sebastian troen

It’s amazing what you can do with good, simple melodies and a soulful voice. Citizen Cope, aka Clarence Greenwood, breezed into Vancouver last night to rock a full house at the Commodore. And from his 3 opening acoustic numbers through the remainder of the set, that’s exactly what he did. Read the rest of this entry »

Almost half-way through listening to all the bands on day 1 of the Coachella bill and wanted to share a surprise discovery with you… Canada’s own Stars.

I find myself listening to them over and over again… if you haven’t already listened to them, now is a great time to start.

Anthemic Take Me To The Riot:

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Recently broken up, still a bit bitter about it? Then Your Ex-Lover is Dead might just be the song for you:

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3 more parts to my chat with DJ Champion, check it out:

Part 3:

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPod. But when iTunes decides one day to stop ’seeing it’ and pushing me to reformat it, I lose my cool. I backed up the data on it manually but now it won’t reimport, so my 55GB collection is sitting on my hard drive in the stupid iTunes format and won’t go back on my device. So I’ve only got my most recent 10GB of music on there and i’ve lost all my playlists.

Really, really infuriating! Anyone know of any way I can recover my music back onto my device?

UPDATE 1: So after I posted about this problem, I discovered that iTunes will let you copy things back IF you click and drag the files VERY SLOWLY back to the iPod icon and HOLD IT there until it catches up and shows the files hovering over the iPod icon.  Then it MAY (if it feels like it) import the files… sometimes

So I’ve slowly been importing my music until today when it decided to crash completely. Hard drive kept spinning, kept rebooting, it appeared… fried!  The lovely Apple customer support agent was very helpful and wanted me to ship it back to get repaired… for $39.95 in shipping and handling. But wait a moment madame, I’m still within the 1 year warranty period.  Oh no, no, silly, free shipping is only covered in the first 160 days of the warranty, then you gotta cover the costs… dumbass! Okay, she didn’t actually say that… but COME ON!

And I had such high  hopes for you Apple…

Sigh.

So now I’m trying to import using ephPod but I think  it’s crashing my iPod.  One day very soon I can see myself just saying “Fuck It” and starting from scratch Read the rest of this entry »

One of the coolest new acts on the Canadian music scene is DJ Champion from Montreal… I met up with him a few weeks ago to talk about his never-ending tour, hot girls and Saskatoon (no, really!). Here’s the first part of that interview:

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