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Pics from SXSW

We took a ton of pics during our week in Texas. Here are a few:









And you can find the rest here.

KITTEN vs OCTOPUS T

You saw the tour poster...



Now vote for the shirt!

SXSW and Zunior

lots of nice things are happening...

These folks plowed through the massive SXSW torrent (which features mp3s from most of the artists playing the fest) and they linked to one of our tunes

We were also featured as the "artist of the day" on this website

Besides that, we have two albums now available on Zunior.com
A Series of Minor Personal Tragedies
and
Gold Wave

SXSW

CBC RADIO 3 BEST OF 2006

The Best in Indie Pop

1. Joel Plaskett - "Million Dollars"
2. The Stills - "Destroyer"
3. Islands - "Rough Gem"http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
4. Ladyhawk - "The Dugout"
5. Final Fantasy - "He Poos Clouds"
6. Bend Sinister - "Time Breaks Down"
7. Great Aunt Ida - "We Say No"
8. Jon-Rae and the River - "Roll"
9. The Old Soul - "Rivers Of Daughters"
10. Destroyer - "3000 Flowers"
11. Joel Plaskett - "Nowhere With You"
12. Great Lake Swimmers - "See You On The Moon"
13. The Awkward Stage - "Heaven Is For Easy Girls"
14. Windom Earle - "Kitten and Pegasus"
15. The Marble Index - "All That I Know"

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More Nice Things

Discount Tire Warehouse

A Quiet Revolution

Gold Wave CDs are now available at Sam's, CD Plus, and The Rock Garden in Halifax.

and we are playing Baba's Lounge in Charlottetown New Years Eve.

Nice Things

We are going to play SXSW this March.

We were blogged about on That's Fucking Dynamite.

We were profiled in The Daily News.

And finally...

CKDU TOP 100 of 2006

1 Windom Earle - Gold Wave

2 Old Man Luedecke - Hinterland

3 The Just Barelys - Top

4 The Grass - Mulgrave

5 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

Exclaim Record Review November 2006

Windom Earle
Goldwave
(Boost Ventilator)
By Michael Edwards
October 05, 2006

If there was a concert to see which band in Halifax has the coolest name, Windom Earle would win hands down. Taking their moniker from the bad guy in cult TV show Twin Peaks, they’ve been making cool indie dance music under the leadership of Stephan MacLeod since the late ’90s. Their reputation has been built on their raucous live shows, but they’ve also been slowly building a solid CD library, most of which can be downloaded from their website. Goldwave, their fourth album, doesn’t quite manage to capture the energy of their live show, but comes close enough on occasion that anyone who has been lucky enough to see a concert won’t be completely disappointed. Combining equal parts the Go! Team, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet and New Order, Windom Earle make music that makes you want to dance. The majority of the tracks are instrumentals, driven by a mix of synthesisers and guitars although the occasional glockenspiel and trumpets helps to fill out the sound — that’s the advantage of having 11 people on hand to help out. Goldwave might not be a classic album by any means, but it is a lot of fun and a good way to pass the time until the band pass through your town again.

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Cape Breton Dance Recital

In memory of Iain

Here's the full cassette of Dan Norman Cummings songs that Iain and his brother Brendan introduced me to back in the day.

Iain Gillis 1979-2006

Eye Weekly September 14, 2006

Disc-overy of the Week
WINDOM EARLE

Gold Wave (Boost Ventilator) * * * * The thing about being from the east coast is that you can be pretty sure the rest of the country will ignore you until forced not to. Mostly unknown due to the gaping cultural void between Fredericton and Quebec City, Windom Earle has been an instrumental synth-rock staple in Halifax for four albums now. A home-recording project for man-about-the-North-End Stephan MacLeod, Gold Wave is the band's most delirious outing yet. Opening with an oddly garage-rocky version of "Get On Into It," (which appeared on a MacLeod-curated compiIation last year), they turn in the highly original "Forked Wrist Waltz" before getting all squishy and delicious with "Guitorgan." Not only worth seeking out; worth writing the band to beg them to tour this way (www.windomearle.com). HS

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Squeezebox

Check out the latest episode of Shane and Tom's Squeezebox for a Windom Earle shoutout and some lively discussion on cat breast milk.

You may remember Tom from the podcast we made in Windsor.

Radio 3

We had a track played during an all-request podcast on CBC Radio 3 over Labour Day.

Listen.

Free Albums Galore

The mp3-blog, Free Albums Galore has a nice review of some Windom Earle releases and a link to download The Things I Do For Girls, The New Technology and Standard Equipment.

Later Daze

Here's a video Andrew Bush made using one of our tunes:

KerfMusic Review July 11, 2006

Sharp Like Knives & Windom Earle at Broken City- July 11, 2006
Written by David Broderick

Calgary got a taste of east coast punk and newwave music last night as Halifax based Sharp Like Knives and Windom Earle hammered out songs like demons at Broken City. Windom Earle opened to the few in attendance - maybe because Calgary was having a hangover from the first weekend of stampede, but they sure did a good job at making those present enjoy the music. The three man band of Stephan Macleod on guitar, Greg Boone on bass and Matt Packman on the Moog synthesizer , Boone and Packman being also members of SLK, played their techno-newwave beats with determination. The Moog synthesizer was interestingly maneuvered, not to mention the way it rocked back and forth on stage. Their gig ended with Macleod exploding with a solo rendition of Footloose. I'm sure all enjoyed it. Sharp Like Knives (Paul Hammond, Mark Gillis, Adam Seward, Matt Packman and Greg Boone) delivered a high energy punk performance, not only musically, but also on stage. The sweat off their foreheads was testimony of that. As more people were trickling into the venue, the dance floor was slowly filling up, and SLK were sure able to make them dance, and even mosh a little bit. Theses days, there are many ways to characterize a music genre. SLK could be playing dance-punk, punk-rock, hardcore or anything in between, but Paul Hammond refers to it simply as punk. Think of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, mixed with ELP. Add more speed. Both bands will be doing a loop through Vancouver, then will be back in Calgary on July 16 at Weeds Cafe. This is great opportunity to cap up your stampede partying with a taste of east dance-punk, or simply punk. Check em out!

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Voir, July 27, 2006

PÖP QUÏZ: STEPHAN MACLEOD DE WINDOM EARLE (SYNTH-POP)
by Patrick Ouellet

Surnom: Fats Macleod. Âge: 26. Discographie: Standard Equipment (1998), The New Technology (2000), The Things I Do for Girls (2004) et une participation à la compilation The Windom Earle All-Stars Present a Series of Minor Personal Tragedies (2005). Ce qui vous manque le plus de votre Île-du-Prince-Édouard natale: Maman, le Formosa Tea House, la plage et le sex-shop où je travaillais. Ce qui vous manque le moins: Bien des choses. Si votre musique était un repas, quel serait-il: Chow mein au boeuf. Trois disques sans lesquels vous ne pourriez vivre: My Heart Is a Blinking Nintendo (B.A. Johnston), Thank You (Dog Day) et Top (The Just Barelys). Ce que vous préférez de la scène: Greg Boone (ndlr: son bassiste). Ce que vous préférez et détestez de la vie en tournée: Greg Boone. Livre favori: Da Vinci Code. Film préféré: Idem. Passe-temps fétiche: Karaoké.

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