The Bones Of An Idol

The New Pornographers performed live on WFMU yesterday. The radio station has a blog called WFMU's Beware of the Blog which has links to streaming audio of the performance as well as a download of a video clip from the set. Neko Case wasn't there unfortunately but will be joining the group later on in the tour; joining in on vocals was Carl Newman's niece Kathryn Calder who was making her first radio appearance and second ever live performance with the band. I still haven't made up my mind whether it's worth enduring the horrendous Docks Nightclub in Toronto to see The New Pornographers play there on October 9th. [photo at left is a still taken from the video clip of a performance of the band on WFMU]

More New Pornographers' mp3 goodness over at So Much Silence, who has an mp3 of "The Bones Of An Idol" off the new album "Twin Cinema" which is being released August 23rd.

Thank to Just Keep Bloggin' for the heads up that an October Canadian tour is in the works. After rereading that Pitchfork article about that Bright Eyes tour I noticed that both Feist and The Magic Numbers will be opening for Bright Eyes when that tour hits Buffalo on November 21st.

Some concert announcements: Weird War will be at Sneaky Dee's on October 1st.[via Pollstar] Nashville Pussy will be at Lee's Palace on October 6th.[via emergelive] And finally, word's out at stillepost that Architecture in Helsinki will FINALLY come to Toronto on October 1st at a venue TBA! (yes, that last one deserved an exclamation mark!)

Here's a torrent(registration required) of a live show of Broken Social Scene on March 18, 2004 at Emo's in Austin, TX.