and so the mass comes to eat itself.

this is the end, my friends!

it's also episode 45-b (part 1, no less), and one step closer to closing this chapter

as this second side to the 2007 year end comes around (in time for 2008's second month), we listen to the first half of some of the best songs off the best albums to be released in 2007. Side A having been a canada/montreal episode; this one beginning with a song about the man we left behind.

So Jack Dylan and I present episode 45b of Pop Montreal's PopCast. Part 2, to come (as soon as I undo the damage done by Dylan through his insistence on helping 'produce'), rounds out this top ten (non-canada) 2007 countdown, and rounds out the whole chapter of this blog, I think. Maybe an no-talking side C will carry us through its afterlife to somewhere else...a silent and redemptive 2007 footnote that starts the whole mess over again.

Both podcasts and entries will continue, at a soon to be announced and refocused (and renamed?) location. In the meantime, check out JackDylan.ca (Jack who is off to Japan and Thailand for two months, in five hours, if these strange invisible sleet-pebbles let up enough).

PopMontreal rattles on as ever, with rumours of another pod-show bubbling and young prospects eyeing ice-time all over. (Did I mention I picked up Mike Komisarek in my pool today? Go Habs.)

SecretCityRecords.com is soon to be relaunched, andthis band about to put out an album that has occupied my ears and life for the last 6 months.

Stay tuned.