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The wife and I will be going to Chicago for the first time in the spring! I've never been to a city that big, it's pretty exciting. We're looking at staying in The Loop area, as that seems to have the most museums/restaurant/touristy stuff. We also considered The Magnificent Mile but that looks like it has mostly high end shopping, which isn't really our thing. I'm of course, very excited to do some record shopping, but the amount of Chicago record stores that come up online is a little overwhelming. Do the local Chicago VC'ers have any favourites?

I can't believe they're playing Seattle but skipping Vancouver. Well, I can believe it, I just don't want to believe it.

That's great. I saw Joan open for Wilco twice in Seattle, and she was great both times. Her guitarist was also, very, very good.

Great thread! Some of you are very worldly, I'm jealous. I've never been much of a traveller but I did venture out of British Columbia this year! The wife and I went to Seattle (to see a certain music act). I hadn't spent much time in the US of A before, but it felt very much like Vancouver, just with some slight differences. Next year we'll be going to Chicago, I've never been more east than Calgary before, so that should be interesting. This is all prep for a hopeful eventual trip to London at some point in the next few years. Other than that we spent a bit of time in Jasper Alberta which is

Got the e-mail while I was at work, and of course you can't download music off the internet on an iPhone, so thanks for the reminder! Sorry to hear that, hope you're doing ok Chuck!

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, of course we all knew that already didn't we? His vocals definitely sound a bit like his dad. His songwriting and production are top notch. Good stuff, Spencer!

Communication is the first key to reconciliation! Wishful thinking? Hearing unreleased UT songs would be great, i love the bonus tracks from the early 2000s CD reissues.

I'm hoping 2017 is the year where we finally get an extensive tour of Western Canada.

Yeah, those ones would be great, same with the Eldorado EP. I found a decent bootleg of it this spring but it'd be nice to have a real copy. There's only Hawks & Doves and Re-ac-tor left to reissue and then we're into the Geffen stuff which I would assume won't be reissued with the rest of Neil's stuff (unless he got the rights to those albums back?). Then we're into the late 80s, so hopefully not too much longer... Yeah for an early 2000's release, there must have been a lot of vinyl copies of SIlver & Gold, as I found that one new at a store in my local mall not too long ago.

I already own all those records, but that's good to hear the reissues are moving along at a better pace now. The time between the first set with Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest, etc and the last set with Time Fades Away, was a long, long time. Hopefully this means we get the hard to find 90s albums like Harvest Moon soon....ish.

Not a top 10 but here's the records I listened to most this year. Plus with small little write ups since apparently I'm procrastinating on my actual work this morning! Wilco - Schmilco, of course. Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire, the Sam Beam record I've listened to the most since Woman King or In The Reins. I assumed an entire album of duets would get old but there's a lot of variety and substance here. Andrew Bird - Are You Serious, my favourite album from Andrew Bird since Armchair Apocrypha, all the songs on here are really solid. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool, not my f

I wonder if Iron & Wine could play? Glenn drummed on the Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop album and according to The Loft Facebook page, the next Iron & Wine album was recorded there.

What a life. One of the all time greatest Canadians.

Sounds like a wonderful evening, all things considered. I'm assuming the rest of the band walked off stage after Ashes?

A good table to get back into the game with! Please post pictures once you get it!

Anyone who wants to watch the video without downloading can do so here. Apparently if a YT video is geolocked just change the "youtube" part of the URL to eachvideo and it works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah haha I suck. For the record, I'd like to hand out candy BUT the first year we were in our house we did it and I had a few adults come to the door in just normal clothes, without kids. I'm not sure exactly what their deal was, it made the wife and I a little uncomfortable. Plus the constant knocking on the door is very stressful on the dogs, so two years ago we made the decision to just drop it entirely. I'm a Halloween grinch!

Today is the day, my wife, dogs, and I, all hide out in the basement with the lights off upstairs. No trick-or-treaters for us!

One of the best albums of the '90s!

I'm watching now. Great camera work considering it doesn't appear anything changed with the stage lighting, sometimes the stage is really dark which would mean a really narrow field of focus for the camera operators. But the crew did really good! The mix definitely doesn't sound like anything I've heard from the band, I'm assuming the crew must have done their own mix (??). Jeff's vocals are relatively quiet, but as others mentioned the keyboards are really loud, as are some of the backup vocals (as I type I'm on Pot Kettle Black and Pat's are normal, but I definitely heard John's being louder

Direct YouTube link if anyone wants to watch on their TV or whatever: https://youtu.be/OTdkHV9YsIk

The owner of my local record shop recommended this to me: I had never really listened to the Byrds before besides some of their Dylan covers and Turn Turn Turn. This was really good. Like Revolver, but not as good.

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!

Has anyone read The Dark Tower series by Stephen King? My wife has been trying to get me to read it for years. She knows I love westerns, fantasy, time travel, and alternate world stories. I'm 6 books in now, turns out she was right. I'm not a big Stephen King fan but this has been good. He's done a good job at taking what would sound like a silly idea, like say, a secret society of women who throw plates as weapons, but when you read it within the story, it doesn't seem that stupid. The first four books were written over the course of 15 years, the last three came out over two years, but so f

I was just thinking, there are rumblings of a new Loose Fur record in the not so distant future...