Just learned how to make GIFS, so for the learning process I decided to work with faces I never seem to sicken of. The clips are taken from the ridiculous 'USS Cooks and Cleans', which is available for your perusal here.

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.

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.

NEW SEASON BABY! (And I don't mean winter...)

Hey Canafriends! Stay tuned, new season of Cantastic Voyage starts veddy veddy soon. Follow us on twitter @cantasticvoyage OR follow your girl LJP @lindiglo to stay posted on show times. It's gonna be the best season ever! YYYYYYYYEAH!

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

The Radness of Shad!

Playlist for January 17, 2011
Son the Father by Fucked Up
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by Crash Test Dummies feat. Ellen Reid
The Ballad of Hugo Chavez by the Arkells
Good Day at the Races by Hollerado (live)
Live Forever by Dallas Green and Shad
Electric City feat. Shad by Grand Analog
Black Hand by Cadence Weapon
Challenge by Japanther
Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole by USS
Oublie Pas by Karkwa
Ironic by Alanis Morrissette
Make Out by Jesse Matheson and the Midnight Snacks
Baby by Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris
Check the O.R. by Organized Rhyme

Yikes, what a tasty week! As always we brought you all over this great country bringing you aural pleasures from coast to coast.

Music Notes:

• This week was the debut of Hollerado's newest "Good Day at the Races". It's off their newest, "Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning" which is available at their shows on vinyl with a free bottle of hot sauce. Perfect for nachos. Mmmm. For a free download of some golden oldies, "Juliette" and "Fake Drugs" head over to their website.
• Shad rules! Shadrach Kabango was born in Kenya but grew up in London, Ontario. We played two tracks featuring this tasty dude--one with Dallas Green, and one with Grand Analog. He shines on both tracks and you should deffo check em out. Click either link in the playlist to hear the songs. The DG track is raising money for Skate 4 Cancer. Shibby. Not the last you'll be hearing from him on the show, that's a straight up guarantee. Shad'll be playing The Indies this Canadian Music Week along with fellow CV darlings Hollerado. WHEW!
• USS has been teasing with dispatches from the studio. Follow the Twitter as you wait for the next record...