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@www.canneddragons.net

Stratagems, gambits and wiles. Blogging at canneddragons.net.

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Canned DragonsJul 26, 2026

Watched: The Testament of Ann Lee 🍿 with my wife. I found myself moved but my wife has little tolerance for musical pretensions, so her opinion was a bit mixed.

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Canned DragonsJul 25, 2026

Memoryhouse consists of Canadians Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion. The band had a minor hit with their piano-driven live cover of My Bloody Valentine's "When You Sleep" for Yours Truly in 2011. They capitalized on their success with that cover and the well-regarded EP, The Years, by signing to indie heavyweight Sub Pop Records. When...

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Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 25, 2026

We all know the story of Evangelicals abandoning their values to support Donald Trump, but Jeremy finds an inventive way to illustrate it.

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Canned DragonsJul 25, 2026

Sometimes it seems like the tech journos just like to feel like naughty boys with their enshittified Mac-assed dickovers.

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Canned DragonsJul 24, 2026

The second day of gunmetal gray skies and wet streets. The perfect weather for some Robin Guthrie, Hammock, or anything ethereal.

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Canned DragonsJul 19, 2026

Watched: Rental Family 🍿 last night. Many moments of trying to hold back tears. I’m happy to say I was fairly successful.

Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 19, 2026

I tried Obsidian plugins for three blogging services. To my surprise, the one with the least features and most limitations was the one for WordPress, which is the most popular of the services I tested.

Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 18, 2026

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die

The evolution of a sound aloft on a breeze.

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Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 18, 2026

I’m really disappointed in the Hopscotch Festival 2006 lineup, which dropped yesterday. There is only one band I would be interested in seeing (Pearl and the Oysters). The festival seems to have cut back, eliminating one main stage, reducing water stations, less social media, etc.

Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 18, 2026

Dave Kendall, creator and host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, has passed away. The British-born Kendall conceived 120 Minutes after joining MTV as a producer, pitching the network a dedicated program for the punk, post-punk, goth, synth-pop, ska, and other underground sounds largely ignored by corporate rock radio. 120 Minutes debuted on March 10th, 1986, and...

Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 18, 2026

Jay Peters reports for The Verge about the year-over-year rise in the number of CDs being purchased. The data suggests that “the CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible,” Luminate says. “This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much about aesthetic...

Canned Dragons

Canned DragonsJul 12, 2026

Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar

Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar by Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra One problem with posting your listening habits on a periodically updated Now page is that those habits can literally change overnight. A couple of days ago, I updated my /now page, only to get deeply into a new Swedish jazz EP very shortly...