That's When the Ceremony Starts

If I had hosting space, I'd want to post an mp3 of The Fiery Furnaces' song "Here Comes The Summer". I just picked up the The Fiery Furnaces' "EP". It has 10 tracks with over 40 minutes of music so it's more of an EP in name rather than length. But, to get to my point, I'd like to say that "Here Comes The Summer", in all its Abba-esque pop glory(or is that Blondie?), is the first great song of 2005!

The Hidden Cameras are in the midst of a short tour which, as we speak, brings them to the west coast of Canada and the U.S. for a series of dates. The band'll make their way back home with a stop in Chicago on February 17th. On February 26th(between 2-5pm), to celebrate the release of The Hidden Cameras' 10" "The Arms of his 'ill'", there will be a special event hosted by Art Metropole(788 King St. W., 2nd floor, Toronto). Artists Paul P., GB Jones, Luis Jacob, Will Munro, and Daryl Vocat who designed the cover of the apparently "beautifully illustrated" 10" will be on hand and The Hidden Cameras' Joel Gibb will be performing a special acoustic set.[photo from http://../]

So its with some sadness that I read in the recent issue of eye that Mr. John Sakamoto's The Anti-Hit List" will no longer be running in eye but will be moving to the A&E section of the Saturday edition of The Toronto Star. Does this mean that, at the very least, The Toronto Star will be publishing "The Anti-Hit List" on-line for our foreign readers? Well, I hope so.

Further news from the Ben Folds site: Ben Folds will appear as a special guest on the Steve Earle radio show "the revolution starts now" which airs on 'Air America' this Sunday night, January 30th at 10pm EST. You can listen online at airamericaradio.com if you don't live in the U.S. Also, Ben Folds Five's classic album "Whatever And Ever Amen" is being reissued on March 22nd with 7 bonus tracks.

I want to get this CD compilation that Urban Outfitters is releasing in conjunction with filter magazine. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to the UNICEF Tsunami Relief Fund. It will be sold exclusively at the 70 Urban Outfitter retail locations in the U.S. and on the companies web site at URBN.com. Apparently, there's an UO at 235 Yonge St. in Toronto. I wonder if they'll have it?

How long has that splash page been up at Feist's web site? Beautiful pictures of Leslie Feist with a high-quality audio stream of "Inside and Out" in the background. Yummy.

Update: The Arcade Fire will appear on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on Tuesday February 1, 2005. [from arcadefire.net]