http://www.sebastiantroen.com Listen to Good Music. Daily. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:28:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First post in awhile. Blame the poker tables and the MBA program I'm currently taking at UBC. Last week I went to Guu restaurant (mmm, ebi mayo prawns) with some friends and discovered two kick-ass Japanese inventions. The first was Guu-branded reusable chopsticks. Very cool, very sustainable, though I don't use chopsticks ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/10/06/theres-a-marble-in-my-cream-soda/ Fortunately I don't have to try answering this question for you... though god knows I've tried before (usually a few whiskies down). But check out this cool slideshow that I came across in my marketing class that explains it much better than I could... What the F**K is Social Media: One ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/09/09/what-the-fuck-is-social-media/ I've been a fan of the Handsome Furs since I heard their first single, What We Had, from their first record, Plague Park. Now husband and wife team, Dan Boeckner (also of Wolf Parade and Atlas Strategic) and Alexei Perry hit the road to support their second record, Face Control. And ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/06/01/daily-fresh-track-handsome-furs-radios-hot-sun/ For today's Fresh Track, I thought I'd throw out the killer song that will be rockin' the parties all summer long: Lonely Island's I'm On A Boat. This is actually a group comprised of Saturday Night Live cast member Andy Samberg and SNL writers Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. You ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/21/daily-fresh-track-lonely-island-im-on-a-boat/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Coldplay releases a free, live album entitled LeftRightLeftRightLeft"][/caption] I'm a Coldplay fan. Probably not enough of a fan to shell out hundreds of dollars for good seats when they're on tour, but good enough that I have all their records and am happy to throw them on ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/16/daily-fresh-free-track-coldplay-clocks-live/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Green Day"][/caption] Oh boy, I've been waiting for this album to drop (as they say in the hood) for awhile now, ever since American Idiot wormed itself into my brain a few years ago. I was one of the first to get 21st Century Breakdown when it ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/15/track-of-the-day-green-day-21st-century-breakdown/ Time for a Rock n' Roll Doubleshot of great tuneage. Kings of Leon are blowing up this year on this side of the Atlantic. The first song that made me fall in love with them was Fans, off their 2007 album, Because of the Times. [audio:fans.mp3] Get Fans on iTunes. Their big single ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/14/rock-n-roll-doubleshot-kings-of-leon-fans-sex-on-fire/ I'm not a huge fan of hip-hop, to be honest it's not my favourite genre. Sure, I like a lot of the popular stuff: Kanye, Jay-Z, etc., but I don't really get the thug/gangsta shit. But when I hear hip-hop that's intelligent AND catchy, I can get hooked. And K'Naan's sound ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/13/track-of-the-day-knaan-if-rap-gets-jealous/ My Track of the Day pick is Calvin Harris' new single, I'm Not Alone, a summer anthem-type house song with some an old skool synth melody that harkens back to hot summers in Europe in the 9os and that makes me want to drive around the beach in my top ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/12/track-of-the-day-calvin-harris-im-not-alone/ Those of you who are slowly switching all your online communications from email to Facebook messages (like I have), take note. Facebook has been caught censoring messages. And not unauthorized spam either, but rather messages from one user to another that includes a link to torrent files. Now it gets tricky ... http://www.sebastiantroen.com/2009/05/07/facebook%e2%80%99s-e-mail-censorship-is-legally-dubious-experts-say-epicenter/