Comments on: Xxzxcuzx Me

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:20:24 +0000

i am unbearably saddened that the acorn was shut out of the short list.

By: Jiff

Jiff — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:38:17 +0000

And from this list, Caribou, and Holy Fuck are the only choices who push the envelope.

Everyone else is just a "critical darling"

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:36:30 +0000

A Northern Chorus' final album, The Millions Too Many could and should have made the list. Sure, it wears its influences on its sleeve, but no more than any other nominee on the current short list.

There are many on that list whom I believe shouldn't win based on their level of originality.

Final Fantasy was an excellent choice for the case of winning based on originality, but each year, the award goes ever more political with safe and mainstream choices.

By: aviva / suckingalemon

aviva / suckingalemon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:58:02 +0000

if you thought CC was tuff to shoot, you should have been at monotonix last night.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:04:30 +0000

http://www.ticketmaster.ca/…

Not sure if you saw this already, but an Of Montreal show popped up on ticketmaster for the CNE of all god forsaken places.

By: Bruce Wrighte

Bruce Wrighte — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:49:45 +0000

That Crystal Castles show was anarchy incarnate. In spite of the circumstances you describe, your photos turned out really well. Sounds like you missed the short set/break/"encore" as described in eye. To clear that up, apparently there was a ‘disagreement’ between Alice Glass and a sound guy after her mic abuse led to its demise, and after she pulled a diva and left, there was a 5-10 minute interval after which things were resolved and they returned to close out the show (but not before she put the boot to the drum kit). At the risk of making too much of it, we may just have witnessed some myth-making in progress – I choose to take the view that it follows in the esteemed tradition of the Pistols or JAMC. There. I said it.

Interesting how diametrically opposed your POV from the pit was to that of James Simons in the eye article. Sounds like he was stuck on the boardwalk at the back. Being somewhere in between the two of you myself, when a thousand plus people in front of you stand on their bench and you have a bench under you, what are you going to do? When it’s a free outdoor show you have to take it as it comes.

By: Melody

Melody — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:41:48 +0000

I’m disappointed that The Acorn didn’t make it and surprised that Crystal Castles didn’t make it either. I would love to see Basia Bulat or Plants and Animals take it, although I’m not sure what the chances of that would be.

By: KB

KB — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:21:47 +0000

I'm putting money on Stars or Two Hours Traffic.

If I could hand it out myself, I'd give it to Caribou. That album shimmers.

Sunset Rubdown, where are you?!