Brent’s Monthly Playlist – July

July Playlist: Pomplamoose – Besides (iTunes) George Ezra – Wanted on Voyage (Deluxe) (iTunes) Meghan Trainor – Title (Deluxe) (iTunes) Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk (iTunes) Naive – The Funky Files (click for purchase) Cody Simpson – Free (emusic.com) Pokey Lafarge – Riverboat Soul (emusic.com) Tim McMorris – Singles: Hurting Land, This is…

Brent’s Monthly Playlist – June

June Playlist: Ray Charles – Hit the Road Jack and Don’t You Come Back Parov Stelar – The Princess Part One Parov Stelar – The Princess Part Two Featured Favourite Artist: Belle & Sebastian The two albums we own are The Life Pursuit  and Push Barman to Open Old Wounds. A band that takes its…

Brent’s Monthly Playlist – May

May Playlist: Echo – Carrie Manolakos Maybe Trapped Mostly Troubled – Tessa Violet Vanessa Courtney-Quinones Presents Allez Pop! – Vanessa Courtney-Quinones Featured Favourite Artist: Bela Fleck We discovered Bela Fleck through Victor Wooten, when he was on Gabriola Island teaching a workshop at the Haven. The albums we bought and play in the salon include Across…

Brent’s Monthly Playlist – March

March Playlist: Chromosomes, Single – We Were Evergreen Leeway – We Were Evergreen Towards – We Were Evergreen Be Good – Gregory Porter Featured Favourite Artist: Leslie Feist This month’s favourite is a throwback to an artist we discovered a few years before she became more well known for her song 1-2-3-4 featured in an iPod commercial, and who…

Featured Favourite Band – Peter & The Wolf

First I must apologize that the playlist for February wasn’t posted last month. I try to have it posted no later than mid-month around the time I do the actual download from emusic.com, but I had decided to transfer all my music to a different computer to free up more space on my laptop, and that…

Brent’s Monthly Playlist – January

January Playlist: Skinny Blues (Single) – Jeremy Loops (iTunes) Century Spring – Mason Jennings Mason Jennings – Mason Jennings Use Your Voice – Mason Jennings Always Been – Mason Jennings  Featured Favourite Artist: Jeremy Loops We are longtime subscribers to a Youtube travel vlogger, filmmaker, and photographer called Ben Brown, and recently he introduced us…

Price Changes & Discounts in 2015

Sheep year is time to heal after the chaos of 2014’s Horse year. What is of value now is intimacy, family and close friendships. We can be more caring, kind and sensitive with each other. Develop a gentle heart, open to love and acceptance on all levels. Another theme of Sheep year is to express…

Brent’s Monthly Music Playlist – December

We try to get the playlist up before the 15th of the month, but we’ve been caught up in the rush of the holiday season, spending time with friends and family. We hope you had a great holiday season as well. Hope you enjoy the list we downloaded from emusic.com this month: December Playlist:  Lily…

Brent’s Monthly Music Playlist – November

I hope you enjoyed the first installment of Brent’s Monthly Music Playlist in October. Here’s some more music we downloaded from emusic.com and iTunes in November. As you can see, when we find an artist we like, we tend to download everything we can find! November Playlist: Bon Iver – Bon Iver Beth/Rest – Bon…

Brent’s Monthly Music Playlist – October

One of the most frequent comments we hear in the salon is “what is playing right now?”, and a close second is “where do you get your music?”. We thought it would be fun to start sharing our monthly downloads and feature a favourite artist from past downloads. To answer the second question first, we…