Most have you been busy (and maybe frustrated) watching CTV’s lame coverage of the 2010 Olympics happening on the west side of the country. You were probably so busy that you missed the debut of the much anticipated new video from Diamond Rings. Diamond Rings stole the hearts of the blogosphere last year with the infectious pop hit “All Yr Songs” [download below]. This new track, “Wait & See”, is slowed down and has a bigger sound compared to its counterpart but is a continued step in the right direction. The Janet Jackson inspired video can be viewed below [via P4K].
Diamond Rings - Watch & See
John O’Regan, the man behind the blue eye shadow will be releasing this single on a limited edition 7″ from Tomlab. A interesting cover of Sebadoh’s “On Fire” can be found on the B-side (preorder it here). Expect the debut album titled, Special Affections, sometime later this year. But if you can’t wait for the new single, fret not, there maybe copies available at the Diamond Rings/Owen Pallet show here in Montreal next weekend Saturday, February 20th at Theatre Outremont. Get you tickets here.
Dan Deacon will be in town tomorrow (Nov. 5th) at Il Motore and Friday (Nov. 6th) at the Eastern Bloc to get your heart pounding, your legs dancing and your body sweating. After a busy summer on some of the biggest stages in the world he’s taking it back down to the floor with you and bringing along The Nuclear Power Pants. For added bang, locals Homosexual Cops have been slated to open. More info at the Facebook event.
On top of that he’s got a pretty sick contest going on, here’s the run down:
The Dan Deacon & Nuclear Power Pants Tour Poster Contest
ID all the cartoon characters in the tour poster and win a glorious prize package, including a portrait of yourself painted by Dan Deacon!
I am heading back out on tour next week with the awesome band Nuclear Power Pants - they’re traveling once again in his veggie oil bus (they’ll need veggie oil this time too, same offer stands from the last tour if you’re able to help provide them with veggie oil along the way). Complete, final and updated tour dates are listed below. To celebrate this tour, Post Typography designed an amazing new poster - your job is to ID all of the 247 cartoon characters portrayed within the poster - be the first one to get ‘em all right and a wonderus prize package awaits you!!!!!
THE PRIZE:
1. $500 cash
2. A Portrait of you painted by me, Dan Deacon
3. One of the last copies of Wham City Box set #1
4. A Copy of each of my first 8 releases in real life (silly hat vs egale hat, meetle mice, goose on the loose, a green cobra is awesome vs the sun, porky pig, twacky cats, live 2003, acorn master)
Send your submissions to: postercontest@whamcity.com
The Raveonettes are currently on tour supporting their new album, “In and Out of Control” (buy at Insound) and will be playing Club Soda tomorrow night (October 21st) with The Black Angels. Tickets for the show are still available online here and locally at Atom Heart, Cheap Thrills, L’Oblique and the Club Soda box office. Check out the new video for ‘Last Dance’ (from ‘In and Out of Control’) below.
The Arctic Monkeys are touring and stopping here in Montreal on December 14th for a night at the Metropolis. Tickets for the show will be going on sale October 22 at 12PM EST and will cost you around $27,50. You’ll be able to find these tickets either here or here (no word yet).
The Monkeys also unveiled a new video for the next single off Humbug, “Cornerstone”. Far more minimal their “Crying Lightening” video. Check it out below.
Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
The “Cornerstone” single will be released on 10″ record with three brand new b-sides December 8 via Domino.
As 2009 draws to a close I often find myself contemplating the inevitable “Top n Albums of 2009″. Its more work than one expects. How will January’s albums stack up against Decembers? Who the fuck knows, I’ve got two months to deal with it, and it will take all that time to formulate an equation that will determine my year end list. One album that is currently in nomination is Girls‘ Album. Don’t let the uncreative title fool you, Album is track for track solid gold. Its one of those albums thats easy to relate to on first listen, lots of summer time fun and lots of heartbreak. But there is some darkness lurking in those songs. That deep darkness has a lot to do with Girls frontman, Christopher Owens storied past with The Children of God Cult. Owens escaped the cult at 16, fled to Texas hitchhiked to New York and then ended up as a painter in San Francisco where he joined Ariel Pink finally forming Girls in 2006.
Girls will be playing at Il Motore next month (November 9th to be precise) with New Jersey’s Real Estate. Tickets are available at Casa Del Popolo and online here. Don’t miss out on what has all the ingredients to be a “show-of-the-year” contender.
Toronto trio, The Rural Alberta Advantage are hitting the road mid November with 2 dates in Montreal. You might recognize RAA from the Harper minivan mixtape.
Rural Alberta Advantage Tour Dates:
11 Nov Casbah Hamilton, Ontario
12 Nov Zaphod’s Ottawa, Ontario
14 Nov Grad Club Kingston, Ontario 18 Nov Club Lambi Montreal, Quebec
19 Nov M For Montreal Festival Montreal, Quebec 20 Nov Lee’s Palace Toronto, Ontario
21 Nov Call The Office London, Ontario
11 Dec The Parish Austin, Texas
12 Dec The Cavern Dallas, Texas
15 Dec Bootleg Theatre Los Angeles, California
16 Dec The Bottom Of The Hill San Francisco, California
18 Dec Backspace Portland, Oregon
19 Dec Vera Project Seattle, Washington
8 Jan Terminal 5 New York, New York
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Edmonton (Harper Family pick)
Vampire Weekend sold out Le National last night. Trendwhore writer and all around great person AnnA Chiggo spoke with them yesterday, about teaching, haters and the new album. Contra will be released January 12th, but you can get a tease right now:
Pop Montreal day 3, I begin to develop a slight cold. I trudge through it. First stop was Green Room to check out The D’Ubervilles singer Johnny O’s solo project, Diamond Rings. Having heard only the dynamite pop hit “All Yr Songs” I braved the mystery. Simply put, O is a stage commander. Like the lovechild of Ziggy Stardust and Ian Curtis, Johnny awkwardly danced and crooned the sweaty crowd with back-beat help from his iPhone (or iTouch). Second stop was down to Divan Orange to check out the Coathangers/No Gold/Japandroids show, but it was already at capacity early in the night. Third stop, Bar St-Laurent II home of the deep stage to check out Regina’s best musical act Rah Rah. Those youngersters put on a solid performance. Much tighter than I saw them early this year at The Green Room. However kids there is no need to switch instruments every song is there? Later this week AnnA Chiggo will have an interview with Rah Rah where they will discuss more about Pop Montreal and much much more. Final stop was at Lambi to check out the disappointing set of Chain and the Gang. A poor mans King Khan. What a rip off.
Its 10 o’clock in the morning, my head is throbbing and I’m so weak I can barely make a fist, this is Day 2 of Pop Montreal. My plan last night was to catch Screaming Females at La Sala Rossa but the Habs/Leafs game kept me at Barfly longer than I expected. No self respecting Habs fan leaves a game early. When those clowns from Toronto left the ice, defeated, I headed down to the Mint/Kelp Records showcase at Petit Campus. Edmonton’s Hot Panda and Ottawa’s Andrew Vincent played to a small group of people that seemed terrified to step on the dance floor. Though the crowd wasn’t there, Vincent and Panda put on solid performances all the same. After that I dragged my girlfriend up to Sala Rossa to check out AIDS Wolf and Red Mass. AIDS Wolf were AIDS Wolf, loud and in your face (literally). Red Mass…… great!
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