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Album review: Tomorrow’s Harvest by Boards of Canada

November 14, 2013August 8, 2014 Doug Groves album review, Boards of Canada, electronic music, IDM, Music, review, Tomorrow's Harvest28 Comments

Boards of Canada have always been one of ‘those’ bands for me. The kind of band you heard once at a club, and the track caught your attention enough to ask the DJ about, but never quite get around to really checking out. On the occasions I’ve heard them, I’ve liked them but never got around to sinking myself into their discography. Back in the spring, I stumbled across their website and noticed they had a new album, called “Tomorrow’s Harvest”, due out soon. Even then, it wasn’t until a…

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When Kinect meets dubstep

July 19, 2012August 6, 2012 Doug Groves dubstep, Kinect, Microsoft Kinect, Music, OS X, V Motion Project, video, visualizer, Windows42 Comments

Ever since its launch, the Kinect has been a favourite for people to experiment with what can be done with motion controls. In what could be the coolest mash up to date, a pretty big team of talented individuals combined for the V Motion Project.

NXNE 2010 kicks into gear

June 15, 2010 Doug Groves Film, Iggy And The Stooges, interactive, Music, North By Northwest, NXNE, NXNE 2010, NXNEi, Toronto2 Comments

It was a different world when Toronto’s NXNE (North By Northwest don’t you know) started out in 1994 as a music festival, based on the model by sister event SXSW (South By Southwest, natch). Even in the early days, NXNE was an ambitious affair with dozens of venues and enough bands, and music lovers, to fill them up. Since then the festival has grown and evolved, adding the film component in 2001, and most recently introducing NXNE interactive. Although nothing so big is expected here, it was at SXSW interactive…

Rogers introduces DRM free music… sound familiar?

February 24, 2010February 24, 2010 Doug Groves digital download, DRM, Music, OTA, Rogers6 Comments

(UPDATE: fixed incorrect URL and graphic – where’s that editor-in-chief when you need him? Oh yeah…) With services and pricing structures being almost identical between the ‘big three’ Canadian wireless carriers, it’s hardly surprising that Rogers has followed Telus’ lead, and has introduced a new DRM free music service. Two wIn keeping with the theme, individual tracks will cost between $0.69 and $1.29, with $0.99 being the sweet spot. Albums will also generally be priced at $9.99. To help differentiate itself, Rogers is also the first to introduce pre-orders. “Customers…

Telus first Canadian mobile carrier to do DRM-free music

February 10, 2010 Doug Groves digital download, DRM, Music, OTA, Telus1 Comment

I haven’t looked at buying music from a mobile device in a long while, but would have figured that DRM free was now de rigueur. Apparently not for purchasing over the air on your phone, at least in Canada. Telus has announced today that they have launched a DRM-free over the air (OTA) service. In short, as a Telus customer, you’ll be able to buy music directly on your phone (with free 30 second previews). Once you have it there, since you’re free of those pesky rights management issues you…

Fan Expo 09: Psycho Charger

September 9, 2009 Doug Groves event, Fan Expo 2009, interview, Music, Psycho Charger1 Comment

First time Fan Expo/rgb’er Mona came up from Jersey partially to see the ‘horror rawkillbilly’ band Psycho Charger, who played at the Rue Morgue sponsored Fan Expo event ‘Dance of the Deadites’ Saturday night. Even though we were pretty tired from walking around the convention floor for two days straight, I’m glad we made it out, because the band put on an awesome, blood-soaked show.

Rock Band Network Gets Sub Pop

July 23, 2009July 23, 2009 Doug Groves Music, rock band2 Comments

Last week, MTV Harmonix unveiled its Rock Band Network, which allows artists to upload their music for playing on the popular music game. Acts will have multiple options in porting their music over for the game. They can choose to directly hire Harmonix-trained devs to come up with the note tracks, submit it to a community of freelancers, or actually take the work in-house. The Network is in a closed beta for now, but should become an open beta in August, starting first on the Xbox Live platform. In that…

February Creeps

January 29, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Music, Zombies0 comment

For all you zombie fans out there comes this message from Thea Munster of Toronto Zombie Walk fame… Have you been lying in your casket for far too long? Have you felt you’d rather lay in trance than face the dredges of winter? Are you scared of being covered by freezer burnt flesh on your beautifully rotting corpse?! Well, you may just want to re-consider digging yourself out of the frozen earth for THIS February, for it promises many delights for those of the UNDEAD…… Here’s just a few……