Digging Thru The Vaults

Unfortunately, I didn't end up going to the Final Fantasy, Gentleman Reg, The Two Koreas show down at Lee's Palace; I'm trying to work off a nagging cough and I just wasn't in the mood to try to get a ticket at the door. What's left to do but to blog? So, over the last couple of days I've been doing a little house cleaning, going through junk and clothes, throwing things out, recycling others and it's interesting(and also gratifying) for what I've come across. Finally, I found my Coachella 2004 t-shirt and my PJ Harvey "Uh Huh Her" t-shirt, although my search for my Neko Case and Belle and Sebastian t-shirts continues. Came across some old Eye Weekly and NOW newspapers from several years back I'd saved featuring pretty cover shots of Jeff Tweedy, The New Pornographers, Sarah Harmer, The Sadies and others. [Actually, am I the only one that actually saves Exclaim! issues? I think I have almost every issue for the last 3 or 4 years, maybe longer, and I keep them in bankers boxes, neatly labeled. Well, I'm not so anal to actually have them ordered - I'm not that weird.] It's interesting to look back on some of those Eye Weekly and NOW issues. It's funny to see old concert ads for shows I might have not blinked twice at 5 years ago but would be salivating over now if the same lineup played today. For example, The New Deal, Ivana Santilli, and Feist played the Reverb as part of Canadian Music Week in 2000. Holy shit. While Neko Case is scheduled to peform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 9th, I discovered reading an old newspaper article I came across, that Ms. Case performed on the now defunct Canadian late night talk show Open Mike with Mike Bullard in May 2000. (Anyone have video of that?) I still have a heap of things to go through, throw out, recyle and what have you, but what started out as work is now starting to be fun. Next stop after this: weeding out my mountain of a CD collection.

Art Brut's show at Horseshoe Tavern on April 1st and Love Is All's show at Lee's Palace on March 21st both go on sale tomorrow.

Seu Jorge will be performing at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto on June 30th. [via The Windish Agency]

Just Keep Bloggin' points towards some hot Feist remixes.

BrooklynVegan was impressed this time around with Feist's recent show at Webster Hall and he has some photos from the show, which included Jason Collett as opener. As BrooklyVegan writes, Jason and Leslie sang BSS song "Major Label Debut" as the last song of Feist's encore and he says that closetOCFan has the audio[ie. mp3].

The New York Times reviews the same Feist/Jason Collett show that BrooklynVegan went to .

Yer Mam! attended Broken Social Scene's recent show on February 14th at Manchester Academy 2 in the UK. He was impressed if only for this following quote of his:

"I wanted more mini indie-rock symphonies. I wanted more of guitarist Andrew Whiteman's cool-as-fuck theatrics. I wanted more of Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning's affable banter. More of everything. Seriously, I'll level with you here, last night was just one of those gigs. Up there with Spiritualized at Glastonbury in '98, Radiohead at Glasto in '97 and Arcade Fire in Manchester last year as one of those concerts that just reaffirms your faith in the glorious power of music. The crowd were a bit static and wanky but BSS were just perfect."