India Wedding

Defiant to the bitter end, Hayden delivers a fine piece of scorned indie/folk love-rock with Let’s Break Up .  Found on Paul Hayden Desser’s 2009 full-length release The Place Where We Lived , the song offers a number of lines that should be immediately written down for use if ever on the shittier side of a break-up.  Like Hayden’s previous 7 full-length efforts, The Place Where We Lived was released via his recording label Hardwood Records .

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Hayden – Let’s Break Up

2009 brought the debut album from Rich Terfry (the man behind the Buck 65 moniker) and his newest collaborator, Belgian producer Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê.  The electronic/hip-hop project, known as Bike for Three! , released More Heart Than Brains this past summer to almost exclusive acclaim.  Today’s song is not from that album, nor is it from the Bike for Three! project

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Buck 65 – Blood Of A Young Wolf

Really fantastic song up today from the Kelowna, British Columbia progressive indie-rock trio We Are The City.  Originally formed in 2006 under the name “Seraph”, the band changed their name to “The City” in 2007, and then added the all important “We Are”  in May of 2008.  Consisting of Cayne McKenzie on vocals and keys, David Menzel on guitar, and Andy Huculiak on drums, We Are The City deliver a completely unexpected, but welcomly familiar, sound

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We Are The City – Astronomers

Up tonight is another haunting installment from Calgary’s favorite indie/experimental-rock artist Chad VanGaalen . VanGaalen demonstrates his talent as an animator/illustrator with the video that accompanies Molten Light , and allows us to be pleasantly horrified both visually and sonically.  The song itself can be found on VanGaalen’s 3rd full-length effort Soft Airplane , released in September of 2008 via Flemish Eye and Sub Pop record labels

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Chad VanGaalen – Molten Light

Tim Barry’s last record was arguably one of the best records of 2008/09. It’s simple honesty in both its music and lyrics made it a staple here at casa Songs:Illinois. I expect the same from the new record

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First song from Tim Barry’s “28th and Stonewall” (Suburban Home Records, January 26)

We look at carbon dioxide as a gas and solid (dry ice), but more unusually as a liquid. This is part of our “Molecular Videos” series. More at www.periodicvideos.com

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Carbon Dioxide (Part I) – Periodic Table of Videos

L’Oreal Paris is thrilled to add hair expert and Internet sensation Johnny Lavoy to the company’s roster of beauty experts in the United States. Â Lavoy’s recent rise to fame in the beauty industry was fueled by his “How to Get the Look” videos that appear online via Ford Models.

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L’Oreal Paris Announces New Hair Expert – Hair Stylist Johnny Lavoy (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Today’s song comes in from Toronto-based singer/songwriter/producer Royal Wood and his second full-length album A Good Enough Day , released via Canadian Dead Daisy Records in 2007.  The album follows-up on Wood’s 2004 debut LP Tall Tales , and has since been followed-up by a 2009 EP titled  The Lost and Found EP .  This past November, Wood supported the latest EP with his first headlining tour through Western Canada, accompanied by Atlantic Canadian singer/songwriter Rose Cousins ; Cousins, along with Ana Egge , served as the backing vocal tandem on Joel Plaskett ’s award-winning 2009 release Three .

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Royal Wood – I’m So Glad

Here’s a fun little activity for everyone:  The next time you have nothing to do, grab the blankets off your bed, throw them across your couch/coffee table creating a fort of sorts, shut off every light in your house/apartment, climb in with a flashlight, and listen to the new Timber Timbre album; friends of mine will know this activity as “Saturday Night”.  Though I’m only half-serious, there is a certain quality to Taylor Kirk’s indie-folk project that begs to be consumed in a manner that compliments the strange atmosphere the work creates.   Lay Down in the Tall Grass can be found on said new album, a self-titled release that hit shelves in June of last year.

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Timber Timbre – Lay Down in the Tall Grass

I haven’t listened to a lot of Dallas Green / City and Colour in about 6 months.  This is due in part to a self-inflicted saturation of the project in 2008 and early 2009, and in part to my discovery of Dan Mangan last year, who has fared quite admirably in satisfying my moody acoustic/folk-rock needs

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City and Colour – The Girl

After a relatively quiet 2009 (It would be nice if my relatively quiet years included an album I produced being shortlisted for the Polaris Prize ), Hawksley Workman is poised once again for a big year; the Polaris-shortlisted album Workman produced was Hey Rosetta! ’s masterpiece Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood) .  Workman’s 11th full-length album “Meat” is scheduled for a January 19th release, which will be followed by Workman’s 12th full-length album “Milk”, which will be released digitally over a 5-month period.   We’ll Make Time was the first preview track released from Meat and is an absolute powerhouse of a song

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Hawksley Workman – We’ll Make Time

Up today is some sublime lo-fi indie-rock/pop, care of Vancouver-based The Awkward Stage .  Consisting of frontman Shane Nelken, Tygh Runyan (Beans) on guitar, Tony Koelwyn (Bossanova) on drums, and Chris Mitchell who plays with the Vancouver Symphony on trumpet and keyboards, The Awkward Stage have two full-length releases to their name since forming in 2006.   Heaven Is For Easy Girls can be found on the band’s 2006 debut LP of the same name, released via Vancouver-based independent record label Mint Records .

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The Awkward Stage – Heaven Is For Easy Girls

weeee sorry this took longer than i said!! So, BY FAR my number one requested video to do is a collection video. If youve watched me for awhile, you know that in the past I havent exactly been the biggest fan of collection or haul videos

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Collection video January 2010

Today’s track is another gem from the Montreal indie/electronic-rock husband/wife duo of Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry , otherwise known as Handsome Furs .   Radio Kaliningrad can be found as the closing track to the band’s sophomore full-length album Face Control , released via Sub Pop Records in March of 2009.

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Handsome Furs – Radio Kaliningrad

Please note: I often record my videos in multiples, usually five or six in one day. If I am wearing the same clothes or makeup in more than one video, that is why. This video was recorded some time prior to the day it was uploaded and so I may not remember what eye shadows or lip color I’m wearing