Spin The Bottle vs. Superball

Lately, I've been wondering about a couple of 90's indie rock gals who by their respective websites are still plugging away to this day, but have been missing in action in the Toronto vicinity for some time. And now I'm getting all misty-eyed for the 1990's indie rock scene:

Long overdue for an appearance in Toronto, Juliana Hatfield currently only has some US east coast tour dates lined up until August 20th. In the meantime, check out Kofi's hat who has available an mp3 of Juliana performing a live cover of Weezer's "Say It Ain't So". Her newest album "Made In China" was just released on August 9th. Along with the gals in Jale, Juliana Hatfield was one of my first(if not the first) indie rock crush I ever had.

Ex-Helium frontwoman and now going by her own name, Mary Timony just confirmed some new tourdates for September, but unfortunately there isn't a Toronto date. The kick in the pants is she's playing some dates with Portastic who will be in Toronto on September 12th at Lee's Palace, but Mary will be playing her own shown in Akron, Ohio that day. In the meantime, she does mention that a new mp3[well, actually it's only streaming audio], of "9X3", from her latest album "Ex Hex", is available over at her MySpace site.

Cuff The Duke make an impression in the maritimes with a cover story in this week's issue of Halifax weekly, The Coast.

Here are mp3's of a recent live radio session by The Constantines. [thanks to suckingalemon for pointing me towards the Livejournal Constantines Community] If you read my reply(today's date) in this thread, I'm a little hesistant to believe that The Cons will be in Toronto in October opening for The New Pornographers. Pollstar is notorious, at least in my experience, for having inaccurate info, and The Cons website doesn't mention an October 9th date in Toronto.

From stillepost, Belle Orchestre return to Toronto with openers Kepler for a record release show at The Drake Hotel on October 14th. BTW, the band's got a spiffy new website, which indicates that their record entitled "Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light" will be released August 22nd through Rough Trade in North America and the UK.

Raul Malo(of The Mavericks) will be at El Mocambo in Toronto on October 15th. The Mavericks were one of those country bands who were accepted by Nashville but at the same time had an outsider quality which was quite appealing to me. Drawing their influences from Buddy Holly, classic country, mariachi bands and so forth they were one of the first country bands that really interested me. I think I got a Mavericks best-of CD somewhere. I'll need to dig that up sometime. I'm highly going to consider checking out Mr. Malo in October. [tour date info from Pollstar]

Doves will be hitting the road for a North American fall tour including a date in Toronto, at you guessed it, The Docks on September 30th. Ugh. I've noticed the string of 'good' bands that The Docks have managed to snag for themselves. I'm assuming they've managed to hire a booker with taste. I salute you whoever you are, but at the same time, damn you. I hate The Docks...the sightlines in the club, parking costs, public transit issues. Shall I go on? [tour date info from More Cowbell]

chartattack(via NME) reports on Grandaddy's plans to release a mini-album on October 3rd entitled "Excerpts From The Diary Of Todd Zilla" as well as a new still-untitled album which is planned for release in early 2006.