lots of free songs + mercury prize shortlist

Last week, Fader released an exclusive premiere of "Walkabout"—the brand new Atlas Sound track featuring Noah Lennox, you can hear/download it here.

You can hear Cancer Bats’ cover of "So Jealous" by Tegan and Sara over at their MySpace page.

Wavves posted an awesome new demo entitled "Mickey Mouse" on his blog.

Finally, the track "Say Please" by the indie folk supergroup, Monsters of Folk is available for free here.


The Mercury Prize shortlist was announced today, it is slightly (just slightly) less disappointing than the Polaris Music Prize shortlist.

I really hope The Horrors win with their brilliant sophomore Primary Colours; however, I think it will either go to Bat For Lashes or Florence + The Machine... well, in that case, I am cheering for Bat!

If I were to pick the shortlist, I would’ve chosen the following:
Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
Bibio: Vignetting The Compost
Dananananaykroyd: Hey Everyone!
Emmy The Great: First Love
Gallows: Grey Britain
Glasvegas: Glasvegas
Grammatics: Grammatics
The Horrors: Primary Colours (...and I would still pick this as the winner!)
The Maccabees: Wall Of Arms
Micachu: Jewellery
The Shitty Limits: Beware the Limits
Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor

cmw march 10, 2007: photo diary

Bands seen:
Cancer Bats
Cauterize
Harmonica
The Nymphets
Second To Go
United Steel Workers of Montreal

Cancer Bats @ The Reverb



Cauterize @ The Kathedral



Second To Go @ The Kathedral



United Steel Workers of Montreal @ Rivoli



The Nymphets @ Rivoli
This was my second time seeing the band in three nights... The Nymphets is my new favourite band!

untitled (aka i can't think of anything to write for the title)

Wow, another good hardcore album out: Birthing The Giant by Cancer Bats. If you did not enjoy my pervious post on This Is Hell, don’t bother reading the rest of this. Cancer Bats are as loud and as aggressive as This Is Hell. Although I like Sundowning more, Birthing The Giant is still an extremely solid release. These guys are from Toronto, so go buy thier album and support the local scene! Cancer Bats are opening for Moneen tonight at the Opera House. If I wasn’t already going to see Bright Eyes, I would definitely check out this show. The Red Tree by Moneen is one of the best releases of 2006 so far!

Golden Tanks
French Immersion
Diamond Mine
Bonus Track

Demo 2005 (full album, rar. file)
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buy Birthing The Giant here
go to the official Cancer Bats website here
go check out their myspace page here