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Under The Rock: How To Stay On Top of One-Night Stands

Posted by Emma Renda on August 12th, 2009

Passion PitThere used to be a new buzz band for every season. A soft humming surrounded their obscure name, or an aesthetically-abstract lead singer, or a new use for an autoharp. Gradually, the hype would build, and their album cover would soon begin to look as familiar as a Stop sign. By that point, their name and singer and music concoctions were so well-known they booked Late Night with Jay Leno and appeared on the cover of Spin. (Because Rolling Stone was too busy with American Idol.)

So anyway, the buzz has a cycle and I was getting used to it. Keeping up, even. But this summer I noticed how hopelessly out of the loop I am. The cycle has condensed, I think I have clocked it in at a maximum 14-day turnaround.

At the beginning of July, as I anxiously awaited Ottawa’s annual Bluesfest, all I heard was THE DEAD WEATHER. Jack White’s latest endeavour with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence(Raconteurs, The Greenhornes). I was ready, I was the one  telling people Jack White – yes, the man, the myth and the legend-in-the-making – was going to be in town. I stood stage-side, enraptured during their smoky and bone-chilling set at the festival and afterward I vowed, as I wiped the drool from my chin, to purchase their album and make them my new favourite band.

This was when I noticed the cycle reach warp speed. Just the next day, I was swept into a whole new mode of anticipation: Guelph’s annual Hillside Festival (a.k.a. my reason to live.) I managed to delve briefly into the repertoire of The Dead Weather but was overcome by  Hillside’s performer roster.

There was Timber Timbre, Toronto’s latest creep-folk. Then Woodhands, another Toronto export of lively electro-rock. And even though I had all year to get familiar, I was hastily catching up on The Arkells. It was a busy July.

Not two weeks have passed and I had a difficult time crafting the above paragraph, as the bands that just days ago dominated my iPod have escaped my vocabulary in lieu of this week’s flavour. (Briefly: Discovery, Passion Pit, jj.)

Don’t get me wrong, I love the buzz. I love being able complain to DJs that they don’t have “Orange Shirt” and when you hear it at said club next weekend, you can scoff at it being old news. I suppose I just have a problem with longevity. When the old cycle existed – when Born Ruffians and Arcade Fire endured more than a fortnight on my playlist – I had time to get comfortable, time to fall in love with the music. These days, I’ve become hurriedly embroiled in a series of one-night stands.

Which brings me to my point: I’m going to see Passion Pit tonight, a romantically-inclined DJ outfit from Boston that I know you’ve heard of. It’s a big commitment – I mean $12 and a Wednesday night is no small price - but I guess I just want to make the most of our two weeks together.

Tune in later this week to see if it was worth it.

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