Burn To Shine

Billboard reported last week that the second volume of the Brendan Canty(of Fugazi)-produced series "Burn To Shine" will be released on August 23rd. If you aren't already familiar with this series, it features a lineup of artists' performing one song each in an empty room of a house which is scheduled for demolition or will be burned to the ground. Each volume of the series has or will be curated by someone familiar with the music scene in the region in question. The first DVD of the series took place in Washington DC and featured such artists as Bob Mould and Ted Leo. The second DVD of the series was filmed in Chicago and featured such artists as Wilco, Tortoise and Freakwater. The filming of the third DVD of the series, which was filmed in Portland, was just completed and is currently being edited and according to The Shins website[Aug 2, 2005 update] is scheduled for a fall release. According to The Shins' wbesite[Aug 2, 2005 update], The Shins recorded "Saint Simon" for the project and other artists involved for the third volume of the series include The Thermals and The Decemberists. You can buy the first volume(and preorder the second volume) here.

Ted Leo will be playing The Underground in Hamilton ON on Sept 30th according to whitey museum over at stillepost. Ted Leo in Toronto on September 29th and in Hamilton on the 30th. Good odds that I'll be going to both!

If you can stand the slow download Thee Silver Mount Zionist is offering up a download of the whole video set of Broken Social Scene live at the 2004 Ottawa Folk Festival. Nine songs in total, and you can download them individually. [download link via Passport Radio]

For the vinyl-challenged, You Ain't No Picasso offers a link(via Secret Unicorns forum) to an mp3 of The Arcade Fire performing the song "Brazil" which is a cover of an Ary Baroso and Ed Russell song and is the B-side to the "Cold Wind" 7-inch single.

Just a reminder, that Feist - Live at the Rehearsal Hall will FINALLY be broadcast on Bravo Canada tomorrow night at 9 PM EST.

My friend and I did manage to make it down to Taste of The Danforth on Saturday night. Missed part of the The Golden Dogs' set and only stayed for about half an hour of Lowest of The Low's set. Lowest of the Low managed to work into one of their songs, The Killers' lyric "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" which was a fun surprise. The crowds were suffocating at times and then in addition to that my friend and I found that the main stage at Danforth Ave. and Logan St. was overrun by a beer garden which was maybe twice as large as previous years and extended all the way to the front of the stage. Oh, and the parking issue this year was ridiculous. It was probably about a 20 minute walk to the car. At least the souvlaki was good. Here are some photos of the bands.