Monday 29 June 2009



Free download: Arts & Crafts Sampler vol. 6

The kiddies are out of school for the summer, and the weather this past weekend was picture postcard perfect.  I spent as much of it outdoors as possible, and have the sunstroke to show for it.  The soundtrack for my fun in the sun was the excellent Arts & Crafts Sampler Volume 6, from venerable Toronto label Arts & Crafts.  Not only does the sampler include some fantastic tracks from recent releases by Los Campesinos!, Apostle of Hustle, and Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene, it also has a brand new track from current QBiM heartthrobs Zeus!

“Fever of the Time” is slated to be one of the tracks on Zeus’ debut album, due later this year.  Special thanks to Bryan from Hero Hill for pointing me in the direction of this free–Yes, FREE!–download.

MP3:  Zeus “Fever of the Time”
Myspace: Zeus

(photo: canvasmedia.ca)

(photo: canvasmedia.ca)

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my favourite track on the sampler is brand new material from an eternal QBiM heartthrob, Amy Millan.  She has a new solo album titled Masters of the Burial, scheduled for release September 8.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but me thinks me detects the dulcet tones of one Leslie Feist in the backing vocals, no?

MP3: Amy Millan “Bruised Ghosts”
Myspace: Amy Millan

As today is my last official day of work for the next two months, things may get a little quiet around QBiM.  I will post regularly, but it may not be daily (or maybe it will be, who knows), but please do stick around.  We’ll be celebrating our third birthday in a few weeks, and we’ll definitely cover the Polaris Music Prize shortlist announcement next week, and who knows?–there may be a few surprises along the way.





by J. Di Gioia | 2 Comments »

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2 Responses to “Free download: Arts & Crafts Sampler vol. 6”

We're Late For Class July 1st, 2009 at 7:40 pm

Hi Quicksters,

Sorry to clog up your comments… We’re fellow bloggers, We’re Late For Class. Since 2007, we’ve posted 39 releases of FREE live improvisation and experimental/psychedelic music on our blog… just for the heck of it.

We’ve just released #40 Another Collection, a free 2-CD best of collection and we wanted to see what you thought (Rolling Stone doesn’t seem to be interested). A link in your blogroll would mean a lot to us, as that’s our only source of blog traffic.

You’re also welcomed to post #40 Another Collection for your readers, if you’d like. We’ve even made it easy by creating a page of codes to our nifty animated, future of online rock n roll cover, MP3 players (your readers can listen to it all on YOUR blog) and even a short write up about us you can use (or abuse or edit) if you don’t have the time to indulge in 2-CDs worth of stoner mayhem. Most blogs only care about stars… but, we could be useful on a slow news day.

http://werelateforclass.blogspot.com/2007/04/codes-for-posting-40-another-collection.html

Let us know what you think. We’ll be happy to post links for you in our blogroll and, in the future, when our species comes to rule this planet, your name will be on the protected scrolls so that no harm will come to you.

Thanks in advance,
We’re Late For Class
http://werelateforclass.blogspot.com/

Kirstie August 8th, 2009 at 6:15 am

I Hink Its Absolutly Shite !