Filed under: News , I Fought the Law , Politics as Usual Matt Jelonek, Getty After last weekend's performance on Saturday Night Live with Mick Jagger , Montreal's Fire">Arcade Fire were shown wearing small red patches on their clothes, a reference to the ongoing student protests against tuition hikes taking place in Montreal and throughout Quebec. The protests, which recently surpassed the 100-day mark, have garnered attention both in Canada and internationally. Now various musicians with close connections to the Montreal music scene have been weighing in on the nightly protests. "Hundredth day......Very good #redsquare ," Stars and Broken Social ...

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Bring in the noise, bring in the fun! The perfect prelude for a jam-packed weekend is presented by Symptomatic and provided by the intensely bubbly and enthusiastic Library Voices, on a balmy Friday night. This seven-piece from Canada are so overly and overtly enthusiastic that it’s almost surreal, especially when in the midst of a London crowd, in Hoxton. Nothing comes between this band and their crowd though – Library Voices don’t understand or allow personal space – they get in each other’s space and the audience’s, with total unapologetic elation and ear to ear Cheshire cat grins ...

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Elite Gymnastics - Life / Trap [download here ] What's so good? Elite Gymnastics probably have the best Last.fm page ever. To paraphrase: “THESE GUYS KILL. SOME CHILL AS FUCK BEATS WITH SOME BALLER SAMPLES. THEY ALSO DO WICKED AS FUCK REMIXES.” Lord knows if those are their own words, but the Minneapolis duo have indeed killed it with their new single “Life / Trap.” Exploding with drum&bass; rhythms, they appear to be channeling a little bit of Broken Social Scene. No doubt, this is chill as fuck. The song comes off the release Ruin 4 ...

Cleverly concealed behind red brick, on the banks of the River Derwent, is Derby’s Silk Mill. This venue is rich in heritage. It was once the first mill of its kind in Britain, but today sees it in a rather different incarnation. This urban space containing old industrial machinery and Rolls Royce aeroplane propellers has been transformed. Hidden away from passing trade, it houses the aptly named Let’s Get Lost festival by Holy Smokes. First to grace our ears on arrival are Crushing Blows: an indie noise-pop duo with catchy guitar hooks and danceable melodies to boot. Think ...

Filed under: News , New Releases Karl Winters, Getty One of the rare gems in indie queen Feist 's discography will once again be available to the public -- if you own a turntable, that is. The "1,2,3,4" singer and past- Broken Social Scene member announced on Twitter yesterday that she was re-releasing her "lost" first album Monarch: Lay Your Jewelled Head Down on limited edition vinyl. "Found some Monarch on vinyl if you want it. =)," she wrote, before linking back to her online store .

Alabama born (but Brooklyn bred) anti-folk group Balthrop, Alabama (who give Broken Social Scene and Fire">Arcade Fire a run for their money in the "number of band members" department) have a new music video out for their single "Pretty Little Bird" which we have the pleasure of premiering. Set in a world that seems culled right out of a children's television program (think old school Nickelodeon programs) with brightly colored crayon-drawn sets, Balthrop, Alabama pair semi-subversive and dark lyrics with these innocent images to create a visually and intellectually striking video which hints at a disturbance just beyond ...

As an integral part of Broken Social Scene, and now as one of third Eight And A Half - who play their first UK shows this week - Justin Peroff is clearly a man who knows his way around a beat. We asked him to make us a mixtape to get us in the mood for their show on the DiS stage at The Great... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

On June 11th Turnpike Glow release their latest EP, Inflatable Optimism , via Fünke Pop Records - so we decided to get Sandro and Guissepe to write about about being Italians in London. They've also allowed us to premiere the video for 'The Turn, The Pike and The Glow', which you can see below. We moved from Italy to London a few years ago. We were told by a trusted friend that the rent was really cheap here. Needless to say, he’s not our friend anymore. When we took the decision, never in our wildest imagination did we think we ...

Am 18. Mai erscheint das Drittwerk "A Different Ship" des amerikanischen Quartetts Here We Go Magic via Secretly Canadian. Als Vorgeschmack präsentieren sie nach dem Stream ( motor.de berichtete ) das Video zur Single "How Do I Know". Vor kurzem zeigte die Band um Sänger Luke Temple bereits ihren ersten Clip zu " Make Up Your Mind ". Die Platte der New Yorker wurde von Nigel Godrich produziert, der zuvor bereits für Künstler wie  Radiohead an den Reglern saß. Herausgekommen ist auf dem aktuellen Langspieler eine Melange aus melodiösem Elektro und Folk, der zwischen hypnotischen Synthie-Klängen sowie Lo-Fi-Akustik changiert. Die Zukunftsvision von Regisseur ...

The Hudson Branch release "Piggyback" as a free download/stream to celebrate the release of their new album "World Kid," out now. http://soundcloud.com/thehudsonbranch/04-piggyback Recorded with John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Tortoise) and produced by Neil Strauch (Andrew Bird, Iron &...

Hard rocking Toronto band Dearly Beloved release their new studio album, Hawk vs Pigeon , on May 22nd.  They've posted a pair of songs from the album online. "To Better Days" features Die Mannequin and Patrick Pentland of Sloan .  "Miles Around" features contributions from Broken Social Scene 's Brendan Canning. Have a listen here:

Toronto's Eight and a Half recently released their self-titled, debut album through Arts & Crafts. The group features Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene) as well as Dave Hamelin and Liam O'Neil (The Stills). Stream "Scissors" and "Go Ego" on Sound Cloud . The full album is streaming on Paste Magazine , for the time being. [ arts-crafts.ca ]

There are some artists whose names are total head scratchers for me. Broken Social Scene (a band I adore) fits that category. The name distorted my expectation of their music. I expected something more hardcore, or at least, something obnoxiously emo. Conversely, Ian Matthias Bavitz’s nom de plume, Aesop Rock, is a perfect moniker for [...]

It's a shame when a beloved band breaks up. However, as they say when one door closes another one opens. In this case the door that opened is the Toronto-based Eight And A Half. The band is the new project from Justin Peroff (formerly of Broken Social Scene), and Dave Hamelin and Liam O'Neil (previously of The Stills). The group release their self-titled debut full length on April 10th. Dreamy and textured is the aura for this record. That tone is set with the opening instrumental "When I Was Twenty Nine", a track that twinkles as it cascades ...