Touch Me I'm Sick

Ugh. I've been sick all weekend with alot of chest congestion and had to call in sick to work today. I tried going skiing on Saturday with a friend but couldn't make it past an hour and a half. Methinks I shouldn't have gone in the first place, but I'm stubborn that way sometimes. At least have a week to rest up until Belle and Sebastian and The New Pornographers at The Docks this coming Saturday.

Here's a bunch of concert announcements of bands I've heard of(but have heard little of their music):

Arab Strap w/ A Whisper In The Noise will be at Lee's Palace on April 4th [via Ground Control Touring]

Wilderness @ El Mocambo on April 15th [via Rotate This]

Action Action, Morningwood, The Sounds @ The Opera House on April 16th [via Pollstar]

Minus The Bear @ Lee's Palace April 23rd [via Pollstar]

Comet Gain are no longer playing The Gossip show at X-Space in Toronto on March 29th according to a post at Stille Post. Dammit.

It's a long-shot prediction(but entirely in the realm of possibility), but Mates of State's(who are currently on the road with Maria Taylor) website has a TBA tourdate scheduled for April 8th(the day after they play Detroit, and the day before they head to Cleveland) and I'm predicting a Toronto date just because I've been pining for a Toronto date ever since May 2005.

Listen(scroll down to January 29, 2006) to Jason Collett's archived live session he performed for MPR: The Current on January 29, 2006 when he performed wonderful versions of "Feral Republic", "Over Days", and "We All Lose One Another", with his backing band, Paso Mino. Jason gave props to his backing band and also spoke about his suburban upbringing.

There's an archived video of a performance by Stars on RTE Television(from Ireland). Anyone get the video to work? [via Arts & Crafts Broken Telephone Stars forum]

The new official The Fall website is expected to launch this week.