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Talent: Migas With Tokyo Police Club

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Host:
Chef Sam Mason

Formerly the pastry chef at WD-40, Mason is one
of the most creative pastry chefs in America today. Having honed his craft at some of the most
prestigious kitchens of the times including Palladin, Union Pacific, and Atlas,
Mason has truly been able to shape his aesthetic culinary vision, combining
molecular gastronomy with innovative ingredients to produce desserts that
continually aurprise the palate. (www.sammasonnyc.com)

Band: Tokyo Police Club (www.tokyopoliceclub.net)

Drums, Percussion: Greg Alsop

Guitar, Percussion: Josh Hook

Vocals, Bass: Dave Monks

Keyboards, Vocals: Graham Wright

TOKYO POLICE CLUB started by accident one day in the ordinary suburb of Newmarket when Greg, Josh, Dave, and Graham decided that they missed playing music together, their previous band having broken up several months before. The four gathered in Josh's basement, plugging in instruments and making up songs almost at random, with no goal but to recapture the magic that they felt making music together. By the time summer came, TPC had began quietly to play shows in the Toronto area, shows at which the very few people in attendance seemed impressed by what they saw. The band seemed likely to end here, with the various members preparing to go their separate ways in the fall, when fate intervened in the form of an invitation to play the Pop Montreal festival. Packing their instruments and girlfriends into a tiny university residence room, TPC spent a week immersed in music, spending days lazily wandering the streets of Montreal and nights rehearsing loudly in the tiniest of spaces, and topping it off in style with a sold out show that saw the band play for the first time to an audience that was actually interested. A few weeks later, all four had agreed that it was time to break their mother's hearts and pursue that most elusive of pipe dreams: a career in the music business.

The boys got straight to business, playing a series of Toronto shows, and earning a reputation for live shows that were exuberant, lively, and unrestrained. In January, the very day that Dave returned for good from university, Tokyo Police Club signed up with esteemed Toronto label Paperbag Records to release their debut EP in Canada. In April, A Lesson in Crime was released, and the band has spent the months since on the road, bringing their optimistic brand of wide-eyed post-pop to audiences across Canada and the U.S., and making many new friends along the way.

So what exactly is Tokyo Police Club? Perhaps EYE Weekly summed it up best when they wrote "[Tokyo Police Club] are undeniably catchy and raw, marrying danceable hooks with talk of robot masters and global emergencies, providing an upbeat soundtrack to our troubled times." Personally, however, I prefer Exclaim's proclamation that "somehow, the deeply innocuous subdivisions of Newmarket, Ontario have hatched a four-headed beast of tunefulness."


Episode Music:

00:00:00:00 - 00:01:40:09

Band: Tokyo Police Club
Song: "Nature of the Experiment"
Album: A Lesson In Crime

00:01:40:09 - 00:03:53:17

Band: Single Frame
Song: "Underground at Noon (Instrumental)"
Album Body/End/Basement
Label: Volcom Entertainment

00:03:53:17 - 00:06:32:06

Band: Til We're Blue or Destroy
Song: "Bubblegum (Instrumental)"

00:06:32:06 - 00:07:31:12

Band: Tacks, The Boy Disaster
Song: "Love in a Coma (Instrumental)"
Album: Oh, Beatrice


00:07:31:12 - 00:09:25:21

Band:Tacks, The Boy Disaster
Song: "Forget Me Not (Instrumental)"
Album: Oh, Beatrice


00:09:25:21 - 00:00:09:46

Band: Tokyo Police Club
Song: "Nature of the Experiment"
Album: A Lesson In Crime