Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Alexandre Bédard Cadence Weapon is encircled by a boisterous crowd of well-wishers, each offering congratulations to the Edmonton expat MC for his first performance in his newly adopted hometown. "I just want to keep going," he exclaims, amped up after his M for Montreal set at La Salla Rossa, a live music hotspot in the Canadian city known for poutine, Schwartz's smoked meat and [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases We Are Busy Bodies Broken Social Scene aren't the only long-running band from Toronto to have played a farewell show recently. Beloved art-rockers DD/MM/YYYY also wrapped up a lengthy run together (though they didn't call their split a "hiatus" nor did they cap off their career with an epic gig in Rio). [...]
DD/MM/YYYY 's "Infinity Skull Cube" & "Gimme Pizza Mind", filmed with 360 degree panoramic video cameras captured by Panopticon360s .
In the words of our old pal O'Shea Jackson: Once again it's on . The 2011 Halifax Pop Explosion begins today , and with an openning day lineup that is bigger than ever, Halifax's biggest annual music event is starting it's 19th year with a vengenace. Of course, in true hill-ian fashion, we're both busier than ever as we greet this year's festivities, and as such you likely won't find us out & about until Thursday night, but rest assured we'll HPX like the old-ass champs we are once [...]
Hey, who said festival season was over? A certain All Tomorrow's Parties event, the inaugural U.S. I'll Be Your Mirror , just took Asbury Park, New Jersey by storm (sort of literally, but that's okay because it was inside!) and it surely qualifies as a festival. That's right, while every other festival is in its 10th year and booking the same 250 acts as the festival preceding it, ATP just swoops in with an unglamorous but effective idea and declares itself a contender for U.S. festival of the year! At least as far as the [...]

Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the October 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Form (mp3) by Hooray for Earth Four Fires (mp3) by ADULT THEMES [d/l Four Fires / Young Bodies 7" @ adultthemes.bandcamp.com ] Blackout Sex (mp3) by Night Manager [d/l /////// [...]

Recommended Show: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 DD/MM/YYYY @ CAMEO GALLERY 93 North 6th St Brooklyn, NY 11211 $10, 8PM DD/MM/YYYY put on a great show, and tonight they play at Cameo Gallery? Do you really need to know anything more? X @ Irving Plaza Keren Ann @ City Winery Primus @ Roseland Ballroom Louis C.K. @ The Bell House St. Vincent @ Le Poisson Rouge Mother Feather @ Bowery Electric No Gold, Napoleon, & [...]
Filed under: News We Are Busy Bodies DD/MM/YYYY fans may be left scratching their heads with the news that their beloved band has called it a day. Though the Toronto outfit are currently in the middle of a tour with a high-profile date booked at New Jersey's ATP fest, according to Exclaim , after nearly a decade they're ready to move on. But, thankfully, four of the five members are moving on together, reforming as Absolutely [...]

Photographic Evidence by Mark Jenko We Take You There... Yonge and Dundas Square - Toronto, ON for NxNE - 06/18/11 Live in Toronto's "Times Square" DD/MM/YYYY [...]
This is the story of NXNE told through the perspective of its softer moments, of the things that were there before and will remain to stay long after the last hashtag.

Jessica Eaton Though they should be - and probably are - at work on their next album, a follow-up to last year's The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night , Montreal's Besnard Lakes have put together a little something something that will not only slake their fans' appetite for some new outer space-scale rock, but give them an excuse to get out of the studio and back on the road for a spell. On September 20, they'll release You Lived In the City , a new 123 EP that [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Video , Exclusive Matthew C.X. Langford Canada's biggest music fest is always a good time, but this year at NXNE we decided to kick things up a notch. Rather than taking over some club, AOL decided to take over an entire city square -- Yonge-Dundas Square to be exact, which is the heart of NXNE festivities. From New Wave pioneers Devo and Men Without Hats [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News NXNE wouldn't be the party that it is without the daytime showcases, BBQs and oh so mysterious "secret shows." So for every free burger, cheap drink and secret set [...]
MP3: DD/MM/YYYY - Zebra Cakes (Live at Electraplay) DD/MM/YYYY is an amiable group of fellows from the Great White North that do a good job of defying categorization. Art-wave is what I might call it, turbo-psyche is what they might call it. Pseudo-genres aside, you certainly can't deny their energy. The fact that they somehow managed to play a near record 18 shows in 3 days at SXSW in 2010 is a case in point. (Unfortunately they won't be making the trek this year.) The dudes were kind enough to swing [...]

You know when shows are the best? When there's that one band that totally thrashes around and breaks boundaries and doesn't just play but puts on a show . You know what's better than the best? When there's an entire night of bands that are known for doing just that. Fucked Up: crazy live show. Double Dagger: crazy live show. DD/MM/YYYY: crazy live show. Tickets to this are $7. I'm not entirely sure how you should go about getting them (it's too late to be an over-achieving blogger and figure it out for you), but however it is I'm [...]

Untitled by petimaj In case you haven't had the chance, check out this week's The Neighbourhood Mixtape: Deeper Into Movies over at blogTO . I was very excited about this week's collection, which includes songs by Wildlife , TERUKO , DD/MM/YYYY , Hands & Teeth and Ruby Coast . There are some real dreamy songs in there. And if you're looking to catch a concert this week, check out Hot Ticket for live music picks for January 19th through January 25th. [...]
Becoming a forever more valid alternative to a weekend away getting deep down and dirty on mudded farms the length of the UK, the inaugural I'll Be Your Mirror , curated by Portishead and lovingly established by ATP , as previously announced already features the likes of DOOM , Beach House , Liars , and The Books amongst others. And now, ahead of the February 14th release of her eighth solo LP Let England Shake, PJ Harvey has been announced as Saturday's [...]

For your streaming pleasure, here is the latest Friday Night Vids ... This No Joy video is NSFW (provided no one in your workplace is running around naked). Props to Jheri @ Get Off The Coast . Streamable: Hawaii (vimeo) by No Joy Downloadable: Hawaii (mp3) FYI, this is the official video for the song Crystal Necklace by Total Slacker . Streamable: Crystal Necklace (vimeo) by [...]

Over a year and a half ago I was stood on a rooftop in Austin, drink in hand, watching Marnie Stern. The sun was shining and I was pretty damn happy. And then I looked at the time and realised I was completely missing DD/MM/YYYY . I ran like a frenzied idiot across two streets, through traffic, up an escalator, and into the middle of their set to find five bodies convulsing on stage, a million times more frantic than my sweaty little jog. Despite the grey wire carpet and strip lighting of the conference room stage, [...]

Filed under: Video , Exclusive If you're after some serious eye candy, look no further than the new video from DD/MM/YYYY for 'I'm Still in the Walls.' The Toronto-based genre-benders have a knack for keeping fans on their toes when it comes to their artsy music videos, which, much like their music, push the limits with trippy effects and eclectic twists -- and this action-packed video is no different. A near-perfect visual representation [...]