Edmonton & Jasper, AB (Feb. 2012)

Edmonton & Jasper, AB (Feb. 2012), a set on Flickr.

An extended winter weekend "out west" for my brother-in-law's wedding. It includes two nights in Japer National Park and a night in Edmonton.

Top Music of 2012

Here we go!  This is what caught my musical attentions in 2012...

Best Albums...
1. Chromatics - Kill for Love
2. Trust - Trst
3. Kindness - World, You Need a Change of Mind
4. Miike Snow - Happy to You
5. Santigold - Makers of My Make-Believe
6. Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
7. Lana Del Ray - Born to Die
8. Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour
9. Grimes - Vissions
10. Passion Pit - Gossamer
11. We Have Band - Ternion
12. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
13. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
14. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
15. Stars - The North
16. Teengirl Fantasy - Beams
17. Twin Shadow - Confess
18. Matthew Dear - Beams
19. Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
20. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
21. Lemonade - Diver
22. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
23. Beach House - Bloom
24. Lindstrøm - Six Cups of Rebel
25. New Build - Yesterday Was Loved and Lost
26. Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
27. Yeasayer - Fragrant World
28. Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns
29. Azari & III - Azari & III
30. Four Tet - Pink
31. Saint Etienne - Words and Music by Saint Etienne
32. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependant and Happy 1 and 2
33. Crystal Castles - (III)
34. Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
35. Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional
36. Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
37. The xx - Coexist
38. Of Monsters & Men - My Head is an Animal
39. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
40. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
41. Grizzly Bear - Shields
42. The Big Pink - Future This
43. Matt and Kim - Lightning
44. Purity Ring - Shrines
45. Sigur Ros - Valtari
46. Martin Rossiter - The Defenestration of St. Martin
47. Battles - Dross Glop
48. Heliopause - The Lumo Tape
49. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah!  Don't Bend! Ascend!
50. Bloc Party - Four

Best Single (and Video)...
• M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls"

Best Comeback...
• Blur's "Under the Westway"

Best Concert...
• New Order - Sony Centre Toronto (Oct. 23rd)

Happy 2013 everyone!

Loblaws Maple Leaf Gardens Opening (Nov. 2011)

Loblaws Maple Leaf Gardens Opening (Nov. 2011), a set on Flickr.

A few months old, but finally got them all labelled. This is from the grand opening (and media preview) of the new Loblaws in Toronto's historic Maple Leaf Gardens complex. I was covering this via Twitter and with my camera for Urban Toronto.

The full article (in which my pictures were used) can be found here...
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/news/2011/12/hey-did-you-hear-maple-leaf-gardens-now-loblaws