A kind message for anybody who ever visited MountieRock.Blogspot.com

To the 5 people who generously clicked "follow" to read this blog:
Maybe you've noticed my posting slowed down drastically before coming to a dead stop a while ago.  There's a friend who also has a music-centric blog here on Blogspot (so what...) that I like because it looks like a Tumblr blog: Just post the video and forget it.  Instead of reformatting this blog, I want to take the fresh opportunity to no longer limit any posts to just "mountie rock."

Thank you in advance for anybody that checks out the new music blog: TQtv.tumblr.com (RSS feed)
As already evidenced - there will still be a heavy Mountie Rock presence along with other newly named genres such as Beardy Folk, Great Barrier Beats and whatever Maude Lebowski would call "some sort of techno pop."

Destroyer - "Chinatown" (album: Kaputt) FREE MP3 LINK

Download the song "Chinatown" for FREE

Last Friday Pitchfork announced their initial lineup for their 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival.  One of the acts scheduled to appear is Destroyer, the project of Dan Bejar (of the New Pornographers).  The track "Chinatown" was featured as NPR's song of the day a few days ago, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the track available for free on Amazon.  (note: the whole album is a modest $5.99)

Destroyer looks to be performing on the final day (Sunday July 17) of the three day Festival held in Chicago's Union Park.  In a non Mountie Rock related comment, one of my favorite acts Cut Copy will also be there that day with TV on the Radio and Deerhunter as well.  In the past I've had conflicts with Pitchfork's date, and I'm really hoping my usual July priorities will shake out just right allowing me the chance to see Destroyer live... Maybe I'll take the initiative and get to my favorite Lincoln Hall when he comes through town at the end of this month?

Feel free to check out more of the Vancouver based act:

• DestroyerSongs.com
• MySpace
• Merge (record label

Destroyer - Chinatown by tranzmission
One last thing, I mentioned that this song is free - right?  Go get it.

Zeus - "Marching Through Your Head" (album: Say Us)

Available on Amazon for under $6

Zeus, out of Toronto, will be opening for Broken Social Scene for the first leg of their 2011 tour.  Below embedded is one of the videos I pulled from their website (http://www.themusicofzeus.com).  It is from their debut album, Say Us,  which dropped about a year ago.

The foursome was first formed as a backing/touring group for Jason Collett.  I wonder if I saw these guys already when Collett opened for Feist in 2009?  (Zeus and Feist share a producer: Robbie Lackritz)  There is zero underestimating the ever growing reach and influence of Broken Social Scene, or the interconnectedness of the Mountie Rock scene in general.

Broken Social Scene - "Texico Bitches" (NEW VIDEO & Star Slinger Remix download)

Ever since the release of Broken Social Scene's latest album Forgiveness Rock Record, I've gone back and forth between "Texico Bitches" and "Sweetest Kill" for my favorite track off it. It's been a two horse race throughout, even the powerfully awesome "Meet Me in the Basement" video was unable to help the instrumental track crack my personal top two.

My love of these songs is why, when multiple sources on Twitter were announcing the official music video for one of these tracks, I quickly clicked over to watch the video during today's lunch break.

The aforementioned "Meet Me in the Basement" video was very politically charged - it was specifically targeted at (and released just prior to) the G8 Summit held in their hometown of Toronto. This should have led me to expect that the song that targeted Big Oil* would probably be Not Safe/Suitable For Work. However, I am too big of a BSS fan to have waited an extra four plus hours to see the video. Without a doubt I wasn't going to just sit and read countless mini tweet reviews as a tease. Thankfully I have a video enabled phone and was able to watch it covertly making sure nobody could be able to look over my shoulder.

*The album dropped right around the time of the Gulf Spill. An eerie coincidence that made most of us early listeners first gravitate to the ironically upbeat number.

Truth be told, the video isn't too shocking or controversial. It's not near Yeasayer's video for "Ambling Alp" for example. But I think it's safe to warn you if one of more of the following points can make you uncomfortable:

• Clown makeup
• Clown makeup on non clowns
• Wrestling
• Wrestling between two dudes
• Oil Wrestling (not the KY, the BP, kind)
  
• For lack of a better term, general grabass actions
  

Hopefully, I didn't spoil too much of it:


Broken Social Scene wasn't done with their "Texico Bitches" news of the day - they made available a free Star Slinger remix of the track today and also announced quite a few tour dates, but none of them in Chicago (yet). Considering half of the FRR album was recorded in Chicago, and the fact they made two Chicago stops in 2010, I think it's safe to assume 2010 won't be a BSSless year around these parts.

Broken Social Scene - Texico Bitches (Star Slinger Remix) by Arts & Crafts