In Ontario, There's A Light Snow Falling Down

For whatever reason, it slipped through my radar that The Pernice Brothers' new disc "Discover A Lovelier You" was released this week. I'm pretty psyched about the band returning(or in Joe's case, coming back home) to Toronto for a show at Lee's Palace on July 18th. thus spake drake has the Cliff Notes(Coles Notes, if you're in Canada) version of The Pernice Brothers' career complete with an 'essential' Joe Pernice playlist he's compiled and which he's synched up with Rhapsody. Bars and Guitars says he'll be posting a review of the new album for Stylus which should be up this week but in the meantime he's posted an mp3 of "My So-called Celibate Life" from the new album which is absolutely wonderful. Check out that echo-ey guitar at the beginning of the song. Kinda reminds me of Aztec Camera, although the vocals are pure Joe. [photo from http://../]

I bought my ticket a couple of days ago for the Teenage Fanclub show at The Mod Club in Toronto on July 25th. In the meantime, The Oak Room points towards an mp3 of a great cover of Teenage Fanclub's "Radio" done by The Comas. It glides along smoothly sounding a bit like a more uptempo Mojave 3, at least until towards the end of the song where things sound a little spacey.

From pop(all love), he says that Feist will be taping a Bravo performance on June 27th, and he grasps the possibility of her attending the Modest Mouse/Broken Social Scene co-headlining show at Olympic Island the day before. Hey, now I'm excited!

View Magazine speaks with consummate sensitive singer-songwriter, Michael Feuerstack, aka Snailhouse.

Here's an interesting article from New Times writer Jordan Harper who takes aim at 2005's most-hyped bands and how we'll see them when the 'hype goggles' are taken off. The Arcade Fire escapes major punishment but only barely. [link from One Louder]

Prefix has Part One of its interview with British Sea Power. Part Two will be posted on their site on Friday.

Finally good news for Lee's Palace concert-goers. As you might notice at the Lee's Palace website, it indicates towards the bottom of the 'Coming Soon' page that "After July 1st, 2005, Door times from SUNDAY to THURSDAY will now be 8:00 PM. They will remain 9:00 PM on FRIDAY n SATURDAY". So I e-mailed Lee's Palace yesterday to clarify if they meant shows would start earlier(ie. Sunday to Thursday, openers on around 9 pm, which it logically follows that headliners would come on earlier than they had in the past) and they responded that, yes, this is the case. Wow, this is really good news! Imagine going to a Lee's Palace show on Sunday night or weeknight and actually getting out a decent time now. No more having to sleep only 4 hours before having to go to work the next morning. I am so psyched!