Music Profile | Jay Arner

As many bands out there would attest, going on tour is not the same as going on vacation. Between the all-night drives, waiting around a dingy club for soundcheck, grabbing a frozen convenience store burrito with your measly per diem, and the dizzying sense of deja vu as you take on this exact scenario the next day, it's hard to consider band trips very relaxing. Vancouver power pop prince Jay Arner knows this all too well.

The Strokes Premiere "Threat of Joy" Video

One of the Strokes' greatest gifts is that they can make the corniest things they do look like something that is happening to them instead of them making these things happen. Case in point is the newly released video for the track “Threat Of Joy” off of their Future Present Past EP. The video, looking like a lost Gregg Araki film, involves the hunt for some stolen footage that was another Strokes video for the track “Oblivious”.

Wants & Needs | Maple Match

Afraid of a possible Trump presidency? Who isn’t? You can do your part and help our neighbours to the south by joining Maple Match, a dating site that aims to “Make Dating Great Again” by pairing single Canucks with single Americans looking to immigrate to our amazing country. Created by a young Texan, the dating site will match you with an un-coupled American who shares your political views, no matter what they are. Get political about love while preparing for the Trumpocalypse!

 

Food Wants & Needs | Monkey Butter

This isn’t your average peanut butter. This is peanut butter, the remix. Vancouver-based Monkey Butter makes PB with flavours that go beyond the traditional. Take their salted caramel version, for instance. It’s like, what are you even? But then you’re like, wait, yes. Bring me all the salted caramel peanut butter from Monkey Butter because I must dunk a spoon in there and bring it to my mouth. Repeatedly.

Video of the Day | Thundercat's "Song for the Dead"

 Today we are celebrating another great contribution to the musical ether from artist Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) with an animated video to accompany “Song for The Dead” - the second track on his critically-acclaimed mini album The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam, which came out a year ago today. The video was directed and animated by Australian visual artist RyNo, who reached out to Stephen with the video over Twitter!

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