Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Sunny outside, tasty inside: The March13th Story.

Ben Caplan-Bang to Break the Drum
The Pack AD- Sirens (c/o B-man, who brought some of this week's tunes a few weeks back and made the voyage even more cantastic)
Treble Charger- REDDDDDD
Tiny Danza (rip)-Who's the (Bossa)
Welcome-Hey Rosetta!
Sheets-Carleton Stone
You Gotta Teller-Zeus
Fistfight-Toxic Deathula
Kill Count-The Balconies
Party in the USA-Tokyo Police Club
The Lines You Amend-Sloan
Underwhelmed-Sloan
N/A OK-USS
Remote Control-Age of Electric
Tell me what to swallow-Crystal Castles
Through the Hosiery-Crystal Castles
All Mine-Rebel Emergency

Canadian Music Week Ideas!!

Get a wristband and let's go.

Here's some Cantastic favourites playing the fest this year:

WEDNESDAY MARCH 21ST 2012
Treble Charger at Phoenix at 11:00 PM
alternately,
Carleton Stone at Cadillac Lounge 11:00 PM

THURSDAY MARCH 22ND

Blackie Jackett Jr warms up the Sound Academy at 9:30 PM
I Mother Earth
at Sound Academy at 10:30 PM
We've played The Lava and Ash before, as well as drummer Curtis Tone's other band Toxic Deathula. They're playing Wrongbar at 10:40 and their band bio is so fun I'm just gonna quote it:

the lava and ash sound like/feel like a warm wash of your mothers milk after a hot summer day of playing skeet ball and laughing at you grandpa tripping over that fuzzy lil dog that is always running around the block and no one knows who owns the fucking thing but no one really cares cause its cute as cute as the greasy boys in this wonderfully perverted yes perversion can be wonderful kiddies(oh thats a lil creepy) band, oh they are lookers so watch it daddys or you'll be finding these boys with more then just their music in your wives and daughters wink wink nudge nudge.

Robyn Dell'Unto playing Czehoski at 11:00 PM.
The Fabu Balconies at Cabin 5 at 11:00 PM.
The Pack AD at Horseshoe Tavern at 11:30 PM.
Stereokid rolling with the whole crew to Tattoo Rock Parlour at 12 AM.


FRIDAY MARCH 23RD
Get Carleton Stone-d nice n' early at 4:20PM at Sneaky Dee's. I Mother Earth, one more astronaut, one more night at the Sound Academy, 10:30 again.
Montreal's Parlovr plays the Dine Alone Showcase at the El Mocambo. It's two floors one ticket, Parlovr's downstairs 12 AM. chicka chicka yeah.
Carleton Stone doing double duty, back at the Cadillac Lounge at 1:00 AM.
Zeus is at the Horseshoe Tavern at 1 AM with a *secret guest* at 2AM. Who could it be? Dan Mangan? Mebbe? Just speculation. CMW's secret guests are always exciting. Well worth taking a risk before finding out it's your fave-rave via twitter! (wah-wah!)


SATURDAY MARCH 24th, 2012

The Indies: Award Shows without the suck. Performances by Rich Aucoin, The Sheepdogs, Dan Mangan, Treble Charger, The Pack AD
If ya missed him at Sneak's (or loved him at Sneak's) Ben Caplan plays the Rivoli at 6:30 PM.
The Balconies will be melting my face 10 PM at the Garrison.
Whale Tooth over at Lee's Palace for 11 PM.
Two Hours Traffic playing Horseshoe at 11:20 PM.
Wintersleep is doing a tight squeeze, playing at the Rivoli at 10:00 PM and stumbling down the street to Horseshoe for 12:40 AM.
The always electrifying Misteur Valaire will be at the Elmo Downstairs, 1:30 AM.
Or Nova Scotia's Carleton Stone one last time at 1:00 AM at the Rivoli.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

OSHEAGA 2012 Line Up Hoax!


Montreal's Osheaga festival runs August 3-5 this year at parc Jean Drapeau. I've been waiting for the 2012 lineup ever since I left the park for Osheaga 2011, but this flyer floating around this week seemed to be highly suspect. It seemed a stark departure from last year's lineup. Also, the billing structure seemed slightly off. Newmarket heartthrobs Serial Joe receiving higher billing than Feist, The Weeknd, Skrillex? Soundgarden and Slash just floating around quietly the smaller acts ghetto section of the flyer? It also seemed pretty heavy on nineties acts, and kinda low on Canadians. An insane amount of big "headliner" acts. Just seemed really weird. Check out last year's lineup to compare:

There's a reason for the weirdness: the 2012 line up has been reported as fake by Osheaga's twitter folks. According to them, the real line up is mieux, (better, for those who failed)
soooo PARTY! BONUS!

Only one act has been announced this year and that's California's Young the Giant. The band'll also be making an appearance at Toronto's Edgefest July 14th alongside CV favourites Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker and Death from Above 1979. YTG has a Montrealais drummer and recently played a sold-out show at the Sound Academy last Thursday, with a cameo by Osheaga alum Tokyo Police Club.