2009 Ontario Virgin Music Festival ( Lineup Announced )

Posted on | July 14, 2009 | No Comments

At long last, the Ontario (not Toronto’s) Virgin Music Festival lineup
has been unveiled.

It shall go down August 29-30.

Goodbye Toronto Islands Park, hello Burl’s Creek! which is near Orillia,
Ontario, down highway 400, an hour trek from downtown Toronto … or so
i’m told.

The reason for the move?

“We’ve always wanted to bring the European festival experience to Canada,”
says Virgin Festival director Andrew Bridge. “[Virgin President] Richard
Branson has always told us, ‘you guys throw a great party, it’s just too
bad you can’t do camping.'”

Here’s the lineup (with more to be announced in the coming weeks):

Saturday, August 29

Pixies
Franz Ferdinand
Ben Harper & The Relentless7
Paolo Nutini
Grizzly Bear
Mates Of State
Sloan
Lights
Plants & Animals
Down With Webster
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Iglu & Hartly
Anjulie
Candy Coated Killahz

Sunday, August 30

Nine Inch Nails
Pet Shop Boys
Our Lady Peace
N.E.R.D.
Cold War Kids
Mute Math
Mew
Thunderheist
Coeur De Pirate
The Von Bondies
Datarock
HyperCrush
Trouble Andrew
Silver Starling
The D’Urbervilles
Sean Kingston
Melanie Fiona
The New Cities

Pretty eclectic lineup fo’ sure.

The biggest draws for me and i’m sure most of the people who
will show up this year will be NIN (their last show on Canuck
soil) and Pixies. Franz Ferdinand, Grizzly Bear, Sloan, Mute
Math, Mew … are bands I’d see headline a show any day of the week.

Now, as for the whole camping situation? gotta say, not my favorite
thing to do but it would be something interesting to experience.
More interesting will be to see how many people will actually
go for it and rough it out with thousands of their fellow Virgin-goers.

Each camp sites will cost you 100$ for 2 days (135$ for 3).
Get the lowdown here.

Virgin as also provided a list of hotels near the site where you can
set up shop.

There will be shuttles leaving from the Barrie Bus Terminal to get
to the festival site.


Weekend Passes are 99$ and the VIP Weekend Passes will set you back
275$ bones.

They go on sale this Saturday @ Noon.

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MVs Collection #07

Posted on | July 12, 2009 | No Comments

St. Vincent – “Actor Out Of Work”

St. Vincent (a.k.a. Annie Clark) sitting in a big, empty hangar, actors all
lined up to audition for her. She stares them down one by one as they cry
into submission. Directed by Terri Timely.

Miss Clark will be in town August 7th playing @ La Sala Rossa.

Emiliana Torrini – “Jungle Drum”

A soundstage created jungle mixed with crazy outfits. Wackiness ensues.
Directed by Price James.

Emiliana will be @ the Cabaret Music Hall August 13th.

The Veils – “The Letter”

A very simple performance video for the first single off their new
album “Sun Gangs” and one of my favorite songs of the year so far.
Directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.

Catch them @ La Sala Rossa July 28th! part of the “In The City”
portion of the Osheaga Music Festival.

Grandaddy – “The Crystal Lake”

There’s already two videos out (“I Am Lost” and “It’s The Weekend”)
for Jason Lytle’s just released debut solo album “Yours Truly, The Commuter”
but I chose this video instead as it is one of my favorites
from his Grandaddy days, which is off their 2000 breakout album
“The Sophtware Slump”. Directed by Jake & Jim.

Jason shall be here tomorrow night playing @ the Petit Campus.

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Hope Sandoval Breaks Her Silence. Releases New Album.

Posted on | July 9, 2009 | No Comments

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Through The Devil Slowly
September 29, 2009
Nettwerk

Tracklist:

01. Blanchard
02. Wild Roses
03. For The Rest Of Your Life
04. Lady Jessica And Sam
05. Sets The Blaze
06. Thinking Like That
07. There’s A Willow
08. Trouble
09. Fall Aside
10. Blue Bird
11. Satellite

Official Website
MySpace
Facebook

Here’s something I never thought I’d blog about … a new Hope Sandoval
album.

That’s right kids! and it only took her 8 years to make it happen.

She’s either a total perfectionists (hence the long wait) or she’s
a hardcore slacker which would make us kindred spirits.

But mostly according to this Rolling Stone write-up about the new
album, she’s got no concept of time: “I don’t really notice the
time,” says Sandoval coyly. “We don’t keep track of the days and
months. And the years.”

This new album is with her band The Warm Inventions which includes
Colm Ó Cíosóig, drummer and a founding member of My Bloody Valentine,
who co-wrote and produced the album with Hope much like they did with
their very much underrated 2001 debut album “Bavarian Fruit Bread”.

The Warm Inventions will hit the road this fall, doing a few shows
here and in Europe. Hope is well known for being a notoriously shy
performer onstage so for her to hit the road like that, it’s an
event no to be missed.

The first single “Blanchard” will be released August 4th.

( MP3 ) Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – “Blanchard”

You can pre-order it on Amazon.

She’ll also appear as a guest vocalist on the new Massive Attack
record tentatively titled “Weather Underground” coming out in October.

But the biggest news of all from that RS article is that Mazzy Star
is working on a new album. Their last release was 1996’s “Among My Swan”
but they’re mostly known for their classic 1993 album “So Tonight That I
Might See” which featured dream pop/slowcore gems like “Fade Into You”
and my all-time favorite “Into Dust”.

“It’s true we’re still together,” she says. “We’re almost finished
[with the record]. But I have no idea what that means.”

Let’s hope she and her Mazzy Star partner David Roback figures it out.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – “Suzanne”

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Post-Rockers Caspian Back With New Album

Posted on | July 4, 2009 | No Comments

Caspian
Tertia
August 11, 2009
Mylene Sheath Records

Tracklist:

1. Mie
2. La Cerva
3. Ghost of the Garden City
4. Malacoda
5. Epochs in DMaj
6. Of Foam and Wave
7. Concrescence
8. The Raven
9. Vienna
10. Sycamore

Official Website
MySpace
Facebook
Twitter

Post-rock enthusists Caspian are back with the release of their 2nd album
titled “Tertia” which comes out August 7 in all of Europe and 4 days
later here in North America.

At 10 tracks and just about an hour of new intrumental music, giving us
post rock lovers quite the bang for our bucks.

They’ve often been compared to Austin‘s Explosions In The Sky and rightly
so as both bands creates similar sonic, atmospheric landscapes and in love
with distorted chords, feedback and big, bombastic crescendos but I just
feel that Caspian has that extra Oomph in them with an added shoegazian
dissonance that EitS lacks.

Much like EitS, Caspian must be experienced live. You’ll get a chance
to at the end of August as an Northeast mini-tour is in the works in conjuncture
will the album’s release. Then on to Europe for 6 weeks starting at the beginning of September.

Here’s a track from the new album titled “Of Foam And Wave”.

( MP3 ) Caspian – “Of Foam And Wave”

You can pre-order the album here. They’ve also posted a trailer
promoting “Tertia” on YouTube.

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Osheaga 2009: Some More bands Added to The Lineup

Posted on | July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

As the day of reckoning approaches.

only a month away.

Satuday, August 1st

Montreal band The Stills, Toronto‘s electro synth lovers Woodhands and quirky
chanteuse Jesca Hoop have been added to the the lineup.

Sunday, August 2nd

Brooklyn‘s Amazing Baby who recently were in town opening for Phoenix and
Manotick, Ontario‘s own Hollerado have been added to the lineup.

As for the “In The City” portion of the festival going down July 28th to
the 31st, the schedule has been locked in.

July 28: The Veils, who will surely perform songs from their most excellent
new album “Sun Gang” will be @ La Sala Rossa with Foreign Born and Faces
On Film opening. Tickets can be purchased here.

July 29: A free show! by Montreal metalheads Priestess @ the legendary
Foufounes Électriques (or electric asscheeks for you non-french speakers)
venue. It on a first come, first served basis so arrive early.

July 30: French electro hip hoppers Omnikron who’s ode to our delicious,
heart clogging national dish “Danse La Poutine” swept the Quebecois nation last
summer will be @ L’olympia with fellow Montrealers Misteur Valaire opening.
In collaboration with MEG. Here. Tickets. Buy.

July 31: Montreal electro funkers Think About Life with T.O.‘s DD/MM/YYYY
@ Le National. 15$ gets you in.

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