It's Not Your Day To Shine

Spring is in the air and news of recent indie record label signings are starting to sprout. Aversion reports that tween sister indie-rock duo Smoosh have joined the Barsuk roster while chartattack reports that Hamilton, Ontario's Sailboats Are White haved signed with UK's Alan McGee-run Poptones label. I'm happy for Smoosh, in particular, although I'm still miffed that before they'd hit the 'big-time'(back in 2004), I'd e-mailed their dad who was running their website, and requested a free CD(I think it was a CD-R at the time, because it was even before Smoosh had their record deal with indie label Pattern 25) and I never got it. Ok, I won't hold it against them. They're still going through that awkward puberty phase vocally, but their stripped down pop tunes show potential. Smoosh open for Eels at The Mod Club in Toronto on June 17th.

Sweet Static points out that The Super Friendz' Charles Austin recently released his first solo effort under the moniker Lost Wax Guild. Download his song "Sleep Will Come For You".

Those noisy and so likeable Torontonians, The Creeping Nobodies are having a CD Release Party on June 2nd at Horseshoe Tavern.

According to Camera Obscura's website, they will be going on a UK tour in June and a US tour in July. I'm presuming that the US tour will include at least a few Canadian dates.

Via Arts & Crafts Broken Telephone forums, I came across a link to Schedule Two who are hosting some decent quality video clips of Jason Collett live at The Fine Line in Minneapolis, MN, on January 29th, 2006. Check out the clip of him and Feist performing "Hangover Days"!

More Feist can be found at rbally who is hosting an mp3 download of a live show of Feist at Park West in Chicago. [via The Rawking Refuses To Stop]

Finally check out Feist fansite All Things Feist who are hosting a bunch of great Feist rarities and sessions for download.

I totally LOVE NPR for posting mp3 downloads of the Neko Case and Martha Wainwright sets from their show recently on April 9th at 9:30 Club in Washington, DC.

BBC 6 Music's Dream Ticket with Clare McDonell rebroadcast yesterday The Concretes' live acoustic BBC 6 Hub session they performed for the radio station in September 2004. Listen here(session is around 2 hours and 20 minutes into the program; program only archived for a week.) Photos from the session here. The Concretes will be in Toronto on May 4th for a show at Horseshoe Tavern. This will be awesome.