Count Down Our Days

NOW gives Fembots' new album "The City" 5 N's out of 5. Reviewer Sarah Liss expresses, "Gone are the gimmicky sound effects and tape loops; in their place, Dave Mackinnon and Brian Poirier focus on impeccable songwriting, dedicating a wistful love letter to a battered and broken-down Toronto."

I've been listening to their first album lately, and I honestly found the sound effects and tape loops distracting. They were much more assured sounding when they let a nice little melody shine through, like on the The The(during his Hank Williams Sr. phase)-sounding tune "Ice Cream". I really enjoyed Fembots when I saw them perform at last year's Gobsmacked Festival down at Harbourfront as well as when they opened for Sarah Harmer at Lee's Palace last year during NXNE. As a reminder, the band's doing an in-store at Soundscapes on September 6th at 6 pm. I'll likely head down to this after work. Check out their website for more tour date information.

You can listen to audio of their snazzy new single "Count Down Our Days" as well as other Fembots songs over at New Music Canada.

Here's an older clip of the band performing "Broken and Blue" live on ZeD.(Note: to view video, click on 'Collaboration' tab, then click on the .ram file.)
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Now and The Toronto Star[bugmenot] speak with Sons and Daughters. I am loving their debut album "The Repulsion Box". I'll be seeing them at Lee's Palace on Labour Day, September 5th.

Check out this Japanese website on The Arcade Fire which in addition to having the animated videos for "Neighbourhood #4(Power Out)" and "Neighbourhood #2(Laika)", also has for your streaming pleasure live concert videos of each song. [via Just Keep Bloggin']

The Dandy Warhols will be at The Mod Club on September 11th. [from Pollstar]

The New Pornographers will appear on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on September 16th! [via The Georgia Straight]

The Westender and The Georgia Straight speak with Brazilian Girls who are currently on tour in North America on the west coast[Vancouver @ Red Room on September 7th] before heading to the midwest and east coast in October. No Toronto dates lined up at the moment.