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Lamb-cation!

March 3rd, 2009 | By: Melody Lau

Young Galaxy

Young Galaxy

Lame phrase, but I like it.

As you can guess, The Singing Lamb is going to take a tiny, miniscule break from the site! Lambs have school work to catch up on too, you know! And don’t worry, by “Singing Lamb”, I just mean me (Melody). The rest of the staff should still be around, posting exciting news and features for everyone! And by “break”, I mean I’ll only be gone for 2 week, max! I’ll still send news updates over to others to post up so don’t worry, the News Updates will still be around!

May as well leave you with some fantastic news updates though!

Breaking news: Death Cab For Cutie will be at the Sound Academy on Sunday April 5th. This is an all-ages show and it’s a pricy one too – $40.50. But as a good side note, Ra Ra Riot and Cold War Kids will be opening.

The Vivian Girls are back, with Crystal Antlers, at the Horseshoe on May 8th.

The Dirty Projectors are opening for TV on the Radio on June 2nd at the Sound Academy. All-ages, $22.50, doors at 8:00 pm.

Lady Sovereign will be at Lee’s Palace on May 1st. 19+, $20.00, doors at 9:00 pm.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart return to Toronto on April 28th at Lee’s Palace. 19+, $10.00, doors at 8:00 pm.

Opening for Passion Pit on their rescheduled show at Lee’s Palace on April 3rd will be Cale Parks and Paper Route. 19+, $10.00, doors at 9:00 pm.

Murder By Death will play the Horseshoe on April 16th. 19+, $13.50, doors at 8:30 pm.

Hollywood Undead and Madina Lake will be at the Phoenix on April 23rd. All-ages, $18.50, doors at 7:30 pm.

Spinal Tap will be at Massey Hall on May 21st – but “Unwigged and Unplugged”. Read more here.

Lonely Dear will be at the Rivoli on May 8th.

Ohbijou’s April 18th show at the Opera House has been postponed as well as its release date. Further details TBA.

And last but not least, Montreal’s Young Galaxy have finally announced a new album! A release date has not been decided on yet but we do know that the new album is called Invisible Republic and the band has a new single out called “Long Live the Fallen World”. The song is fantastic; a slight departure from their debut self-titled album, but still possesses dreamy pop elements, fused with danceable beats and beautiful vocals from Catherine McCandless. To download the track right now, go to their website! The band will preview their new material on tour so I recommend you check out their set at the Horseshoe during CMW (March 14th, as part of Chartattack’s showcase)! Also, look out for a follow-up interview with lead singer, Stephen Ramsay soon!

See you soon and don’t forget – happy listening!

Musically,
Melody

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News Update!

February 4th, 2009 | By: Melody Lau

Lily Allen

Lily Allen

I am a reality TV show junkie. Is that good or bad? Anyway, my big show of the night was Project Runway Canada. This show was unbelievable the first season; what the fuck happened?! None of the contestants seem to be as talented or memorable as the first season and it’s just a yawn-fest at the moment. Hopefully it’ll get better. But thanks to the gorgeous (and almost robotic) host, Iman for lovely quotes such as this winner, when referring to the cheap quality of a contestant’s dress – “No more hoe dresses, no more hoe trends!”

…AND END RANT.

Lots of concert news coming from Chromewaves today; exciting ones too! Here’s basically what you need to know:

Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains @ Horseshoe (March 6, $10.50)
Julie Doiron @ Horseshoe (March 26, $10)
Ohbijou (CD Release Show) @ Opera House (April 18, $13)
Travis @ Sound Academy (April 21, $34.50)
The Appleseed Cast @ Horseshoe (April 21, $10)
Lily Allen @ Phoenix (April 22, $27.50)
Franz Ferdinand @ Kool Haus (May 4, $30)

Um, heck yes to all of them. Although I’m finding it really hard to justify Franz Ferdinand and/or Lily Allen at the moment because of my recent purchase of Flight of the Conchords tickets – awesome or what! I couldn’t say no to them. They’re too…New Zealand-ish.

Anyway, while we’re on the topic of this month’s Spin cover girlLily Allen, you can stream her new album, It’s Not Me, It’s You on her MySpace now. Want more? Here’s a great clip of her performing her latest single, “The Fear” on Friday Night With Johnathan Ross.

In additional concert news…
The Kills, The Horrors and Magic Wands @ Phoenix (May 7th)
Steve Aoki, MSTRKRFT and Crookers @ Guvernment (April 9th)
Marissa Nadler and The Handsome Family @ El Mocambo (April 21st)
Hey Ocean! and Shad @ Mod Club (September 17th – according to last.fm)

The Juno nominees were announced today. You can read them here! Not bad with Plants and Animals, Chad Vangaalen, Fucked Up and Crystal Castles, but Nickleback and Hedley leading with the most nominations? Great Big Sea, Bryan Adams and Celine Dion? Come on for fuck’s sake, Feist won 5 last year! We have far more talented artists that could use that recognition; Nickleback does not need more people allegedly telling them that they’re good. What good would that do for us? For Canada? For humanity?? Our lovely writer, Christine will follow up on this with a blog post this week. Be prepared to hear more angry ranting.

Death Cab For Cutie have their own free, iPhone application. It’s practically the ultimate Ben Gibbard stalking tool. Now you can track him down and possess his heart. Fantastic…can I use it to track down Zooey Deschanel instead?

Pitchfork gives us a brief guide to musicians on Twitter. Like I said on Facebook the other day, I believe Twitter ruins lives and eats your cat when you’re not looking, but hey musicians take that risk and twitt away anyway.Read more here. (I personally love reading Lily Allen’s Twitter!)

According to Exclaim, the guys of Spinal Tap are reuniting! Best news of the night? I think so.

That’ll be all for now!

Happy listening!

Musically,
Melody

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