Catch HEALTH with INDIAN JEWELRY, QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT, JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, GOLD PANDA @ La Sala Rossa June 18th for SUONI PER IL POPOLO, get your tickets here.

New video from Small Black for the lazy hazy track “Bad Lover” off the Small Black EP (buy it here). The video is directed by Nick Bentgen and it’s absolutely gorgeous.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Bright Lit Blue Skies” from gorillavsbear.net on Vimeo.

Before Today is out today on 4AD.

Celebrating 16 years of excellent music Kelp Records is coming though Montreal tonight with Beaver Sheppard, Bill Fox and my personal favorite Andrew Vincent. No hockey tonight, so lets riot at le cagibi.

brilliant!!

It’s things like this that make me sometimes want to be an Amurican.

This reeks of a Spike Jonze / awesome martini.

LCD Soundsystem will be playing Metropolis with Holy Ghost May 24th, get tickets here

I’m pretty late to the gang bang when it comes to The Morning Benders. I ignored them and their hype in 2008 but in 2010 I broke. Their latest release The Big Echo isn’t my thing, but “Promises” as a single is money and so is it’s video above.

The Morning Benders are playing La Sala Rossa tonight with Leif Vollebekk, you won’t see me there as I’ll be either belligerently drunk out of happiness or disappointment as determined by game 1 of Habs/Caps tonight. Go Habs Go!

LA’s HEALTH are hitting the road with Indian Jewelery and Gold Panda, stopping in Montreal June 18th where they’ll meet up with JEFF The Brotherhood who are touring with Quintron to play La Sala Rossa. With those 5 bands in tow it should be a great night out. In other HEALTH news, Lovepump United will being releasing HEALTH’s second remix album entitled DISCO2 on the 22nd of June, featuring remixes by Small Black, Pictureplane, Crystal Castles and more. Above is the new video for “We Are Water”, the pound for pound best track of 2009’s GET COLOR directed by Eric Wareheim. People will tell you that it’s not safe for work, but that depends on where you work. Enjoy.

HEALTH - We Are Water

remember:
jeff the brotherhood / health / indian jewelery / gold panda / quintron @ la sala rossa JUNE 18th

Did a big order of cassette tapes from Burger Records last week and in it was Gay Singles from Hunx & His Punx. I’ve been listening and flipping this tape for a few days now, rocking out to “You Don’t Like Rock & Roll” in particular. Here is the video, it’s fabulous.

I just don’t like that dirty look in your eyes.

For some reason, I’ve been neglecting  The Hoof & The Heel, but today a video for their track “Fireworks” came by my desk so I got to looking. The song is gorgeous and the harmony from Harris Shper and Christine Hale is something pure and beautiful. The video - directed by Bryan Schlam - tells an ordinary story of a prosperous relationship falling apart with extraordinary candid visuals, casting new light on an old tale.

[buy the hoof and the heel on itunes]

[check out more from bryan schlam]

here’s a growing culture, deep inside a corpse, ages stuck together
takin it to the source, timeless desperation, pictures on a screen scream
hey people, what does it mean?

Here’s the latest triptastic video from the MGMT for their new single off Congratulations. Hearing ‘Flash Delirium’ for the first time left me unimpressed and disappointed, but after a few listens I’ve really warmed up to it and now I’ve got a taste for 70’s psychedelic mod-pop that just won’t go away.

Small Black is playing with Washed Out and Silly Kissers April 8th at Il Motore, its going to chill so hard.

[TICKETS]

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.

Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs

Ah yeah! Montreal’s rock and roll heros are celebrating their Semprini Records EP release at La Sala Rosa Wednesday night. Don’t miss this!

Red Mass // Dead Wife // La Sala Rossa // Nov. 18th // 8:30PM // 10 bucks

More info here

Red Mass - Dig My Grave

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!!!!!

HIGHER RES VERSIONS OF ALL THE NEEDED MATERIALS ARE HERE - http://www.dandeacon.com/contest/

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

Dan Deacon - Paddling Ghost

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 Raveonettes - Last Dance

MP3

The Raveonettes - Last Dance

Black Angels - The First Vietnamese War