Sick Friend are unintentionally elusive, having worked intensely on an album’s worth of tunes over the past year only to throw them out in order to re-record them next month! But here they are, as part of the March Montreal Sessions. They played an excellent live set, which you can listen to below, and then [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Brave Radar’
A healthy dose of Sick Friend!
Posted in CKUT Montreal Sessions, tagged Braids, Brave Radar, ckut, coulees, Lhasa, live, Maximilien Bouchard, Montreal, montreal sessions, music, PARLOVR, radio, shapes & sizes, Sick, starvin hungry, The Besnard Lakes on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Miniature Frolic
Posted in Style & Fashion, tagged A Miniature Frolic, a shaded view on fashion, Brave Radar, lalouka designs, lara kaluza, martin reisch, safesolvent, sexy strawberry eating, tessa smith, total gorgessity on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
*** A Miniature Frolic is the latest project by (our good friends) frequent creative collaborators, Martin Reisch (*safesolvent), Lara Kaluza (Lalouka Designs), and Tessa Smith (Brave Radar). Shot on location in the Quebec countryside, this short film captures Lalouka’s handmade, vintage-inspired clothing through a soft, sun-soaked lens, and features an airy and delicately haunting musical score [...]
Caravan: a zine about indie touring!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, Tour Diary, tagged Brave Radar, how-to, ladies of the canyon, Modernboys Moderngirls, PARLOVR, sherwin tjia, tessa smith, touring, van, vinyl record guru, zine on June 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As some of you know, we decided to create a wee zine about independent touring in Canada to sell during this June tour. Folks at the shows and fellow musicians have really been enjoying it and have made their own plans for new content to add to the next edition (best cheap breakfast spots in [...]
Radical Buy Local: albums from 2009 to gift!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Brave Radar, cotton mouth, dishwasher, fixture records, lake of stew, Modernboys Moderngirls, nomadic massive, radical buy local, the balconies on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My awesome bud Nikki is approaching holiday shopping with a very particular approach this year. She’s doing something she calls Radical Buy Local or Buy Local Extreme, which she defines as buying gifts from people you know (or a friend of a friend) in order to support one’s community! It’s requiring her to think carefully [...]
Keep Busy
Posted in carta marina, tagged Brave Radar, clues, cotton mouth, fashion pop, Mavo, norwegian wood, PARLOVR, pop montreal, shapes & sizes, the Reversing Falls, vincat on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some Pop MTL show suggestions for ya. There are so, so many awesome bands playing and they’re often playing at the same time (see Mavo, Brave Radar, the Reversing Falls, Clues, us all tonight etc)…. Thursday 1:30am – Balattou – Sister Suvi 11pm – Green Room – Nightwood (we’ll be at this one [...]
bridge the sea of possibility*
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Brave Radar, dressed in black, patti smith, red hot chili peppers, tessa smith, tour, Tour Diary on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love tour photos and travelogues and adventure in general! Road trips, too. These photos by/of Tessa and Brave Radar during their recent tour are getting me excited for our own tour this October… Check out our own tour diaries of yore and our style interview with Tessa earlier this summer! * An adaptation of [...]
Dressed in Black: Tessa Smith!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, Style & Fashion, tagged Brave Radar, dressed in black, fixture records, street style, style blog, tessa smith on August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dressed in Black: We’ve named this blog column in honour of the tune by The Shangri-Las cuz it’s a little moody sounding…like us! Check out other entries in this series by clicking on the Style & Fashion category below. Now without any further ado, our eighth interviewee, Tessa Smith: In 5 words or less, describe [...]
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 [...]
Beyond the ken of mortal men
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Brave Radar, Graeme Base, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, martin horn, pop winds, recording, reversing falls, the silly kissers, time lapse on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beyond the ken of mortal men Beneath the wind and waves There lies a land of shells and sand Of chasms, crags and caves Where coral castles climb and soar Where swaying seaweeds grow And all around without a sound The ocean currents flow Graeme Base Found on The Lost Princess. *** Yesterday, we went [...]
FREE stuff + …
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, Free Stuff!, tagged a building, bleach black, Brave Radar, do you love me like I love you, fixture records, from her to eternity, nick cave, pop montreal, the bad seeds on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Listen to: Brave Radar!! Their new release on Fixture Records A BUILDING can be streamed in its entirety here. Hell yeah! **** Watch… …some people talk about how brilliant Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are on Pitchfork tv. One week only, the doc Nick Cave: Do You Love Me Like I Love You is FREE to [...]


