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And this weeks award for the best guitars in the execution of a pop song goes to {drum roll please}
The Awkward Stage. Yes folks, there are enough yummy guitars here to keep me happy for, ooh lets see. At least a day.

“Anime Eyes” is a great piece of pop, this is one of those songs that make you wonder how does all this great music just keep coming out of Canada. It’s totally mind boggling.

A long quote from the site…

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Vancouver, BC, Shane Abram Nelken, leader and songwriter for The Awkward Stage, has long been considered one of Vancouver’s best kept secrets. Where some play hard to get, he has taken it a step further and played “hard to find.” Much like TV “Fall Guy” Lee Majors, he’s the unknown stuntman who made Vancouver’s indie scene sound so fine. Shane’s ability to seamlessly shift among a wide variety of musical styles (and instruments) has made him a much sought after “hired ringer” by many of Vancouver’s elite acts: A.C. Newman (of The New Pornographers), Sparrow, Vancouver Nights, The Ronnie Hayward Trio, The Come Ons, The Buzzards, The Blue Lodge Quartet, to name but a few. He is finally stepping out from big brother’s shadow with his own band, The Awkward Stage, and the debut album on Mint Records, Heaven Is For Easy Girls, co-produced and engineered by The New Pornographers’ drummer Kurt Dahle, and possessing that distinctive intangible musical essence – some say “The Vancouver Sound” – initially spearheaded and made famous by those notorious New Pornographers.
Shane Nelken currently lives in Vancouver where he works as a cremationist.

Highly Recommended.

Websites at www.myspace.com/theawkwardstageband and www.theawkwardstage.ca/The_Awkward_Stage/Home.html

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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