{"id":383,"date":"2016-09-13T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/?p=383"},"modified":"2016-09-20T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:22:40","slug":"things-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/news\/things-of-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Things of Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re doing a free show in Montreal, as part of the Festival du Nouveau Cin\u00e9ma<\/a>, curated by longtime friend and associate Adam Traynor. Details are to be announced soon, but I can say that it\u2019s on Monday October 10 and that it will be a good lineup. Update:<\/strong><\/em> the lineup has been announced! Adam’s totally insane and awesome web series\u00a0Le Ball Trap<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>will be screening, followed by performances by the WP, Sarah Neufeld (violinist for Arcade Fire and an acclaimed solo artist in her own right) and\u00a0Le Ball Trap\u00a0<\/em>music composer Victor Le Masne. And the whole thing is FREE! More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I recently joined Spotify and have been enjoying it a lot. The \u201cDiscover Weekly\u201d playlist is a great feature; I find most online entities\u2019 efforts to target my taste comical to the point of poignancy, but Spotify does a pretty fine job of predicting what I will like. I started compiling a playlist<\/a> of my own, and plan to update it and create more of them over time. Almost the entire WP catalogue<\/a> is on there too, as indeed it is on most streaming platforms, so if you too enjoy listening to music this way, check it out.<\/p>\n

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Today is the fifth anniversary of the release of History of Pain<\/em>. It\u2019s an album that took us a long time to make (we worked on it for at least two years on and off, starting before the previous record Hard Feelings <\/em>even came out) and one that I like a lot, though I think it\u2019s a bit misunderstood, partly of my own doing.<\/p>\n

I sometimes think it\u2019s the most underrated WP album. I\u2019ve been thinking about putting together a \u201cGreatest Hits\u201d compilation for the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of the WP in 2019, and I thought of assembling a parallel \u201cgreatest misses\u201d or \u201cshoulda-been hits\u201d collection\u2026 but when I started to mentally compile it, almost all the tunes were from History of Pain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Murray wanted to bring out the garage rock side of the WP, and as it happened, we were listening to a lot of that kind of music at the time. Not the generic three-chord garage stuff, more like a lot of classic power pop and glam rock, and more current stuff like Jay Reatard, Reigning Sound\u2026 basically we were listening to WFMU<\/a> a lot. Plus, I felt like I had really taken the \u201crock anthems with keyboards instead of guitars\u201d angle as far as it could go. So it seemed to make sense to put the guitars up front.
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