Tonight Osheaga In The City ends and from its ashes Osheaga On The Island will rise. Celebrate the eve of Osheaga with Think About Life, DD/MM/YYYY and Dead Wife tonight at Le National. Tickets are only 15 bucks (get them here).

PARTY DOWN MOTHERFUCKERS!

SET TIMES:

MP3:

Think About Life - What The Future Might Be

The first ever (and hopefully not the last) Wooly Weekend will be going down next Thursday at Theatre Plaza . Teenbeat Takeover has been working night and day for months to get this festival together and for that I’m personally thankful. The garage rock / power pop scene would never have voice in Montreal if it wasn’t for these hard working individuals, lets get out a support rock and fucking roll! Advance tickets are still available here.

Here are some samples of the jams you’ll be hearing next week:

MP3
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream

The Gruesomes - Jack The Ripper

Fortune & Maltese And The Phabulous Pallbearers - Gone Gone Gone

Question Mark and The Mysterians - Tears

The Hypstrz - Shake

The Flakes - Back To School

The Higher State - Not This Time (My Friend)

Just a friendly reminder that the Black Lips will be destroying the Cabaret Juste Pour August 8th with local boys Bloodshot Bill and Demon’s Claws! You can pick up tickets for the show here. Also, there is a new video for Drugs (From 200 Million Thousand [Vice Records]):

From VBS.TV:

Atlanta bubblegum-garage rockers The Black Lips recently fired up their email machine to find a fan-made video for 200 Million Thousand stand-out “Drugs” awaiting them. Like the unsolicited clip for Good Bad Not Evil’s “Bad Kids” — a sly vid that juxtaposed images from The Troubles in Northern Ireland with a bouncing-ball onscreen display of the song’s anarchic lyrics — “Drugs” finds footage from cautionary 70’s Health Class videos playing behind the band’s celebration of youthful hedonism. The Lips gave an eager NME the chance to run the clip early last week. Somehow they already considered it controversial. Guess that’s just par for the course with these guys.

THE BLACK LIPS - DRUGS

Just got back from Newfoundland in time to hear the most excellent news that WAVVES (w/ Ganglians!!!!!!!!) and Titus Andronicus are coming to Montreal this September.

From BV:

WAVVES’ post-surgery plans include almost two months of touring with fellow California band Ganglians (who visited NYC for a pair of shows in July).

The tour will stop in NYC for a show at Santos Party House on Thursday, Sepember 24th and a Todd P show the Friday, Sept. 25th. Tickets for the Santos show are on sale. All dates below…

Wavves - 2009 Tour Dates
Fri 08.28 - San Diego, CA Street Scene
Sat 09.05 - Los Angeles, CA LA Historic State Park w/ FYF Fest
Sun 09.06 - San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Shop *
Sun 09.13 - Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge *
Mon 09.14 - Denver, CO Larimer Lounge *
Tue 09.15 - Lawrence, KS Jackpot Music Hall *
Wed 09.16 - Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry *
Thu 09.17 - Grinnell, IA Gardner Lounge, Grinnel College *
Fri 09.18 - Champaign, IL Pygmalion Music Festival *
Sat 09.19 - Madison, WI Forward Music Festival *
Sun 09.20 - Chicago, IL Chopin Theater (Early All Ages) *
Sun 09.20 - Chicago, IL Empty Bottle (Late 21+) *
Mon 09.21 - Detroit, MI Majestic Cafe *
Tue 09.22 - Toronto, ONT El Mocambo *
Wed 09.23 - Montreal, QC Friendship Cove *
Thu 09.24 - New York, NY Santos Party House *
Fri 09.25 - New York, NY Todd P NYC *
Sun 09.27 - Boston, MA Great Scott *
Tue 09.29 - Philidelphia, PA First Unitarian Church *
Wed 09.30 - Baltimore, MD Ottobar *
Thu 10.01 - Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel *
Fri 10.02 - Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 *
Sat 10.03 - Athens, GA 40 Watt Club *
Sun 10.04 - Atlanta, GA The Earl *
Tue 10.06 - Oxford, MS Proud Larry’s *
Fri 10.09 - Dallas, TX Pastime Lounge *
Sat 10.10 - Austin, TX Emo’s w/ The Soft Pack
Thu 10.15 - Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room *
Fri 10.16 - San Diego, CA Casbah *
Sat 10.17 - Los Angeles, CA Echoplex *
* w/ Ganglians

Also from BV:

NJ’s Titus Andronicus are teaming up with the So So Glos for a fall North American tour that begins and ends in Brooklyn. The tour kicks off on September 2nd at Monster Island Basement, and closes on October 15th with a show at the new Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, which means that venue should be open by then. On September 19th they play a show in Portland that is part of Music Fest NW. On October 14th they play a show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken.

Titus Andronicus - 2009 Tour Dates
Wed 09.02 - Brooklyn, NY Monster Island Basement *
Thu 09.03 - Boston, MA Harper’s Ferry *
Fri 09.04 - Montreal, QC II Motore *
Sat 09.05 - Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern *
Sun 09.06 - Detroit, MI Magic Stick *
Mon 09.07 - Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge *
Tue 09.08 - St. Louis, MO The Firebird *
Wed 09.09 - Iowa City, IA The Mill *
Thu 09.10 - Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre *
Fri 09.11 - Denver, CO Larimer Lounge *
Wed 09.16 - Vancouver, BC Media Club *
Thu 09.17 - Olympia, WA The Northern *
Fri 09.18 - Seattle, WA The Funhouse *
Sat 09.19 - Portland, OR The Doug Fir- Music Fest NW *
Tue 09.22 - San Luis Obispo, CA SLO Art Center *
Thu 09.24 - Los Angeles, CA Echo *
Sat 09.26 - Phoenix, AZ Modified Arts *
Tue 09.29 - El Paso, TX Black Market *
Wed 09.30 - Austin, TX Mohawk *
Thu 10.01 - Houston, TX Mangos *
Sat 10.03 - Birmingham, AL Bottletree *
Sun 10.04 - Memphis, TN Hi-Tone *
Mon 10.05 - Knoxville, TN Pilot Light *
Tue 10.06 - Atlanta, GA 529 *
Wed 10.07 - Athens, GA Caledonia Lounge *
Thu 10.08 - Charlotte, NC Milestone *
Fri 10.09 - Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 *
Sat 10.10 - Charlottesville, VA The Southern *
Sun 10.11 - Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel *
Mon 10.12 - Baltimore, MD The Talking Head *
Tue 10.13 - Philadelphia, PA Barbary *
Wed 10.14 - Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s *
Thu 10.15 - Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory *
* w/ The So So Glos

I’ve been listening to the WAVVES record all summer and every time I hear someone bash on Nathan I think that you have to give that man credit for making an solid album even though he acts like a major douche sometimes. I also feeling bad that Pitchfork raises him with one hand and fucks him with the other. Take that with what you will, both of these shows have excellent potential.

WAVVES tickets here and I expect same for Titus Andronicus later this week.

 What could be better on a lazy summer day than the gentle crooning of soft, breezy tunes?  You guessed it - nothing.  A close second is The Antlers touring in support of their latest album Hospice.  Fresh off signing to Frenchkiss and issuing a second pressing of their album, summer is looking good for these three Brooklyn-ites.

The Antlers

…AND… Frightened Rabbit is hopping over all the way from Scotland to complete the animal theme for the night.  They just played @ the Pitchfork Music Festival, btw.

Frightened Rabbit

This is sure to be a jangly, surf-poppy kind of night.  It all goes down on Thursday, July 23rd at Le Petit Campus.

If you have a brain in your head your plan tonight is to be at Il Motore. I’m currently brainless and vacationing in Newfoundland (which by the way is tropical compared to Mtl as of late). Its an all star lineup tonight with Obits (fronted by ex-Hot Snakes/Drive Like Jehu, Rick Froberg), local garage collective Red Mass and “new” band Rome Romeo who I’d like to talk a little more about today.

Rome Romeo was formed in 2007 after the demise of beloved No Idea Record’s punk band ‘Fifth Hour Hero’. Along with members from acclaimed Quebec bands ‘Le Nombre’ and ‘Les Marmottes Aplaties’, Rome Romeo set out to write their first six songs in the fall of 2008. The self-titled e.p. features five of these songs and is to be released on Montreal based record label: Machette Records.  Mixing a blend of punk, soul and indie, Rome Romeo defy the genres that they were once held to, and showcase their hook-ridden talent on their e.p., destined to be the soundtrack of summer. Choice song: “Lose Your Head”. 

Rome Romeo will be playing their first/album lauch show tonight. The EP is available at local record stores and iTunes NOW! If you want to get a good listen to the EP head over to RR’s myspace where its streaming for FREE.

 If you don’t have tickets for the show tonight GET THEM!

For more show info check out the Facebook event.

From Static Blog:

Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his
left salivary gland last week. The growth was caught early, localized
in a small area and is considered treatable, but to allow for full
recovery, tour dates and the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part One have been postponed.

“I just need to take a little time to get this in check, and then
we’ll release the record and play some shows. It’s a pain in the neck
(sorry, had to say it) because I was really looking forward to playing
these shows, but the doctors have made it clear that this is not the
kind of thing that can be put aside to deal with later,” Yauch said in
a statement.

We in the Staticblog community hope MCA enjoys a strong bounce back from this, and that the release can get back on track soon.

Check Osheaga on Twitter for update info.

BSTB presents:

JAPANDROIDS (Vancouver, BC)
Japandroids have been gaining quite a following with the release of their debut album Post Nothing.
http://www.myspace.com/japandroids

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SLIM TWIG (Toronto, ON)
http://www.myspace.com/slimtwig

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PLAY GUITAR (Montreal, QC. mem. of Special Noise)
http://www.myspace.com/playguitarplayguitar

Tickets: $10.00 adv / $12.00 door available at: CHeap Thrills, L’Oblique, Atom heart, Phonopolis and online at: http://web.blueskiesturnblack.com/ticket.php?id=657

So The Pixies (you know that band that plays that song at the end of Fight Club?) have reunited and planned an European tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of Doolittle. And it turns out that a North American tour is in the works and Montreal was mentioned….From Pitchfork

 Americans who felt left out of that party can now rest easy. Frontman Frank Black/Black Francis tells Spin that the Pixies will bring their Doolittle tour to North America. He even names the cities on the itinerary: Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, D.C., New York, “maybe Montreal”. They’ve even got a hometown venue more or less locked down: “I believe we’re doing the Wang Center in Boston,” says Black. No dates have been confirmed yet.

Fingers crossed!

The Pixies - Debaser