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Obama, Mumbai, Gregor, Palin, Fanny Mae and Freddy aside, this year was, I dunno, fucking insane. The bubble burst, but there is hope for change. We had an explosive summer, filled with puppy snatchers and hipsters; tumblr and now twitter. The cops shut down Play Music Not Politics at Insite, the Baptists were shut down at the border, and the GG shut down parliament.
So in the tradition of year end posts, here are some lists.
Top 5 Local Bands
No Gold
Gang Violence
Ice Cream
Sorcerers
Basketball
Local Bands to watch for
Hidden Fortress
Kidnapping
Hard Feelings
The Magician
Candles - beyondrobson.com
"At his best he achieved a Belle and Sebastian-like quest for the perfect pop song." - Shawn Conner at Guttersnipe.com
"The Magician sounded like The National trying to shit out an Amanda Palmer song" - Benjamin Luk at ThatRockBlog.com
Discography
"Who Will Cut Your Grass When I'm Gone" (Release Date: November, 2008)
"Who Will Cut Your Grass When I'm Gone?" Has charted on several stations campus and community radio stations across Canada, at one point being the 45th most played album nationwide on the earshot! charts.
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Emerging from the underworld of Fraser Valley Suburbia, The Magician is quietly making inroads as a pop music machine in towns where no one cares about such a thing.
Over the summer and fall of 2007, with the help of Jay Arner of International Falls fame, Nathan Moes, Langley BC resident and avid board gamer, created the celebrated album "Who Will Cut Your Grass When I'm Gone," and began a sad history of comma abuse.
Finally released in the fall of 2008, the album contains seven pop gems stuffed with key-like instruments. Pianos, organs, synthesizers, xylophones all managed to wheedle their way into the 7 tracks of inspired melody alongside shakers, sandpaper, table thumping, and full drum kit noise. Sometimes Bombastic, Occasionally Melancholic, Always Fantastic.
CITR Radio's Shindig Battle of the Band Finalist, Charting on several University and College Radio stations across Canada(CJAM, CJSR, CJSW and more), by April 2009, a B.A w/ a major in History.
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