Monster Truck

My band just played a show with these guys and Die Mannequin the other night at the Sound Academy in Toronto. They're from Hamilton, and a couple of the guys used to be in The Reason. Monster Truck is heavier than The Reason, and has apparently existed for a bit over a year now. ;) Check out their debut 4 song EP as a free download.... Enjoy!

DWNLD: MONSTER TRUCK - 4 Song EP (2010)

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Red Elite

If you missed this amazing Canadian release a few years ago, you need to hear it now. If you're a fan of stoner rock sounding stuff like Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age, you need to hear this. Check out this lost Canadian gem, and let's root Red Elite out of retirement. Peace to my homey, Paolo! Thanks brother!

Enjoy folks!

DWNLD: RED ELITE - Endustry
visit Red Elite's website


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The Darrin & Darren Show!

If you enjoyed the debut episode of THE DARRIN & DARREN SHOW, you're gonna love this one! We had a lot of fun with it!

Enjoy this great mix of independent Canadian music with stories to go along with each song!

Episode #3 will be on Tuesday August 31st @ 7PM on IndieLove.ca!

Join the D&D Facebook group for regular updates and info!

DWNLD: THE DARRIN & DARREN SHOW - Episode #2


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The Darrin & Darren Show!

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

And to make it even better, here's the first episode of THE DARRIN & DARREN SHOW!

Here's a brief on the show:

Darrin Pfeiffer (drummer for Goldfinger/The Salads) and Darren Dumas (aka Mista D, singer for The Salads) are your hosts for this monthly online radio show at IndieLove.ca strictly dedicated to independent Canadian music of all genres. Darrin & Darren are not only musicians, but avid music fans too, with similar yet different tastes. Listen in as D&D turn each other on to new local talent, sharing their personal stories that go along with each song. Maybe you'll hear something new too?

Enjoy this one.... Episode #2 will be on Tuesday July 27th @ 7PM. Tune in!

Join the D&D Facebook group for regular updates and info!

DWNLD: THE DARRIN & DARREN SHOW - Episode #1


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Toronto Plays For Haiti

What a fantastic night! A HUGE success!! Check out this overview video put together by the Edge :


ENJOY!

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Electric Purgatory

This is a great new documentary on "the fate of the black rocker", and the film starts with a Saturday Night Live performance from back in the day by my boys, Fishbone. Very cool film you can watch it in its entirety right here....right now.... or whenever you have an hour to take it all in.... It's a good one!



Enjoy!

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Faith No More is back!!

That's right!! In case you haven't heard, after 10 years of non-existence, the almighty FAITH NO MORE is back at it for "The Second Coming" Tour. Classic!!

Thanks to a post on T.U.B.E. that I found, we can download and listen to their second show on the tour HERE!

AND you can watch video footage of the entire show, song by song, on a YouTube page made just for this show...CRAZY...You can watch all that HERE!

For the latest info on this "epic" reunion (sorry, I had to), visit FNM's official website at FNM.com.

And now my fingers are crossed that they make a stop in Toronto on this tour!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?!?! :))

Enjoy!

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Food Songs!

I've been collecting songs for this one for a while, and thanks to some additions based on friends' recommendations, I've put together the first mix of 25 songs! It's a mix of many genres, but is a fun one all around.

If you listen to this collection on iTunes, and click on the little arrow in the album artwork window, you can view each song's orginal album...Check those out too!

This compilation fits on 1 cd too, but I had to post it in 2 parts because it's awesomeness is so large. haha

Lemme know what'cha think....ENJOY!

DWNLD> FOOD SONGS - Mista D's Music Blog Mix PART1 PART2

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DJ Z-Trip!

DJ Z-Trip is still, to me (and many others too, I'm sure), the best party-rockin' DJ alive today. I realize that's a bold statement, but keep in mind that a TRUE party-rockin' DJ is in tune with his or her audience. What is the CROWD gonna dig and get down to? Z-Trip can rock ANY crowd...and that makes him the man. :) haha

Here's more proof that he's the man... Check out these OBAMA mixes...Pt.1 AND Pt.2...before and after.....VERY dope. Great selections. Amazing mixes. Another gem!



Thanks again, Z-Trip!!

Enjoy!

DWNLD> DJ Z-TRIP - Obama Mix Pt.1+2

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Adele

When my wife brought Adele's album "19" to my attention, I was interested, but not as much as I am now that Mick Boogie re-introduced it to me as "1988"...and knocked it out of the park! This mixtape/remix-project is superb. I'm sure my wife will understand when she hears this one too. haha Check it out...

Enjoy!

DWNLD> ADELE - 1988 (by Mick Boogie)

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Eddie Hazel

Here's a rare EP from Eddie Hazel, the amazing P-Funk guitarist extraordinaire! People seem to have been diggin the post I did on the Game, Dames, & Guitar Thangs album, and then there were a few requests for this one... so here it is!

Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD> EDDIE HAZEL - Jams From The Heart EP

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You Have A Choice.

This is a new single that was just released by a group of Canadian artists who have joined together to record a song sponsored by Avaaz, titled “You Have a Choice,” to mobilize and inspire Canadians to stop a Harper majority from devastating our climate by voting strategically where we live for the candidate most likely to defeat the Conservative candidate.

The Canadian artists who rallied together for this effort, besides myself, include: K-OS, Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies, Ben Kowalewicz of Billy Talent, Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace, Sarah Harmer, Hawksley Workman, Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene, Ian Lefeuvre of The Hundreds and Thousands, and the Arts Offstage Choir under the direction of David Reed.

You can hear me singing along with Benny Talent in the first half of the bridge, and backing up K-OS on the first chorus, and then again on my own during a part of the last chorus.

Check out the song, and help us save the planet!

Go here to listen and download the song: www.avaaz.ca

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Mista D's GOOD MUSIC Podcasts

Back in August, 2006, I started a podcast called MISTA D'S GOOD MUSIC PODCAST. I did 8 episodes and posted them on podomatic.com. Then they told me that was all the space I had left to post, so I started a new page at mypodcast.com, made podcast #9, and now I can't even access the page as it's been randomly shut down. That's when I decided to start the BLOG COMPILATIONS, of which I've done one so far (see here). The 2nd one is on it's way! Stay tuned!

And in the meantime, here are some direct links to my previous podcasts, if you haven't already heard them...

ENJOY!


PODCAST #1


PODCAST #2


PODCAST #3


PODCAST #4


PODCAST #5


PODCAST #6


PODCAST #7


PODCAST #8


PODCAST #9

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Imani Coppola

After I saw 2 live Peeping Tom shows during the course of last year, I was super stoked to hear the new Imani Coppola recordings. I've known about her before she toured as back-up singer with Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project, but after seeing her live with them, I was really impressed by this lady!

So last week I stumbled upon "The Black & White Album", her 2007 release on Patton's label, Ipecac Records. And this album is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!! I'm loving it!! I really can't say much else about it. I don't even know what type of music genre the entire album would be classified under, as it's all over the place. Just great songs!

Just check it out...

Now. :)

Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD> IMANI COPPOLA - The Black & White Album
visit IMANI COPPOLA's OFFICIAL WEBSITE

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Dubxanne

I just bumped into this pleasant surprise today. Big ups to Spliff for hosting it (and MANY other reggae gems!).

"The Police In Dub" by Dubxanne was released this year on Echo Beach Records. It is mainly dub versions of Police classics, but also features a few wicked vocalists like Big Youth, Eased from Seeed, and Ranking Roger, to name a few. This release to me is very much in the same vein as what the Easy Star All-Stars did to Pink Floyd and Radiohead through "Dub Side Of The Moon" and "Radiodread". Deadly stuff and nicely executed!!

ENJOY!

DOWNLOAD> DUBXANNE - The Police In Dub

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Maximillian

I decided to post this rare album after receiving some positive comments on a few older albums I've posted with a similar sound. One comment in particular on the Purple Image post from Monica Payne-Torain said...

HELLO THERE! I REALLY DON'T KNOW A WHOLE LOT ABOUT THE PURPLE IMAGE ALBUM, BUT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. MY FATHER, RICHARD PAYNE WAS THE DRUMMER ON THE ALBUM. MY SISTERS MOTHER, DIANE DUNLAP WAS ONE OF THE SINGERS. I MUST SAY I HAVE NEVER EVEN SEEN THE ALBUM, BUT I KNEW ABOUT IT. THANK YOU FOR HAVING IT AVAILABLE. TAKE CARE

I love that shit. Glad to get that album to you, Monica!

This one is a rare, heavy, Hendrix-inspired, psychedelic, funk-rock album from 1969 by a group called Maximillian. This is the only album of theirs I've ever heard...and that's all I really know about this one, unfortunately. If you have more info, please drop me a comment and let me know. Otherwise...

ENJOY!

DOWNLOAD> MAXIMILLIAN - s/t (1969)

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Happy 4/20 from The Salads!

I realized recently that I had yet to post "The Big Remixes" album by my band, The Salads, on this blog; And what a better date to do so! ;)

This album consists of remixes, ranging in different styles, of songs from our 2006 album, "The Big Picture". We made "The Big Remixes" gradually available, song by song, as free downloads from our website (thesalads.com) throughout 2007. There were so many other friends and fans who are working on other remixes, but this album consists of the first 7 best remixes that we've received. Who knows, maybe someday we'll do a sequel....?!

Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD> THE SALADS - The Big Remixes
*See what we're up to at www.thesalads.com

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Beastie Boys Samples

This is a great vinyl collection (converted to mp3s) of 34 original songs that were sampled by The Beastie Boys. A must for any hardcore Beasties fans! Check out one of my favourites, The Eagles' tune, "Those Shoes"...Hot shit!

Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD> THE BEASTIE COLLECTION (34 Original Songs Sampled by The Beastie Boys) PT.1 PT.2

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Game Rebellion

Check out this dope new mixtape I stumbled upon and downloaded simply because of the title (and that dope Roots mixtape that J.Period did). This group, Game Rebellion, from Brooklyn, NY, are a mix of hip-hop, rock, metal, and intelligent yet fun lyrics....My kinda shiiiit. :)

Check 'em out...

DOWNLOAD> GAME REBELLION - Searching For Rick Rubin (Mixtape by J.Period)

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Purple Image

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL!!

After noticing that my earlier post of the Demon Fuzz album has received the most downloads of all my posts, I've decided to put up another in a similar vein. If you haven't heard Demon Fuzz yet, think of something like Jimi Hendrix fused with P-Funk.

In 1970, the group Purple Image released their only album on the obscure Map City label. Purple Image's eponymous self-titled album merged a strong blend of soul funk and psych rock to considerable effect.

If you dig this stuff, let me know, 'cuz I've got more albums in a similar style where that came from! (ie. Black Merda, Fugi, Eddie Hazel, Cymande, Maximillian, Cane & Able, The Politicians, Bloodstone, Mandrill, Osibisa, Monomono...and so on!)

Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD> PURPLE IMAGE - s/t

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