Punk Rock and cheesy 80s covers - July 15th, 2010

Two weeks week after the very fun Sled Island music festival in Calgary. I wrote an article about it for the Concordian.

Personal highlights:

• meeting InMediaRes after getting drunk and deciding to ditch Dinosaur Jr. to find their show. I used to listen to them when I was in high school in Melfort. I was posting on a forum ran by a guy out of Vancouver who was friends with them. I warmed to them immediately because they sort of sound like David Bazan if he was in a rock band. Their guitarist was intensely awesome.
• Nardwar pinata at the Paper Bag Records party
• seeing other bands that I've liked for years and years and years, Hot Water Music and The Thermals.

Playlist:

* = Canadian

1. In Media Res* - Radio Friendly (Of What Was)
2. Minus the Bear - Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco (Highly Refined Pirates)
3. Paper Tiger - Medi's Asleep (Get It Right)
4. The Fjords* - Get It Right (Get It Right)
5. The Lawrence Arms - Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile
6. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Factory (Dig Me Out)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Eye of the Tiger (Drain the Blood 7")
8. Arcade Fire* Brazil (Cold Wind 7")
9. Duvall - True (Racine 7")
10. The Pack A.D.* - Everyone Looks Like Everyone (We Kill Computers)
11. Tessa Kautzman* - Back to the Yukon (Always Going Home)
12. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing