Review of “Here Comes The Rain”!
Was super surprised to stumble across a review of our live performance of “Here Comes The Rain” on Popservations (music blog) this morning. Firstly, I had no idea Macy Gray had done a version of the same song on her latest album, second of all, didn’t know that people get reviews from live performance videos! [...]
Episode 0! (Prologue to our new video series..)
We’re so excited to post Episode 0 of our brand new video series, Playbacks! Members of The JSFew will go into our favourite vintage stores around Toronto, get styled by them, and play some tunes. This episode is an intro to the series, and although Episode 1 will feature Penny Arcade, Episode 0 takes place [...]
Toronto Independent Music Award Nominees!
In early March, The Jessica Stuart Few performed at the Toronto Independent Music Awards‘ “Home & Native Sound Series”. There were approximately 10 shows featuring 5 artists apiece, and when all the scores were tallied, we got a short-list nomination! This basically means that we will be attending the award show on October 6th at [...]
Humblemania & BlueVenus
A few weeks ago, The JSFew did a spur of the moment video shoot with the “Live In Bellwoods” music series guys, and we’ll finally get to see it tomorrow night (Weds, April 11) at Humblemania‘s 40th edition party at The Ossington! It looks like a killer event, with a vinyl swap, live music, good peoples [...]
Eggs
The egg is a central part of the Passover seder and of Easter, so this seems to be a good way to wrap up my holiday themed posts… Artist Brian Baity, uses a hardware store tool kind of like a dentist’s drill to carve these crazy eggs. Voila: This last one is the craziest because [...]
Poor, poor chocolate bunny
This is a really great and topical shorty video illustrating the plight of the chocolate bunny. I highly recommend!! Chocolate Bunny from Blink on Vimeo. Thanks so much to the fantastic crowd at The Local last night! Next up, The Painted Lady on Wednesday, April 18th.. xox jessica
Ten Plagues Finger Puppets
Hope you are having a special weekend – whether it’s time off in the sunshine, family/friend time or none of the above. I went to a Passover dinner last night – chicken soup with matzo balls, slow cooked short-ribs, gefilte fish and so on. YUM. Funniest thing was the 10 plagues finger puppets. Check it [...]
Eastover
We wanted to wish you a very happy weekend, whether it’s Passover, Easter or whatever your tradition is. This is the best photo i could find on the internet to suit multiple occasions.. Hope to see you tomorrow night at The Local (396 Roncesvalles) where The JSFew will play all night starting at 9:30. There’s [...]
YouTube!
First of all, we’re really looking forward to playing The Local (396 Roncesvalles) this Saturday night (april 7th), so hope that you Toronto area folks will drop in for a break from the holiday craziness! Secondly – I have been a very slacky YouTube user, but this is all changing! We are starting 2 new [...]
Here Comes The Rain video!
A hugely massive thanks to James Jones & the folks from Big East for suggesting a live performance video shoot with The JSFew, and to my favorite whiskey bar, The Emmet Ray for being the incredible setting for the shoot. This is the first of two videos – enjoy and share! This is our arrangement of the [...]
Fabric or Ink?
Italian photographer/artist Alberto Seveso captures some ridiculous photographs that seem too incredible to be real, but they are! I have a little dream of being able to shoot a music video underwater amongst his amazing ink formations.. xo jessica
Oy April
Good stuff coming up this week – looking forward to our Saturday night show at The Local (April 7, 9:30 – late) - this gig is especially fun for us since we get to play a huge chunk of our original “book” over the course of several hours. There’s no cover charge, only a tip jar passed [...]
A Team Of Beatboxers at Your Command
I found this awesome music making program/game called Incredibox the other day – made in France, with samples by Incredible Polo, you basically click and drag beats, melodies, effects, and harmonies onto members of your Incredibox band, to make songs. It is super fun whether you try it out for a minute or get [...]
Wanna Know What It Looked Like?
We’re so excited about all of the live performance videos we’ve been able to shoot lately – very soon, The Jessica Stuart Few’s YouTube channel will actually be more active, with weekly posts and such, so check it out & subscribe if you’re into that type of thing. (So far it’s been 5 videos total [...]
11am In A Whiskey Bar
No, it’s not what I made it out to bet – The JSFew met with the fellows from Big East to film some live acoustic performance videos at The Emmet Ray this morning, and it was a great success! I’ve never seen The Emmet Ray with daylight in it, and it was a very pretty backdrop [...]
Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI)
David Cope is a professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, and has been developing a musical computer program since 1981 that is as exciting as it is scary. By imputing compositions of any given composer into his program, the computer will deconstruct the pieces, find the writer’s musical signatures, then using formulas of note/chord compatibility, [...]
Inspired
It’s the snowball effect – awesome projects/opportunities are rolling in like crazy now. This is incredibly exciting for us. We basically just finished a tour in Toronto – we played CMW on Wednesday and Thursday, an Indie Week showcase last night (which was amazing), and a live performance video shoot last Tuesday, as part of [...]
Well, it was called Slacker..
LAST MINUTE INDIE WEEK SHOWCASE TONIGHT! Very last minute.. Very tonight – 11:30pm at Czehoski (678 Queen St W). Please come join us if you are in the area, and didn’t get to one of our CMW shows last week, cause we have some new surprises for you… The hardest thing about CMW ending is [...]
What the what at CMW – Day 2
Let’s go back to Thursday, CMW 2012. I started out at the hotel, running into great folks left & right Graydon James & The Young Novelists, Lily Cheng, Alissa Vox Raw, Brendan Albert , and getting a back massage from an angel with a massage chair in the hotel hallway. I headed to a private party [...]
Holy CMW
A lot of excitement is going on right now in Toronto – Canadian Music Week, is pretty incredible for me this year; let me explain – i just finished with my 3 showcases as of last night at 1am, and have been conferencing/industry partying my butt off. The abbreviated story of Day 1, Wednesday: Day [...]
Into The Woods
Just filmed a live acoustic JSFew performance with the “Live In Bellwoods” music video series guys – of course this took place in Trinity-Bellwoods park, and will be launched next Wednesday at the Ossington! We’re very flattered to be their Season 3 debut performance, and even debuted a brand new 6-hander koto tune! (It was [...]
A pretty great song
Just cause this is going to be a great week of music in Toronto.. I can’t wait to pick out the most interesting bands of CMW to make up my schedule (definitely gonna use www.showgopher.com, by the way, and recommend it big time). So Kimbra will not be performing in Toronto this week (to my knowledge!), [...]
Pre-CMW rock song of the weekend
I don’t really know anything about Chad Van Gaalen except that the first several years of hearing his name, I thought that he was the lead singer of Nickelback. Due to that, today is the first time I actually checked out the music, and I love it! Kind of Queens of The Stone-Age-ish type of vibe. [...]
Picature
A few photos from the Toronto Independent Music Awards Home & Native Sound showcase we played the other week, courtesy of photographer extraordinaire Regine Hervy. Click on the image gallery under pages to see ‘em all. have a great weekend! xo jessica
