So much cantasticism, so little time...

It's been a while--I trust your adventures have been as Cantastic as ever. Let's jump right back into things, it's festival season and there's no time to frig around.

North by Northeast June 13-19
Whether you buy/snag a pass or just hit the freebies, you're in for a delicious week. Check out the NXNE website and have your eyes roll out at the sheer number of delicious bands performing all over this great city. Cool free shows going on every day at Yonge and Dundas square and quite a few free parties, here are some of the most promising:

THURSDAY JUNE 16th, 2011
The Verge on XM Rooftop Party Skybar, 132 Queens Quay East, 3-7
Click the link to RSVP to what promises to be a fantastic afternoon: Hollerado, Zeus, Dinosaur Bones and Washington, what more could you ask for? Also, to download Zeus's album "Say Us" for free, click right here.
SATURDAY JUNE 18th, 2011
Montreal is double fisting Toronto with two supersweet Samedi parties. or les partays, as they don't say in French. These are FREEEEE to the general public, so feel free to RSVP and fete your ass off.

Pop your Red Bull Rooftop Party 381 Queen Street W. brought to you by the pop Montreal folks, this one's 3-6 pm and looks like a nice day-drunk opportunity before the shows start up again! Free beer? YUP. Click the link for the FB invite link or RSVP to cora AT popmontreal DOT com.

M for Montreal/Brooklyn Vegan's Bruise Cruise 207 Queen's Quay W. 1:30-5 NYC and MTL and our home n' native Trawna get together to get fucked up on a boat, featuring Fucked Up's own Young Govenor (Ben Cook) and some other tasty shit, including free cocktails for NXNE badgeholders.

I'll be updating the @cantasticvoyage and @lindiglo twitters with updates from the fest as it happens, but here are some shows I want to hit tomorrow, Wednesday June 15, 2011.

Lava & Ash at Velvet Underground, 11 pm.
Curtis Tone is a good friend and drummer for no less than three active bands. I've seen them all play but it's kinda hard to keep them apart. If I'm not mistaken, Lava and Ash is the one without the trumpet (That's Seymour) and without Ejay Monzones (Surf punk outfit Toxic Deathula) But at any rate, any one of his bands is a safe bet. Punk's not dead because Curtis Tone is alive.


Chuck Ragan at El Mocambo upstairs, 12 AM
K, so this isn't Cantastic, but it's happening in Canada so it still kinda counts. Chuck plays twice this week, solo and fronting for Hot Water Music. This one's open to nxne passes but you'll want to get there early...

Other cool shit to check out...

Burlington Sound of Music festival June 16-19, Waterfront, Downtown Burlington. FREE. One good reason to take the GO to Burlington, the Sound of Music never disappoints. This year CV favourites Hollerado, Tokyo Police Club, Bedouin Soundclash and The Salads all rock out alongside cool local vendors and a midway, featuring perennial favourite (and occasional tummy plunger) the GRAVITRON!!

Rebel Emergency's CD Release Party June 24th at the Sound Academy. FREE. Still buzzed from their cross-country Joint Venture tour with KO and Daniel Wesley, the boys'll debut their newest "Aphrodisiology" next Friday at the Sound Academy. Click the link to sign up for FREEEEE guestlist to what promises to be a panty-melting show. All signs point to this album being fantastic. They've released three songs for you to preview and enjoy, check em out:
Up All Night
Picture This
Lion in a Cage (featuring KO)


A great big USS tour update is coming soon before I leave for Three Rivahhhs...so stay tuned or keep refreshing or however it is that people follow blogs.
Until then,
Stay Cantastic,
Linda Julia Paolucci

Cantastic Voyage, Stardate: October 26, 2010

TGIT! Another Tuesday, another Cantastic Voyage! This here blog's where you can catch up on all our hella sweet playlists, show listings, stories, links to videos of cats jumping into and out of cardboard boxes...Don't mind our appearance, we are under construction...Escalator temporarily stairs...I'll be pimping this shit out in the next few weeks until you recommend all your acid-dropping friends eschew "The Wall" and just trip balls on the CV blog.

Today's show was the best yet, and I don't think we had a single listener! That's all right, because I tuned in and had a helluva time. Here's what played:

1. Coax Me by Sloan (Requested by Brett )
2. Underwhelmed by Sloan (Requested by Tristan)
3. Everybody knows this is Nowhere by Neil Young (Requested by Jake Boyd)
4. This Mourning by Wide Mouth Mason
5. Oublie Pas by Karkwa
6. Montreal -40C by Malajube
7. Make out by Jesse Matheson and his Midnight Snacks (Requested by Philipe)
8. Electric Heart by Rebel Emergency (Cantastic Voyage EXCLUSIVE, hewas!)
9. Let your Backbone Slide by Maestro Fresh Wes (Request from Trung)
10. Love Songs for the Last Twenty by Del Barber
11. Hello Time Bomb by Matthew Good Band (requested by (e)Jay)
12. Americanarama by Hollerado
13. Mavericks by USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) feat. Ashley MacIsaac (requested by Jaime, but I was already gonna spin that shet!)
14. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk (Deadmau5 remix)
15. How Much Longer? (French Version) by Sugar Jones (requested by Brett)
16. Sundance by Sam Roberts (requested by James Dean)
17. Around this Town by Grand Analog

HOT TITS, that's a tasty Canadian mosaic of tuneskies! Provinces represented: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba...

SHOW LISTINGS!
November 11 Hawksley Workman at the Great Hall for a G20 Legal Defense Benefit...fifty bones, but Hawksley's such an incredible performer I'm sure it'll be worth every penny!
November 11 Remembrance day seems to be a good day for charity shows, because the Peace.Love festival goes down at the Guv, featuring Big Boi and our friends in the peg, Grand Analog...It's gonna be tasty and the proceeds go to stamping out violence, so you might wanna hit that shit like a whore on Christmas....instead of actually hitting a whore on Christmas, which would be violent. $37.50
November 13 Two Hours Traffic at Horseshoe Tavern
November 19 Bedouin Soundclash at the Sound Academy $26
November 19 Woodhands at Lee's Palace $13.50
December 9 & 10 Broken Social Scene at Sound Academy, $31.50
December 11 Justin Rutledge at Lee's Palace $18
Tickets for all the above shows can be purchased from the kind folks at Rotate This!

Also, those fine Hamiltonians, Arkells, will be slinking across Quebec and my home province, so if you wanna be there to go "HEY-HEY-HEY!" check it out!

November 24: The Belmont in Montreal, Quebec
November 26: Zappa's in Kingston, Ontario
November 27: The Red Dog, Peterborough, Ontario (my all-time favourite!)
December 2: Cowboy's in London, Ontario
December 3: Phoenix Concert Hall, Toronto, Ontario
December 9: The Studio at Hamilton Place, Hamilton, Ontario

TIMBITS
More Canadian music nooz-you-can-use:

• You'd think if you have a great song with a fantastic video featuring Etobicoke's own Dave Foley and a lot of hot ladies in scanty-panties, you could just leave well enough alone. Hollerado puts balls to the walls with this 2010 update, it's got a lot of what the bloganistas call 'buzz', and rightly so...it's more fun than a bucket of Manoticks. It was mentioned in the first show but we had no blog then...
• Reigning idiot-kings Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker were recently chosen as Canada's curators for the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange project, and I hit their going away party with a fresh-from-the-hospital Jenicka Wynne. They just came back from frickin' India, and they're heading back on November 27 to swap with India's party master Nikhil Chinapia. I hope they fill that crate back up with a million more shirts like this one...I'd give my third chakra to lick a mango lassi off that man...whoops...did I type that out loud? Photo credit and love to Jenicka Wynne, who has a billion great pictures on her flickr account right here. We played USS's newest on the show last week, Mavericks, featuring Ashley MacIsaac. The week before we played Sleepy Maggie, but now that you can get the chanson from KT8 on its own or bundled with a t-shirt, we can play the real collabo! Good luck in India, boys, don't trust just any Maharishis...but if you do, be sure to get a great song like Sexy Sadie out of it!
• Rebel Emergency has kept me laughing the last coupla weeks with their updates from the road...The fellers just killed their first cross-Canada tour in true Rebel fashion. Check their twitter or facebook for all the pants-down, ipad pianisting, ear-fisting fun! They'll be having a huge winter show announcement very soon, and I'll let ya know all the deeters as soon as I know 'em! Nothing says Christmas like the smooth Island sounds of Rebel!
  

Be sure to tune in tomorrow at 5 on radio glendon! We should get the podcasts up within the next few weeks!

toques, bongs, and maple syrup,
linda j xoxo