nxne 2011 bands to see list

Ok, so now that the hockey season is over, I can attend my first NXNE show of the year tonight! Here’s a (working) list of acts I want to see:

Thursday, June 16

Trinity-Bellwoods Park
4 pm Graham Wright & the Good Times Band



Yonge Dundas Square
6 pm Metz
8 pm Fucked Up
9 pm OFF!
10 pm Descendents

Great Hall
11 pm Little Girls

Sneaky Dee's
12 am METZ

Garrison
12 am Ty Segall

Wrongbar
1 am Fucked Up

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Friday, June 17

Mod Club
7 pm Library Voices

Yonge Dundas Square
7:30 Diamond Rings

Phoenix
8 pm The Flatliners
9 pm Anti-Flag

The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
10 pm Black Lungs
11 pm C'Mon
12 am OFF!



Wrongbar
12 am Ty Segall

Drake Underground
12 am Matters

Sneaky Dee's
2 am Sheezer

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Saturday, June 18

Rivoli (all ages)
1 pm Kalle Mattson
2 pm Whale Tooth



Sneaky Dee's (all ages)
4 pm Cartoons
5 pm Peelander-Z

Opera House
7 pm Sharks
9 pm A Wilhelm Scream

Yonge Dundas Square

4 pm DD/MM/YYYY

5 pm Dirty Beaches

7 pm Cults

8 pm Men Without Hats

9:30 pm Devo

918 Bathurst
11 pm Grimes

Silver Dollar
12 am Teenager
1 am Crocodiles

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Sunday, June 19
Hopefully, it’ll be nice out as I plan on spending most of my day at Trinity-Bellwoods Park!

Trinity-Bellwoods Park
2 pm Revelstoke
2:30 pm Hands & Teeth
3:00 pm DD/MM/YYYY
3:30 pm Jess Hill
4:00 pm Megan Bonnell
4:30 pm Teenage Kicks

last game of the season, aka sad times.

If you are not watching game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks, there is something wrong with you! Hopefully, you have a good excuse—like going to NXNE shows! Here are my picks for shows to check out tonight:

El Mocambo
10 pm Dave Hause
11 pm Kevin Seconds
12 am Chuck Ragan

Garrison
12 am Special Guest: Suuns

Rivoli
1 am Special Guest: Yukon Blonde

Rancho Relaxo
1 am Careers In Science

sharks: the joys of living 2008–2010

So I've been listening to Sharks' compilation album, The Joys Of Living 2008–2010 on repeat for the past two months. I think this is a good time to post about the band/album since they will be playing at this year's NXNE (Saturday, June 18, The Opera House @ 7pm!) I am going to make this post short and sweet: Sharks has the soulful and nostalgic Americana sound of The Gaslight Anthem and the punk attitudes of The Clash; and The Joys Of Living 2008–2010 is full of wicked rock and roll sing-along anthems!

Love these lines from" It All Relates"
"We’d steal, but not to break common trade, but for desire to create / To give back what we took in and watch it bloom from the beginning again."

The Joys of Living [wicked-cool song]
Common Grounds [wicked-cool song]



Buy The Joys Of Living 2008–2010 here
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my eyes are still as strong as the avocado baby

Two brand new videos to kick start your week!

First up is this spectacular one for the song "For 12" by Other Lives, from the album Tamer Animals.




The second one is from a band I post regularly on this blog—The Wave Pictures new single, "Blue Harbour", from the album Beer In The Breakers.

song of the moment

Really into this song, "Tone of the Dead" by Phantom Theory. Love that it is rhythmically loud, reminds me a lot of Death From Above 1979!



You can download "Tone of the Dead", as well as Phantom Theory's awesome EP, Delayed and Decayed for FREE over at the band's bandcamp page!

song of the moment

A simple, but perfect video for the song "Blind" by Chapel Club.



Watch another great video/song by Chapel Club here.

song of the moment

One of my favourite songs from last year—"Explode" by Trash Talk from the album Eyes & Nines:

song of the moment

Really like the song + video, "Delight In Temptation", by Wild Palms:

gives me the greatest peace i've ever known

A couple of really cool promo videos for Patrick Wolf's fifth album, Lupercalia, out on June 20th.





These are two of five portraits videos by John Lindquist that provide a moving insight into the heart, soul and character of Lupercalia.

free her space holiday ep!

Her Space Holiday is offering a free four-song EP entitled Black Cat Balloons in anticipation of the new/final album, Her Space Holiday, out on August 16th through No More Good Ideas.

The second track, "Bitter Hearts (with one foot in the grave)" is by far my favourite track in the EP... love the lyrics!

Download the Black Cat Balloons EP here!