Coax Me, Cajole Me

Sloan and controller.controller performed a free show for University of Toronto frosh last Friday afternoon. It wasn't difficult at all for non-students to see the show; they weren't checking ID's or anything. I headed down to the show after work but unfortunately missed controller.controller's set. So really at this stage of my Sloan fandom, a Sloan show is a Sloan show is a Sloan show. It was a good set all around, hearing all the old 'classics' like "Underwhelmed", "Coax Me", "People of The Sky", "The Lines You Amend", and "The Good In Everyone", and newer 'hits' like "The Rest Of My Life", "All Used Up", and "The Other Man". I was glad to hear some songs that I'd never heard them perform live including "False Alarm"(from "Action Pact") and the new-wave pop of new song "Try To Make It"(from "A sides win"). Best Chris Murphy moment: when he quoted Matthew McConaughey's character's infamous line from "Dazed and Confused" but changed it to say something along the lines of "We get older, but the universities get younger and younger..." :-)[photos from the show]
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UK's The Magic Numbers will finally come to Toronto for a show at Lee's Palace on December 1st. [from Pollstar]

Always putting on a good show, hometown boys The New Deal return to The Mod Club in Toronto for a show on October 7th. Tickets, $20, onsale Saturday Sept 17th.

Tickets for Echo and The Bunnymen's show in Toronto at the ritzy The Carlu also go onsale September 17th at the usual outlets.

Openers for Feist's two shows at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on October 17th and 18th have been announced. Jason Collett will be playing both shows. In addition, recent Arts & Crafts signee, Australia's New Buffalo will play the October 17th show and Apostle of Hustle will play on the 18th. [last three items via emerge]

Feist performed a live session this morning for KEXP who are in New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon. The trumpet on "Gatekeeper" is a beautiful touch. She also performed "When I Was A Young Girl", "Mushaboom", and "Let It Die". Listen to the session through the 14-day streaming archive(Tuesday September 13, 11:00am).

A post over at the Arts & Crafts Broken Telephone forums says you can currently watch Canadian indie videos on Rogers on Demand. Yes, I confirmed it. They have videos from Broken Social Scene, Stars, Metric, controller.controller and others. Check it out if you have Rogers Digital Cable.

Here's a torrent(registration required) of a live show of The Arcade Fire on 08.30.05 in Liverpool @ Carling Academy. [via Largehearted Boy]

Fuck. Ear To The Ground has been cancelled. The reason. The reaction.