Throw Me The Statue are playing Il Motore tonight, with The Brunettes and Nurses. If this is anything like previous TMTS shows you should be impressed. If you want free tickets to the show get on Twitter and zap a message to @tmtsmusic, act fast and get a free pass.

More details about the event can be found on the Facebook Event page.

The hard working folks at The Yellow Bird Project are upping their game, not only are these guys putting out some of the slickest indie tees on the planet but they’ve recently published a book, The Indie Rock Coloring Book:

From the creative womb of the Yellow Bird Project, we are proud to introduce the newest member of our family, the Yellow Bird Coloring Book. The coloring book offers an interactive and colorful journey of creativity, artistic expression, music, and charity. Andy J. Miller, a talented illustrator, collaborated with YBP to produce this unique expression of art and music. Wiggle yourself through the intricate Broken Social Scene maze, marvel in the colourful carnival of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, color Bon Iver’s enchanted water supply, or slide down the psychedelic playground of MGMT. Profits from this colourful venture will go towards our project and the charities we support, ensuring amazingly fresh new artists and their tee-shirts will be available for your purchasing pleasure! With over 25 hand-illustrated designs dedicated to indie and YBP musicians, including Iron & Wine, Bloc Party, The National and Devendra Banhart, this book is a sure fire pleaser. Oh and no rules here, we even encourage you stay outside the lines!

So now the YBP is hitting the road to promote this little treasure with stops in San Francisco, New York and Montreal. Here is the Montreal show info:

Now if you’re anything like me you’re dieing to know who will be doing the acoustic performance. I mean, it can’t be just anybody or they wouldn’t mention it right? Right? Well Trendwhore has the scoop. The special acoustic performance will be done by none other than Murray Lightburn of The Dears! How rad is that?

Remember Drawn and Quarterly is a pretty small space so get their early. See you there birdies!

Remember when I would group all the weekend shows together and post them early on Friday so you had one last overall look as to what awesome shows were scheduled? Well, I’m going to do it again, though this weekend isn’t the best overall show-wise (quantity not quality). If you know something I don’t then please feel free to drop a show in a comment box thing and I’ll move it into the schedule below. UFC 102 is also on Saturday and I’m hoping Nogueira kills Couture.

Friday [August 28th]
Main Madness on St. Laurent!!!!!!!!!

Saturday [August 29th]
BRAIDS/KNOTS/SPECIAL NOISE @ IL MOTORE [%]

Sunday [August 30th]
THE SMITH WESTERNS @ FRIENDSHIP COVE [%]
PET SHOP BOYS @ THE METROPOLIS [$]

[%] = Blue Skies Turn Black
[$] = Greenland

MP3 OF THE WEEK
Every Friday on The Whore I’m going to supplement the weekend concert round up with a MP3 that I’m adoring during the week and this week its No Age’s “You’re A Target”. This track will be on their upcoming Losing Feeling EP which will be officially released October 6th. If you are new to No Age tracking may be more accessible for the ear than say something off Weirdo Rippers but not enough of a change in sound to alienate current fans. Enjoy!

No Age - You’re A Target

Last year Tapes n Tapes played the Studio Juste Pour Rire for about 50 people. It was a horrible winters night and they had to compete with Habs vs. Bruins playoff hockey, but I was there and have the review to prove it. But I’m reliving this night for you because that was the night that I was first introduced to the greatness of White Denim who were the openers that chilly night. White Denim are a 3 piece hailing from Austin Texas and play a style thats a punk, funk and soul cocktail. Some might say that the genre mix is not a unique blend but its one that WD have honed, made their own and slay unsuspecting listeners with nightly. The dudes are on tour now with their latest album Fits and will be hitting up Il Motore Novemember 10th, so keep the date open and get your tickets here.

Tour Dates:
10/24 - Mohawk - Austin, TX
10/31 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
11/02 - Firebird - St Louis, MO
11/03 - Jackpot - Lawrence, KS
11/04 - 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
11/05 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI
11/06 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL
11/07 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH
11/09 - Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
11/10 - Il Motore - Montreal, QC
11/11 - TT the Bears - Cambridge, MA
11/12 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
11/13 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
11/14 - Rock N Roll Hotel - Washington, DC
11/16 - The Basement - Nashville, TN
11/17 - The Bottletree - Birmingham, AL
11/18 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
11/19 - The Social - Orlando, FL
11/20 - Cafe Eleven - St Augustine, FL
11/22 - One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA

White Denim - Shake Shake Shake


White Denim - I Start To Run

So tomorrow night (Thursday August 27th) The Lovely Feathers will be headlining a free show down at Parc des Ameriques at the corner Rachel and St. Laurent [map]. The under card looks solid too so prepare yourself for MAIN MADNESS!

Lineup:
5pm - 6pm: Caroline Keating
6pm- 7pm Mussaver & the Coal Choir
7pm - 8pm: Jain Vain and the Dark Matter
8pm - 9pm: Cotton Mouth
9pm - 10pm: The Lovely Feathers

In more Lovely Feathers related news i (heart) music has posted their NxNE set and gives them a solid pat on the ass with the following quote “The Lovely Feathers may just be one of the most exciting bands in Canada today.” I’ll find out tomorrow and so should you!

The Lovely Feathers @ NxNE
1. In The Valley
2. Ossified Homes
3. Family That Doesn’t Know
4. Finder’s Fee
5. Agrotaker
6. Pope John Paul
7. Lowiza
8. Breakfast Cake
9. Long Walks

Trendwhore’s on again off again writer barton_liberty sent me the following many many months back when I wanted him to review the release of “The Devil and Daniel Johnson”

The first time I heard of Daniel Johnston was from a “Hi, How are you” t-shirt that Kurt Cobain wore frequently during interviews and photo shoots in 1992. Being the Nirvana fanatic I was (still am) I wanted to like the same music as Kurt so I kept Daniel Johnston on my long mental list of bands I intend to check out sometime, but I never actually did get around to it. Fast forward to last year in a small record store when I saw that familiar frog design from the shirt on a record so I picked it up right away. I had no idea what to expect really, except hearing one person mention a lot of his recordings were “Lo-Fi” but I’ve always loved Leadbelly and Robert Johnson so the Lo-Fi thing was not a concern for me. What I got was a bit rawer sounding than I expected but amazing at the same time. I was instantly impressed with the song “Running Water” a song that has Johnston singing along to… water running out of a tap with no other instruments involved. The album itself is very simplistic with great lyrics and catchy melodies sung into a tape recorder (you can actually hear the record and stop buttons being pressed).

He never finished the review but I thought it would be a good intro to my post about Johnson’s new album and current tour with The Capitol Years. Johnson’s forthcoming release  Is And Always Was is expected to be drastically different that Hi… How Are You? (the album barton_liberty is referencing) which will be produced Jason Falkner (ex-Jellyfish). Don’t expect to hear the stop and start buttons being pressed, do expect a more hi-fi approach on this album. Have a taste:

Daniel Johnson - Freedom

Daniel Johnson  and The Capitol Years Tourdates:
09/03/09 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
09/04/09 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
09/05/09 - Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
09/07/09 - Calgary, AB @ Knox United Church
09/08/09 - Edmonton, AB @ Meyer Horowitz Theatre
10/02/09 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
10/13/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/14/09 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
10/15/09 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10/16/09 - Montreal, PQ @ UK Fed
10/17/09 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
10/22/09 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
10/23/09 - San Diego, CA @ Caines
10/24/09 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre

Tickets for the Montreal show can be purchased HERE.

Looks like Kiss are coming back to town Oct 1st which may or may not interfere with your Pop Montreal plans. ryantheduke caught their show in Ottawa during Bluesfest which he thought was a little over the top albeit awesome “gay to the point of being hilarious.. and huuuuge (said in paris hilton voice)”. Tickets go on sale here Saturday August 29th and average between $65 to $125.

Kiss - Detroit Rock City

You should start taking out your old Iggy Pop and Circle Jerks records and get prepared for Punk Rock Karaoke this September. This is not to be confused with traditional karaoke, here you’ll experience a full all-star backing band consisting of members of NOFX (Eric Melvin), Social Distortion (Derek O’Brian), Bad Religion (Greg Hetson) and The Adolescents (Steve Sotto) . Bewared there may be no video prompter so make sure to take 13 seconds to remember Wire’s ‘12XU’ before hitting the stage.

The show is September 9th @ Foufounes. Get tickets here.

Song list:

1. 12 X U - WIRE
2. ALTERNATIVE ULSTER - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
3. AMOEBA - THE ADOLESCENTS
4. ANARCHY IN THE UK - SEX PISTOLS
5. ASTRO ZOMBIES - MISFITS
6. BACK AGAINST THE WALL - CIRCLE JERKS
7. BANNED IN DC - BAD BRAINS
8. BIKEAGE - DESCENDENTS
9. BLITZKRIEG BOP - RAMONES
10. BLOODSTAINS - AGENT ORANGE
11. BODIES - SEX PISTOLS
12. BORN TO LOSE - JOHNNY THUNDER
13. BORSTALL BREAKOUT - SHAM 69
14. BULLET - MISFITS
15. CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES - DEAD KENNEDYS
16. CHERI BOMB - RUNAWAYS
17. FUCK ARMAGEDDON - BAD RELIGION
18. GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE - BLACK FLAG
19. I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU - FEAR
20. I GOT A RIGHT - IGGY POP
21. I LOVE LIVING IN THE CITY - FEAR
22. I’M SO BORED W/ USA - CLASH
23. LET’S LYNCH THE LANDLORD - DEAD KENNEDYS
24. LOS ANGELES - X
25. MANNY, MOE AND JACK - THE DICKIES
26. MINOR THREAT - MINOR THREAT
27. MOMMY’S LITTLE MONSTER - SOCIAL DISTORTION
28. MONGOLOID - DEVO
29. MYAGE - DESCENDENTS
30. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - BLACK FLAG
31. NEW ROSE - THE DAMNED
32. OH BONDAGE - X-RAY SPECS
33. ORGASM ADDICT - BUZZCOCKS
34. OUR LIPS ARE SEALED - GO-GOS
35. PAY TO CUM - BAD BRAINS
36. PRETTY VACANT - SEX PISTOLS
37. READY STEADY GO - GENERATION X
38. RED TAPE - CIRCLE JERKS
39. SAILIN ON - BAD BRAINS
40. SEARCH AND DESTROY - IGGY POP
41. SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER - RAMONES
42. SKULLS - MISFITS
43. SONIC REDUCER - DEAD BOYS
44. SUBURBAN HOME - DESCENDENTS
45. SUSPECT DEVICE - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
46. TEENAGE KICKS - UNDERTONES
47. UNCONTROLLABLE URGE - DEVO
48. WE GOT THE BEAT - GO-GOS
49. WE’RE DESPERATE - X
50. WHAT DO I GET - BUZZCOCKS
51. WHITE RIOT - THE CLASH
52. WILD IN THE STREETS - CIRCLE JERKS

Lyrics are here.

THIS COULD BE YOU!

More details about the show can be found on the Facebook Event.

Youthful up and comers The Smith Westerns will be playing at Friendship Cove Sunday, August 30th with The Sunday Sinners, you can get your online tickets here. The Smith Westerns blew my mind when they opened for Nobunny (they were also his backing band at the time) at Divan Orange back in February. They have a new 7″ coming out on Transparent Records in UK for “Be My Girl” which will only be limited to 300 copies, get yours here. You can download the digital 7″ below. Enjoy!

mp3
Smith Westerns - Be My Girl

Smith Westerns - Girl In Love

Passovah Productions has announced their plans for a Pop showcase at the Green Room October 2nd. The lineup is

GOLDEN ISLES
ADAM AND THE AMETHYSTS
DIAMOND RINGS

Solid lineup, take a listen to “You Look Good” by the Golden Isles (at the end of this post) and check out the new video for Diamond Rings “All Yr Songs” by Colin Medley:

This is a music video I made for Toronto musician Diamond Rings (John
O’Regan of The D’Urbervilles). It was shot with no budget in my living
room and in the area around my apartment in the Junction. It is the
first official release by Diamond Rings, appearing on a split 7″
coloured vinyl single with Kingston, ON rock combo PS I Love You via
Hype Lighter. It is my second music video after Timber Timbre’s We’ll
Find Out.

Golden Isles - You Look Good

HEALTH have a new album coming out entitled Get Color September 8th and inside said album could be 1 of the 66 prize tickets. P4K has more details:

Whoever finds the first prize ticket will win a weekend in Los Angeles, the band’s hometown. You get a free round-trip plane ticket, and you get to stay with the band. They’ll take you to Six Flags and the zoo, and they’ll bring you breakfast in bed.As first prizes go, this isn’t quite as amazing as a tour of a mysterious, magical chocolate factory staffed by orange-skinned dwarfs, but it’s pretty damn close. There’s also less chance of turning purple after chewing a piece of gum. (The band’s one caveat: “IF YOU HAVE BEEN REMANDED TO EITHER A PENITENTIARY OR A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY FOR A CUSTODIAL SENTENCE UP TO OR EXCEEDING 30 DAYS, PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH FULL DISCLOSURE. THIS IS FOR OUR SAFETY AND YOURS.”)

65 other albums will also feature color-coded tickets redeemable for prizes like personal gifts, t-shirts, locks of a band member’s hair, fur from a band member’s cat, and posters or records signed by the band in their own blood. Or, there are more experiential prizes:

“WE WILL GET STEADILY INEBRIATED WITH YOU OVER I-CHAT WHILE WORKING ON A PROJECT TOGETHER”
“AN UPLIFTING PHONE CALL FROM HEALTH’S MANAGER”
“A PERSONALITY TEST HAND COMPLETED BY A BAND MEMBER”
“WE CONFERENCE CRANK CALL A PROMINENT INDIE MUSICIAN TOGETHER”

Yes, seriously.

How awesome is that give away?

HEALTH are also touring and will be stopping in Montreal September 20th with Pictureplane and Black Feelings(!) at La Sala Rossa. You can pick up tickets here.

Finally, HEALTH has released a stream of “We Are Water” check it out…

Fuck thats a stupid headline, but its the best I’ve got. Jay Reatard might not appreciate The Pains of Being Pure At Heart but I certainly do. Normally most tween pop would make me throw up blood, but these guys got something special in their sound that just makes me shake. Next month you’ll get a chance to see The Pains with Cymbals Eat Guitars. Both bands have put out solid albums this year and I wouldn’t be surprised to find both on some year end lists. The Deprecation Guild are also on the bill, haven’t checked them out yet, I’ll wait until the show.

September 6th 2009
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
THE DEPRECIATION GUILD
CYMBALS EAT GUITARS
@ LA SALA ROSSA [tix here]

“Higher Than Stars” is the forthcoming EP from The Pains check out the title track:

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than Stars

Just a quick friendly reminder that Modest Mouse will be playing the Metropolis this Wednesday with openers The Dutchess and the Duke. Tickets are around $30 and you can get at local record stores Atom Heart, Cheap Thrills, L’Oblique or online at TicketPro.

Did you see the Modest Mouse video for “King Rat” that was directed by Heath Ledger? Well here it is:

Finally here is a quality video from The Dutchess and the Duke for their song “Mary”.

I know this is a little late and the show was last week but it should be worth pointing out that this show was the show of the summer. I hope you didn’t miss it by going to AC/DC. You might be asking (read kicking) yourself “why?!”. Let me count the ways,

#1 Bloodshot Bill is excellent. I don’t know if its his charm or his yelps but he won me over 2 songs in.

#2 Demon’s Claws rock hard. One might say that doing yoga on stage while playing guitar is not rock and roll, to which I would retort, “fuck off gramps its the new millennium get with it!”

#3 King Khan joining Demon’s Claws was intense!

#4 There was a staggering amount of making out, be it guy/girl, girl/girl and……. guy/guy! (new millennium baby, take that AC/DC)

#5 The Black Lips play hard….. like real hard.

#6 The encore was a 3 song set of the new formed Black Lips/King Khan & BBQ Show gospel supergroup The Almighty Defenders. I’ve been in dire straits waiting for this record to drop and it seems like it will be well worth the wait. After the setlist take a listen to Cone of Light, a little taste of the new album.

All photos from Susan Moss

Bloodshot Bill

Demon’s Claws w/ King Khan

The Black Lips

more excellent photos of this show (and more) can be found on Susan’s Flickr stream HERE

BLACK LIPS SETLIST:
Sea Of Blasphemy
Drugs
Short Fuse
Dirty Hands
Katrina
Make It
Dutronc
Not A Problem
Stranger
Boomerang
Lock n Key
Cold Hands
Starting Over
Buried Alive
Bad Kids
Juvenile

The Almighty Defenders - Cone of Light

Yesterday Deerhunter Blog posted the Atlas Sound take on Walk A Thin Line by Fleetwood Mac. Atlas Sound, if you don’t know is Brandford Cox’s (of Deerhunter) solo project. The new album Logos will be released October 20th on Kranky. We got a taste of what we’ll find on Logos last month when Cox released Walkabout featuring Panda Bear (which set the blogosphere on fire). You can listen to both Walk A Thin Line and Walkabout below.

REMINDER: Atlas Sound will be playing Montreal October 23rd opening for Broadcast at Le National, get your tickets here.

gorillavsbear just posted a new wavves track:

New song from Nathan Williams, aka Wavves, who’s apparently been joined full-time by Hella’s Zach Hill. Haters will continue to hate, but this is kind of the jam

wavves - cool jumper

i can’t figure out the hate this guy gets all the while churning out consistently good material. are you not entertained!

reminder:
wavves is playing with ganglians at Friendship Cove September 23rd.

What’s that? A new SEDATIVES music video?

And if that weren’t good enough - the new album is out on Aug 22 w/ a release show with Brutal Knights and Germ Attack at Babylon in Ottawa.

Jay Reatard’s record label, Shattered Records, will be putting on a showcase for Pop Montreal / Weird Punk Montreal series September 30th at La Sala Rossa. The lineup that night will be Useless Eaters, Box Elders (!), Hunx & His Punx, Nobunny and Jay Reatard.

Jay’s new album Watch Me Fall is streaming over at AOL’s Spinner.com.

You can see a short documentary about Jay here.

Tour Dates:

Mon Sep 28 – Chicago – Empty Bottle
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless EatersTue Sep 29 – Toronto – The Reverb
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters

Wed Sep 30 – Montreal – La Sala Rossa
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters

Thu Oct 1 – New York City – Le Poisson Rouge
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters

Fri Oct 2 – Boston – Harpers Ferry
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters

Sat Oct 3 – Baltimore – Ottobar
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters

Thu Oct 15 – Seattle – Crocodile Cafe
Jay Reatard, Cheap Time, Box Elders, Lover!

Mon Oct 19 – San Francisco – Great American Music Hall
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Digital Leather

Tue Oct 20 – San Diego – The Casbah
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Digital Leather

Wed Oct 21 – Los Angeles – El Rey Theater
Jay Reatard, Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Digital Leather

MP3:
Jay Reatard - See Saw

Yet another awesome free punk show in Ottawa this week. Year Zero will be releasing a tape on Bruised Tongue and will be joined by Sudbury powerpoppers Statues. As usual this is all going down on Thursday, Aug 13th, at the Rock and Roll Pizza Party (at the Atomic Rooster on Bank Street) and there will be free admission, possibly some free pizza, and $5 tallboys for all.

Year Zero are one of the best new punk bands in Ottawa- they have a few awesome tracks posted on their myspace. Check it out and I’ll see you at the RRPP!

Looks like the venue and openers for Pop’s Sufjan Stevens date has been revealed.

From P4K:

Recent announcements about Sufjan Stevens releasing a “re-imagined” version of his 2001 instrumental album Enjoy Your Rabbit and a tricked-out multimedia set documenting his 2007 “BQE” piece were all well and good, but it also seemed like dude was stalling a little.

But no more. Sufjan is set to tour very intimate venues on the eastern half of North America starting September 21 in Philadelphia and wrapping up with four dates in New York City. His label, Asthmathic Kitty, makes it clear that the tour “has nothing to do with” the “BQE” box– so it seems safe to expect some of those Sufjan songs you still put on repeat every now and then. And, who knows, maybe he’ll break out a couple new ones, too?

Full itinerary below:
Sufjan Stevens:09-12 Monticello, NY - ATP New York
09-21 Philadelphia, PA -  Johnny Brenda’s *
09-22 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s *
09-23 Ithaca, NY - Castaways *
09-24 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom *
09-25 Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Ballroom *
09-26 Champaign, IL - The High Dive *
09-27 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar *
09-28 Madison, WI - The Majestic *
09-29 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk Chumley *
10-01 Toronto, Ontario - Lee’s Place *
10-02 Montreal, Quebec - Cabaret *
10-03 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall *
10-04 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
10-05 New York, NY  - Bowery Ballroom *
10-06 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10-07 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg *

* with Cryptacize

Sufjan at Cabret Juste Pour Rire with Cryptacize! This will probably sell out fast. Still no word on when tickets will go on sale, but Pop Montreal’s website will probably be the first to know. Get tickets here [on sale August 15th].

UPDATE: ONLINE TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT