life - For Every Action
Circuit For The Blackout - Attracted To The Jukebox
Saosin - Seven Years
Year One - Holding On
The Fully Down - Skate or Die
The Reason - Red Sky At Dawn
Hopesfall - With Open Hands To The Wind
Oceans Away - Emotions Away
The Fortunate - Storm's Brewin
Farewell To Freeway - Burnin At Both Ends
Burden Of A Day - The Smile That Kills
Underoath - Anyone Can Dig A Hole, But It Takes A Real Man To Live In It
Everytime I Die - Rebel Without Applause
Sights and Sounds - The Only Time
Only 10 days till CBK BANE MS
get pumped.
Stay Posi.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Since I never got around to talkin about Rise Against's new release Appeal To Reason during my show, I figure I'd take a crack at writin a review. Here goes...
The Basics
Artist: Rise Against
Title: Appeal To Reason
Date: October 7, 2008
The Meat
So, I picked up this CD the day after it was released, and I was real excited. I had been talkin about these guys the day before, and one of the things I've always liked about Rise Against is that they've consistently released quality stuff. I even went so far as to say there isn't one song by them that I don't like (with the exception of their black flag covers on This Is Noise, sorry). Basically, I was real siked for this CD. Unfortunately, not what I was lookin for.
Appeal To Reason is Rise Against's 5th release, goin back to their first album, The Unraveling, in 2001. Since The Unraveling they've steadily gotten more "refined", which is pretty natural for any band. Their initial couple releases were alot more rough, the vocals more harsh, but the stuff was still quality. With Siren Song, they got more technical, but it also had some of their hardest tracks (State of the Union for example). The Sufferer and The Witness in 2006 continued on the same path as Siren Song, though less hard. There are a few slower tracks on it, but they fit well and made for a real good release.
With Appeal To Reason, Rise Against has come the closest to "mainstream" as they ever have, and none of it seems particularly daring. Don't get me wrong, there are some good tracks on it, and some catchy choruses. Hairline Fracture and Long Forgotten Sons stuck out the most to me, though they don't really stand up to Rise Against's previous releases. And, true to their style, Appeal To Reason has got alot of politics thrown in there, Re-Education (Through Labour) and Collapse (Post-Amerika) in particular. They've also thrown another acoustic track on this album. Their first acoustic track, Swing Life Away from Siren Song, is top notch. This time around, with Hero Of War, they address some real heavy stuff; a soldier's life, the atrocities that they witness and take part in, and how the public treats them whent they return. It's heavy, that's the best way I can describe it. On a couple tracks, they even give some gang vocals a shot, which is a new thing for them, but it just comes out wrong. One new thing that they did do with this album that I really like is the packaging. It's all recycled paper with inks from vegetables, which is a nice thing to see.
All in all, Appeal To Reason is...mediocre. It's a decent CD, and if it were from a different band with a different track record than Rise Against, I probably wouldn't be so rough on it. But what I was expecting and what it turned out to be were two different things. It just seems to be missing the gritty-ness that the rest of their stuff has always had. Talkin about big issues is important, and I respect that. But with this CD they seem to have focused on that too much, in my opinion, and there aren't really any tracks that reach out and connect on the base level.
I'd suggest checkin it out online before goin out to pick it up. If your a hardcore Rise Against fan, it's worth havin a copy of it. Just don't set your sights to high on this one.
Rating: 3/5
Stay Posi.
The Basics
Artist: Rise Against
Title: Appeal To Reason
Date: October 7, 2008
The Meat
So, I picked up this CD the day after it was released, and I was real excited. I had been talkin about these guys the day before, and one of the things I've always liked about Rise Against is that they've consistently released quality stuff. I even went so far as to say there isn't one song by them that I don't like (with the exception of their black flag covers on This Is Noise, sorry). Basically, I was real siked for this CD. Unfortunately, not what I was lookin for.
Appeal To Reason is Rise Against's 5th release, goin back to their first album, The Unraveling, in 2001. Since The Unraveling they've steadily gotten more "refined", which is pretty natural for any band. Their initial couple releases were alot more rough, the vocals more harsh, but the stuff was still quality. With Siren Song, they got more technical, but it also had some of their hardest tracks (State of the Union for example). The Sufferer and The Witness in 2006 continued on the same path as Siren Song, though less hard. There are a few slower tracks on it, but they fit well and made for a real good release.
With Appeal To Reason, Rise Against has come the closest to "mainstream" as they ever have, and none of it seems particularly daring. Don't get me wrong, there are some good tracks on it, and some catchy choruses. Hairline Fracture and Long Forgotten Sons stuck out the most to me, though they don't really stand up to Rise Against's previous releases. And, true to their style, Appeal To Reason has got alot of politics thrown in there, Re-Education (Through Labour) and Collapse (Post-Amerika) in particular. They've also thrown another acoustic track on this album. Their first acoustic track, Swing Life Away from Siren Song, is top notch. This time around, with Hero Of War, they address some real heavy stuff; a soldier's life, the atrocities that they witness and take part in, and how the public treats them whent they return. It's heavy, that's the best way I can describe it. On a couple tracks, they even give some gang vocals a shot, which is a new thing for them, but it just comes out wrong. One new thing that they did do with this album that I really like is the packaging. It's all recycled paper with inks from vegetables, which is a nice thing to see.
All in all, Appeal To Reason is...mediocre. It's a decent CD, and if it were from a different band with a different track record than Rise Against, I probably wouldn't be so rough on it. But what I was expecting and what it turned out to be were two different things. It just seems to be missing the gritty-ness that the rest of their stuff has always had. Talkin about big issues is important, and I respect that. But with this CD they seem to have focused on that too much, in my opinion, and there aren't really any tracks that reach out and connect on the base level.
I'd suggest checkin it out online before goin out to pick it up. If your a hardcore Rise Against fan, it's worth havin a copy of it. Just don't set your sights to high on this one.
Rating: 3/5
Stay Posi.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
VII
Sept.
Get The Most is working on a new album as of April 08
Anthems' latest (and last) album Still Living is available online for free through www.anthemshc.blogspot.com/ Check. It. Out.
Aspirations - 10729 King George HWY
H2O - Go
Crime In Stereo - The Impending Glory Of American Adulthood
Bear vs. Shark - Busses/No Busses
Get The Most - Pass It On
Champion - Perspective (live)
Fucked Up - Crusades
With Honor - All Hope Aside
Take It Back - Standin On The Edge Of Hope
Set It Straight - Playin Dead
Anthems - It's Chill Bro
Final Fight - Detox
Grave Maker - Dear Brother
Rise Against - Hairline Fracture
Underoath - We Are The Involuntary
Misery Signals - Labyrinthian
Rosesdead - Night Danger
Dead and Divine - Like Wolves
Once again, sorry about not bein around last week.
And big thanks to Derek for fillin in for me.
Stay Posi.
Get The Most is working on a new album as of April 08
Anthems' latest (and last) album Still Living is available online for free through www.anthemshc.blogspot.com/ Check. It. Out.
Aspirations - 10729 King George HWY
H2O - Go
Crime In Stereo - The Impending Glory Of American Adulthood
Bear vs. Shark - Busses/No Busses
Get The Most - Pass It On
Champion - Perspective (live)
Fucked Up - Crusades
With Honor - All Hope Aside
Take It Back - Standin On The Edge Of Hope
Set It Straight - Playin Dead
Anthems - It's Chill Bro
Final Fight - Detox
Grave Maker - Dear Brother
Rise Against - Hairline Fracture
Underoath - We Are The Involuntary
Misery Signals - Labyrinthian
Rosesdead - Night Danger
Dead and Divine - Like Wolves
Once again, sorry about not bein around last week.
And big thanks to Derek for fillin in for me.
Stay Posi.
October Shows
I'm gonna try somethin new here.
I've been throwin this kind of info in with my playlists, but it's gettin a little cramped.
At the beginning of each month i'l do this, and add new stuff when i find it. hopefully it works out.
On air tonight, 9:00pm. be there.
Oct 8 & 9
The Flatliners, NOFX, Dillinger 4
Kool Haus
Toronto, ON
Oct 19
Abandon All Ships, Buried and Breathing
The Embassy Hotel
London, ON
Oct 24
Circuit For The Blackout, Blind Witness
The Chubby Pickle
Windsor, ON
Oct 25
Comeback Kid, Bane, Misery Signals, Shai Hulud, Outbreak, Gravemaker
Salt Lounge
London, ON
Oct 28
Bane, H2O, Energy, Cruel Hand
The Ritz
Detroit, MI
Oct 28
The Reason
Club Vinyl
Guelph, ON
Oct 29
This Is Hell, Four Year Strong, I Am The Avalanche, A Loss For Words
The Magic Stick
Detroit, MI
Stay Posi.
I've been throwin this kind of info in with my playlists, but it's gettin a little cramped.
At the beginning of each month i'l do this, and add new stuff when i find it. hopefully it works out.
On air tonight, 9:00pm. be there.
Oct 8 & 9
The Flatliners, NOFX, Dillinger 4
Kool Haus
Toronto, ON
Oct 19
Abandon All Ships, Buried and Breathing
The Embassy Hotel
London, ON
Oct 24
Circuit For The Blackout, Blind Witness
The Chubby Pickle
Windsor, ON
Oct 25
Comeback Kid, Bane, Misery Signals, Shai Hulud, Outbreak, Gravemaker
Salt Lounge
London, ON
Oct 28
Bane, H2O, Energy, Cruel Hand
The Ritz
Detroit, MI
Oct 28
The Reason
Club Vinyl
Guelph, ON
Oct 29
This Is Hell, Four Year Strong, I Am The Avalanche, A Loss For Words
The Magic Stick
Detroit, MI
Stay Posi.
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