Capsule

Jay Malinowski and The Deadcoast is an epic and creative Canadian musical group that you must check out. You will definitely be familiar with Jay’s previous work with Bedouin Soundclash. But now he takes to the high seas in an exciting story inspired album called “Martel”.

* Jay talks about his connection with the French pirate Charles Martel 

* We talk about pirates in pop-culture such as Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag and Captain Phillips and Pirates of the Caribbean

* Discussing the concept of being in a band and freedom & Comparing old and modern pirates

* A Tribe Called Red win a JUNO Award for “Breakthrough Group of the Year”

* St. Vincent’s new look is hot

* How the single “Patience Phipps” came to be

* The importance of history: group think versus reality

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Sean and Andreas are joined by LiL photographer Matt Klopot.

* Matt discusses his fun experience photographing his Hedley jump shot at the Air Canada Centre

* We talk about onstage branding such as Apple MacBooks and Marshal Amps

* Sean highly recommends concert photographers to use Etymotic ER-20 earplug. Buy on Amazon.

 

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* Discussing our friends The Box Tiger opening for Foster The People

* We talk about “One Hit wonders”

* Examining how Indie88 went astray and how they can get back on track

* Elton John Extends Record For Most Adult Contemporary Hits

* Lollapalooza Heads to South America

* Shares of Pandora Plunge on Apple Streaming Service Rumor

* St. Vincent on Over/Under

* Gwar Frontman Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, Found Dead at 50

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Jonathan Russell sings, song writes and plays the guitar in the group The Head And The Heart. They are an indie folk and rock band from Seattle, Washington. Sean Chin and Jonathan talk about his unique voice and how he gets into his creative zone. We also talk about how amazing the experience was to create the bands latest music video for “Another Story”. Then, Jon goes in depth and talks about the song he wrote,“Gone” from the album “Let’s Be Still”. And finally, he reveals what home means to him.

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On this episode of the show, Andreas talks to Sean about his experience seeing Lorde perform live. We also talk about being passionate and why we do what we do, listening to music, watching films and more. Oh yeah, this is our 20th episode of Capsule!

* Sean reviews and photographs Lorde at Sound Academy in Toronto

* The Sony RX100 M2 is the best concert camera for ninjas 

* Daniel Boczarski’s photos of St. Vincent and more from SXSW 2014

* Andreas reviews the album “Going To Hell” by The Pretty Reckless

* Andreas reviews the the best worst film ever, “Winter’s Tale”

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Cassidy is an internationally acclaimed DJ. To set the stage, He performed at the wedding of Jay Z and Beyonce. And provided beats for President Obama in the White House.

* Cassidy explains his pitch to all of the amazing artists he collaborated with on “Calling All Hearts”

* Boater hats from Bates Hats in London

* Cannot live without Shell toe Adidas and the boater hat

* Explaining his “wildest” DJ set

* Discussing the conversation he had with his grandma before performing for the President

* Last song played on iPhone: Sam Cook’s “You Send Me”

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Shailene Woodley and Theo James play lead roles in the upcoming futuristic dystopia film called Divergent. Live in Limbo attended the red carpet for the Toronto premiere screening at the Scotia Bank theatre downtown Toronto. And get a chance to speak with the stars and their loving fans. Andreas Babiolakis and Olivia Leung talk to Sean Chin in this episode about their surreal experience and how it all went down.

Links: 

* Shaeline Woodley on hugging interviewers

* Andreas and Liv get caught on Twitter (thanks to @james_mudblood)

* Pharrell has the first album of 2014 to hit 50,000 sales per week

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On this episode of the podcast, Sean and Andreas talk about societies dependancy on technology.

* Ranting on crappy Canadian ISPs such as Rogers, Bell and Telus

* Steve Jobs introducing and demoing the first FaceTime call

* Apple set to release iOS in the Car next week with Ferrari, Mercedes & Others 

* iTunes wants more exclusive album streaming such as Beyonce

* St. Vincent’s self-titled album receives a 9.2/10 on Live in Limbo

* Exploring great television such as Fringe, Person of Interest and Seinfeld. Plus,  Heroes returning to television in 2015

Music Links: 

* “I Prefer Your Love” by St. Vincent

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Sever (aka Skye Sweetnam) is the front woman of Sumo Cyco. They are an edgy independent punk rock metal band based in Toronto, Canada.

* Discussing hair colour. Green for Ireland? And Winning Indie Week Canada

* Making the transition from pop to punk rock/metal

* Making indépendant B-horror film styled music videos

* Breaking down the “Go Go Go” video and releasing singles and videos as chapters of the album

* On almost opening for The Pretty Reckless

* Keeping social with fans consistently

* Female role models in the punk metal genre: Animal Alpha, Skunk Anansie, Courage My Love, Gwen Stephani, M.I.A. & Janelle Monáe

Music Links:  

* “Go Go Go” by Sumo Cyco 

* “Good Time” by Crystal Castles

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The 86th academy awards will be on March 2nd this year and what a year it has been for films! We haven’t had a year this good since 2010, with films like 127 hours, the social network, inception, the kings speech, black swan and more. This year we have been blessed with a large amount of excellent films and with a very stable list of best picture nominees. We play a fun trivia game. And make predictions on some of the most coveted prizes.

Our panel includes LiL’s film academic Andreas Babiolakis, LiL’s resident film reviewer Dakota Arsenault, LiL’s publisher & chief editor Sean Chin and popular film YouTuber Adrianna Floridia.

Adrianna links:

* http://freshfromthetheatre.tumblr.com

* http://moviemezzanine.com/author/adriana/

* http://cinefilles.wordpress.com

* http://movie-knight.com

Dakota links:

* All 12-parts of the 2014 Oscar Primers

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