Built to Spill

Show Announcements:
A Place to Bury Strangers, Dead Confederate, All The Saints @ Mod Club (October 27th)
Atlas Sound, Broadcast, Selmanaires @ Lee’s (October 24th)
Love @ Lee’s (August 14th, $25.00, 19+)
Busdriver, Abstract Rude @ El Mocambo (September 12th)
Titus Andronicus, The So So Glos @ Horseshoe (September 25th, $10.50, 19+)
A Wilhelm Scream, The Riot Before @ Reverb (September 25th, $13.50, ALL-AGES)
She Wants Revenge, Kill Hannah @ Phoenix (September 28th, $20.00, 19+)
Teenage Bottlerocket @ Kathedral (October 27th, $10.50, ALL-AGES)
Fran Healy & Andy Dunlop (of Travis) @ Mod Club (October 30th, $29.50, 19+)
Monsters of Folk (feat. Conor Oberst, Jim James, M Ward, Mike Mogis) @ Massey Hall (November 2nd, $36.50-49.50, ALL-AGES)
Wavves, Ganglians @ El Mocambo (September 22nd)
The Cool Kids @ Lee’s (August 27th, $20.00, 19+)
An Horse @ Drake (September 11th, $10.00, 19+)
Telefon Tel Aviv @ El Mocambo (September 9th, $10.00, 19+)
Os Mutantes @ Opera House (October 2nd, $25.00, 19+)
Kid Koala, Adira @ Mod Club (October 3rd)
Nosaj Thing @ Wrongbar (August 30th)
Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Buff 1 @ Drake (September 27th, $12.00, 19+)
Sea Wolf, Port O’Brien, Sara Lov @ Sneaky Dee’s (October 9th)
Bishop Morocco, The Two Koreas, Metz @ Silver Dollar (August 14th, $6.00, 19+)
Monotonix @ Velvet Underground (October 7th, 19+)
Golden Triangle @ Silver Dollar (October 2nd, 19+)
Zeroes @ Silver Dollar (September 18th, 19+)

For those dying to find details for the Built To Spill shows, Against the Grain has finally released show info! The band will be in town on October 6th and 7th at Lee’s for the price of $26.50 and this is a 19+ event. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning!

Islands will be in Toronto promoting their upcoming album Vapours on October 14th!! Vapours will be out on September 22nd and you can hear a new song entitled “No You Don’t” here now!

Do Make Say Think will play the opening party for the Bicycle Film Festival on August 19th at the Polish Combatants Hall; tickets are $22.00 and this is an all-ages event!

Toronto’s Everything All The Time will be opening for Amazing Baby at the Drake on August 4th. Tickets are still on sale for $13.00!

Metz have been added to the Japandroids/Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band bill at the Horseshoe on September 19th.

Arietta will open for Cursive this Saturday at the Horseshoe!

For those attending the Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows at the Kool Haus this coming Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Amanda Blank will be opening! Don’t know her? Start listening here.

In addition to his upcoming show at the Opera House on September 10th, Caribou will have a DJ set at Wrongbar on September 17th.

El Perro Del Mar will be opening for Peter Bjorn and John at the Phoenix on November 11th. Tickets are still on sale for $20.00!

Wavelength’s August schedule has just been announced! Check it out here! Personal suggestion: August 30th featuring the Wilderness of Manitoba, The Weather Station and Maylee & Pegwee Power!

Unfortunately I wasn’t at Hillside this past weekend but the talk of the fest? From what I hear, Final Fantasy(and why wouldn’t it be? Owen Pallett’s a fucking genius) and here’s video proof!

The Hidden Cameras have a new video out for their new single “In The NA” - watch here.

Flight of the Conchords have finally announced details on their new album, I Told You I Was Freaky! Read more here

And speaking of announcing albums, FINALLY - Tegan and Sara reveal the name of their new record: Sainthood. Not “Thainthood” (watch this video to understand why it may be Thainthood)

Happy listening!

Musically,
Melody

Both Tegan and Sara and Do Make Say Think have begun working on new albums. According to Chart, Tegan and Sara are currently in Los Angeles with Howard Redekopp and Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla (who are co-producing the record), whereas Do Make Say Think frontman Charles Spearin is planning for the band’s new record to “be either four songs or one big song.” Exciting!

Billy Talent, on the other hand, have finished recording a new album and will be releasing III (obviously a follow-up to II) on July 14th. Here’s the tracklisting:

III
01 Devil On My Shoulder
02 Rusted From The Rain
03 Saint Veronika
04 Tears Into Wine
05 White Sparrows
06 Pocketful Of Dreams
07 The Dead Can’t Testify
08 Diamond On A Landmine
09 Turn Your Back
10 Sudden Movements
11 Definition Of Destiny

See them live at this year’s Edgefest on June 20th!

Neko Case returns to Toronto on July 14th at the significantly bigger Massey Hall. Tickets go from $29.50-40.50 and they go on sale (to the public) this Friday. This show is all-ages.

An updated list of bands have been posted up on NXNE’s site. Read here!

Jack White’s new band, The Dead Weather will be at the Kool Haus on July 22nd. Tickets also go on sale this Friday (not clear on prices yet) and it will be all-ages. Their debut album, Horehound, will be out on July 14th.

Caribou will be at the Opera House on September 10th as the Caribou Vibration Ensemble, which will consist of Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), Koushik, John Schmersal, Kathryn Bint, Ahmed Gallab, a four-piece horn section, a choir and four drummers.

Other show announcements:
The Walkmen, Cass McCombs @ Lee’s (July 24th, $16.50, 19+)
Michachu and the Shapes @ El Mocambo (July 14th, $12.00, 19+)
Frightened Rabbit @ Horseshoe (July 22nd, $13.50, 19+)
Moderat @ Circa (May 29th, 19+)
Team B, New Numbers @ Horseshoe (June 22nd, $8.00, 19+, *tickets at door only)

Congrats to Toronto’s Timber Timbre for signing onto Arts & Crafts Records! His recently released self-titled album will be re-released on A&C on June 30th, in Canada.

Lily Allen recently released a b-side from It’s Not Me, It’s You entitled “Why”. Click here to listen.

And last but not least, I would’ve killed Santa Claus for this.

Happy listening!

Musically,
Melody

It’s summer time. And of course, with wonderful weather comes the wonderful music festivals. Toronto doesn’t host Lollapalooza or anything (hell, we’re apparently not even hosting the Virgin Festival anymore), but we do have Summerworks and NXNE. Here’s a quick update.

Although the full NXNE lineup won’t be announced until mid-May, a brief teaser was recently released. The following have been confirmed so far by the organizers:

Aids Wolf
Angela Desveaux
Arizona
Awkward I
Benny Crespo’s Gang
Black Lips
Burning Brides
Experimental Dental School
Fake Blood
Film Noir
Health
Kill Krinkle Klub
King Khan & BBQ Show
Little Girls
Little Teeth
Matt and Kim
Midnight Peacocks
Mika Miko
Ninjasonik
No Age
Pink Noise
Svjata Vatra
The Coathangers
The Homosexuals
These are Powers
United Steelworkers of Montreal
Woodpigeon

NOW also reports that NXNE and Luminato will co-present Do Make Say Think, Final Fantasy, and Berlin’sRobert Lippok at Yonge-Dundas Square, performing a collaboration of a soundtrack to the 1919 silent film, “Tales of The Uncanny” on June 11. This event is free and all-ages.

Though no specific venues and dates are confirmed by NXNE, I was able to dig up that Fake Blood will be at Wrongbar on June 20th (via The Windish Agency).

Also, thanks to ‘For the Records’ for pointing out that The Black Lips, Burning Brides and Melissa Auf Der Maur will be playing a free show at Yonge-Dundas Square on June 18th; brought to you by MySpace Canada.

IHeartMusic will be holding a showcase at the Drake Hotel on June 18th, featuring Amos the Transparent, The Balconies, Black Hat Brigade, and Oh No Forest Fires.

Dan Burke’s NeXT-at-NXNE showcase will include Red Mass, The Zoobombs, Catl, The Golden Triangle, The Two Koreas, The Sedatives, “Pizza Party” DJs, Teen Anger, Hexes & Ohs, Revolvers, and the Mark Inside.

Other acts confirmed through various sources are: Ruby Jean and the Thoghtful Bees, Bass Lions, Dinosaur Bones, Megan Hamilton and Volunteer Canola, The Paint Movement, Alphabot! and Parlour Steps.

That is all I can rummage up for now. We’ll keep you posted!

Summerworks is also back this year and via Gracing the Stage, there will be a launch party on May 3rd at the Theatre Centre featuring Bob Wiseman, Nils Edenloff (of The Rural Alberta Advantage), and Foxfire. For more information, click here!

And last but not least, as mentioned at the beginning of my post, this year’s Virgin Festival appears to have moved to Orillia, Ontario. Someone tell me this is a joke. It’s also rumoured to be taking place on August 29-30, but with other festivals such as the Outside Lands Fest and Reading Festival, who the hell is left for V-Fest? Again…this has to be a joke, right? Let’s hope so. Read more about this mystery here.

Musically,
Melody