My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.
And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Excerpt from…..After Apple Picking, by Robert Frost
……Leaves turning to brown. Frost on the window. Blood on our Hands? Holiday season is a heavy sales period for the records you’ve put the groundwork into months previously.
The New Pornographers should be our hottest selling title over the holidays. The new album, “Challengers” has been selling solidly with some radio support and a bit of video support….and most of the world hasn’t yet seen or heard “Myriad Harbour”, my favorite track on the record. The Toronto show at the Phoenix a couple of weeks ago was phenomenal. You don’t see Toronto crowds ask for a double encore very often. I wish I had seen their Webster Hall show in NYC – from everything I’ve read it was epic. In case you missed them, check these links to our friends at KCRW and NPR – streaming New Pornos 24/7 for all the world to hear. YouTube nation stepped up to the NPs challenge…check out the winning entry here. Watch for new music from Carl and friends on iTunes in December….(ho ho ho!)
Boys Noize is hitting hard, even harder than expected. The critical raves for Oi Oi Oi are dropping like the leaves on the pine tree outside my house. In the words of Resident Advisor, we should all believe the hype. We are about to announce the imminent release of a Boys Noize remix EP, as well as more eagerly anticipated North America tour dates….watch for all of this in early 2008. Talking about his WMC set in Miami, Kid Millionaire said, “It was the best DJ set I’ve ever seen…I really think he’s the future”. Your President was there too….it was insanity. Go see him play, trust me.
I’ve seen over 100 Metric shows. If you were at the Fonda on October 5th you saw one of the best Metric shows of all time. YouTube’s got some clips. The lights, the energy, the sound…the smell of Fall in the air! And all of this the day before they performed for MySpacers around the globe for “Hey, Play This!”…(which I’m happy to say set an all time viewing record in Myspace land.) Metric are putting it all into their live show, playing a bunch of new songs and hitting another level with consistently inspired performances….worth the price of admission. The buds of a new album are about to blossom and Spring/Summer 2008 should be time for this band to take their rightful place amongst the Art Rocker elite. Their first DVD, titled “Live At Metropolis”, is readied for release February 12th, 2008 (check out the trailer). And just to get the Metric faithful through the holiday break, we are releasing a live audio/video EP in early December featuring highlights from the Metropolis show….all bundled in a nice package on iTunes for 99-cents!….(breaking the mold even Jay-Z couldn’t).
Crystal Castles hit the road with Metric for all of their recent U.S. dates, flew home and finished tracking their album, then flew off to the UK to start the UNITAUR! tour sponsored by our friends at Vice. They will do a few weeks of European dates before heading back to the UK to open for Mercury Prize winners, The Klaxons….to be followed by a visit to Japan and Australia before coming back home to Canada for the holidays. We are currently planning their February/March 2008 U.S. tour and look forward to bringing the new album with us!
Was that Chromeo on Jimmy Kimmel? Was that Chromeo on MTV (the REAL MTV??!!!) many, many times? Is it true they are working with Hall & Oates?? Hell yeah! These gentlemen bring the real spirit of Rick James to the party….(and they don’t even have to hire impersonators to play it live). Their new video for “Bonafide Lovin’” is golden delicious…check it here on LGR.TV. MTV is playing the video everyday….though our good friends at MuchMusic are still holding out – help Dave1 and P Thug get some video love by requesting it here through MOD.
Mother Mother continue their Exclaim! presents cross-country trek with Most Serene Republic and Dragonette. An odd bill that seems to be working – especially for MM. They’ll be back in the studio very soon working on the next recorded installment.
Let’s Go To War played their first show ever…..but you wouldn’t know it from the clip that Aaron put together for us – it’ll be up on LGR TV very soon. We are working on releasing their first piece of vinyl in early 2008. The whole city’s got a cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An apple a day.
Your President.
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