Band of the Week: Edition 2!

Hey there
Decided to do another edition of "Band of the Week"
Hopefully you can also start to listen to them since they're pretty good (well, I think they're good)


Band of the Week: Digitalism

So, I live in Canada. And just as many people see videos on youtube and other web video sites, I see some of mine on muchmusic.com (it's basically a Canadian MTV, even though we do have a Canadian MTV). So they placed advertisements before the videos and one was from Virgin Mobile. And they kept playing this song over and over. I do a little research and find my Band of the Week. Here is the ad.

I learned that the song was called "Pogo" (it does not relate to the corn dogs that make me sick) and it is seriously awesome. Another techno-esque band, I really love the sound they produce. It's very slick and cool and I find that once again, this should be played at parties and not rap (see Rant Time for the whole thing). Also, as a cool note, I found out about this band before the people at MuchMusic (ok, for future reference, MuchMusic when on TV is very Top 40 BUT their blog, found at the website muchmusic.com, is different and is always looking for different sounds, such as this band, so I thought it was cool that I beat them to it, since they usually beat me)


Well, that is the end of that edition.
Keep posting comments since I really love hearing what you have to say (plus, it looks like I have people visiting this site. haha)


Monty!

Band of the Week!

Well, it's been another day of blogging again with comments (still 2!) but I will persevere.

So, for this post I decided to do a Band of the Week thing where I just highlight one of my favourite bands of the moment and talk about why there music is so damn cool and why people should take a listen.

Today's Band: The Ting Tings!

Lately, I've been becoming more and more of a fan of UK bands (possibly because of my Scot friends or that they just make really cool music) and one of those bands are the Ting Tings. Now, I bet you think I started to notice them because of that Apple commercial (with Shut Up and Let Me Go) but actually I started to notice them when I started to watch the web series, Sofia's Diary (get a Bebo account to see the episodes!)

Now, personally when I heard they were kind of techno, I really thought I would hate them since most techno to me is pretty boring but I gave it a chance and realized these guys were awesome! Formed by Jules De Martino and Katie White, these guys produced loud, in your face, dancing music with in the cheek lyrics that make you want to sing (or shout) along. Right now, my fave song is That's Not My Name (partly because so many people get that wrong with me and I know there name. Morons).

If you haven't checked out this band, go to their Myspace (at http://www.myspace.com/thetingtings) and take a listen to their album, We Started Nothing (which I find ironic since they started a huge craze for dance-pop-techno).

Hopefully with more comments I can post some lyrics which took me a full 5 minutes to sing and possibly 15 minutes to write down so if you want to see them, comment please!

Tune in soon,
Monty!