Heaven Is Eux Autres

My favourite musical discovery of 20052006(of a band whose been around at least since 2004), Eux Autres, have confirmed a show in Toronto at Rancho Relaxo on June 16th, with openers Ratiscule, Terror Lake and one more act TBA[via Stille Post]. As I mentioned previously, I've been looking forward to this show as well as the rerelease of their debut album "Hell Is Eux Autres" through Grenadine Records. Go to the band's MySpace site. Listen to "Other Girls". I swear you'll be in heaven.

The NXNE website now has a preliminary listing of bands for this year's festival. So I don't recognize a good 75% of the bands but I'm still psyched for the festival and to discover some new artists. I can already imagine the griping that'll occur because of this year's lineup for NXNE. Oh well. I say, save your pennies and go to SXSW next year.

The Fiery Furnaces return to Toronto for a show at Phoenix on June 7th. The previous day they'll be in Montreal at Theatre National and then on June 12th will be in Vancouver at Richard's on Richards. Update: Emerge left a comment saying the tour date info is incorrect. The band's website does list the Vancouver date, but not the June 6th(Montreal) or 7th(Toronto) dates.

Instrumental indie supergroup, Hylozoists are scheduled for an instore at Soundscapes in Toronto on June 20th[This and the previous item from ads I saw in the paper version of the new issue(May 2006) of Exclaim!].

Red Hot Chili Peppers are going on tour in North America starting in August through to November and will be in Toronto for a show at Air Canada Centre on September 25th[via More Cowbell].

Looking further ahead into the future, those masked art-punks, Clinic will be at Lee's Palace on October 6th[via Chromewaves].

Pitchfork reports on Sub Pop's upcoming DVD music video compilation entitled "Acquired Taste" which will be released on May 9th and will feature 25 music videos from artists from its roster including Canandians, The Constantines, Chad VanGaalen, Wolf Parade, and Hot Hot Heat. Pitchfork has a tracklisting.

City Field is streaming(and has available for download) a new song, "Linda's Hair", streaming over at their MySpace site.

I'm not a comic book geek by any stretch, but I am looking forward to reading the new Marvel Comics series "Civil War". The first part of the seven part series comes out today. NPR spoke with Joe Quesada, Marvel Comics' editor in chief and comic book writer Paul Jenkins about civil liberties and national security in the Marvel Universe. NPR also has a preview of the first seven pages of the series(available in Adobe Acrobat format).