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Delerium Still Exist And Have A New Video

Nadia, singer for Delerium

Nadina, singer for Delerium

Anyone remember when people like Enigma and Deep Forest and the like first started doing that ethno-techno-house-ambient stuff full of Gregorian chants and “exotic” instruments?  And now we have, like, Major Lazer and the internet so nothing’s exotic anymore?

Well, back in the day Frontline Assembly/Skinny Puppy dude Bill Leeb created Delerium to sorta straddle that line between ethno techno and aural angel hugs and now he’s made a new video for a song called “Monarch” with a singer named Nadina.

You can check it out by heading over to Spinner by clicking here.

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Boots And Hearts And Rain And Country Music

Carrie Underwood & Tim McGraw

Carrie Underwood & Tim McGraw

Sarah spent last weekend in the rain and mud and relative wilderness of the inaugural Boots And Hearts country music festival in Bowmanville, Ontario.

The festival, which is aiming to become a sort of Bonnaroo for new country, had a pile of big names like Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock and Tim McGraw perform across its three days.

It also had non-stop rain, mud and front loading tractors driving through the middle of the audience (you have to backtrack through Sarah’s twitter account at @fodderfigure to see some of this stuff… it was kind of an Apocalypse Now adventure).

Anyway, she also wrote an official recap of the fest which you can read over at The Boot by clicking here.

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TIFF 2012 Gets Skrillex, Spike Lee And A Jeff-Tim Buckley Film

Spike Lee and Skrillex

Spike Lee and Skrillex

The Toronto International Film Festival announced a number of new movies that would be showing at the event and there were a few music ones amongst the names.

The highest profile would probably be Spike Lee‘s Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25 about Jacko’s Bad album. Next is Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers and its soundtrack by Skrillex. Then there’s Greetings From Tim Buckley, which is probably the lowest profile of the three, but likely the most interesting to record collector types.

Anyway, Sarah wrote a recap about this for Spinner. You can read more by clicking here.

 

 

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Polaris People For The Week Of August 10 (Dan Mangan! Sarah Harmer! Handsome Furs!)

Dan Mangan at the 2012 Short List announcement.

Dan Mangan at the 2012 Short List announcement.

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

Dan Mangan talked about what it was like to have the Olympics invade your city, there’s a status report about Dan Boeckner‘s bands, and Sarah Harmer collects followers.

To read about them, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.

 

 

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20 Pop Songs That Are Far Darker Than You’d Think

Fun.

Fun.

Have you listened to that “Pumped Up Kicks” song? It’s not fun. It’s psychopath music.

We’re talking Columbine level.

Knowing that this song had tricked a lot of folks into thinking it was a happy-go-lucky pop tune Sarah went and found another 19 numbers that are really actually about murder, revenge, deceit and other generally nasty stuff.

That list — 20 Dark Pop Songs — can be found over at Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.

 

 

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