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)

Lineup

Happy Record Store Day! Get the hell out of the house, take you wallet and buy a record or two and help out the local economy. P4K has a great guide to check out. I’m in Boston now hunting for the Jay Reatard/Sonic Youth split 7′. Giddy Up!

It’s September 21^st 1991, Nevermind will be released in three days, Nirvana is playing Foufounes Electrique to a less than half full house most of whom are there to see the opening act The Melvins. That is according to Rob Campbell, lighting technician at the venue. No one could have known that in a few short weeks Nirvana would be the biggest band in the world. (even though many people would later claim they knew exactly that). This is the last time they would ever play in Montreal. Since we were not at the show nor will we ever have the opportunity to cover a Nirvana show ourselves this is as good as it gets. Rob remembers many people coming up to him the following year (after Teen Spirit broke out) saying how they could not believe they missed it. Here we are 18 years later and the energetic underground band that somehow became so huge is no more. What we have now are journals, action figures, and a new Kurt Cobain pre distressed signature series Converse shoe. Which are giving a whole new meaning to the song “Rape Me”. Complete with pages from his journals as the design on one of the shoes. The extremely private Cobain will now have his journals on the sneakers of teens across the land. Not to mention the whole pre packaged grunge look that the band despised… it’s also not very hard to distress a pair of Converse. It seems a lot of Nirvana fans think this is great, I personally don’t because Cobain was very intent on staying true to his punk rock ideals by not endorsing any products while alive. We have pre-packaged grunge get your $100 pre ripped jeans and your designer plaid shirt from GAP to go with your new Kurt Cobain Cons and you’ll be a proper grunge rocker. But you can’t really blame a kid for wanting to buy or wearing these shoes you can only blame really the one person who has control over the Cobain estate. Anyway, Back to the show!

What we have here for you today is a high energy from a great band in their prime. Not the greatest Nirvana show by any means but pretty solid overall. Some memorable moments from this show are the performance of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. This was before it was the bands “hit”. In later years the band hated playing the song because it got so huge. Even going as far as omitting it from several set lists altogether to the dismay of many casual fans I’m sure. But, here we have a great version it was not yet the anthem for Gen X’ers everywhere and you could tell the band was really into playing it live. Krist saying at the beginning of the show how they love playing here in Toronto is a funny moment as is when they introduce Negative Creep three times while going on to play songs that are not Negative Creep.

Anyway there you have it the full show in mp3 format. To quote Rob Campbell “who would have thought three guys that were so wasted would ever sell millions of albums a few months later”.

Nirvana Live @ Les Foufounes Électriques September 21st,  1991

1. Aneurysm
2. Drain You
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit
4. School
5. Sliver
6. Polly
7. Breed
8. About A Girl
9. Scoff
10. Floyd The Barber
11. Blew
12. Negative Creep
13. Been A Son
14. Stain
15. Something In The Way
16. Endless Nameless

Passovah Productions Presents: The D’Urbervilles and Lioness (and Guests) at Divan Orange on Saturday, April 11th.  Check it!

The bands have been announced the 2009 Van’s Warped Tour at Parc Jean Drapeau.  The lineup this year does a switch 360 flip over last years  (I don’t want to live in a world where Angels and Airwaves are headlining a festival). Get your guyliner ready for July 11th, I know I do!

Warped Tour 2009
July 11th @ Parc Jean Drapeau

Ticket Info Here

Lineup:

• 3OH!3
• A Day To Remember
• A Skylit Drive
• Aiden
• Alexisonfire
• Anti-Flag
• Attack Attack
• Bad Religion
• Bayside
• Big D and the Kids Table
• Black Tide
• Breathe Carolina
• brokeNCYDE
• Dance Gavin Dance
• Dear And The Headlights
• Escape The Fate
• Flogging Molly
• Gallows
• I Set My Friends On Fire
• In this moment
• InnerPartySystem
• ivy league
• Jeffree Star
• Less Than Jake
• LIGHTS
• Longway
• Madina Lake
• Meg and Dia
• Millionaires
• NOFX
• Saosin
• Senses Fail
• Shad
• Shooter Jennings
• Silverstein
• Streetlight Manifesto
• TAT
• The Architects
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Exploited
• The Maine
• The White Tie Affair
• There For Tomorrow
• TSOL
• TV/TV
• Underoath
• VersaEmerge
• Westbound Train

Thursday June 4th ( Greenland & GEG Present)
**ALL AGES **
SANTIGOLD
+ Trouble Andrew + Amanda Blank
LE METROPOLIS – 59 ST-CATHERINE
23.50$ + s.c. in advance and 25.00$ at the door,
available at METROPOLIS box office,
CHEAP THRILLS and TICKETPRO.

Biography by Jason Lymangrover (Allmusic.com)

As a solo project with a revolving door of members, the heart and face of Santigold is vivacious frontwoman Santi White. White and John Hill, her former counterpart from ska-punk band Stiffed, use their common backgrounds as production-savvy musicians to make bombastic, bass-oriented songs that fuse punk, reggae, grime, and indie rock with electro. Tribal island rhythms merge with flavorful digital chirps and blips, culminating in an original sound.

 Nevermind the clever title of the post: it’s Golden Isles and Green Go that will perform at the Green Room on Friday, April 10th.   Yowza!

Just noticed that Blue Skies Turn Black announced that Jay Reatard will be playing La Sala Rossa, June 30th. Tickets are $15 and are available online here.

EDITORS NOTE: You may have noticed some site outages over the past few days. I’m doing some nerd shit and moving the site from one webserver to another, a trivial task…… bear with me.

Saturday night locals Black Feelings and Dead Wives with Brooklyn’s Japanther and Ninjasonik tore La Sala Rossa apart.Well I actually didn’t see Dead Wives set since I opted to watch Montreal humble Toronto, but I’ll assume the best. Black Feelings has one of the most energetic bass players I have been. Their sound is thick, dark and worth a listen. Ninjasonik took to the stage pumping The Hold Steady’s Stay Positive. DJ Teen Wolf and Telli Fenderline then proceeded to slay the Montreal crowd, igniting shirtless bros crowd surfing while dancing girlies flooded the stage. Take any chance you can get to see Ninjasonik, tour dates are at their myspace. Finally Japanther took to the stage taking the sweaty crowd to another level. No dancing girls on stage, they followed the bros and started topless stage diving. Their set was short but ferocious, we need more shows like this in Montreal.

For Ears:

Ninjasonik - Art School Girls (Remix)


Ninjasonik - Daylight (Matt & Kim Remix)


Japanther - Um Like Yer Smile Is Totally Ruling Me Right Now

For Eyes:

Ninjasonik - Art School Girls

Japanther - One Hundered Dollars

Japanther - Challenge

Japanther - Cable Babies

Saturday, April 4th :::JAPANTHER (NYC)
NINJASONIK (NYC)
BLACK FEELINGS (MTL)
DEAD WIFE (MTL)20h30
$10 / $12
@ Sala Rossa (4848 St Laurent)
a BSTB and Pirates of the Lachine Canal collaboration
——————-
tickets available at:
http://web.blueskiesturnblack.com/ticket.php?id=532

for more information, visit:
http://www.japanther.com
http://www.myspace.com/japanther
http://www.myspace.com/bfeelings
http://www.myspace.com/deadwifemontreal

ANDREW BIRD
+ A Hawk and a Hacksaw
LE NATIONAL – 1220 ST-CATHERINE
Tickets on Sale FRIDAY December 12th @ NOON:
25.50$ + s.c. in advance and 28.00$ + s.c. at the door,
and available at LE NATIONAL/LA TULIPE Box Office,
and ADMISSION.