Video: Two Hours Traffic- Stuck For The Summer

by BrooklynVegan Mike The time has arrived to crown another Polaris Music Prize winner. Last year's Canadian award was met with mixed response as relative unknowns (outside of Canada) Patrick Watson beat Arcade Fire , Feist ( my pick to win ), and seven others for the top spot. This is the most open field in the brief history of the award. There are no big acts, though Stars certainly has [...]

The shortlist of nominees for Canada's Polaris Prize was rolled out yesterday; the winner gets a $20,000 check (Canadian, which is like $2.5 million here now, right?), , while bloggers get something to write about during the dog days of July. The nominees—other than the Weakerthans' Reunion Tour , which includes "Civil Twilight" (above)—and as many representative YouTube clips as I could find are below the cut. Black Mountain - In The Future : [...]

When you live on an island that until recently was only accessible by ferry, you'd probably not know much about the tedium of gridlock. And yet, Prince Edward Island's Two Hours Traffic have been releasing albums chock full of super jams loaded with bumper to bumper pop goodness. Joel Plaskett produced their latest, Little Jabs , and the boys of Two Hours Traffic are taking their wares on the road, stopping in my neck of the woods--Hamilton, Ontario--to host a CD release party at the Casbah with the Spades and Marble [...]

• Two Hours Traffic - Stuck for the Summer

It's Friday and the sun is finally shining here on the east coast, so it seems feasible that we might actually see some summer out here in Halifax. So I thought I'd celebrate summer's impending arrival with a post on my favorite summer song by a band comprised of former chemistry students that hail from PEI, but now live in Toronto. The band of course is Two Hours Traffic , and the song is Stuck For The Summer . In my review for the band's excellent EP, Isolator, I described Stuck For The Summer thusly: [...]

• Two Hours Traffic - Stuck For The Summer