It wasn’t swine flu. Good. Turns out singer Brian King had to undergo emergency surgery.

From P4K:

When Vancouver breakouts Japandroids went ahead and canceled nearly three weeks worth of tour dates yesterday due to a medical emergency, it sounded like a pretty serious medical emergency. Turns out singer-guitarist Brian King had to undergo emergency surgery for a perforated ulcer– the same aching malady that claimed the lives of James Joyce and J.R.R. Tolkien, according to our friends at Wikipedia (aka the whole of the world).

Make sure to get your hands on Post-Nothing its probably going to be your favorite record of the summer.

Japandroids Updated Tours Dates:

04-25 Winnipeg, Manitoba - The Lo Pub
04-27 Sudbury, Ontario - Townehouse Tavern
04-29 Hamilton, Ontario - Casbah Lounge
04-30 Guelph, Ontario - E Bar
05-01 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore
05-02 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon #
05-03 Boston, MA - The Great Scott
05-04 Washington, DC  - DC 9
05-06 New York, NY - Pianos
05-07 Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly
05-09 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
05-10 Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
05-12 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
05-13 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
05-14 Fargo, ND - Aquarium
05-15 Regina, Saskatchewan - The Exchange
05-16 Edmonton, Alberta - Brixx Bar
05-20 Victoria, British Columbia - Lucky Bar
05-22 Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore
05-24 George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
05-27 Portland, OR - Holocene
05-28 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern ^
05-29 Los Angeles, CA - Silver Lake Lounge ^
05-31 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar ^
06-02 Dallas, TX - The Cavern
06-03 Austin, TX - Emo’s
06-04 Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
06-05 Minneapolis, MN - TBA
06-06 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
06-07 Winnipeg, Manitoba - The Lo Pub
06-09 Edmonton, Alberta - Brixx Bar
06-25 Calgary, Alberta - Sled Island Festival
06-26 Calgary, Alberta - Sled Island Festival
06-30 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown
07-01 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
07-02 Nashville, TN - The End
07-04 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
07-06 Chapel Hill, NC- TBA
07-07 Philadelphia, PA - TBA
07-08 Washington, DC - TBA
07-10 Brooklyn, NY - Cameo Gallery
07-11 New York, NY - Piano’s
07-12 Boston, MA - Great Scott
07-14 Montreal, Quebec - Club Lambi
07-15 Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Blues Festival
07-16 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
07-20 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
07-21 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
07-23 Boise, ID - Neurolux
07-24/25 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party

* with White Denim
# with You Say Party We Say Die, Immaculate Machine
^ with Happy Hollows

Montreal’s Handsome Furs are currently touring Europe but plan to tour North America this summer. The Montreal show will be at Theatre Plaza July 3rd.

Handsome Furs - You Got Lucky (Tom Petty Cover)

Handsome Furs Tour Dates

May 30 Do Division Street Festival Chicago, IL
Jun 04 Richard’s on Richards Vancouver, BC
Jun 05 Neumo’s Seattle, WA
Jun 06 Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR
Jun 08 Great Amercian Music Hall San Francisco, CA
Jun 09 Cellar Door Visalia, CA
Jun 10 Mother’s Tavern San Luis Obispo, CA
Jun 11 Echo Plex Los Angeles, CA
Jun 12 Chyno Arts Center Scottsdale, AZ
Jun 14 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
Jun 17 Aquarium @ Dempsey’s Upstairs Fargo, ND
Jul 03 Theatre Plaza Montreal , QC
Jul 07 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
Jul 09 Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA
Jul 10 Black Cat Washington, DC
Jul 11 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
Jul 13 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
Jul 14 Earl Atlanta, GA
Jul 15 Exit/In Nashville, TN
Jul 16 Skull Alley Louisville, KY
Jul 17 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
Jul 18 Big Orbit’s Soundlab Buffalo, NY
Jul 19 Ottawa Blues Fest, Ottawa, ONT

Ticket presale info here

Handsome Furs - I’m Confused

[NOTE: Japandroids have since updated there tour schedule here]

Shit, I was pumped for this. Could this be swine flu related?
From P4K:

So bittersweet. Just one day after we awarded crackling Vancouver rawk duo Japandroids a Best New Music honor, the pair have been forced to cancel much of their current North American tour due to illness.

But all is not lost. Rescheduled dates are promised very soon. And look at it this way, now you can spend even more time with their wind-machine-to-the-face debut LP, Post-Nothing, before screaming along with lines like, “We run the gauntlet, must get to France so we can French kiss some French girls!” Half full!

Japandroids:

04-25 Winnipeg, Manitoba - The Lo Pub
04-27 Sudbury, Ontario - Townehouse Tavern
04-29 Hamilton, Ontario - Casbah Lounge
04-30 Guelph, Ontario - E Bar
05-01 Montreal, Quebec - Lambi
05-02 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon #
05-03 Boston, MA - The Great Scott
05-04 Washington, DC  - DC 9
05-06 New York, NY - Pianos
05-07 Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly
05-09 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
05-10 Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
05-12 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
05-13 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
05-14 Fargo, ND - Aquarium
05-15 Regina, Saskatchewan - The Exchange
05-16 Edmonton, Alberta - Brixx Bar
05-20 Victoria, British Columbia - Lucky Bar
05-22 Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore
05-24 George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
05-27 Portland, OR - Holocene
05-28 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock’s ^
05-29 Los Angeles, CA - Silver Lake Lounge ^
05-31 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar ^
06-03 Austin, TX - Emo’s
06-04 Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge

* with White Denim
# with You Say Party We Say Die, Immaculate Machine
^ with Happy Hollows

I would still assume that the Montreal show is still ago with Immaculate Machine at Club Lambi (according Blue Skies Turn Black’s webpage). My back plan will be The Tragically Hip at The Metropolis.

Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
Time: 8:00pm - 11:55pm
Location: Katacombes
Street: 1222 St-Laurent
Bands:

• SNFU
• AB IRATO
• HOLD A GRUDGE
• CROSSBONES
• THE ROTTEN
  

Facebook event here.

A full Sedatives update posted to PunkOttawa today by Sedatives drummer Dave Williams. They have a new LP, a European tour, and a bunch of great shows coming up.

After what seemed like an eternity of recording, mixing, remixing, fighting, making up and hugging it out, the Sedatives LP is done. 11 tracks, engineered by our good pal and Buried Inside guitar whiz Andrew Tweedy with assistance from unofficial fifth Sedative Alex Thurston, mixed by myself (Dave Williams), all at Alex’s Rock Among Us studios (both the original location and the swell new Rock Among Us II studio, built with Alex’s own Jiu-jitsu-ing hands).

The record will be out this summer, and somehow (we’re still reeling from the idea) we managed to get our two favourite labels involved - P.Trash (once again) will be doing the European press and British Columbia’s own Deranged Records will be handling North American duties. Pure insanity. Matt at Doublenaut is currently knee-deep in layout details & guaranteed it’s gonna look incredible.

We’ll be celebrating this historic event with a release party here in our lovely hometown of Ottawa and then shipping off to Germany, Holland & more in September to do things up Euro-style with our pals at P.Trash & Taken By Surprise Records (who will be putting out an EP for us this summer as well) and our tour-bros IDLE HANDS.

We’ve also got some shows coming up in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Sudbury & who knows where else this summer, so come and check out some new songs if you can.

We’ll keep you posted about release dates, artwork, shows & the like as details are confirmed.

Also, it looks like P.Trash will be releasing the LAST COMMUNION record this summer as well…LC will also be coming off an indefinite hiatus to play a handful of shows to mark the occasion. We’ll be playing some tasty new jams to boot.

So come check SEDATIVES out at the Gaga Weekend and/or at Bluesfest and if you’re feeling frisky, fly over to Europe in September for some international fun.

Oh ya, and there are some new tracks up on the ol’ Myspace.

Looks like it’s gonna be a fun, busy-ass summer!

Hope things are terrific.

Dave & Sedatives.

They have quickly become one of the best punk bands around, so check em out.

Have you seen the lineup they have secured for NxNE? Its going to rock and rule…. its garage-tastic…. its lo-fi…. ok enough. The lineup is solid and includes many bands I want to see so you can understand my excitement and the frustration that this fest has to be so far away from me.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, NxNE is like SxSW only in a different direction. The music part of the fest is from June 17th til the 21st and will feature 500 bands in venues throughout the city of Toronto. Of those 500, the current confirmed lineup is:

• AIDS Wolf
• Angela Desveaux
• Arizona
• Awkward I
• Benny Crespo’s Gang
• Black Lips
• Burning Brides
• Experimental Dental School
• Fake Blood
• Film Noir
• Health
• Kill Krinkle Klub
• King Khan & BBQ Show
• Little Girls
• Little Teeth
• Matt And Kim
• Midnight Peacocks
• Mika Miko
• Ninjasonik
• No Age
• Pink Noise
• Svjata Vatra
• The Coathangers
• The Homosexuals
• These Are Powers
• United Steel Workers of Montreal
• Woodpigeon

More info can be found at the NxNE offical website here.

Black Lips @ SXSW from NOW Magazine on Vimeo.

Got an email today from Osheaga informing me of a lineup update:

Since the release of their first album Peace Love Death Metal, Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme´s brainchild has become a formidable force in the rock world. Known for their legendary live shows highlighted by Hughes´ over-the-top stage antics, Eagles of Death Metal come as an incredibly rockin´ addition to Osheaga ´09.

Montreal native Caracol returns to Osheaga Saturday, August 1! For those who may not remember, Caracol paid her first visit to the Osheaga stage back in ´06 as part of the duo DobaCaracol. Armed with her solo debut (L’arbre aux parfums) and a new, yet vintage sound, Caracol is picking up where DobaCaracol left off: 100,000 albums sold worldwide and counting. Not bad for a “local”! We´re looking forward to hearing her fusion of folk, rock-steady, and ukulele live at Osheaga!

Good to see some more rock added with EDM. Also if you are a Twitter-er you can follow Osheaga here, and us (Trendwhore) here.

Since The Habs have become ‘The Humbled’ I’ve lost all interest in the playoffs. So if you want to get out of the house this weekend heres whats up musicwise:

[04.24.09] Friday:

• The Youth Group + Elephant Stone @ Les Saints [info]

[04.25.09] Saturday:

• Ladyhawk + Parlovr @ Divan Orange [info]

[04.26.09] Sunday:

• The Midway State + Envy @ Underworld [info]
• Gavin Rossdale + Suzie McNeil @ Le National [info]

I’ll be hitting up the Ladyhawk/Parlovr show this weekend for real, both bands never ever disappoint. Does Gavin Rossdale still play Bush X songs at his shows?

Thanks to a heads up from MW Music Review who noticed that the Ottawa Bluesfest Lineup is out today. The official Bluesfest website seems to be down so here is some info:

Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest Preliminary Line-up Announcement
Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest organizers today announced that the festival will begin on Wednesday, July 8, with gates opening at 5 p.m., music starting at 6 p.m., and Jeff Beck taking to the Bank of America Stage at 9:30 p.m. Also included on opening night are: Amos the Transparent, Amanda Rheaume, Sergent Garcia, Tympanic, Blue King Brown, Van der Graff Generator, Jon Creeden, and Monkey Junk, with additional acts pending.

source

Ticket Presale Information:

Presale: http://www.capitaltickets.ca/bluesfest/promo
Code : Virgin

Onsale Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at Noon

FESTIVAL PASSPORT &  GOLD CIRCLE SINGLE Day Ticket.
Gold Circle is reserved seating.

GA Single day ticket will be on sale later I guess…

(thanks phR3d)

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