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A solid idea.</feedburner:browserFriendly><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-1287589444027718974</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-20T12:25:54.586-04:00</atom:updated><title>Halifax Pop Explosion Zine and Record Fair</title><description>&lt;a href="http://halifaxpopexplosion.com"&gt;Halifax Pop Explosion&lt;/a&gt; starts tonight and we happen to be in Halifax for the week, so....Fixture will have a table at the &lt;a href="http://halifaxpopexplosion.com/media/zine/halifax-zine-and-record-fair/"&gt;Halifax Zine Fair&lt;/a&gt; this &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Saturday, October 24th&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;noon-5pm&lt;/span&gt; at &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;St. David’s Church Hall&lt;/span&gt; (1537 Brunswick Street). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come meet us and pick up some records!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr2tc5Qaf81qznd9x.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr2tc5Qaf81qznd9x.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vendors include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Anchor Archive Zine Library, Conundrum Press, Noyes Records, Peer a Mid Printing, whostolemybike prints, little foible comics, Strange Adventures, Brainscan zine, Kyla Francis Pottery, Divorce Records and Distro, CKDU FM, Ink Storm Screenprinting Collective, Grey Scale Press, Art Art Craft Collective, Wa’Ou, Tindercmx, DadaPomo, Random Paper and Fabric, Punkasaurus zine, Pistacia Ink, Go It Alone (Together), Eyelevel Gallery bookstore and more more more!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Admission is free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More details on &lt;a href="http://halifaxpopexplosion.com/media/zine/halifax-zine-and-record-fair/"&gt;their website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-1287589444027718974?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/10/halifax-pop-explosion-zine-and-record.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-5210394506891161886</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-12T14:14:37.273-04:00</atom:updated><title>Label profile on CKUT</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.ckut.ca/index.php"&gt;CKUT&lt;/a&gt; radio did a profile on Fixture Records last Monday for their show, New Shit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The host, Andrea-Jane played an hour of music from different releases on the label, including multiple tracks by Cresting, Brave Radar, Dirty Beaches, Omon Ra, and Freelove Fenner. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big thanks to A-J and everyone who helped put together this show!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/Blog/ckutlabelprofile.mp3"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;&lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Download the show by right clicking on Listen (ctrl click on a mac) and saving the link to your computer)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-5210394506891161886?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/10/label-profile-on-ckut.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-2594354231484402536</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-02T22:48:49.699-04:00</atom:updated><title>Fixture at Pop Montreal</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SsarnB68i1I/AAAAAAAAA8s/FpLayCD4YLc/s1600-h/recordsale.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SsarnB68i1I/AAAAAAAAA8s/FpLayCD4YLc/s400/recordsale.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388182691214297938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pop Montreal started last night and here's where you can find us during the festival...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thurs, Oct 1st&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;3:30pm | Brave Radar @ Phonopolis (5403A ave du Parc) FREE&lt;br /&gt;10pm | Omon Ra @ Cagibi (5490 St-Laurent) for Youth Club Records showcase&lt;br /&gt;11pm | Mavo @ Jupiter Room (3874 St-Laurent)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Fri, Oct 2nd&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;Noon | Dirty Beaches @ Friendship cove (215A Murray) for PLC/BSTB Matinee BBQ&lt;br /&gt;1am | Postcards @ Le Milieu (#200-6545 Durocher)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sat, Oct 3rd&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sun, Oct 4th: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11am-6pm | Record Sale and Gear Swap @ The Ukrainian Federation (5213 Hutchison)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll have all of our cd-rs and cassettes available to listen to and buy from our table at the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Puces Pop Record Sale&lt;/span&gt; on Saturday and Sunday. It's free to get in and other vendors include local cassette labels, vinyl collectors, cd shops, gear builders, instrument repairs, plus a listening booth, free performances, snacks and drinks, and a gear swap. Come say hi! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full schedule and venues at &lt;a href="http://popmontreal09.sched.org/"&gt;Pop Montreal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-2594354231484402536?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/10/fixture-at-pop-montreal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SsarnB68i1I/AAAAAAAAA8s/FpLayCD4YLc/s72-c/recordsale.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-1313933885065954149</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T19:39:39.233-04:00</atom:updated><title>In The Bottle Garden with Freelove Fenner</title><description>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Call it what you like; rhythm and blues, or rock-a-billy, but the the beat is here to stay"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sandy Nelson&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The long awaited mini album from Freelove Fenner will be available from this tuesday the 14th of July. (You can &lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/bottlegarden.html"&gt;pre-order&lt;/a&gt; right now). Highly recomended for fans of the beat, well coiffed hooks and the fine pop song. Tight and efficient. Marvelous and velvety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/Slqfn0EtT0I/AAAAAAAAASA/rZ7Luq-mYcs/s1600-h/BG+cover+med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 276px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/Slqfn0EtT0I/AAAAAAAAASA/rZ7Luq-mYcs/s400/BG+cover+med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357770213052731202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. New Direction&lt;br /&gt;2. Mr. Rotcelloc&lt;br /&gt;3. Song for a New Elf&lt;br /&gt;4. Henrietta&lt;br /&gt;5. Spirit&lt;br /&gt;6. Felix&lt;br /&gt;7. Out of Town&lt;br /&gt;8. There is just no talking to you&lt;br /&gt;9. Backwards-facing line&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freelove Fenner's &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/freelovefenner"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*UPDATE. Freelove Fenner playing with Jason Lytle tonight! (Petit Campus)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-1313933885065954149?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-bottle-garden-with-freelove-fenner.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/Slqfn0EtT0I/AAAAAAAAASA/rZ7Luq-mYcs/s72-c/BG+cover+med.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-3029707018931236067</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-12T23:20:15.477-04:00</atom:updated><title>Dirty Cassettes</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SlqkH-qeNSI/AAAAAAAAASI/vRDEemgEeuk/s1600-h/art_bell_070607.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 283px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SlqkH-qeNSI/AAAAAAAAASI/vRDEemgEeuk/s400/art_bell_070607.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357775163697804578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Dirty Beaches has a new six song tape coming out on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.raccoo-oo-oon.org/np/"&gt;Night People&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; label sometime in August. We were lucky enough to have an advance listen and its safe to say it includes some real talk. I would recommend keeping an eye out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Tracks include two currently streaming on Dirty Beaches &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.myspace.com/dirtybeaches"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;, White Sands and Coast to Coast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/Users/Conor/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-3029707018931236067?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/07/dirty-cassettes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SlqkH-qeNSI/AAAAAAAAASI/vRDEemgEeuk/s72-c/art_bell_070607.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-2996596424811522966</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-16T00:57:29.006-04:00</atom:updated><title>An e.p. from CRESTING</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SjcjFwVyg3I/AAAAAAAAARY/uyruPs63lYo/s1600-h/Cresting+cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 376px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SjcjFwVyg3I/AAAAAAAAARY/uyruPs63lYo/s400/Cresting+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347781664308364146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Today marks the release of the debut album from Cresting. In some ways its a cd of mood; emotions locked in rays and waves of sound but I think the true joy in this collection of seven songs is its playfullness. It sounds like Cresting's man, Gabe Ng, had fun and in the process made many interesting moments for a listener. Non hooks abound (is there any sweeter kind of hook?).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SjcjCtvbO3I/AAAAAAAAARQ/0SaPk5c0uB4/s1600-h/Cresting+Pic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 376px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SjcjCtvbO3I/AAAAAAAAARQ/0SaPk5c0uB4/s400/Cresting+Pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347781612070976370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Some more words about the album:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;An e.p. is the debut album from Montreal-based recording artist, Cresting. This collection of pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; compositions, meditations, and variations sits somewhere in the Dust Bowl of electronic music.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; The songs share in the warm glow of analog instruments and live lo-fi recording techniques,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; creating the fuzz, hiss, and hum that Cresting's Gabriel Ng treats like raw matter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;His melodies are sometimes nostalgic and always bright, floating around with clouds of colour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; that recall the sound collages of Valet or Belong. Rhythmically, Cresting brings to mind the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; modern minimalism of Steve Reich with the occasional injection of roughly sewn hip hop beats.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Listen and purchase the CD &lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/anep.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-2996596424811522966?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/06/ep-from-cresting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SjcjFwVyg3I/AAAAAAAAARY/uyruPs63lYo/s72-c/Cresting+cover.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-943514700472737661</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-26T17:36:15.046-04:00</atom:updated><title>A Building from Brave Radar out now</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/ShxfankD6QI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Dt1xpMBTf_M/s1600-h/Image055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/ShxfankD6QI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Dt1xpMBTf_M/s400/Image055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340248169056037122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It took us a year and then some. So many songs were recorded, so many beads sweated. I think it's the best thing brave radar have done. We're proud. Now we can start the next one!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can check out tracks on our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.myspace.com/braveradar"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; or stream samples of the whole album (and order the album) on the fixture site &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.fixture-records.com/abuilding.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/ShxgQG3sCnI/AAAAAAAAAPw/A0uIWRcvxUU/s1600-h/Image076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/ShxgQG3sCnI/AAAAAAAAAPw/A0uIWRcvxUU/s400/Image076.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340249087992924786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-943514700472737661?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/05/building-from-brave-radar-out-now.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/ShxfankD6QI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Dt1xpMBTf_M/s72-c/Image055.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-5494067068311887649</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-16T13:13:17.649-04:00</atom:updated><title>Dirty Beaches - West Coast Bird</title><description>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-58fc1bb8485e03f0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH2M0h_OsImx6xYEEeBP4eWrO8E_SM9mqy_rGzvXLrHyz0sIXuyNhH-aODaadjj2T0AolaNloVcQkaa9_jLq0d9e8wwvtNCwwZ0Nhcc9Ewzl3kXIpHP5w0TR9q2kMAGq--1f5S47C98R3zcRZiInSFUfqX9YaVXwTMU_IAdRlPmi-vhZRAIZ3AgIJYoac_Pequh_WVDGQ1JR576_8sNVAnVt%26sigh%3DNk1L2YrM6Tjyx_5VMKgaKN1P1mo%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D58fc1bb8485e03f0%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Dw_emeuk1MlZf5TAduULeqPv2fdY&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detective story part 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All aboard?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ghost train.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-5494067068311887649?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure type="video/mp4" url="http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=58fc1bb8485e03f0&amp;type=video%2Fmp4" length="0" /><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/05/dirty-beaches-west-coast-bird.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dirty Beaches)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-9204013343634777484</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-14T15:16:00.144-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">amanda dawn christie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obey convention</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bark haze</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gown</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Divorce Records</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">omon ra</category><title /><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SgxtvE17FAI/AAAAAAAAACc/YYmKQohmcKE/s1600-h/obey_35_1_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SgxtvE17FAI/AAAAAAAAACc/YYmKQohmcKE/s400/obey_35_1_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335760314048386050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are in Halifax on the 22nd, please make sure to check out Omon Ra's set as a part of this year's Obey Convention Festival. They are doing a 3-way-collaborative-set with Gown (Bark Haze with Thurston Moore) and Amanda Dawn Christie (Visual improvisations), they will also be putting out a tape! DO NOT MISS!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Show starts at 7pm and tickets are $8 while festival passes are $30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More info here...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://divorcerecords.ca/mainpages/obey.html"&gt;www.divorcerecords.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.obeyconvention.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.obeyconvention.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-9204013343634777484?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-you-are-in-halifax-on-22nd-please.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SgxtvE17FAI/AAAAAAAAACc/YYmKQohmcKE/s72-c/obey_35_1_1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-3844034805468213753</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-15T14:32:26.360-04:00</atom:updated><title>New Releases - Coming Soon - New Releases</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SgsQ5z7Jf-I/AAAAAAAAAO4/2CcjeBSaSPE/s1600-h/3+releases.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SgsQ5z7Jf-I/AAAAAAAAAO4/2CcjeBSaSPE/s400/3+releases.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335376768927367138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have some new albums coming out on Fixture in the following months to get jazzed about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brave Radar&lt;/span&gt;  - A Building (CD) May 18th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cresting&lt;/span&gt;  - Cresting (Debut Album) (CD and Cassette) June 15th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Freelove Fenner&lt;/span&gt; (highly anticipated new album) (CD) Mid July&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There's going to be a a double release for the Brave Radar and Cresting albums taking place Playhouse (5656 Parc Ave) on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Friday the 19th of June&lt;/span&gt;, featuring both bands and hopefully some special guests. More on this soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: The release show includes special guests &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/beaverlakehome"&gt;Beaver&lt;/a&gt; and Elenora Thompson (Caila from Shapes &amp;amp; Sizes). $6 at the door, show starts at 9pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-3844034805468213753?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-releases.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SgsQ5z7Jf-I/AAAAAAAAAO4/2CcjeBSaSPE/s72-c/3+releases.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-8209431359997669979</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-14T16:59:39.403-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">halls of medicine</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Husband and Knife</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new release</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obey convention</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">retirement records</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the hostas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gown</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Divorce Records</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">chris d'eon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">omon ra</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the Ether</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">joseph mclaughlin</category><title>Omon Ra Tapes!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SeT5C0ZQmOI/AAAAAAAAABg/pgwdZsyQAAg/s1600-h/omon+ra+hostas+split+cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SeT5C0ZQmOI/AAAAAAAAABg/pgwdZsyQAAg/s320/omon+ra+hostas+split+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324654486278412514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SePBW6vLsWI/AAAAAAAAABY/V2nqrTeLhMo/s1600-h/scan0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SePBW6vLsWI/AAAAAAAAABY/V2nqrTeLhMo/s320/scan0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324311783950496098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May is turning out to big a big month for Omon Ra, we have two tapes coming out, as well as collaborative set planned with Gown for Obey Convention III.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Both tapes are splits with fellow Halifax artists, the first being a release on &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/retirementrecords"&gt;Retirement Records&lt;/a&gt; with the band &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thehostas"&gt;The Hostas&lt;/a&gt;, featuring more of our "out-there" experimentations! We are psyched to be doing a record with the Hostas and the artwork is fantastic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other, a split with &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/chrispdeon"&gt;Chris d'Eon&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.divorcerecords.ca"&gt;Divorce Records&lt;/a&gt;, features yet again a new direction in song writing and approach. The album is co-produced with Evan Cardwell, now a member of &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/husbandandknife"&gt;Husband and Knife&lt;/a&gt; and the man behind &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/secretcolours"&gt;Secret Colours&lt;/a&gt;. Recorded in his studio with many instruments, mics, and channels, we pinned some our most ambitious, lush, and lovely sounding songs yet, we know you'll dig em. These tapes will be limited runs, so get 'em quick! Here's a video we made to help promote the release, much thanks to Joseph Mclaughlin for his awesome artwork he contributed. For those not familiar with Joe, he is an Omon Ra member at large, his poetry graces the back of our album "The Halls of Medicine," he has played and recorded with us numerous times, and is the drummer for the excellent band &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/etherthruvishuddha"&gt;The Ether&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Alright that's all for now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Zachary Fairbrother&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-567f069a428a87f1" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH0tIUaO7C6SJXNcrfXOR9xlTmlufj0TOwpHWHt_jLQM2kXJFroP3XeP8VZPXChBCsbw0FqFqC4Vio_4PuVUP8FziLB_6wMRobGLnh6NiQ--gJ9hdS4otWTbxoch1rxtgoEaBfi50OKvpO0SfQ5DeYMxEz4UwNjl712XrPfYRRLRVK0E3pFejC5ccHKy6RPnzjknn2aO4JAJYaWmw4asUz3f%26sigh%3DN-6rGSNjnZnXdA9R1Vxb-IGrnV4%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D567f069a428a87f1%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DRxDQaFuVdISpAgHWeTmD8GCXz4I&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;
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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-8209431359997669979?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure type="video/mp4" url="http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=567f069a428a87f1&amp;type=video%2Fmp4" length="0" /><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/04/omon-ra-tapes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SeT5C0ZQmOI/AAAAAAAAABg/pgwdZsyQAAg/s72-c/omon+ra+hostas+split+cover.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-2728389294752643442</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-18T17:48:12.040-04:00</atom:updated><title>More Horror Reviews and Dirty Beaches in Shanghai</title><description>Here are two new reviews of &lt;a href="http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/09/horror-lp-interview-with-dirty-beaches.html"&gt;Dirty Beaches' Horror LP&lt;/a&gt; and one review of his recent show in Shanghai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/_images/montreal/1708/texte/spin_dirtybeaches.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="titreArticle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve Guimond for &lt;a href="http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/music/spin.aspx?iIDDisque=5243"&gt;Ottawa XPress&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A neato, small-run release from Montreal's most excellent Fixture Records, home to the non-hits and all-originals. Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai and vice versa, a local experimental musician who hides in the shadows of the bigger players in town. The Horror LP is his second album proper, a collage of guests and noise and loose beats and sounds found, sampled and birthed, no words to be heard save for the nameless voices that float in and out from radio wave land. Cinematic at heart, this is the soundtrack to those lean, lonely, long nights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bodytitle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;Eric Hill&lt;/span&gt; for &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/latestsub.aspx?csid1=129&amp;amp;csid2=870&amp;amp;fid1=36455"&gt;Exclaim.ca&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;There is a peculiar strain of haunted electronics popping up lately that seem bent on exorcising the ghosts from the machines. Its proponents owe a debt to the deteriorating ambience of William Basinski and the abandoned industrial soundscapes of David Lynch. Artists like V/VM's James Kirby (recording as the Caretaker) and the Opalio brothers of Italy and their My Cat is an Alien project reach into the decaying guts of sound's mechanisms. Montreal's Alex Zhang Hungtai joins their ranks with his Dirty Beaches project. Like MCIAA, he follows a strict code of single takes but builds corroded layers of musical elements. Unlike the Opalios, he uses guitars, harmonica, drums and other actual instruments alongside his less identifiable noises and found sounds. While &lt;i&gt;Horror&lt;/i&gt;'s brief scenes strike a consistent mood closer to lassitude than actual horror, it feels like they need more bone and less of the pulverized meat that fell from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="bodytitle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://exclaim.ca/images/up-Dirty_Beaches.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="meta"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;m. e. seeley for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.layabozi.com/2009/02/noise-doesnt-have-to-be-annoying/"&gt;Layabozi&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[It] opened with Montreal-based Dirty Beaches, a lo-fi ‘call-it-pop’ project of Alex Zhang Hungtai. The space at YuYinTang was relatively empty when I pulled in and took a seat at the bar. Hungtai slipped the strap of his guitar around his neck and slapped the strings a few times, clicking at his pedals. He laid out a little riff over the drone of his guitar and let it loop, setting down his guitar and picking up the microphone. He unwound the cord. His step seemed light, relaxed, even bouncy, as if the stage were actually a hard mattress. The loop that he had thrown together was simple, a few slaps of the guitar and a quick riff, but it was enough of a backdrop. When Hungtai put the microphone close to his lips and began to croon, the sad turnout for the show seemed a good thing: it gave Dirty Beaches the intimate space that Hungtai’s sultry baritone and swaying, Lou Reed hips needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I prefer to play alone.  It’s easier,” says Hungtai.  “ I only have to deal with myself.”&lt;br /&gt;Hungtai began playing a few years ago and has released a string of EPs and LPs with Fixture Records. A number of his albums are available online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“My music is pretty straightforward,” Hungtai tells me.  “It’s pop.  Verse-chorus-verse-chorus.”&lt;br /&gt;That may be so, but, unlike pop, Dirty Beaches’ sound has a roughness to it, a reality that some of us—ye music elitists—have come to love and can only find in the scratchy records of Skip James and Pink Anderson (etcetera), but nowhere else. Dirty Beaches is a reminder that music is an attempt at communication—an imperfect attempt perhaps, but a heartfelt one. As I see it, the current trend of mass-produced, choreographed and contrived art is an assault on the creative impulse that stands as the last—and perhaps the only—distinction between us and them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dirty Beaches’ melodies are sparse and the lyrics unintelligible, but they are moving and pulsate with sex and longing and saltwater (Hungtai is a self-proclaimed ‘sailor at heart’). I found myself applauding a bit too loudly. I tried to whistle. If the goal of RESO is to spread the word about experimental music to the masses, then their invitation to Dirty Beaches was another step in the right direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/_images/spacer.gif" alt="" border="0" height="1" width="10" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/horror.html"&gt;Order Horror LP online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previously, &lt;a href="http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/11/reviews-of-horror.html"&gt;Horror LP reviewed by Warren Ellis and Said The Gramophone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch Horror LP music videos &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8A84751E1FA39383"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-2728389294752643442?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-horror-reviews-and-dirty-beaches.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tessa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-5488962995157626935</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-27T19:24:29.652-05:00</atom:updated><title>Another side of Omon Ra</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/Sah3E39aX1I/AAAAAAAAAOg/XO3Dl2h88AQ/s1600-h/monolith1_big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/Sah3E39aX1I/AAAAAAAAAOg/XO3Dl2h88AQ/s400/monolith1_big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307623086480842578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From tomorrow, 28th of Feb 2009, you will be able to buy Omon Ra's first CD, Monolith 1, from Fixture Records.  It's a fantastic album and will now come with 6 damn fine bonus tracks. Here is the tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1. Wabbi Sabbi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2. 200 Miles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;3. Aubade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;4. Don't be a Tack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;5. Watch Me Start Fires&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;6. Hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;7. Rice in a Bag on the Counter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;8. Countrymen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;9. Sleeve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10. How High the Moon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; 11. Little Flower&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;12. At Martinique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;13. Simorgh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bonus Tracks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1. Miniatures and Dumb Animals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2. Whilhelmsen (Alternate Take)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;3. Runny Nose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;4. Missing the Benzene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; 5. Illullaby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;6. Bloody Nose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are two of my many favourite tracks:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//www.fixture-records.com/OMRAMP3/Full%20Songs/Omon%20Ra%20-%20Monolith%201%20-%20How%20High%20The%20Moon.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/OMRAMP3/Full%20Songs/Omon%20Ra%20-%20Monolith%201%20-%20Sleeve.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sleeve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/OMRAMP3/Full%20Songs/Omon%20Ra%20-%20Monolith%201%20-%20How%20High%20The%20Moon.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;How High the Moon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-5488962995157626935?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/02/another-side-of-omon-ra_27.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/Sah3E39aX1I/AAAAAAAAAOg/XO3Dl2h88AQ/s72-c/monolith1_big.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-7665168729370639782</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-22T23:13:03.389-05:00</atom:updated><title>BACK to the FUTURE: Monolith 1</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SaIhhE_pNsI/AAAAAAAAAOY/NO56puVIX4o/s1600-h/2001_monolith.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 167px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SaIhhE_pNsI/AAAAAAAAAOY/NO56puVIX4o/s400/2001_monolith.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305840163155949250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Omon Ra will be re-releasing their first CD, Monolith 1, on Fixture. It will be available from February 28th and it's mighty. The songs from Monolith 1 are what first won us over to the band. Zach and Dan's freewheeling pop sensibilites really stand out.  I'm going to post more on this tomorrow with an mp3 or two. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-7665168729370639782?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/02/back-to-future-monolith-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SaIhhE_pNsI/AAAAAAAAAOY/NO56puVIX4o/s72-c/2001_monolith.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-2626774340371423838</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-21T19:39:31.321-05:00</atom:updated><title>Ultramarine EP reviewed on Exclaim.ca</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SXe_W5HBmMI/AAAAAAAAAE0/3QNZpfDJe2c/s1600-h/Brave_Radar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SXe_W5HBmMI/AAAAAAAAAE0/3QNZpfDJe2c/s400/Brave_Radar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293910287005620418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our &lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/ultramarine.html"&gt;Ultramarine EP&lt;/a&gt; came out kinda quietly last October (in time for the Fixture Records Showcase at Pop Montreal) and we haven't really done much in the way of press for it. It's an album in between albums, a way to get back into the full length record that we started last year and which we've almost finished! (it comes out in March)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a nice review of Ultramarine that we just received on Exclaim.ca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;With a full-length out early last year and another just around the corner, Brave Radar have dropped some mid-album action with the &lt;i&gt;Ultramarine &lt;/i&gt;EP, a seven-track, 13-minute burst of loose lo-fi pop. In some ways, this release picks up where the Montreal outfit's debut, &lt;i&gt;Distracting Stranger&lt;/i&gt;, left off, further expanding on the innocent sophistication of the Softies and Beat Happening with soft-voiced boy-girl harmonies, jangling guitar lines and homespun tape hiss. However, this time Brave Radar have also taken their sound a little more left-of-centre and injected it with a dose of freeform avant-pop weirdness (think Tori Kudo's Maher Shalal Hash Baz). At times, this makes for some forgettable moments, such as the awkwardly paced "Beast" and "Coffee." But most often Brave Radar get it right, holding together the loose, offbeat structures with just enough hooks, like on clear standout "Sternwall." &lt;i&gt;Ultramarine &lt;/i&gt;is by no means perfect but does make Brave Radar's upcoming album worth looking forward to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;Brock &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;Thiessen,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid2=850&amp;amp;fid1=35822&amp;amp;csid1=129"&gt;Exclaim.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid2=850&amp;amp;fid1=35822&amp;amp;csid1=129"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo: Emily Deimert&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-2626774340371423838?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/01/ultramarine-ep-reviewed-on-exclaimca.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SXe_W5HBmMI/AAAAAAAAAE0/3QNZpfDJe2c/s72-c/Brave_Radar.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-6569555207417175527</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-13T13:48:53.546-05:00</atom:updated><title>COULEES LIVE!!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SWzhqEJ4dSI/AAAAAAAAAOI/HOk_NmlWKgY/s1600-h/degrassiFAF-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SWzhqEJ4dSI/AAAAAAAAAOI/HOk_NmlWKgY/s400/degrassiFAF-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290851775039436066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SWzhjamP0cI/AAAAAAAAAOA/aVudIr4fAhQ/s1600-h/l_4ee85cbdb0118e1f7e5ca2e37f3cb239.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SWzhjamP0cI/AAAAAAAAAOA/aVudIr4fAhQ/s400/l_4ee85cbdb0118e1f7e5ca2e37f3cb239.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290851660804903362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Head &amp;amp; Hands and the Playhouse present:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faggity Ass Fridays: Teenager Night!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t you wish your teen years could have been spent hangin’ with faggity ass queers? Well now they can! Join us at The Playhouse on January 23rd as we honour the good ole years of adolescence. Teenagers always have the fiercest style. Dress up how you dressed in High School, just without all the angst. And OMG can you believe that bands The &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/coulees"&gt;Coulees&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/nightwoodband"&gt;Nightwood&lt;/a&gt; are going to be performing? DJs Taurus and docroot will get you hyped up on the dance floor and out waaay past your curfew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://faggityassfriday.blogspot.com/"&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, January 23rd, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10pm-3am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Playhouse (5656 Avenue du Parc)&lt;br /&gt;$10 suggested donation; all money goes to the Sense Project,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.headandhands.ca/index_en.php"&gt;Head &amp;amp; Hands&lt;/a&gt;’ holistic, queer-friendly sex education program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-6569555207417175527?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2009/01/coulees-live.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SWzhqEJ4dSI/AAAAAAAAAOI/HOk_NmlWKgY/s72-c/degrassiFAF-1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-7924608235954272773</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-25T19:19:49.545-05:00</atom:updated><title>Bird EP (Post 2)</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SVQALyO5pBI/AAAAAAAAANQ/6ZRYMdhSyM4/s1600-h/l_433b3bef700941ea830c33cbe1d96303.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SVQALyO5pBI/AAAAAAAAANQ/6ZRYMdhSyM4/s400/l_433b3bef700941ea830c33cbe1d96303.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283848465275266066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Photo by Velvet Chrome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Happy Holidays!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;To kick off 2009, Fixture is very happy to be releasing a brand new album from Dirty Beaches. Bird EP is a wonderful, smokey, film noir day trip and another variation in process and genre for DB. Elements of jazz and orchestration are incorporated but the strongest element as with previous albums is Dirty Beaches gorgeous melodic sensibilities.  From the first of January you will be able to download the album for a mere FIVE dollars.  See this &lt;a href="http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/dirty-beaches-bird-ep.html"&gt;earlier pos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/dirty-beaches-bird-ep.html"&gt;t&lt;/a&gt; from Alex (Dirty Beaches) including some mp3s from the EP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-7924608235954272773?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/bird-ep-post-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Conor Prendergast)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjTkmaSBQ50/SVQALyO5pBI/AAAAAAAAANQ/6ZRYMdhSyM4/s72-c/l_433b3bef700941ea830c33cbe1d96303.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-7537258433091497476</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-16T12:30:28.918-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">P.J. Harvey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">minimalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">halifax</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">noise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">experimetal music</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">drone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Zachary Fairbrother</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Divorce Records</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">live</category><title>(((Black X-Mas))) Performance Video</title><description>Here's  a video kindly taken by Howard Harawitz of me and P.J.'s performance last weekend at the Lost and Found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Z&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-d2fd225dc1cddf34" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAABjzXX0P2a8vxnDt-OvRPGCkeMnPPV1vA0LDdAICmd75nl1EXrSqXpR6c8VcsWE8B4GrdpOiWaDerulWDzJZC40ddAsNzfgpiYJz8kr4wHQq4igC1rdQgdMzty5Ifb2TCQqXWFpED_INiwQ09yd2ZtHB5-rRfPWOTGrnJNQysJuVPPj3GCYqfv87-bAXYNPIx1Zk_98CksvW93VRvG6xoh7BCZQkOeWtyY3E4F3gRDVm%26sigh%3Dbd-6sSYWO7f6IFKZiGrq4GiUJ1Y%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dd2fd225dc1cddf34%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DG09AuFAkAwxS-mkDNpM7EfVkmXE&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;
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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-7537258433091497476?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure type="video/mp4" url="http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=d2fd225dc1cddf34&amp;type=video%2Fmp4" length="0" /><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/black-x-mas-performance-video.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-1999221119403706874</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-12T16:40:26.574-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">halifax</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">noise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">house show</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">experimetal music</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Zachary Fairbrother</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Divorce Records</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">omon ra</category><title>(((Black X-mas)))</title><description>Hello I am participating in a mini "Christmas Music" festival this weekend being hosted by the friendly people and friends of Divorce Records and the Lost &amp; Found. &lt;br /&gt;All for a good cause, sorry for the lateness on this! here's the press release....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Z&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BLACK XMAS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 12-14th&lt;br /&gt;Lost &amp; Found - 2383 Agricola St.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celebrate (((Black))) Xmas at Lost &amp; Found with far-out sounds, new art, food+drink, and big time sales. The entire weekend is FREE to attend, but we will be accepting donations for the Canadian Cancer Society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, December 12th&lt;br /&gt;6PM-9PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ART OPENING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recent Works by:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sojourner Truth&lt;br /&gt;Natalie Howard&lt;br /&gt;Julia Kennedy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;performance by : Ghost Bees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;promotional support from Eyelevel Gallery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, December 13th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOUNDZZZ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1:45PM- WARGAZ&lt;br /&gt;"Wargaz is the post-industrial folk drone experimentations of Ryan Kirk."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2:30PM- ZACHARY FAIRBROTHER + PJ HARVEY&lt;br /&gt;"Long tones and loose change, two amps, two, guitars, two ebows, mixer, Saxophones...."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3:15PM- SLAYTOR&lt;br /&gt;"computers and delay boxes??"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4:00PM- A.S. PEARSON&lt;br /&gt;"Solo analog synthesizer from D/A A/D front man Alex Pearson, if D/A A/D is the storm this is the calm."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4:45PM- ALBERTASAURUS&lt;br /&gt;"Armed with science and technology, Albertasaurus brings together analog synth, sampled beats and tons of noise in a cacophonous roar that will show you how to get your prehistoric on."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5:30PM- COMBAT&lt;br /&gt;"Skree/skronk deployed to stab ears and dry tears."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, December 14th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE SOUNDZZZ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2:30PM- OBLAST&lt;br /&gt;"This minimalist, ambient project uses looped theremin-like tones to make space rock without the rock."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3:15PM- CHIEF THUNDERCLOUD&lt;br /&gt;"chief thundercloud performs/records with himself/his friends at home/somewhere else. At black christmas he plans to play alot of tapes at once."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4:00PM - TROY RICHTER&lt;br /&gt;"Troy Richter is a half decent guitar player working on his first novel, but he won't be playing guitar today."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4:45PM - SECRET COLOURS&lt;br /&gt;"Secret Colours...sound collage, pouring insides out?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5:30PM - LUKAS PEARSE&lt;br /&gt;"My pic-nic model gramophone and vintage Illustravox amp/turntable combo have been itching to get under the mistletoe with my laptop and kaoss pads..."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-1999221119403706874?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/black-x-mas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-4377399226752066361</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-10T18:05:21.919-05:00</atom:updated><title>Dirty Beaches Bird EP</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_44fdBOles2s/SUBLFX4xvoI/AAAAAAAAANo/1VdXN1XOjUY/s1600-h/BIRDEP3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_44fdBOles2s/SUBLFX4xvoI/AAAAAAAAANo/1VdXN1XOjUY/s320/BIRDEP3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278301318961806978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hey folks, been working on this EP over the past 2 months, finally transfered it from tape to digital, it will be available for download pretty soon.  Here are some sample tracks.  Gonna take a mini break from music after this one and tackle the short story and short films I've been working on, and resume back to finishing the 3rd LP since its been giving me heart burns through out the past 2 months.  Can't wait to leave this shit ass weather behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;alex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/DBMP3/misc/WestCoastBird.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dirty Beaches- West Coast Bird&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/DBMP3/misc/OFarrell.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dirty Beaches- O'Farrell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-4377399226752066361?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/dirty-beaches-bird-ep.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dirty Beaches)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_44fdBOles2s/SUBLFX4xvoI/AAAAAAAAANo/1VdXN1XOjUY/s72-c/BIRDEP3.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-2602081413144274808</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-30T11:46:07.441-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Louis Andriessen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kumquat</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">minimalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Terry Riley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Zachary Fairbrother</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SuddenlyListen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">omon ra</category><title /><description>Hello all just to let you know I will be playing in a really neat concert coming up. I'll be playing in two classics of the minimalist school, so if you're around check it out! I'll include some links to videos of the works if you are not fimilar. I call &lt;em&gt;Worker's Union&lt;/em&gt; the math rock one and &lt;em&gt;In C&lt;/em&gt; the post rock one. &lt;em&gt;In C&lt;/em&gt; interestingly enough has been played by some rock bands including Acid Mothers Temple. Anyways here's the press release...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"suddenlyLISTEN Music and Kumquat New Music team up to present a concert of classic new music by Louis Andriessen, and Terry Riley; brand new music by Jerome Blais and old but new music by Mozart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7pm Wednesday, December 3, 2008&lt;br /&gt;The Music Room&lt;br /&gt;5181 Lady Hammond Road&lt;br /&gt;$15, available at the door&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simon Docking, piano&lt;br /&gt;Suzanne Lemieux, oboe&lt;br /&gt;Susan Sayle, viola&lt;br /&gt;Norman Adams, cello&lt;br /&gt;PJ Harvey, and Mike MacKenzie, saxophones&lt;br /&gt;Zachary Fairbrother, guitar&lt;br /&gt;Alex Cook, percussion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What ties all this music together? Good question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these composers used improvisation or chance in their pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Louis Andriessen wrote Workers Union in 1975, at a time when the Labour Movement in the Netherlands was beginning. In this piece he dictates the rhythms but only gives the performers a suggestion of the notes they can play. He tells performers: "Only in the case of every player playing with such an intention that their part is an essential one, the work will succeed; just as in the political work." It’s scored for "any loud sounding group of instruments".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the opposite end of the scale is Terry Riley and his piece In C. This is a seminal piece of minimalism where the performers are given a series of cells, of a few notes. The performers are instructed to play the cells and repeat them, stop and start as they please working through the series to find a common end. It is a harmonious and fun piece with changing textures and grooves and melodies that emerge and recede spontaneously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halifax composer and Dalhousie Music Professor Jérôme Blais, composes music that generally leaves a lot to the performer, he gives instructions and suggestions but rarely dictates to the performers. In Conductus 1 the composer usually conducts an improvisation based on his vision. In our performance, I’m not sure how much he’s going to do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1787, Mozart wrote the measures and instructions for a musical composition dice game. The idea is to cut and paste pre-written measures of music together to create a Minuet. We select the measures by rolling a dice to put the measures in order, and play the result: A little luck, a little Mozart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Performers are Kumquat Curator Simon Docking, piano; SNS principal oboist Suzanne Lemieux; SNS principal violist Susan Sayle; SNS principal cellist and suddenlyLISTEN Artistic Director Norman Adams. Also participating are four Dalhousie Music students: PJ Harvey, and Mike MacKenzie, saxophones; Zachary Fairbrother, guitar, and Alex Cook, percussion."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Videos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0b_P845ChU"&gt;Worker's Union&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy42bYyQNAg&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;In C&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Zachary Fairbrother&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-2602081413144274808?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/11/hello-all-just-to-let-you-know-i-will.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-7210246297735559749</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-25T15:22:23.351-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">excellence</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jams</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new release</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">halifax</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ckdu</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">omon ra</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">live</category><title>Astral Projection Radio Show</title><description>I have started a new radio show on CKDU entitled &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Astral Projection. &lt;/span&gt;The plan is to mix genres such as electro-acoustic, noise, drone, black metal, doom, experimental, and avant-garde musics much like a dance dj would. I try to create a sound world encouraging the audience to leave their physical body and into the depths of the imagination. Read all about it &lt;a href="http://astralprojectionckdu.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first mix is up for download so have a listen!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Zachary Fairbrother&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-7210246297735559749?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/11/astral-projection-radio-show.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-6499988370674725589</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-14T18:21:33.930-05:00</atom:updated><title>Mixtapes Mess</title><description>Fixture is taking part in the next &lt;a href="http://www.indyish.com/"&gt;Indyish&lt;/a&gt; monthly show on Monday, December 1st. The theme is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mixtapes&lt;/span&gt;, so &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bring your own song or sound piece on a usb&lt;/span&gt; and we'll be burning mix cds with everyone's contributions live from the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entrance is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pay-what-you-can&lt;/span&gt; and you get a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;free mix cd &lt;/span&gt;if you bring a song. Mix cds are $1 if you just come for the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Performers include Dr. Will Straw (words) with DJ Opositive (beats, visuals), Dr. Tina Piper with George Blott (live illustrations), and Emilie Marzinotto from Receivers and Fraser Macdougal from FM Hi Low playing short musical sets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, December 1st&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Show starts 9:30pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; at Blizzarts (3956-A St. Laurent)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More details and links for performers &lt;a href="http://www.indyish.com/mixtapes-mini-mess/"&gt;on the Indyish blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-6499988370674725589?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/11/mixtapes-mess.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fixture)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-5349043901708893827</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-13T14:12:44.786-05:00</atom:updated><title>BeatRoute reviews Halls of Medicine</title><description>Calgary's monthly, &lt;a href="http://www.beatroute.ca/main.php"&gt;BeatRoute Magazine&lt;/a&gt; reviewed Omon Ra's The Halls of Medicine in their October issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SRx7Nb_EEvI/AAAAAAAAADU/7tIs8yxuNkQ/s1600-h/beatroute+press.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SRx7Nb_EEvI/AAAAAAAAADU/7tIs8yxuNkQ/s400/beatroute+press.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268221134897418994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more reviews of The Halls of Medicine &lt;a href="http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-review.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/09/omon-ra-review-in-coast.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fixture-records.com/hallsofmedicine.html"&gt;Listen to The Halls of Medicine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-5349043901708893827?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/11/beatroute-reviews-halls-of-medicine.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tessa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xS6d7EkS88U/SRx7Nb_EEvI/AAAAAAAAADU/7tIs8yxuNkQ/s72-c/beatroute+press.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8914164425862236807.post-4470772272113505986</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-14T13:51:17.254-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jams</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">omon ra</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">live</category><title>Omon Ra Live Recordings for Download</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SRpzH9xZFGI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ofis4oSBfJk/s1600-h/danandryan.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SRpzH9xZFGI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ofis4oSBfJk/s320/danandryan.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267649294841222242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;picture taken by Elana Mayers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello all! I have begun to upload some of the Omon Ra live catalogue for all of you to download and listen online. We currently have 7 up right now but I hope to get as many as possible up dating back to almost our first show! Lots of drunk, sloppy, bombastic performances, too weird spiritual jams and quiet folk sets, to sheets of noise. So check it out and judge for yourself and in honor of this occasion I have uploaded a rather rock n' roll version of an unreleased song called "Tongues." I think that was probably the second or third song me and Dan wrote together. Anyways its from our Live at Tribecca gig along side Scribbler and we got a Magician to go around the audience. It features long time Ra collaborator and close friend Ryan Kirk on Trumpet, Aaron Mangle from the very good project "A Helpful Diagram" and at one time he drummed for hippy rock group "A Band of Owls" and Newsomites "The Ghost Bees", and our crazy friend Matthew Gallant who plays extra percussion including roto-toms... its absolutely ridiculous and we had way too much beer but its awesome, I particularly like my guitar solo! Anyways enjoy! And keep posted for more updates!&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Z&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtErinsHouseNovember242007"&gt;November 24, 2007 at Erin's House&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtReflectionsDecember122007"&gt;Live at Reflections December 12, 2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtTribeccaFebruary62008"&gt;Live at Tribecca February 6, 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtGusPubO81908"&gt;August 19, 2008 at Gus' Pub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtTheFjort"&gt;Live at the Fjort August 23, 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtReflections270808"&gt;August 27, 2008 at Reflections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtGusPubSeptember242008"&gt;CKDU Benefit Show September 24, 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OmonRaLiveAtGusPubO81908"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8914164425862236807-4470772272113505986?l=fixturerecords.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://fixturerecords.blogspot.com/2008/11/hello-all-i-have-begun-to-upload-some.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Zachary Devereux Fairbrother)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yBNFeW6x4TM/SRpzH9xZFGI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ofis4oSBfJk/s72-c/danandryan.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>
