Blog: For the 'records'

According to Pollstar , Oasis have a show in Toronto at Air Canada Centre on March 20th. Ticketmaster.ca shows that there'll be a presale starting January 18th at 10:00 am. Edge.ca (under concert listings) shows that the ticket price range is $47.50 to $69.50 CDN. When I first read the news today about the Oasis show, I remembered pop(all love) 's post from New Year's Eve where he expressed Oasis' "Let There Be Love" as beautiful, and with 2005 being 'messed up' as [...]

I couldn't resist but purchase the 365 Tunes Page-A-Day Calendar(2006) . Even better, it was 75 % off the regular price. I bought mine at Coles , but you should be able to pick it up at any of your local Chapters/Indigo bookstores in Canada. Americans and foreigners, I leave it up to you to track it down yourselves. Nicely compiled by Michaelangelo Matos (check out his blog), author and music editor for the Seattle Weekly , the daily song/playlist recommendations run the gamut from indie [...]

I hope the Meligrove Band CD release show at The Mod Club in Toronto yesterday was great. Of course, I only made the last minute decision to drive down from 'Sauga around 10:30 yesterday night, then line up at the doors for about 5 minutes, before realizing that it was one of those lineups that people were hoping they'd be let in still. In the end, it was all a fruitless attempt. Damn, thing had sold out. Disappointment, yes. However, great for Meligrove Band. And I noticed yesterday on the band's website that they're going to [...]

Hometown 'Sauga boys Meligrove Band , in advance of their CD Release show at The Mod Club in Toronto on January 13th, for their newest disc "Planets Conspire" are profiled in Toronto weeklies, Eye Weekly and NOW . JAM! also spoke with the band. "Planets Conspire" comes out in Canada on January 17th, with US, UK and other places to follow. Check the band's website to stream songs from the new album. I've actually had the [...]

I'm a litte surprised that up to this point, Neko Case 's new album "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" (scheduled for release on March 7th) hasn't leaked. For the most part, I've given up downloading album leaks of the artists that I most cherish. It'll be that much sweeter to hear Neko's album when it's officially released. Still, other than the "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" EPK which had audio snippets of a couple of the new songs, I haven't heard any other of the new songs. So to tide everyone over, thanks to [...]

UK upstarts, Guillemots first came to my attention when Chromewaves made a reference to them several weeks ago.(Just to let you know Frank, like you mentioned you'll miss them in Toronto when they play the Horseshoe Tavern on March 15th, but you'll have a chance to see them at SXSW on March 16th, according to their MySpace site). Thanks to Take Your Medicine for leading me towards BBC News

Jens Lekman indicates in his January 4 '06 diary entry that you can watch the trailer for his Kullaberg DVD-EP. He's a little vague on what this DVD-EP is( "Journalists have been calling me all day - so it's not a musicvideo? - no. - it's not a movie? - no. - it's an EP on DVD? - yes. - so it's an EP with musicvideos?" ) and he's not sure if it'll be released on DVD at all, but it will be screened at the Gothenburg Film festival. [...]

Fortunate ones like chromewaves , monkeyboy @ Porchlight (Neko Case Message Forums - registration required) and chartattack were at Neko Case 's intimate show at the Rivoli in Toronto yesterday. Let's all read their reviews of Neko's apparently wonderful show, then go sob in our beer. Courtesy of Ants on the Melon (via Google Video ) watch a couple of live videos of Neko performing in Austin at Antones sometime during the summer of [...]

Anyone who went to the intimate Neko Case show at the Rivoli tonight(which I'm totally down about not getting tickets for), hope you had a good time. I'm looking forward to the reviews/photos and maybe a soundboard/audience recording if anyone is so generous . Next best thing to going to the show perhaps, I went and bought the Bloodshot Records compilation "A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records" for $19.99 over at Soundscapes . As it states over at the label website, the CD [...]

I know I've gone to a great concert when I leave at the end of the night on a high with feelings of euphoria and deliriousness. With that in mind, the concerts below are the ones that moved me the most. I've organized my list into two lists, both non-ranked. I've also included for each show a link to my original review. If I had to pick my favourite show of 2005 it would have to be the Jens Lekman show at The Music Gallery . (And if you thought Mr. Lekman had given up on touring, [...]

Happy New Year everyone. Bedouin Soundclash closed the festivities down at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday. To all the Bedouin Soundclash-haters, come to your senses and realize that "When The Night Feels My Song" was one of the best singles of 2005! (They also did a spiffy dub-reggae version of U2 's "New Year's Day" .) [ photos ]

The Fembots ' album "The City" was quietly released later this year and became one of my faves of 2005. Their rustic country-ish "Demolition Waltz" is one of the most heartachingly beautiful songs I've heard all year. The first single off the album was "Count Down Our Days" of which you can download the mp3 and video off The Fembots official site. I'd been experiencing problems downloading the video but finally got it yesterday(actually you can't right click and save the video; it should download to your Temporary Internet Files folder but when it's [...]

Saving us a little bit of sleuthing, someone over at The New Pornographer Message Forums guesses that with Belle and Sebastian scheduled for SXSW on March 15 '06 and a tourdate in France on April 22nd , the B & S/ New Pornographers North American tour'll likely occur sometime between mid-Feb to mid-April. In related news(or rather non-news), Spin also makes mention of the B & S/New Pornographers tour. I don't know who they've got working over at Spin , but they call [...]

First, a rant. The holiday season's been good so far. Christmas Day was spent with my parents, siblings, nephews and other relatives and I ventured out with my nephew on Boxing Day to pick up several goodies. I'm not sure what's been in the air the last couple of years around this time of year but things seem to happen to put a damper on the merriment. Last year was the Tsunami in South East Asia , and then just yesterday something much more close to home happened . I literally work just down the street [...]

Having had a more attentive viewing today of Neko Case 's EPK [right click and download] for her upcoming album "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" , I realize how much I enjoy listening to Neko speak about her music. Her stories behind new songs like "Dirty Knife" (inspired by a folkloric story from her grandmother) and "The Needle Has Landed" (written about her feeling out of touch with her hometown of Tacoma, Washington) beg for a VH1 Storytellers -style tour. I'd didn't trip over myself to try to [...]

Watch the modern Christmas classic "A Christmas Story" in 30 seconds...with bunny rabbits! [via copacetic ] Still looking for that perfect(or at least near perfect) Christmas soundtrack to play at the family party? Pimps of Gore has a nifty one for download. I have to thank Live Net Music for pointing me towards ManiaTV . It includes an online music television station . It seems to be a bit of a bandwidth hog but if you're lucky [...]

With some downtime between Christmas and New Year's since I'm not working, I'll probably throw in a year-end/best-of list or two into the ring sometime next week. Or maybe not. We'll see how it goes. For now, check out some of the more interesting lists/polls below! Popmatters profiles 2005: A Year in Canadian Rock . A Reminder polled Austrialian music bloggers for the Top 25 Australian Bands/Artists . [via Largehearted Boy ] [...]

Christmas is fast approaching. Maintain your sanity. Here's some Christmas-related links to entertain you along the way: Largehearted Boy points to an mp3 download of The Silent League covering the Peanuts Gang Christmas classic "Christmas Time Is Here" . Wow that's lovely. A quick web search and I've found out that The Silent League is an orchestral-pop project led by Mercury Rev keyboardist Justin Russo. I'm liking what I've heard so far even if Pitchfork didn't [...]

The Stars links just keep a comin'! Check out reviews of Saturday's show(December 17th) by Just Keep Bloggin' and A soundtrack for everyone . Thanks to both of them for graciously linking back to me. suckingalemon was at Saturday's afternoon show, so stay tuned for her review; in the meantime she has a wonderful photo of Amy Millan from that show. Update : suckingalemon 's review is now up. [...]

concert review : An Evening With ' Stars ' @ Lee's Palace (Toronto, Ontario), December 15, 2005 Ushering in the first night of Stars' run of six sold-out shows over four days at Lee's Palace was Toronto's first winter storm. Thankfully it had tapered off a bit by the time I headed down to Lee's Palace and I made it there just before Stars' came on. The stage had a beautiful silk-screened wintery scene with trees and a house that draped the back [...]