• Watching the wire in montreal airport. Hour 8 of flying. QPP cops asking me “qu’est-ce que what’s that show?” #
• Wooooooo! Montreal to toronto executive class upgrade - shortest way to say you’re sorry, air canada. Yes hi, do you serve 6am martinis? #
• It took forever for my top 5 albums of the year. and there’s 15 of them http://www.johnnyhockin.com #
• 2009

  Let’s make this a big one! #

1. Cut Copy In Ghost Colours

   This was my patio album, bbq album, and going out album. It’s the best dance album of the year and the best rock album of the year. And despite what everyone says it feels just as new as it feels retro. Cut Copy wins.

2. Santogold Santogold

3. MGMT Oracular Spectacular

4. Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair

   Not every day you get a real album from a real dance artist.

5. Q-Tip The Renaissance

   Best hip hop album of the year? yup. Still on top. And if we really went off number of times listened, The Low End Theory would be on this list.

6. Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak

7. Menahan Street Band Make the Road by Walking

8. The Last Shadow Puppets The Age of Understatement

9. The Black Ghosts The Black Ghosts

10. Radiohead In Rainbows

11. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III

12. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Pitchfork is not that far off

13. Sebastien Grainger Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains

14. Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna

15. Lykke Li Youth Novels

You know what, turns out that’s more than 5

• Halifax is incredible storm! #
• How can Beyonce be so spotty. No on this new video #
• Life is good: “QTip (QtipTheAbstract) is now following your updates on Twitter” #
• In my day, comedic movies have jokes in em #

The Honeycombs were an English Beat/pop group of the 1960s. They collaborated with visionary producer Joe Meek in their beginning and scored with smash hit first single “Have I The Right”.

Their third single “Eyes” proved that they, too, had a visionary streak. The song was ahead of its time, had a psychedelic streak, and subsequently bombed.

Click to watch the video (taken from legendary ‘65 film Pop Gear).

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Daniel Merriweather is a blue-eyed, post-boy-band soul singer from Melbourne, Australia. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with producer Mark Ronson—especially their Smiths cover Stop Me, released for Ronson’s solo record in 2007.

Merriweather’s debut solo album Love and War due is out this spring.

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The man’s man revival is in full swing. Here’s to Miller and Errol for these ads that are capturing exactly what we here in Canada have been doing this whole snowmaggedon: braving the cold to pick up beer.

Click here to watch the ad…

• Thump thump, thump thump…the beat of the heart goes thump thump #
• This morning obsessed with this mr hudson song http://www.johnnyhockin.com #
• If yes man is liar liar part two it’ll still be worth the money #
• wanted: visvim toronto store. #
• i’ll go back to black #
• checking out mick boogie / adele #
• Today is why kias don’t sell in canada. Little red can’t even make it up ossington #
• Respect to styrofoam ones 60s revival. #
• Aniston in gq: “whatever blows your hair back” #

Softbank mobile ad by Wes Anderson.

Citroen, pith helmet, Brad Pitt, mustache, camera phone. Check.

Nas Is Like was the song that had me loving gangster rap. After seeing it on the TV (music videos, you can never have too many circle shots) it wasn’t long before I was calling Nas my favorite rapper.

John Rydgren - Cantata of New Life MP3

Via BBC

Just found out about this band from Austin Texas when I caught this amazing raw video.

Thanks +++ follow the yellow brick road +++.