The PopCast with Andrew Rose

PopCast #50 - 2008 is Broken (for Henry)

2008-12-18T18:58:00.004-05:00

Episode 50! A special extended 2008 year in review episode!

PopCast #50 - 2008 is Broken (for Henry)

Actually, I know that I've done way more than 50 of these things since I started this podcast back in 2005. Chalk it up to way too many "Side A"s and "Part 2s". It being a special end of year wrap-up, and twice as long as your standard episode, there was no way I was going to call it "Episode 47" or something lame like that. So here you have it, ten songs from ten great albums that came out this year, plus some extra nuggets.

Dedicated to Henry Benjamin Rose, born October 30th, 2008!

PopCast the Next Generation - Burn the Tapes (Episode 46?)

2008-10-01T19:35:00.004-04:00

The PopCast returns. Maybe? Either way it's October 1st, 2008, and this is a PopCast episode, in the old style of previewing bands playing the Pop Montreal festival, which is underway today.

PopCast the Next Generation / Episode 46 - Burn the Tapes

In this episode!

Valleys, My People Sleeping, Hi Lonely Oak, Adam & the Amethysts, and more....

PopCast #45B Part 2 [We're Not Here, aka the Matt Shane episode]

2008-03-03T14:14:00.004-05:00

It's finally here, I can finally get Jack Dylan off my case and say a proper goodbye to 2007...in March. I'll spare you the details of how it came to be that we've not gone live with this until now, but this episode was finished in January, and caps off the Top Ten International Albums countdown we began on Episode 45B Part 1.

PopCast #45B - Part 2 [We're Not Here]

Lots of Jack Dylan rambling, some amazing songs, and attitude advice.

As always, it's anybody's guess as to what happens from here, but I'm sure Jack will be on my case when he returns from Japan...

Enjoy.

PopCast #45C [I Want You to Know - 2007 Covers, Reissues, Soundtracks, and Oversights]

2008-02-13T13:57:00.006-05:00

The glowing blind spot of 2007, featuring everything not packed into the more conventional countdowns and wrap-ups of the year gone by (ie. episode 45, Sides A and B ...). In this episode I take advantage of Jack Dylan's overseas incompetence (ie. Part 2 of Side B is coming soon) to deliver a kind of outtakes intermission ... touching on some late discoveries / oversights from 2007, some reissues, some covers, and some soundtrack samplings. Maybe my favourite of the 2007-in-review-bunch. Anyway, by some calendars, we're only a couple of days into the new year. We'll dedicate this one to Heath Ledger; may it carry him through the afterlife.

PopCast #45C [I Want You to Know - 2007 Covers, Reissues, Soundtracks, and Oversights]

Featuring: Ólöf Arnalds, Sandro Perri, Elfin Saddle, Wilco, Nelson Angelo e Joyce, Stephen Malkmus, Peter Sarstedt, Jonny Greenwood, Sunset Rubdown, Andrew Bird, CSS.

PopCast #45B Part 1 [the mass we left behind]

2008-02-02T00:55:00.000-05:00

One of the things I love about doing the PopCast is being able to highlight songs, albums, and artists of recent memory, but without the sometimes over-anxious pace of breaking news, leaks, debuts, and scoops. Now, you could say that's a convenient excuse for laziness or journalistic resignation, or say, finally putting the finishing touches on a 2007 wrap-up in February, and you might be right. But at least by the time anyone hears this (does anyone still listen to these? Matt Shane doesn't think so...), they will have long since stopped caring about who made what top ten. And rightly so.

Yes, this is Side B of Episode 45 [the mass we left behind].

Where Side A was "Canadian/Montreal" 2007 countdown of sorts, Side B hits up all those other great records from the year gone by, the one we've left behind.

We've even split this into two further parts, partly to confuse things, and partly because Jack Dylan (who now fancies himself a full fledged co-host) thought it would be appropriate given the length of the episode. While I don't know if I should pass over "production" duties to him (Part 2 will surface as soon as I undo the damage he's done to it), he might be right in this regard. Jack likes to talk. I don't know if all this talking is a good thing or a bad thing, but these songs are pretty great. And I do like the little doodles he's been making lately.

Rumours of an additional pod-pop-show are bubbling as young prospects appear to be eyeing for ice-time all over. If the Habs have taught us anything this year, it's that every organization needs a good crop of up and coming talent to carry and develop the load. So bring it, kids!

Jack is off to Japan for a couple months, where he'll be filing field reports...and the PopCast, whatever it is, continues to rattle along.

Enjoy!

PopCast #45 (Side A): Emotional Rescue (Canada 07)

2007-12-14T06:56:00.000-05:00

PopCast #45 (Side A): Emotional Rescue (Canada 07)

The PopCast commences it's end of year wrap up with a look at the best Canadian albums of the year, and welcomes Jack Dylan as official co-host alongside Andrew Rose....leave your cats at home; this one gets heavy.

PopCast #44: Entire Sun Cycles (with Taxes)

2007-10-06T17:46:00.000-04:00

PopCast #44: Entire Sun Cycles (and Taxes)(mp4)
(mp3)

SUNSET RUBDOWN, ENTIRE CITIES, THINK ABOUT LIFE (NEW GVP REMIX!), FRED WESLEY (WTIH MORT SAHL!)

The home-stretch does the full round for Saturday night, with Jack Dylan's Griffintown Spider-working-Man our hero. If the sun isn't up by the time you get home, ya blew it.

PopCast #43: Wonder Women and Glowing Orbs

2007-10-05T15:45:00.000-04:00

PopCast #43: Wonder Women and Glowing Orbs

A Pop Montreal preview for FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th. Featuring a guest appearance by Said the Gramophone's Sean Michaels, and more Jack Dylan...

PLANTS AND ANIMALS, BUCK 65, YEASAYER, BOCCE, PATTI SMITH

The weekend craziness kicks in. Hold onto your pants. Or don't!

PopCast #42: Big Men on Campus in Leather

2007-10-04T14:54:00.000-04:00

PopCast #42: Big Men on Campus in Leather (with more Jack Dylan!)

MAN MAN, MAGIC WEAPON, THE LUYAS, THESE HANDS, MARK BERUBE, CODY CHESTNUTT, MAN MAN.

Whoah, been a while since episodes appeared back to back one day to the next. Setting a difficult precendent here, but there are just too many good shows happening every night. Episode 42 is dedicated to Thursday October 4th! With a brief cameo by festival director, Dan mother-fuckin'-Seligman. Come on, people!

PopCast #41: Heroes & Blasphemies (with Jack Dylan!)

2007-10-03T11:36:00.000-04:00

Pop Montreal 2007 is underway, with episode 41 highlighting some artists performing Wednesday, October 3rd:

PopCast #41: Heroes & Blasphemies (with Jack Dylan!)

CARIBOU, TORNGAT, OLA PODRIDA, THUNDERHEIST, FUCKED UP, MIRACLE FORTRESS

Co-hosted by Andrew Rose and famous-artist, Jack Dylan...who will be giving a run-down of the third installment his (in?)famous superheroes poster series and appearing on episodes throughout the festival. If all goes well have one of these episodes for everyday of the festival to help you make your excruciating decisions. But no get the impression that this is even scratching the surface...plough through that program, or abandon it entirely and go wandering. The best adventures are accidents that feel like magic because you went at them with an open heart. And open Pop 2007 she is!

PopCast #40: The Sexennial!

2007-09-17T10:36:00.000-04:00

The PopCast is back just in time for the sixth edition of Pop Montreal.

In this episode: Patrick Wolf, Radio Radio, Basia Bulat, Hot Panda, Beasts & Superbeasts, Devendra Banhart.

PopCast #40: The Sexennial

PopCast #36: Turduckens! (SXSW 2007)

2007-03-27T15:56:00.000-04:00

In this episode: Miracle Fortress, Frog Eyes, Andrew Bird, Dan Deacon, Ponytail, Amon Tobin, and an old-school legend.

PopCast #36: Turduckens! (SXSW 2007)

Spring, spring, spring; bring it on. Had a brief little taste of downright summer in Austin, Texas during SXSW last week, from which I'm now only recovering. So here's a dose of some of the best stuff I caught while in Texas.

PopCast goes Volume 3 (Episode #35: Lovers Pinned to the Sky in World Devastation)

2007-03-03T00:15:00.000-05:00

PopCast #35: Lovers Pinned to the Sky in World Devastation (m4a) .....

In this episode: Volume 3! X Y Lover->Forest City Lovers, Handsome Furs, Zoobombs->the Besnard Lakes

There's something warm and comforting in being blanketed by 40 centimetres of snow in a day, in early March, knowing that it's just a temporary skin that will be shed, before the thaw and the invetibale spring. So much musical activity bubbling that it was time Vol. 3 of the PopCast kicked into gear to address this weekend's bounty, and get the ball rolling again. Much to be done before Pop Montreal 2007, it starts now, as always.

Get the mp3 at popmontreal.com.

PopCast #31.5: The Same Castle (taken as 2006 pt 2)

2007-02-02T03:11:00.000-05:00

PopCast# 31: The Same Castle:

Vetiver, TV on the Radio, Man Man, Kelley Stoltz, Final Fantasy, Joanna Newsom, Sunset Rubdown.

Wherein Fate has a way of setting history abalze, learns how to speak a defeated language, and the sun comes through and concerns itself with the invisible, appears to be sandcastle that the gibbering waves take, and buries it's head in the side of the world was the day is done.

PopCast #33: Anthems and Interventions (m4a)

2007-01-12T16:32:00.000-05:00

In this episode: Welcome to 2007 (w/ Simon Angell), Thunderheist, Think About Life, brown frequencies, Arcade Fire, Johnny and the Moon, Plants and Animals.

PopCast #33: Anthems & Interventions - m4a

Oh, the year turned on me sooner than I had expected. That New Year's Eve party episode ended up being the PopCast's sign-off to 2006, but fear not, fear not, the wrap-up will be completed, if in a slightly less conventional (read: exciting) manner. So here's the first PopCast of 2007, part preview, part wrap-up, all local take-no-prisoners awesomeness. There are some great shows happening this weekend previewed herein, so don't miss 'em.

PopCast #32: 2006 Wrap-Up Part 1 - Get Up! (LOVE) m4a

2006-12-31T05:41:00.000-05:00

PopCast #32: 2006 Wrap-Up Part 1 - Get Up! (LOVE)

2006 comes roaring to a sudden hault, and with it another end-of-year three-part PopCast (LOVE POWER PEACE). As with the 2005 episodes, part 1 here focuses on the more dance-friendly of numbers. A soundtrack for your own little personal New Year's Eve party. There was no one in music more dance-friendly than the James Brown, so this episode goes out to him, no doubt telling everyone in the afterlife to Get Up!

So in this episode: The Godfather of Soul, Ghostface Killah (is back), Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Bjorn & John, Hot Chip, The Whitest Boy Alive, Junior Boys, The Knife, Tiga/DFA, ...the hardest working man in show business...

I'll no doubt be borrowing from this tonight at the Green Room, where I'll be playing a midnight->2 set for an intimate New Year's celebration. Cover is a meager $5. No frills, no pressure; just lovely people, and lots of drinking and dancing.

Stay tuned for 33 and 34, showcasing local breakouts and the best of this year's moodier offerings, respectively.

Happy New Year!

PopCast #31: Town Finishes Painting / These Are the Soul (post-Pop pt.4) m4a version

2006-12-03T02:57:00.000-05:00

Episode 31 of the PopCast would have been here yesterday, but the planet decided to smack my block with a layer of dripping ice, like God frosting a cake. But all the more fitting it arrives on a Sunday, the last of the PopMontreal 06 wrap-up episodes, 40 minutes of stuff recorded during the festival itself (save the home-made prologue, and salute to the season).

PopCast #31: Town Finishes Painting/These Are the Soul (post-Pop pt. 4) (m4a )

Appearing in this episode: Patrick Watson, Jesse Jackson, Gary Lucas, Jace Lasek, Joe Grass, Mishka Stein, Robbie Kuster, Simon Angell, 'I'm Peter Tosh' and other random guy outside the Casa del Popolo, and friends and statesmen. Montreal Oct 6th-7th, 2006.

If you like this episode, you'll want to come to Pop's holiday season shows on the 15th and 16th at the Ukranian Federation. Patrick Watson and Plants & Animals play December 15th, and a growing group of local artists will be doing a 'Save Frosty the Snowman' benefit on the 16th. More will follow about the latter, it's shaping up to be quite a lineup.

This is assuming the neighbourhood doesn't get frosted itself, again. I don't know who all these people are who think symbolically renaming streets (or provinces) is a good use of time, but I'm glad this Dion guy's central message seems to revolve around the words 'environment' and 'sustainable'. Whatever they mean.

Now that the four-part post-festival episodes are done, we'll be moving swiftly back into festival application/upcoming shows content for the Podcast. I'll also being doing some kind of year-end wrap up much like last year. The podcast is starting to tale a bit more shape seasonally (and content wise), and in the coming week the whole back catalog of episodes will be archived here and available on iTunes. So get in your applications and mp3s, and send us your show listings. We're also looking for a couple unique contributors for the website, now that the next season is underway, so get in touch if you have ideas for the future. Or the past...

PopCast #30: Three Meteors (post-Pop pt. 3) m4a

2006-11-14T16:43:00.000-05:00

In this episode: Joanna Newsom & Sunset Rubdown.
Part three of the post-Pop episodes.

PopCast #30: Three Meteors (post-Pop pt. 3) - m4a version

A couple epics for Episode 30. Two of this year's big highlights from Pop Montreal are featured, including Joanna Newsom, whose Ys is out today.

PopCast #29: LilDishPipWasher Pieta for the Apocalypse (post-Pop pt. 2) - m4a version

2006-11-10T11:14:00.000-05:00

In this episode: Moments from Pop Montreal 2006. Jack Dylan's "Anti-Depressants for the Coming Apocalypse" exhibit featuring Dishwasher, the PopCast showcase featuring Lil 'Pip.

Both of these acts were supposed to be at the 'Cove tonight (see Wednesday's PopPicks ) though last I heard there was possibility of a Dishwasher cancellation. Jack Dylan is also taking his show to Toronto next week, though minus the (now purchased) Pieta.

Regardless, here's a mini episode with just a tiny offering of all the month-old tales still waiting to be told. Episode 30 should arrive by Monday, too.

PopCast #29: LilDishPipWasher Pieta for the Apocalypse (post-Pop pt. 2) - m4a

PopCast #28: Anything Can Happen When You're Walking Down the Street (post-Pop pt.1, m4a version)

2006-10-16T14:36:00.000-04:00

Well here we are again. It's only been a week since Pop Montreal wrapped-up in terms of the actual physical geographical event, but the seeds it planted have only just begun to sprout. If haven't already done so, make sure you investigate some of the great coverage of the festival that was done this year. Prefix Mag, Chromewaves, Zoilus and Midnight Poutine all have great coverage. Even David Byrne has a few things to say about his trip up...

PopCast #28: Anything Can Happen When You're Walking Down the Street (post-Pop pt. 1) (m4a version)

What I'll be doing starting with this episode is a series of enhances podcasts meant to captures bits and pieces of the festival as I experienced it. There was no better place to start than with Jesse Jackson and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. I ran into Jesse on the steps outside the big church on Rachel where the big Gonzales organ show was going on. I had already been down to the Jack Dylan vernissage by this point and seen great sets by Miracle Fortress and Dishwasher, and heard about the warm and heartening presence of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, whom we'd meet up with...later in the evening. (Elliott, incidently, was a good friend of Jesse's father, a painter named Harry Jackson who you can probably look up in the liner notes to Freewheelin'...).

A special thanks to Emily Gan for all the amazing pictures she took of Jesse during that ride he took with us in the trunk of a packed car on the way to see Ramblin' Jack. If you're not getting the enhanced version of the podcast here, you're missing out....And yes, most of this episode was recorded via the small trunk of a car.

There's just way too much of this kind of material here to blast through it in one urgent news-of-the-moment go, so I'll be rolling them out as regularly as I can until all of a sudden Pop Montreal 07 is upon us (accepting submissions November 1st!).

PopCast #27: Men That Aren't There (m4a version)

2006-10-02T15:31:00.000-04:00

In this episode: flash and flame...new Miracle Fortress, Akron/Family, Miracle Weapon/Magic Fortress doing John Cale, Magic Weapon, Sunset Rubdown.

PopCast #27: Men That Aren't There (m4a version)

At Pop:

Miracle Fortess: Oct. 4th @ 7pm - L'Autre Gallerie & Oct. 6th @ 10pm - Les Saints
Akron/Family: Oct. 7th @ 11pm - Le National
Sunset Rubdown: Oct. 8th @ 11pm - Ukranian Federation

Missing voices, the man who wasn't there, music, music, music, thank god. Something had to give, something had to get done, and I'm glad it came out like this. Damned if I was going to sit around and not let new episodes roll out in heavy numbers with the festival basically underway in less than two days. So to quicken the pace of both the production and consumption of the PopCast (so that as many artists can make it onto episodes prior to the fest as possible) I DO NOT APPEAR on this episode. I also think it's one of the best PopCasts yet. There's still special stuff happening within, and the m4a format yields more extra goodies, so plug it into your iTunes/pod.

I'll probably pop back onto the next few episodes here and there, but they will continue to be these condensed bursts of music, either linked thematically or by event.

This one centers around Graham Van Pelt (Miracle Fortress) and Jordon Robson Cramer (of Magic Weapon and Sunset Rubdown) stuff, as promised last episode. Includes their collaborative cover of John Cale's Hanky Panky Nohow. Also features two of the most exciting acts appearing at Pop: Akron/Family and Sunset Rubdown.

PopCast #26: Don't Make Choices Based on Lies (m4a version)

2006-09-30T20:01:00.000-04:00

In this episode: Patrick Watson, Lil Pip, Vincat, Percy Farm, GVP Tupac Remix, a little Mandolin solo....

PopCast #26: Don't Make Choices Based on Lies (m4a version)

The festival begins in something like 4 days, there's not much time to say much of anything, but much trying to be said, all the same. Pop is happening very soon; I recommend curling up with with the program and some podcasts and getting some rest for a few days, because the only thing that will be lacking this year is sleep.....

The PopCasts keep rolling, stay tuned.

PopCast #26: Don't Make Choices Based on Lies (mp3 version)

2006-09-30T20:00:00.000-04:00

In this episode: Patrick Watson, Lil Pip, Vincat, Percy Farm, GVP Tupac Remix, a little Mandolin solo....

PopCast #26: Don't Make Choices Based on Lies

The festival begins in something like 4 days, there's not much time to say much of anything, but much trying to be said, all the same. Pop is happening very soon; I recommend curling up with with the program and some podcasts and getting some rest for a few days, because the only thing that will be lacking this year is sleep.....

The PopCasts keep rolling, stay tuned.

PopCast #25 (Side B): Acts of God (Help Me Somebody) (m4a version)

2006-09-17T04:34:00.000-04:00

In this episode: Brian Eno & David Byrne remixed, David Byrne and the FMC, the Museum Pieces and the PopCast showcase, the Christa Min, Beirut, Special Events, Pop Levi, hi di hi di hi dee ho...

PopCast #25 (Side B): Acts of God (Help Me Somebody) (m4a version)

Pheew, ok, it's September 16th, Side B took a little longer to come around than first expected, but episode 26 should only be a couple days away. That wraps up the two part (or three if you count the other one year anniversary episode I did at the beginning of the month) 25th episode. We're still adding content to the website, but you'll notice the schedule is up, and downloadable in pdf. If you're in Montreal you should see the paper manual lying around sometime next week.

More more more to come ... don't be scared.

PopCast #25 (Side B): Acts of God (Help Me Somebody)

2006-09-17T04:33:00.000-04:00

In this episode: Brian Eno & David Byrne remixed, David Byrne and the FMC, the Museum Pieces and the PopCast showcase, the Christa Min, Beirut, Special Events, Pop Levi, hi di hi di hi dee ho...

PopCast #25 (Side B): Acts of God (Help Me Somebody) (Regular mp3 version)

Pheew, ok, it's September 16th, Side B took a little longer to come around than first expected, but episode 26 should only be a couple days away. That wraps up the two part (or three if you count the other one year anniversary episode I did at the beginning of the month) 25th episode. We're still adding content to the website, but you'll notice the schedule is up, and downloadable in pdf. If you're in Montreal you should see the paper manual lying around sometime next week.

More more more to come ... don't be scared.