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More today from the Hamilton, Ontario indie-rock band Arkells . Blueprint is the closing track to the band's critically acclaimed debut LP Jackson Square , released on October 28th of 2008; the album was among the 40 Canadian independent releases long-listed for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize . The band rode the success of Jackson Square to the 2009 CASBY Awards where they took home the award for Favorite New Artist. Currently the band is making their way through a Canadian tour, with notable stops in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto; the full tour schedule [...]

I need to try and get this post up as quickly as possibly, as this computer is likely to get thrown off my balcony if Mr. Federer loses this 5th set. Today's song is a wicked catchy number from the British Columbia indie-rock quintet Mother Mother . Hayloft can be found on the band's 2008 sophomore release O My Heart . O My Heart is one of the 5 albums up for the $25,000 Album of the Year award from this year's Verge Music Awards . Other finalists include Joel Plaskett with his album [...]

This morning was our annual Fantasy Football draft, and let's just say I'm feeling really confident about the team; I managed to snag Stompin' Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald, and Chad "this is my bounce-back year" Ochocinco. In music-related news, I came across a really cool project last week called The Transit Tapes . It is described as a "live music performance series" coming out of Toronto that matches up emerging Canadian indie acts with local production talent; The result is a little bit of spectacular. The clip I chose to highlight today is Pullin' Punches from the Arkells [...]

It's been three weeks since my first Arkells post, and I'm still hooked on the Canadian indie/alt-rock band. Tonight's tune, The Ballad of Hugo Chavez, was released as the second single, on April 27, 2009, in support of the band's debut LP Jackson Square . The song was selected as the follow-up single to Oh, the Boss Is Coming after winning an online fan-vote. It took me a while to figure out the chorus line "in the night of the sun". After I did some reading on Hugo Chavez , and learned that while [...]

Tonight's tune comes to us from the Hamilton, Ontario indie/alt-rock band Arkells . John Lennon can be found on the band's debut LP Jackson Square , released in October of 2008. Jackson Square was released by the independent Canadian label Dine Alone Records . Other notable Canadian acts on Dine Alone Records include Attack in Black , Bedouin Soundclash , and City and Colour . Head on the wall and my piss hardly makes the stall [...]

I like watching bands get better. And from these earlier posts , you can see that I've been watching this 5-piece band from Hamilton (with songs about factories) grow into a powerhouse live band with a great album to back it up. Charlemagne became Arkells and Arkells have come into their own. This year the band signed a deal with Dine Alone Records ( City and Colour, Attack In Black ) and it seems to have steered the band in the right direction. [...]