The Master Blog — September 2009 Archive

We were hard at work, getting something shot for 7.5, when a nice surprise pulled up in the form of a green and white volkswagen van filled with Pilsner. The night shoot went much smoother after that.

THE PRODUCERS

ALL THE COOKS IN THE KITCHEN

THE TALENT THE TALENT'S AGENT

SHES THE ONE WHO HAD TO DEAL WITH ALL THE TALENT

THANK PIL, WE GOT THE SHOT

Videos and more photos of the night to come.

"once you leave new york, your not going anywhere " -shhhhh

BYE BYE

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The lovely folks over at antisocial just put out fresh copies of 7.4. Head on over if you're in the area and if you live outside of Vancouver, get your copy here.

Do you like Altamont? You better, I certainly do. Be sure to check this out. Part 1 of their SXSW tour. Looks like part 2 was added today as well.

This year's winner of Canada's Polaris prize, the award given to a Canadian band or artist that the jury judged to have produced the album of "the highest artistic merit", is Toronto hardcore band Fucked Up, for their album The Chemistry of Common Life. They take home $20,000 and the satisfaction of having their unpublishable named reported in major newspapers. Congrats, dudes!

On October 1st and 2nd, Red Bull is throwing a pretty cool event at Studio Juste Pour Rire for Pop Montreal: Red Bull MegaHurtz. It's basically a night of top-shelf electronic music producers, but they're trying to break out of the typical performance mode by going beyond both the typical DJ set and the usual live PA experience. From the press release: "Rather than simply deejay, the acts will introduce their personal studio elements to the stage and perform live for the fans. As hands go up, frequencies will peak. Mix in a few instruments, gadgets and a light show just left of George Lucas, and you have the makings of a Red Bull MegaHurtz." Full lineup after the jump.

Here's the full line-up:

Nosajthing - Los Angeles (Alpha Pup) Megasoid - Montreal (Ninja Tune Records) Grahmzilla – Toronto (Thunderheist) Neighbour – Calgary (Home Breakin Records) Jelo – Toronto (Bugeyed Records) Barletta - Toronto (Tremendous Records) Hovatron – Montreal (Night Trackin) Lunice - Montreal (LuckyMe) GreenMachine - Quebec City (Quebec City)

Vancouver's is at the Art Gallery with: MY!GAY!HUSBAND! *solar powered DJ SET*

Canada now stands dead last amongst the G8 Nations in protecting our shared home from the threat of dangerous climate change. - WWF July 1.2009 STEP 1: Set an alarm on your phone/watch for: 12:18pm | Monday September 21st STEP 2: Show up at the Vancouver Art Gallery @ 12pm STEP 3: @ 12:18pm Alarms go off. We flood our political leaders with calls http://tcktcktck.org/ We need to wake up our federal government to their historic responsibility and aim to make the wake-up call so loud that it is ringing in their ears for days.

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we didn't get a chance to make it out the billabong damn am bowl jam this year, but luckily field agent louis feller handled it for us...

"Billabong damn am 2009 at bonsor skate park with Brian Schaeffer and friends handing out 20$ bills for any killer tricks in the bowl brought out the new school and the old school to the bowl jam with riders like Alex Chalmers shredding just about anything,Nate Lacoste with some smooth lines and Adam Hopkins doing some huge air's and several attempts at a Mctwist ,there was a lot of ripping going on . Ollie PoP Bubble Gum put up 600$ for the highest ollie contest witch was amazing to watch as the bar got up to 40-inch's Chad Dickson and billabongs Jeff Marshel who went head it head for the cash. "