Stars announce North American Fall Tour and Presale – July 11th, 2007
On October 17th Stars will embark on a full USA tour in support of their new album In Our Bedroom After The War.
Go to www.arts-crafts.ca for complete details of each performance.
ADVANCE FAN TICKETING — A limited amount of advance tickets will be for sale [...]

download the song here: Open Your Heart
I like this song, and the video. Cute, catchy, etc

Kevin Drew leaves fans eagerly awaiting his mostly-but-kind-of-not solo project, presented by Broken Social Scene, Spirit If… by providing an MP3 of “Tbtf” for download on the Arts & Crafts website. The LP will be available September 18th, although I’m sure in about a month (or less) it will leak on the Interweb. No doubt [...]

Time to whip out your best Robert Smith-esque makeup and Aquanet, because everyone’s favorite gloom-pop band, The Cure, have confirmed dates for a month-long North American tour, starting in the fall. I will undoubtedly be at the Madison Square Garden show, two days before I see Genesis at the same venue… what an unlikely combination.
Sep-13 [...]

Radiohead’s producer Nigel Godrich, posted the following clip on Radiohead’s website. The video includes snippets of new tunes ‘Open Pick’, ‘All I Need’, ‘Down Is The New Up’, ‘Arpgeggi’ and ‘Bangers ‘n Mash’
Nigel wrote:
a bit of tape from the studio
I keep bits of tape which have been [...]

First, it was Adam Green’s “Jessica [Simpson].” Then it was Spank Rock’s “Linsday Lohan’s Revenge.” Now? The almost obnoxiously-happy Swedish super-[duper]-group I’m From Barcelona paid homage to everyone’s favorite part-time mom, part-time pop star, and full-time train wreck, Britney Spears, with a new song to kick off the summer, simply titled “Britney.” It is catchy, [...]

SATURDAY, JUNE 16 – 3pm to 6pm
Television
Apples in Stereo
Dragons of Zynth

FRIDAY, JUNE 22 – 7:30pm – 10pm
COMEDY CENTRAL PARK
Dave Attell
John Mulaney
Joe DeRosa
Amy Schumer
Kurt Metzger
Ted Alexandro

SUNDAY, JUNE 24 – 3pm to 6pm
CANADA DAY!
Sloan
Apostle of Hustle
Duhks

MONDAY, JULY 16 – 6:30pm to 10pm
The Decemberists
Grizzly Bear
Land of Talk

THURSDAY, JULY 19 – 7:30pm to 10pm
UCB Theatre’s Comedy Cabaret
Human Giant
Demetri Martin
Rebecca [...]

You heard it here first (although most likely not)! New York’s very own Animal Collective have finally announced details regarding their forthcoming album, Strawberry Jam. It will be their first LP released on Domino Records, and will hopefully be dropped in September. After much success from 2005’s Feels and 2006’s People EP, this is terribly [...]

Feist is awesome
so is Feist acoustic
and on a bus for that matter

-Feist “I Feel It All” on a bus on Jimmy Kimmel Live 5-15-07

It was a bitch attempting to buy tickets to the Judson Memorial Church shows in February to no avail, but this time around, I managed to get my hands on a ticket for the Arcade Fire’s show at Radio City. Despite feeling intimidated by the woman standing beside me whose shoulder must have been at [...]

More than two years after their well-renowned release In Case We Die, Architecture in Helsinki is preparing for their third full-length, Places Like This, dropping in early August, under Polyvinyl Records. While doing so, they made a little music video, promoting its first single, “Heart it Races.” Right off the bat, one can agree that [...]

MAY 1st:
Feist – The Reminder (Interscope)
Frog Eyes – Tears of the Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher)
Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position (Low Altitude/Universal)

MAY 8th:
Björk – Volta (One Little Indian/Atlantic)
Clientele – God Save the Clientele (Merge)
Elliot Smith – New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
Sea and Cake – Everybody (Thrill Jockey)

MAY 15th:
Wilco – Blue Sky Blue (Nonesuch)

MAY 22nd:
The Bravery [...]

We got home from BAM 07 (St Bonaventure’s Arts & Media Festival). It was a great festival, and twice as large as last years. It featured 2 venues, and more than twice as many bands.

Despite the number of acts and distance between the two venues, we were able to catch most of bands on the [...]

we are all packing out belongings and heading off to BAM 2007
expect a full report

It’s nice to know that there are artists out there who don’t take themselves too seriously, and Feist is certainly no exception. Her music video for “1 2 3 4″ recently popped up online, and fans far and wide are marveling over the feel-good choreography of Bitch Lap Lap herself and her dancing friends. Aside [...]

Today Modest Mouse announced that they are holding a music video contest for their soon to be next single “We’ve Got Everything”.
“WIN A VIDEO PREMIERE ON MTVu! Plus a Sony Camcorder and more!
Modest Mouse are calling on the most imaginative student filmmakers to be involved in an incredible opportunity. They’re asking you to direct the [...]

Bright Eyes released Cassadaga, the 7th studio album from Conor Oberst’s band. Cassadaga has to be one of Bright Eyes‘ strongest releases yet, yielding a lot of maturity in songwriting. People who pre-ordered the album from Saddle Creek received a free 7” if they ordered the LP (CD’s got a 3” b-side cd) [...]

I’m quite excited that The New Pornographers are working on a new album. The band has confirmed that album will most likely be titled Challengers, and that Neko Case and Dan Bejar will be appearing on the album.
“We’re starting to ramp up for the release of our new album with some very special shows that [...]

LCD Soundsystem played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC this past weekend. The band was amazing, I have never been to a concert that was so packed and had so many people dancing. I managed to get up front and dance my ass off the whole time. The whole crowd was singing along and shaking their [...]

Wilco has a new album coming out titled Sky Blue Sky (may 15 – Nonesuch)
The band has now also added American dates to their upcoming world tour