Poll Position

pop(all love) posted yesterday the results of what he's entitled The Second Annual Pop (All Love) Canadian Music Bloggers Year-End Poll Thingy. A number of us Canadian music bloggers were polled for our top 4 Canadian albums of the year, so for the record, my list was as follows(I was gonna do this originally all nice with album cover art, comments, mp3 links but I'm lazy today; maybe I'll update the post later):

1. The New Pornographers - "Twin Cinema"
2. The Diableros - "You Can't Break The Strings In Our Olympic Hearts"
3. The Fembots - "The City"
4. Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene"

In response to my post last Friday, suckingalemon(over at brokensocialite) and Out Of The Archives have both graciously provided an mp3 rip of Stars' recent live cover of The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" which they performed recently for BBC 6 Music's Gideon Coe on December 9, 2006.

Torr further spreads the holiday cheer with his own Christmas music mix.

Hard-Fi will make their Toronto debut at Horseshoe Tavern on January 20th in the new year. [via Emerge]

The Christian-oriented indie-rockness of Danielson have always been a curiosity. I'd heard them back in the 90's and couldn't get past the vocalist's voice but I think I want to give 'em a second chance. They already have two Toronto dates scheduled for the new year, first for May 6th and then August 2nd, both dates venue TBA. [via Kork]

So I got one of those e-mail updates from Billions and read the following(which I've copied and pasted below):

"The New Pornographers have cranked it up another notch with the release of Twin Cinema, their strongest and best-selling record in a catalog of stellar efforts. Their live draw has continued to grow exponentially and they just performed on NBC’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien. Catch their infectious show on the road with Belle and Sebastian early in 2006."

Did I read that last line correctly? OMG. Belle and Sebastian AND The New Pornographers on the same bill. I hope to God they mean North American(and especially Canadian) tour dates.