The little black dress. (source) The White Album. Mastering your record. (like here) About audio mastering: Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Essentials
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged gremarket mastering, harris newman, little black dress, mastering, white album on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Psychedelic pix of last night’s show!!!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Expo 67, Freelove Fenner, L'Esco, Mike Rollo, photos, psychedelia, show review on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night’s show at L’Esco was awesome! Great company ( Expo 67 and Freelove Fenner ) and good times! All these fabulous photos are by Mike Rollo. Look carefully so that you don’t miss out on the awesome superimposition-like effects. Check out the rest of them in our Flickr account!
Good witches!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged lickety split smut zine, rain them thangs, them thangs, witches on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s raining today in MTL. Thank goodness we’re not the types of witches that get all melt-y in this weather! Loving this blog, where the photo above was found. Also, am seriously considering a weekly sex-themed post series, what with our sexy pedigree. See y’all later tonight!
Beardo
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged beard, beard championships, beard enthusiast, beard lovers, beardo, duffy, Expo67, Freelove Fenner, hairstylist, L'Esco, L'Escogriffe, nerdboyfriend, Nightwood, PARLOVR, safe solvent on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This post is gonna make one beard enthusiast super happy, that’s for sure! There aren’t a whole lotta beards on Nerdboyfriend, for some reason…hmmm. Maybe a flashy beard gets in the way of a fancy cravat. Beards might not be for everyone in the summertime; I see more furry faces in the cooler months for [...]
Dear Amber,
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged amber coffman, annie clark, bat for lashes, Courtney Love, deerhoof, dirty projectors, fishtail braids, guitar strap height, julie doiron, marnie stern, natasha khan, satomi matsuzaki, st. vincent, vivian girls on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Reasons to keep your guitar strapped high: your idol does it… your girl-crush does it… you like the Vivian Girls and they do it… it looks good on Annie Clark, Satomi Matsuzaki, Julie Doiron, Amber Coffman and many more… and Courtney Love doesn’t. **** Also, for when your hair grows long, you can do awesome [...]
Dressed in Black: Serah-Marie McMahon!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, Style & Fashion, tagged a very basic introduction to machine sewing, angela chase, Broken Pencil, dressed in black, etsy, melissa cartwright, my so-called life, puces pop, serah marie mcmahon, shameless magazine, shangri las, value village, worn fashion journal on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dressed in Black: We’ve tentatively named this newish blog column in honour of the tune by The Shangri-Las cuz it’s a little moody sounding…like us! You’ll be able to locate this series by clicking on the Style & Fashion category below. Now without any further ado, our seventh interviewee, Editor-in-Pants of Worn Fashion Journal, Serah-Marie McMahon : [...]
NXNE was good, sweaty fun! (photo heavy)
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged aids wolf, auf der maur, Nightwood, nxne, PARLOVR, rancho relaxo, the coathangers, The Sadies, two way monologues on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rock plus roll! Thanks to Mimi for taking these photos. We saw bands like The Coathangers (awesomely fun), Aids Wolf (transformative), Parlovr (fuck yeah), Auf Der Maur (hometown rock star) and The Sadies (fuck yeah, part two), among other folks. Thanks to Dan from Two Way Monologues/Rancho Relaxo for inviting us to play!
Dancing about architecture, that sort of thing.
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged martian engineering, recording, songwriting, tori amos on June 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“Imagine that you have been able to let yourself into this fascinating architectural space but you’re in only one room and you do not know how to get to the other rooms because as of now there are no doorways. It becomes like a sonic puzzle. Sometimes it takes months for me to find my [...]
Silly, self-indulgent sing-a-longs!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged nxne, road trip, sing-a-long on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is completely silly. Remember our road trip? We made a silly video on our way down with the built-in iSight and PhotoBooth program on a MacBook while drivingdrivingdriving to catch a show…and then drivingdrivingdriving back home. If you watch this, anticipate silliness, sing-a-longs, and self-indulgence. We just got back into town from NXNE (a [...]
Our picks for NXNE and MTL this weekend!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Beaver, boom-chix-a-boom, Brave Radar, Cresting, Elenora Thompson, hank & lily, la centrale, Modernboys Modergirls, PARLOVR, Rah Rah, Teen Anger, the balconies, the dress whites, The Sadies, The Sonics, USWM on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dearests, here are our picks for NXNE this weekend in Tronna. The Balconies – 8pm, Thursday, Drake Underground The Dress Whites, Thurs 11pm, Supermarket USWM, Thurs 11pm, Horseshoe Parlovr, Fri 9m, Supermarket (like, duh) Modernboys Moderngirls – 12am, Thursday, Neutral Lounge The Sadies – 1am, Friday, El Mocambo The Sonics – Sat 9:30pm, Yonge Dundas [...]


