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I’ve been on the road a lot so I’ve been somewhat sporadic, and I haven’t read as much as I usually do. Still found some great stuff though.
Tomorrow is Record Store Day, if you’re into that, though I haven’t seen much that makes me excited in the Canadian release list. I won’t be lining up, but I might pick up the new Militarie Gun EP if my local has it. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it, though the track with Bully has been on the playlist for a while.
Anyway, here’s everything I got up to on the blog this week.
Music
Below are the artists I featured in the last week. If you want to hear a couple tracks from each of these, I’ve made you a mixtape in Apple Music and Spotify.
If you’re going to give one thing here a spin: Work Wife. Though in an hour I’ll answer that differently. Shiv and the Carvers is high energy fun, great area is electronic weirdness.
Check ’em out and if you have anything to say, please do.
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Nightbus – Average Boy
Manchester, UK
They call it late-night music. I call it perfect driving music.
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Work Wife – Waste Management
Brooklyn, NY
Meredith Lampe has quietly become one of my favourite artists. The new EP is worth your time
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Shiv and the Carvers – Physical Capital
Toronto
Ripping fun Toronto ‘roller skate punk’ band set to open for Lambrini Girls.
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Daze Away – It’ll Make It Better
Niagara
Beachy lo-fi alt rock. Old-car-stereo-on-a-hot-day-by-the-water music. I bet they’re great live.
Books and Blog posts
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The nerdy Dude Perfect of ping pong
Steven Levy’s book Hackers sent me looking for ping pong trick shots, and I found a gold mine.
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Heat Death of the Internet
A very short story from Takahē Magazineyou’ll be thinking about all day.
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What happens when EV’s are just V’s?
Tesla is changing from a tech company that makes cars to a car company with new tech, and that has implications.
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The slow and ugly fall of Boeing Co.
Sometimes books are better in retrospect than in the moment. I read Peter Robison’s Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing when it came out and wasn’t impressed, but it’s been on my mind all the time these days, for obvious reasons. It was also referenced quite heavily in a John…
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Erik Ferguson makes gorgeous nightmare fuel
even if you want to look away, you can’t