Set Yourself On Fire

Fresh from an appearance at Sunday's Olympic Island concert in Toronto, Stars headed to the U.K. to perform a live session for BBC 6 Music's Gideon Coe yesterday[June 28th]. They performed awesome acoustic rentions of "You Ex-Lover Is Dead" and "Ageless Beauty". Check out the archived program here[fast forward to around the 20:40:00 mark to hear the live session]. Note: I believe I've been giving incorrect info about the Eastern Standard Time broadcast times for the live sessions which I'd previously indicated as 8:40 pm London, England time(2:40 pm EST). Actually the Gideon Coe site indicates the broadcast time of the program is Weekdays 1000 - 1300, which is 10 am to 1 pm London time, making the EST broadcast time of the program more like 4 am to 7 am[and therefore the time of the live sessions being 6:40 am]. Hmmm, sorry for the confusion. With this new info in mind it's a wonder how the members of Stars ever got over the jet lag to perform the live session yesterday. [photo from Splendid]

Like an episode of "24", but over an 8 hour period, Stuart Berman of eye gives a rundown of the Modest Mouse/Broken Social Scene and friends love-in at Olympic Island over the weekend.

chartattack speaks with Keren Ann about her wandering ways.

Former Lush conspirator Emma Anderson and her new partner in crime Lisa O'neill, who together are Sing Sing, will be performing a live session for Gideon Coe tomorrow June 30. On a related note, you can download an mp3 of Sing Sing's new single "Lover" over at their official website[under 'Downloads']. Finally, their new album drops on July 11th[although I believe only in the U.K.]. You can ask the ladies questions here if you like.

So it's come to my attention through stillepost.ca that Matt Murphy and his new band City Field have a new website...ok, more like a webpage. City Field return to the Silver Dollar in Toronto for a show tomorrow night. Check out the band's New Music Canada page for song samples. "Pretenders", highly recommended.

Sebadoh's Jason Lowenstein will be coming to Toronto for a show at Lee's Palace on July 19th. Opening the show will be Neva Dinova. [from Rotate This]

Pitchfork reports on Death Cab For Cutie's new album "Plans" which is due August 30th through Warner. Go to Pitchfork for the tracklisting. The band's apparently in the process of organizing a North American tour for later this fall.