obvs.ca music, mugs, and mayhem

down not out.

I'm sure anyone that has come to this page before knows it's not exactly updated daily. Things have kind of come to a halt lately. I have toyed with the idea of taking down the blog entirely to save some self respect every-time I use my email address for anything business related. However, the plan has always been to revamp things and get people interested in helping out. We have been spending our time respectively on other projects and could use some more input and content to keep the wheels moving and spark some motivation. The joy is that everything here is a blank canvas and isn't going anywhere. We are hosting a number of sites, throwing parties and plan on having the OBVS email addresses until internet gets old. So, if you are interesting in writing articles, posting Grooveshark play-lists, Podcasts, writing things on bananas, Promoting parties or running underground drinking game leagues drop me line and get involved.

Until the next post when ever that may be

Canadian Music Week 2011

With all this talk of great Canadian musicians I made up a quick and fairly embarrassing Canadian playlist. Get back to me with your own lists or suggestions. Hopefully we have some time to list some of the shows we will be attending.

The internet is getting too good.

As most of you know, the days of lining up for an album are over. We'll at least for the most of us. From iTunes to Grooveshark we at OBVS have supported the advancements in modern music whole-heartedly. I just got an email from Hype Machine outlining some really exciting news that you will be able to listen to all of your music on your mobile phone like an iPhone or Android. Along with having a great aggregation system to find out what songs are geographically popular (check out USA or CANADA) you can also follow each other and use their spy program to find new tunes. there are also other great tools for listening to music free online like last.fm, our favorite here Grooveshark and the newest addition 8tracks.com. 8tracks has full mixes created by everyone. I will try to make a couple this week at work, please feel free to follow us and contact me with any play-lists or mixes you create yourself and would like to share.

The streets new album in it's entirety

Hype Machine Zeitgeist 2010 - 50 full albums

I feel the best quote I have heard on the issue of copyright laws and free music online came from the documentary RIP : A remix manifesto:

"technology givith, technology takith away"

SNOWDAY

Snowy day here at the office. I had a friend ask me about some hiphop songs that were covered. The songs by Anya Marina and Cocoroise are really interesting because the annotations of their voice really change the feel of the song. I couldn't find a better version of the Cocorosie song. If you have anymore suggestions please feel free to email me and pitch in. Enjoy :

been less right then wrong

I know we've been gone. But we are looking to come back in style.