Live Underground with Jessie Brown

This Friday at Michael's Bar & Grill, The Stogies are having a tour funraiser with the Sweet Deals & Jessie Brown. I interviewed Jessie tonight on Live Underground about her upcoming album of soulful rock tunes.

Her self titled album comes out in June, keep up to date here: http://jessiebrownband.com

Live Underground with Stone Mary

Tonight at the Seahorse, Stone Mary, Old Blood & Shelter With Thieves are playing as part of their Crack In The World tour that will take them to the ECMA's in Moncton. I spoke to Stone Mary vocalist, Christine Campbell, on Live Underground.

Also check out Stone Mary playing Young Love live!

www.stonemary.com

Live Underground with Shelter With Thieves

Shelter With Thieves are nominated for a couple 2012 ECMA's (Loud Recording & DVD of the Year for Live At The Seahorse). Tonight I spoke with their drummer Matt on Live Underground about the ECMA nominations & the Crack In The World tour with Stone Mary & Old Blood.

Here's some clips from their Live at The Seahorse DVD.

Go check them out at the Seahorse tomorrow night with Stone Mary & Old Blood. http://www.shelterwiththieves.com/

Life Lessons: Back Ya Sh!t Up

I hope my real life problem can be a good life lesson for you as it's made my life difficult this week....

The other night I was having problems with an iPhone app, so I decided up update it & a few others. This is where things went horribly wrong...

During the process of  updating, my phone froze. Gave it a reboot but it wouldn't go past the opening apple screen. Upon connecting to itunes I found my phone was now in recovery mode & needed to be restored. If I were a smart person, I would have regularly backed things up & this would've have been that big a deal....... Note, IF I were smart. In reality, I hadn't been backing up my phone. What's that? Why not, when there's iCloud so easily available. Well you see, I had been lazy on upgrading to iOS 5 and therefore did not have this available to me. So today's lesson: Back Ya Sh!t Up!..... and keeping up to date on software, probably smart as well.

Poor Young Things

Konrad & Scott from Poor Young Things dropped by Live 105 before their show at the Seahorse tonight for a chat. Here's the full interview:

Poor Young Things + Alert The Medic @ the Seahorse = Rockin' show, you should go! Get more on the band at http://www.pooryoungthings.com

Here's their video for Blame It On The Good Times, getting played on Much Music!

Live Underground with The Green Reflectors

I love 2 piece bands & I love surf/rockabilly music. So naturally I love The Green Reflectors! 2 brothers that play instrumental surf rock, they're from the south shore of NS & I spoke to their guitarist Kyle on Live Underground about the band and the upcoming Rockabilly Riot on Saturday.

 Here they are covering Link Wray's "Rumble."

Go to the Seahorse on Saturday to check these guys out at the Rockabilly Riot! For more on the band, click here.

Macy Gray Covered Who? WTF?

There's been some interesting artists cover great songs over the years. Some can be good, some not so much. This might fall under "Not So Much." 

R&B singer Macy Gray is releasing an album of covers, some of those covers have left me scratching my head. Here's the list:

Here Comes The Rain Again (Eurythmics)
Creep (Radiohead)
You Want Them Nervous (skit featuring J.B. Smoove)
Smoke Two Joints (The Toyes)
La La La (Teaching The Kids) (featuring Layann Al Saud, Avery Albert, Happy Hinds & Siena Stelber)
The Power of Love (featuring Hugh Salk)
Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
Sail (AWOLNATION)
I Try Is Cool And All But...(skit featuring Nicole Scherzinger)
Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Mel Rap (featuring Mel Hinds)
Bubbly (featuring Idris Elba) (Colbie Caillat)
Wake Up (Arcade Fire)
Really? (skit featuring MC Lyte)

Different song selection, but I'm trying to wrap my head around the smokey voiced Macy Gray singing Radiohead's "Creep" or Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters." I can't imagine those will compliment the original songs too well. I will say, this is not the worst covers album I've heard of. That distinction goes to Pat Boone's "In A Metal Mood." This is what I mean:

I'm sure Macy Gray won't be that awful, but I still wouldn't have high hopes for her turning out some cool Arcade Fire or Yeah Yeah Yeahs covers.