Julie Doiron at the First Unitarian Church Chapel

Life has been a series of ups and downs in the past couple of weeks. In other news:

» I went up to NYC for the Popfest over Memorial weekend; kudos to the Popfest crew for putting a show on the Coney Island boardwalk. Having the opportunity to be on the boardwalk, soak up the sun, watch a couple bands and put my feet in the ocean were exactly what I needed. Brown Recluse Sings and Cause Co-Motion totally owned this festival — but whatever, I called that from a million miles away. The Besties aren’t too shabby either.

» Julie Doiron is on tour with Calvin Johnson for the next month, and I recommend that you catch her live. The intimacy of the FUC’s chapel (50-person capacity) meshes well with her always-genial persona; she’s also got Steve & Will from the Constantines backing her up.

» Of course you probably missed this, because it’s fucking One Tree Hill, but the Con’s “Soon Enough” was featured in the closing to an episode recently — and it works quite nicely.

» Aaaaand to meet my 1% Canadian programming requirement, here’s Toronto’s Small Sins, whom I caught on tour with Sloan recently. Seems like this song, “Stay”, was enough of a hit to warrant a remix 12″ with contributions from the Postal Service or something. Regardless it’s a nice, self-tormenting pop song, which given my crappy weekend seems pretty apropos:

Small Sins, “Stay” (from the self-titled album)

Eh, let’s make it a double-header — here’s my favorite Sloan track from the most recent album, which they totally did not play at their Philly show:

Sloan, “Can’t You Figure It Out” (from Never Hear The End Of It)
Yeah, it cuts off like that. Woo hoo, the joys of record sequencing.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 4th, 2007 at 1:20 pm and is filed under live performances, music.