Hoarding It For Home

So far I like the trajectory that the Mates of State tour[check out Kork] is taking. Any chance this duo'll hit Toronto any time soon? I've been reading about them for a while, and have been enjoying lately some mp3's of their organ/drums driven pop music. There's buoyant male/female vocals and the music's (thankfully) less twee than I thought it might be. For more info on the band check out Polyvinyl Record Co. and www.matesofstate.com. The band even has a DVD. [photo from http://../]

Stephen Malkmus' new album "Face The Truth" was released today. To honour the occasion, he did a live session for KEXP today(Tuesday May 24 @ 12:00pm). Check out the session through the streaming archive which you can search by date and time.

Finally, a torrent of The Arcade Fire's show from April 27, 2005 at Danforth Music Hall(the one which I went to!) in Toronto has turned up on purelivegigs.com! Woo-hoo! [link from Largehearted Boy]

The internet presale for the Rufus Wainwright/Ben Folds/Ben Lee show at the Kool Haus in Toronto(scheduled for August 9th), will occur tomorrow through House of Blues at 10 am. Tickets $34.50. Public onsale starts Friday May 27th at 10 am.

To raise awareness of the Niagara Escarpment, Sarah Harmer will undertake a short tour of cities along the Escarpment, the closest date to Toronto being in Burlington, ON at The Great Hall on June 26th. The tour, dubbed the "I Love the Escarpment" tour, will feature Sarah playing acoustic sets and each show'll involve a little hiking. Tickets are $25.00 and more info can be found at Sarah Harmer's website. [info from Soul Shine Magazine]

Aversion talks to Sleater Kinney as they discuss their attempts with their new album "The Woods" to "rebuild the Sleater Kinney sound". If you're reading this post early enough, there will be a profile of the band on CBC Radio Two's Brave New Waves around 12:45 am tonight.

To appease one of my friends(who's not nearly as indie as you or I am, although he did go to The Decemberists show with me over the weekend), I'm sure he'll appreciate Silence Is A Rhythm Too's post offering an mp3 of Amerie's "1 Thing"(Remix featuring Jay-Z). As the kids would say, it's 'dope'. Or maybe that's suppose to be 'sick'? Hmmm.