Winter Gloves: New Digital Release in Oct. - Tour with Thunderheist in Nov.

Montreal's Winter Gloves are following up their debut LP About A Girl with A Way to Celebrate a digital-only collection of remixes, live versions and experiments. The band is also hitting the road with Thunderheist for some dates in Western Canada and the Western US - check for dates below their new video for "Party People"



You can also grab a preview from their new digital release:Invisible (ease v Remix) MP3 from A Way To Celebrate:


Go see them with Thunderheist at
November 13 – Los Angeles, CA at The Echo w/ Thunderheist
November 14 - San Francisco, CA at 330 Ritch w/ Thunderheist
November 17 – Portland, OR at Rotture w/ Thunderheist
November 18 – Bellingham, WA at The Wild Buffalo w/ Thunderheist
November 19 – Seattle, WA at Chop Suey w/ Thunderheist
November 20 – Vancouver, BC at Biltmore w/ Thunderheist
November 21 – Victoria, BC at Sugar w/ Thunderheist
November 24- Edmonton, AB at The ARTery
November 25- Calgary, AB at Broken City
November 27- Winnipeg, MB at Lo Pub

Dose.ca presents "The Essential Mix"

 

Dose.ca has just released a playlist of free iTunes downloads which contains 22 songs that they believe will be dominating the airwaves soon. Some of the Canadian artists include Crystal Castles, Hey Ocean!, Metric, Patrick Watson and Thunderheist. And all you need is your email address.

Go here to punch in your email address and get your free download code!

Victoria Shows for the Weekend of April 25-26 (and beyond)

I already did one post about April shows in Victoria, but I've found a few new ones since then and this weekend is particularly full of quality performances. So just to be brief:

Saturday:

If you won tickets, 1/2 of Metric is putting on an acoustic afternoon show at the Zone/Victoria Dance Connection radio station, just like the one in Vancouver yesterday that fellow NxEW blogger B. Lee wrote about


Metric - Help, I'm Alive (acoustic)



And at 9:30 Logan's is hosting a CD release show for alt-country groups the Gruff and the Deep Dark Woods.

The Deep Dark Woods - All the Money I Had Is Gone



Sunday:

The buzz-worthy, Perez Hilton wooing Montreal/Toronto electropophip-hop duo Thunderheist play Lucky Bar. The Nirvana-loving (seriously, check out their myspace) electro-pop group Winter Gloves open.

Winter Gloves - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)



Monday:

In promotion of his new release that has, in the words of fellow NxEWer Tagish156 "A veritable who's who of Canadian hip-hop... and Joel Plaskett," Nova Scotian rapper Classified is playing two shows at Element, an all-ages in the afternoon and another that night.

Classified f. Joel Plaskett - One Track Mind



And of course, Thursday sees the Rolling Tundra Revue with the Weakerthans and the Constantines roll into town at Element.

I'll be at at least one of these, and probably more, if that's any incentive. Not that you should need any.

Broken Social Scene at Toronto Island July 11

On July 11, the one and only Broken Social Scene will headline the Olympic Island 2009 contert on Toronto Island. Joining them will be Explosions In The Sky, Thunderheist, Beach House, Apostle Of Hustle and Rattlesnake Choir.

Tickets are $61 and are available at http://www.galleryac.com/product_info.php?products_id=61456&cPath=96_118 the Facebook Event Page is here. Personally it's not my kind of thing - at most of the shows I go to $61 dollars will get me in the door, buy me a CD and a T-shirt and cover 2-3 beers with money left over, but if you like big venues and big shows it doesn't get much bigger than Broken Social Scene.

Broken Social Scene: 7/4 Shoreline

April's X3 Artist Of the Month.......

THUNDERHEIST

Congrats!  

The SXSW 'casts were stunning.  

Nicole and the Beavermittens are very proud!

Now...what will it take to get you to the Windsor/Detroit area?

CBC Radio 3's SXSW Podcasts

Last Week the Radio 3 folk sent a contingent to South by South West in Austin Texas. The podcasts of some of the performances they caught are now up.

First there is R3TV (episode 79) which features Performances from King Khan, Young Galaxy, Jenn Grant, Beast, Two Hours Traffic and more.



(A full list of every R3TV episode is available at the Facebook Group)

Then there is the Radio 3 Sessions Podcast:

"In this podcast we bring you sounds from the Canadian Blast showcase that took place on Wednesday March 18 in Brush Square. Featured here are Two Hours Traffic, The Arkells, Mother Mother, Beast and Shout Out Out Out Out. As a bonus, we're including a few songs from the Thunderheist set on Saturday afternoon at the 'M' For Montreal 'T' for Toronto showcase."

(download -
Facebook group)

R3 @ SXSW

Personally I can't get excited about SXSW. I know that it's important for musicians. Finding an audience in the large and lucrative US market can mean the ability to quit their day jobs. Still it is very far away from me and I can't imagine myself willingly going to Texas unless I was being paid to go.

That said, they're still our bands and we still love them. Radio 3 has been all over SXSW; blogging, Tweeting and recording. Over on the Radio 3 blog there are recordings of live performances by Winter Gloves, Ohbijou, Woodhands, and Thunderheist and Boats, the Details, Bedouin Soundclash and Immaculate Machine.

They also have some video going on on their YouTube Channel from Arkells, the Wet Secrets, More or Les, Elliott Brood and Jenn Grant w/ Buck 65.