"The Led whaat?"

This is neat. Here is a 1970 interview with John Bonham & Robert Plant. They discuss the "death of the personality cult" and the revolution in popular music that Zeppelin was a catalyst for. Now, lets move from revolution talk to evolution talk. Here is what prehistoric Wax Romeo looked like. Creepy,...

Smalltown Best:09 Mix

The "Best of 08" podcast was a smashing success and the feedback was awesome, so here is the follow up. What great year it was for music, this mix is about some of the non-dancefloor and not-club tunes which were on heavy rotation this year. The great cover art was designed by our homie Jonathan...

Nicaragua - A good purpose

After a few weeks in Europe Pete and I returned home to Calgary just in time to welcome a -37 Blizzard. With 10 days on the calender with no scheduled work I decided to head to Nicaragua and within 2 hours me and my trusty travel mate/girlfriend Joanna were on a plane.With 3 hours of sun on the first...

METAL BABY

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BAAAAAAAAAH!!

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Wednesday Covers - "Sweet Jane"

Hey everybody, it's Wednesday, how neat. For our cover today we have the standout hit from Velvet Underground's final album, and the mopey cover by downer Can-rockers Cowboy Junkies, which old Lou himself described as "the best and most authentic version I have ever heard". Without further adouche, here's "Sweet Jane". createSummaryAndThumb("summary8354571619780632212"...

Synth Jams

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TOP BILLIN - PLAYBOY ANTHEM

So we just recently did a remix for our Finnish pals, Top Billin. You can scope the details here . There's a vocal and a dub, so buy 2 of each.Also, my pal Jer (who claims to have once bought a pack of Willy Wonka Bottle Caps , and got all fucking root beer ones. I call bullshit.) put me on to a...

Euro Tour Recap

Holy moly - what a time. Mike and I went to do some shows in Europe & the UK at the end of November, and Dawn came with us! It was a big success. We got in to Paris on Thursday with a night off - and our homies Nadastrom were playing in town that night with Brodinski, Primary 1 and Boombass...

FIREFLY - 3

Firefly had a billboard disco hit with their jammee called Love Is Gonna Be On Your Side This is their 3rd album, and it's fuckin' so good. It's kind of on a funky italo tip, with the exception of may favourite track, "Don't Be A Fool", which is a feel-good synth-poppy duet, with bad English.Check...

"A UNICORN IS NAUGHT BUT A RAVER IN A DUNCECAP"

I think it was Soren Kierkegaard* who said that. Or Peter Sarsgaard? Old gaard/new gaard? Either way, it was someone for sure. And with that, I'd like to call your attention to a picture of our very own SweetCityWoman:She thought she'd be funny, or whimsical, or some fucking shit, and dress as a...

MOAR BEST RAEV EVER!

Since this has basically become a video blog, I'ma toss up another. This one goes out to all you Shambhalowlifes that didn't get enough hippyrave in August. It's some more video from Shambhala, and will have to tie you over. It's only footage shot from the Living Room, which the stage overlooking the beach, and features the homeys Vinyl Ritchie, and JonH and Steve of Fort Knox 5. It was shot and...

JINGLY TWINKLY

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Neil Young sings 'Fresh Prince' theme song

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Wednesday Covers

Let's try a new semi-regular feature shall we. What we're gonna do is trace the lineage of popular tunes that have been covered by other artists. Oh man, this is gonna be fun. Yay.The first one is "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone", originally recorded by The Monkees. OK here we go.The Monkees (1967)The Monkees - Not Your Steppin StoneUploaded by scootaway. - Watch more music videos, in HD!The Sex Pistols...

Gimmee Gimmee

Hey - Bonjay just released their first official ep and it features a remix by Smalltown Romeo which is described on the release as "tuff dubby disco". The original is a great weirdo-dancehall tune, these guys are one of our favorite new Canadian acts. You can buy the original along with our remix...

OLD LADY DANCING

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EURO MINI-TOUR MIX

Hey we are kicking off tonight in Paris at Nouveau Casino and made a mix to celebrate the trip overseas. It'f full of some of our latest club favorites. So enjoy!SMALLTOWN DJS EURO MINI-TOUR 09 MIX Smalltown Djs Euro Mini-Tour Mix 09 Tracklist:Boom (Meterhead Remix) - Smalltown RomeoNight by Night...

Party Parrot

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Smalltown Euro 2009

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URB 25: NOW! featuring Smalltown Romeo

Hey - we were just featured in Urb's new digital issue featuring 25 up and coming acts in underground music. It's called Urb 25: Now! and our friends 12th Planet and Skeet Skeet are also featured. Thanks to everybody who has been supporting us already and to all the new friends who are visiting...

Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No

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Night by Night (Smalltown DJs Remix) - Chromeo

Our friends at Fools Gold have posted the Smalltown Djs Remix of Chromeos 'Night by Night' . Head over to the FG blog to grab the Smalltown, Skream and Siriusmo remixes. All gratis. createSummaryAndThumb("summary463646476067101442"...

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Prince Klassen Fall Mix

Our good mate Prince Klassen has done a new fall mix for Cloud Plum and as usual it's really really good. A great fit for leaves falling and cool weather - lots of spacey synths, mellow vibes and acoustic guitars. The tracklist is tagged in iTunes throughout the mix. PRINCE KLASSEN - FALL MIX FOR...

OOPSIE

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Kraut Jamz

The BBC documentary Krautrock - The Rebirth of Germany provides a captivating look at late 60s-70s German avant rock and the weirdos that made it. Watch it here.If you can find it, Julian Cope's highly opinionated, out-of-print Krautrocksampler is a must read primer on the topic.Here's a quick little...

Toddla T North American Tour Vid

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HALLOWEINER

Saturday we have a crazy Hallwoeen party at the Theatre Junction Grand in Calgary. Tickets are sold out but you might be able to get some if you murder someone who has some and take their tickets. createSummaryAndThumb("summary6664386765812309587"...

I'VE GOT A BID BITE!!!

This past week, when we had the Dust La Rock art opening at the Hifi, I noticed a real occult vibe througout. Must have stuck with me because I've spent the last 30 minutes watching snake videos. This one is the best one found. It starts with these two nature dickheads spelunking through bat shit doing what they describe in their own words as "looking for snakes". It's scary as shit at first,...

Le Luci Bianche Rigettiano

Our great homie and main man Ryan Ford made this really cool mix, in his words (I've been listening to it while making love) : So I wanted to do a mix like this for a really long time. This is a cooling out, tooling around, working on art, making love, driving, eating pizza sort of mix. It is fairly...

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CARTS OF DARKNESS

Just watched this documentary by Canadian director, Murray Siple, about homeless dudes in Vancouver who race carts. To be fair, it's not just about that, but I've seen these guys bombing down the hills in North Van like a fuckin' Meatloaf song. Also, I think our very own DJ Pat Chez selected the soundtrack, or at least it fucking looks like it. Only an hour, definitely worth a look-see. "Murray...

DnB?

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DUST LA ROCK

This week we are presenting Dust La Rock's Best of the Beast art show at Giant 45 and The Hifi Club. He is the man behind Fools Gold Records' amazing artwork and we're huge fans of this guy. If you're in Calgary right now you dont want to miss this. Please click on the artwork above for more info...

TODDLA T

UK Bashment poster boy TODDLA T is playing the Hifi Club tonight with us and it should be bonkers. Here's a remix he did for Grand Puba recently:GRAND PUBA - GET IT (TODDLA T REMIX)See you tonight! createSummaryAndThumb("summary3235441901225578920"...

Slow Motion For Me

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Folk Rave

Standout obscuro music blog Glowing Raw just posted a massive grip of classic folk albums for download, including gems from Syd Barrett, Townes Van Zandt and Nick Drake. Catch the wind, brothers and sisters. createSummaryAndThumb("summary5433170008479707486"...

Nuggets

Not talking about chicken nuggets, gold nuggets or the Denver Nuggets... Talking about Nuggets Compilation Volume 1: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968. Here are a couple songs to try out. If you likey, download here. createSummaryAndThumb("summary9115723941008607984"...

Best of Beantown

I needed an excuse to post this image cuz it's so awesome. So you're gonna sit quietly while I name off my 3 favorite Boston bands. Don't act like you don't care. You do.1. The PixiesIn high school Smalltown Pete would make his friends sit in his car (Chrysler New Yorker, the one that talked), lock...

What a week

Wow - this week at the Hifi there are three awesome shows, starting off tonight with the new disco sounds of In Flagranti:Here's a great mix they did this summer for the Big Chill Festival:IN FLAGRANTI - BIG CHILL MIXTomorrow night we have LA's best DJ Fashen coming through, and he's one of our fave...

THIS IS NEAT

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Turd On The Run

French photographer Dominique Tarlé took thousands of pictures of the Rolling Stones during the Exile On Main Street sessions in the South of France.Here's what Mick Jagger said about the time:"(We were) just winging it. Staying up all night...Stoned on something; one thing or another. So I don't think...