The Waldorf will be transformed into a real Mexican cabaret from the 50s, so expect to find a lot of surprises, including an electric shock machine, Cuban sensual dances, tacos, tequila specials, old music, new music, dance music, electronic music, its going to be madness. Toy Selectah was member of the legendary hip hop, rock band Control Machete who went to sell more than 100,000 units in Mexico and 400,000 in Latin America of their debut CD Mucho barato at the end of the 90s. Their second album also went Platinium.Now Chico Mann or the first Cuban in space as he calls himself is the electronic alter ego of Maruitos García, an accomplished musician, he was the guitar player of Antibalas, one of the most popular Afrobeat bands in the world.

We sat down with Vancouver singer songwriter Jess Hill at the Prophouse off Commercial Drive to talk about her new CD Orchard and her upcoming tour. So here is her bio and the video. Enjoy! It is an exclusive for all of you fans of the Vancouver independent scene.

Listen to the podcast in the postcast. I was blown away by the quality of this band. I have an EP called Simon Says and it is really good but it doesn’t capture the energy and the charisma that they portray when they play LIVE! The songs will crawl into your head and stay there until you have to play them in your stereo at loud volume.
A lot of bands and influences rushed through my head when I was watching at them, the first one was De Lorean, that Spanish band, but also some songs really remind me of The Strokes, so I guess they pop indie rock is between the electronic ambient of De Lorean and the guitar riffs of the Strokes. “Joy Division” says Miso, the singer “The Smiths” replies Valentino, other answers start flowing “New Order, The Cure, Britpop, Donosaur Jr. The Velvet Underground, T-Rex”. I saw them at the Biltmore and invited them to The Morning After Show a couple of weeks after that to know more about this indie band.

We got there armed with a six pack and video cameras. The girls were about to start playing Their songs are short and powerful, punk rrrriot grrrls style. Two guitars a bass and drums plus the singer conforms this quintet of girls.
Listen to the podcast of Thunderbird Radio Hell with Joyce Collingwood here

This show was to support the fundraiser for the Galiano Conservancy Association so we had Marley Daemon playing LIVE! on the show plus Tamara Nile calling in. Some of the best folk artists played that night at the Waldorf. MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert was there speaking and besides CiTR, CJSF CIVIL radio and Shaw TV were there among other musicians and friends.

We started the show with Silvania from their fourth album Juniperfin, it goes back to building atmospheres and creating images out from sound textures: industrial soundscapes, ambient, a present for the sensibility, as a walk among the clouds. Always a step ahead of their time. We heard Aldrin

This is going to be my third year of doing this. The first year I did an hour of noize like Merzbow, Naked City, Keiji haino, Death Ambient, stuff like that combined with ultraed and Throbbing Gristle. I read some poetry, dark poetry, I played three \Cds at the same time, it was maniac and insane. The second year I did two hours and I repeated the show of the year before but added some Le Mystere des le Voix Bulgare and sosme Rey Trueno from mexico, some Ozomatli and Jorge Reyes, some crazy Mexican. It was two hoirs of madness. Those shows you can still find them on www.citr.ca go to my podcasts and look for the Radio Art episodes. This year I am going to do it again, go wild with noize, this year I am going to put exclusively SPANISH AND LATIN NOIZE so expect top experimental, VERY RARE AND VERY WEIRD some of it has never been played on the airwaves.

Some say that God was born out of the ejaculation of another god, a being that was more god or “goder” than him. That was the Big Bang explained by some wako porno creationists. There are other wacos that believe the Earth is just like 20,000 or so years old. That just corroborates the theory of evolution and demonstrates that the human brain is not very evolved yet, but will it be enough time to perfection our computer inside our skulls? The believers of the “holy” book now are afraid because the birds fell from the sky and the fish died in the ocean. Apolcalyptic times my friends. Destruction. We started the show with garage pre punk band from 65 We also played some of the best bands of 2010 from Vancouver according to this website.

This show was dedicated to the metal scene as we had Sinister Black as out special guests saying goodbye to the old year with a bang! The list pretty much says it all. The members of Sinister Black include Wayne Powell on the vocals and guitar, Gordzilla on the bass and Ron Pistell on the drums. These guys are very energetic and their style is not so much metal, it is a hybrid cross between punk and heavy rock, but you can also hear Sonic Youth as an influence, the result of the band is loud, fast and furious music.
Don’t forget that The Morning After Show is broadcasted LIVE every Tuesday at 11:30 AM PT at 101.9 FM in Vancouver or you can listen to it on line at www.citr.ca

Freeflow, together for ten years now, have been laying down their own brand of soul, funk, reggae and rock to an ever-growing audience. One of the TOP 20 in the PEAK radio’s 2009 Talent Contest. With the addition of new guitarist, Jay Leonard Juatco, Freeflow has taken their sound to a new level. A live show not to be missed!www.freeflow.ca

Vancouver singer/songwriter John Pippus has lived a life filled with music and well-earned stories. SoundProof Magazine calls him “…a folk/roots gem”; The Province’s Tom Harrison says John is “…a refined tunesmith with serious pop hooks”. John will be joined by Ev Yngveson on sweet harmonies and percussion, along with an all-star band. www.johnpippus.com

This is one of the most interesting Vancouver bands right now.

umbers seem to confirm that Arcade Fire is the most popular Canadian INDIE band in the world, the most popular Canadian “artist” would probably be Celine Dion but we will not go into that swampy territory. Arcade Fire have been filling stadiums and playing all kind of festivals around the world. The band is based in Montreal, Quebec and was formed by a couple, Win Butler and Regine Chassagne who are now husband and wife. The earliest Montreal-based incarnation of the Arcade Fire began performing in the summer/fall of 2001, almost entirely in lofts and art galleries.
then some writers started comparisons with U2.

we had an anti christmas show today because we are against consumerism, don’t buy love this Christmas and if you do, support local businesses, avoid corporations and malls, support social causes, don’t make the rich richer, help the poor. Don’t think that Jesus is coming to save you, we need to save ourselves. So that being said we played some cover songs by artists like Leonard Cohen, Stevie Wonder and also the atheist song by XTC Dear God, a classic. We also played some Brown Christmas by El Vez, the Mexican Elvis Presley. More weird music, we have some phsychedelic music from Turkey, Bolivia, and Peru from the 60s and 70s. Awesome. We also had Jay Beck as a special guest. Jay is a multi/instrumentalist from Vancouver who has played in different bands, he played a couple of LIVE songs. Catch him playing on the 30th at Nyalas on Main street.

Your future favourite song is here in this show, so be part of the movement. Every Tuesday at 11:30 AM PT on CiTR 101.9 FM or www.citr.ca I always play local musicians, like John Pippus, The Wizerdz, Henry and the Nightcrawlers, Bradley, The SSRIS, really cool bands.I also played some heavier stuff from this point and local heavier stuff like The Executives, Sinister Black and more music from different parts of the world

DJ Champion: The best DJ in Montreal plays with 4 guitarrists and a bassist

We started the show with a band called Cougar from the UK and the De Lorean when they were way cooler with the song DeFunked, then we played the Obits from their Cd I blame you. We had Dan and John from the Executives, they have a CD called a New Form of a Social Sins. “When the Pope came with new forms of social sins, there were not sins before but now they are, so I think it sound cleaver so we stole it from the Pope” said John, the singer of the band. Among their influences are the Stone Temple Pilots, Pantera, Alice Cooper to Bach, Kate Bush among others.