Rich Aucoin – This Magazine https://this.org Progressive politics, ideas & culture Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:30:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://this.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-12.28.11-PM-32x32.png Rich Aucoin – This Magazine https://this.org 32 32 Tuesday Tracks! Rich Aucoin, Entire Cities, dd/mm/yyyy https://this.org/2010/11/16/tuesday-tracks-rich-aucoin-entire-cities-ddmmyyyy/ Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:30:49 +0000 http://this.org/?p=5642 It’s Tuesday, and that means another trio of newish Canadian music to be entertained by. This week we have a couple of pretty far-out videos to take a look at, as well as some brand new material from—as far as I’m concerned—one of the country’s most overlooked bands. But enough small talk. Let’s get to the good stuff.

First up is Rich Aucoin, we’ve mentioned him before here on Tuesday Tracks. We’ve actually even mentioned this song before, but I really wanted to bring the video to everyone’s attention. If you happen to have a pair of those old red and blue 3D glasses on hand, today is the day you get to bust them out. Yes, YouTube has officially invaded the third dimension and Rich Aucoin is leading the parade. Check out his new video for “Push”:

Cover of Entire Cities' new albumNext we have Entire Cities. Again, we’ve mentioned them before, but that was in regard to their waaay overlooked 2008 album Deep River. Well they’re back with a new collection of songs and they’re still impossible to pinpoint. They’re a little bluegrass, a little indie rock, but something totally separate from the two. The new record, I Hope You Never Come Home, is out December 7th on Easy Tiger Records. Here’s “A Coat of Loup-Garou”:

Finally, another weird and wonderful music video from the weird and wonderful dd/mm/yyyy. The band seem to have gotten their hands on the alien technology used by the Predator to camouflage himself against Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jessie Ventura. Lucky for dd/mm/yyyy both men have left the bounty hunting game to become failed politicians. Here’s “I’m Still In The Wall”:

]]> Tuesday Tracks! Rich Aucoin, B.A. Johnston, Hey Rosetta! https://this.org/2010/07/27/tuesday-tracks-rich-aucoin-b-a-johnston-hey-rosetta/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:53:00 +0000 http://this.org/?p=5104 Rich Aucoin

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Summer festivals were once kingpins of the concert season, but in recent years their popularity has waned significantly. The recession has been blamed, and it certainly has had an effect, but the more likely cause for a drop in popularity has to do not with personal economics, but greed by the promoters. A great summer festival is about creating atmosphere: a parallel utopia that is built and demolished over the course of a few days. The problem with festivals lately is that feeling has mostly been abandoned in favour of commerce.

It’s not that people can’t afford to go to big behemoth events, it’s that they don’t want to afford it. Who wants to spend $200 to enter a fenced-in field where you’ll be searched as if you were crossing a border checkpoint, to ensure you’re not carrying contraband like bottled water or a picnic—forcing you to pay the inflated prices for Dasani and Pizza Pizza.

But let us not paint all festivals with one brush! Last weekend, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, hosted the Evolve festival. The three-day event promotes better living by example and tries to educate visitors about social issues. So, this week on Tuesday Tracks, we salute the Evolve festival for being just a little bit better than all the rest. Coming up: three performers from this year’s event.

First is experimental songsmith Rich Aucoin. Aucoin’s track “Push” is a laser-fulled, Daft Punk dance number that goes from robotic dissonance to a very human, inclusive anthem about accomplishment.

Next is Hamiltonian B.A. Johnston. It’s a difficult task to explain B.A. to the uninitiated—he’s a fiercely DIY artist who is seemingly constantly on tour. A workhorse who puts everything he has into his music, and even more into his live performances. His music is completely transparent and honest, a sort of punk rock, Nintendo confessional.  But that description along doesn’t come close to describing the man, or the performances, because that’s what he is. Even above a musician he is a performer. Here’s “Have fun on Warped Tour.”

Finally we have Hey Rosetta, a band who has been steadily gaining steam since they formed in 2005. These Newfoundlanders make the kind of music you hear and wonder why they aren’t on the radio. Their songs are accessible, but at the same time, unique and intriguing. Here’s “Red Heart”:

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