The new Apple Crisp 12″ compilation + zine is coming soon — watch for it in Summer 2010!

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When you play live, you often wear a mask with storm clouds hanging over your face. What does that represent?
That started out as a joke. I like jokes and I like performing, but not being a performer, I needed something. I don’t want to say it’s like a gimmick but living in a small town like Kingston, especially working in a café like The Sleepless Goat, all my friends that go to my concerts already knew me, so I wanted to do something that made my band a separate personality — not my “I’m your bud making your coffee” personality.

Read the full interview online: PS I Love You interview w/ Eye Weekly

Plus PS I Love You music reviews: Exclaim! and NOW Toronto

Ohbijou Live [Ohbijou_sample.mp3]

Toronto orchestral indie-rockers Ohbijou electrified this year’s opening night Skeleton Park Music Festival concert at Chalmers United Church. CFRC mics were there, and the entire show can be heard on Kingston Staged this Thursday at 1pm.

CFRC was also present at Skeleton park this past weekend and recorded hours of local live music to bring to the airwaves over the next few weeks.

Kingston Staged, a showcase of local live music, can be heard each Thursday from 1:00-2:30pm on 101.9fm or cfrc.ca

Skeleton Park Music Festival Website

Wednesday Night

Wednesday June 16
@ Chalmers United (212 Barrie St)

7:30pm Rueben deGroot
8:30pm The Gertrudes
9:30pm Ohbijou

Thursday Night

Thursday June 17
@ The Artel (205 Sydenham St)

Lookit! Music! – Featuring Art Exhibition by Trevor Waurechen
8:00pm The Swamp Ward Orchestra
9:00pm Lake of Stew

Friday Night

Friday June 18
@ The Mansion (506 Princess St)

Lake Ontario Waterkeepers Presents:
8pm Dave Bidini
9pm Unconscious Encore
10pm CR Avery

Saturday All Day in the Park

Saturday June 19
in McBurney Park

Live Music, Children’s Activities, Local Artisans, Park & Neighbourhood History

7:00pm Audio Park
6:30pm The Wilderness of Manitoba
5:30pm PS I Love You
5:00pm Madam Raz
4:30pm Nagata Shachu
3:30pm The Inbreds
2:30 pm Luther Wright
1:30pm Oh Susanna
12:30pm Cherry Chapstick
12:00pm Park & Neighbourhood History
11am Ken Whiteley
10:30 am Spook & Squash

Saturday Night

Saturday June 19th
@ The Mansion

10pm After Party w/ Henry Faberge & The Adorables + Local DJs

A Skeleton Park Music Festival Warm-Up…

Friday June 4, 8pm
@ Whine Cellar (in The Mansion, 506 Princess St)
FREE!  All Ages!

The Famines
False Face
Captain Lavender

An invitation from Pete:

Me Man Jack hosts their 3rd Monthly Mash-Up at the Island Grill Sunday, May 30. This time the music is on the patio in the afternoon from 1:30 - 4:30.

This mash-up is a gathering of long time musical friends as different members of Me Man Jack have long standing musical connections with each of the guests. Jay & the Barn Flyz, Gary Rasberry and Mark Taras & Rene Vermette will all lead portions of the afternoon with MMJ supporting. Jason Erb (Gertrudes, Infotourist) is coming by to add some extra keys as well.

Walk on the free ferry from downtown Kingston and catch some music by the lake. Maybe ride your bike out to Big Sandy Bay first and then come back to relax on the patio. You can watch a few ferry runs go by before you pick which is your ride back home!

(Here’s a video from a previous Island Grill Monthly Mash-up featuring Stephen Stanley)

Weird Canada on False Face:

“They’ve once again skirted the unwieldy threat of identifiable genre and stayed true to their adjective hyperbole.”

Read it here

Kingston. The Limestone Labyrinth. City of Sandals. The Wettest City in Canada, where even the malevolent, murderous grifters are constantly soaked. Celebrities calling it home include Dan Aykroyd, Don Cherry, jazz musician LaTelle Gibraltar, actor Gorn Silvers (who plays Detective Fuzz Officer on the CTV drama Cop Police) and fitness guru Kory Kyck (author of Wait, Loser! Be a Weight Loser!). Visit our burg and get your picture taken with the world’s largest melted candle, Canada’s most ignored bridge, the site of the upcoming International Fake Olympics, Ontario’s most cynical puppy, and Bryce Coborn, the world’s only Bruce Cockburn imitator. (Why imitator and not impersonator? Because he mainly just follows Bruce Cockburn around town, mocking the way he carries groceries or eats popcorn.)

Landmarks aren’t the only things to recommend Kingston to the outside world, of course. Our town is a cultural hotbed. Connoisseurs of fine theatre might appreciate the work of Kingston’s premier dance company, Lavender Heat. Their acclaimed shows include 2003’s Muted Sensuality: The Horn of Intimacy, 2006’s Desire in a Broken Hammock, and 2009’s Silver and Sweat: More Tales From the Broken Hammock. We also have a thriving music scene, with artists as diverse as alternative rockers Queasily Amused, the swing-jazz stylings of Soft Release, and hip-hop artist Quizzuhkull, who “spits” such incisive lines as “Yo I get props but I ain’t the prop boy/You out of style like a Kindergarten Cop toy/Yo, did they ever make a Kindergarten Cop toy?/Regardless, I’d really like to emphasize that I’m not the prop boy.”

Hungry? Boy, does Kingston ever have establishments where food is! How about 634 Princess St., home of the This Ain’t Right Diner (”You’ll eat whatever’s left”)? Or how about The Reheat is On, the only restaurant in town specializing in microwave cooking? Sit back and let their wide variety of burritos, Hungry Man dinners and instant soups get thrown angrily onto your table by the surliest wait staff in Kingston. The standout: Hank, the 74 year old bus boy who will perform, for any customer celebrating a birthday, an impromptu lecture on a topic such as “Toothpaste Commercials Are Too Loud These Days” or “I Still Like My Son Who’s in Prison More Than the Other One”.

That’s just a hint of what Kingston has to offer any and all from far and abroad. You could also tour the Unfinished Playground out at Cataraqui. (Motto: “One SLIDE fits all [because we just have the one slide].”) Then there’s the Unsupervised Petting Zoo, where the bunny rabbits follow their own twisted moral code, or the province’s only organic sex farm. But whatever you choose to do here, just remember: don’t even think of looking in the pit. You won’t even find anything, unspeakably filthy and corrupting or otherwise. It’s just boring.

Pick Witherz