lo-budge media library

YouTube – KARDINAL OFFISHALL ‘WE GON GO’ (Official Video – HD).

From Chris:

Kardinal Offishall, Canada’s hip hop star. Born and raised in Toronto Ontario. His parents are Jamaican immigrants. I like his style because he throws down a bit of dancehall reggae slang and rhythm into his rapping. This video (and song) is a bit slick and [...]

YouTube – Plants and Animals – Bye Bye Bye.

From Kyla:

The title is appropriate.
Bye bye bye Canadian Week.
But I love this song.
And you may as well face it, lo-budge: You, the dirge electronica lover

married a woman who loves the anthemic sing-a-long.
It’s crazy, but it works.
Just like this [...]

YouTube – Last Year’s Hopes.

From Kyla:

This is what we call a Triple Gold in Olympic speak:

1. It’s a video by Meesoo Lee, friend and most prolific/talented and underappreciated (even by himself) video artist in Canada

2.  It’s a song by friend/plaintive singer and pizza-maker extraordinaire Paul Pittman (and his ex-band Young & Sexy)

3:  It features ice [...]

YouTube – Zeus – Marching Through Your Head.

Kyla will be doing Canadian updates for the next three days:

Super power pop for the days when you’ve got to power through…the lack of an awkward “why is it there?” bridge is what I really appreciate -
oh, and of course, [...]

YouTube – Reggie Watts – F$K,S#%T,STACK.

Today’s update comes from Nick Campbell:

I first saw Reggie Watts at a variety-type comedy show in a weird bar near downtown Seattle. The other acts were funny, but I was caught off guard by Reggie’s live show.  The only way to describe his perfomances would be completely surreal.  I’d compare him to Lenny Bruce [...]

YouTube – boards of canada – roygbiv.

From Chris:

A fan-made video for “roygbiv” by Boards of Canada. No, Boards of Canada is not actually from Canada, so this does not count as Canadian content.
I think that lo-budge should focus on Canadian music next week in the spirit of celebrating Canada as the host of the Winter Olympics.

From [...]

YouTube – The Choir Practice – “O Canada” Live @ GM Place.

From Kyla:

It’s the Choir Practice and we know people in it

including Larissa

they’re singing in Vancouver

before the hockey game

the national anthem

with a dissolve to a city scene at the end

you can’t get more Canadian pride than that

except [...]

YouTube – The Wedding Present – Let’s Make Some Plans.

I’m going to Chuck E. Cheese this weekend.  That is all.  Back to your regularly [...]

YouTube – Monsters of Folk – Dear God (Sincerely M.o.F.).

I haven’t bought this album yet, but I’m seriously considering it.  If it wasn’t for Conor Oberst’s involvement in it, I probably already would have.  I don’t know anymore why he irritates me so much, but he does.  Yim Yames, on the other hand, can do almost [...]

YouTube – Nurses technicolor.

Here’s another band introduced to me by Marty.  The singer has a very good and unique voice.

I got rid of the Maakies RSS feed last week and replaced it with the Comics Curmudgeon feed since the Maakies one never updated.  I’ll figure out something more related to this website to put on that [...]