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 ...

Band To Tour with Bouncing Souls Fiery punk infused rock band The Menzingers are set to embark on an exhilarating North American tour along with the rousing New Jersey punk band, The Bouncing Souls. The Menzingers will also play in New York City with Hot Water Music. The band continue to attract fans and attention with their high energy inspirational sound featuring powerful melodic guitars, rock steady drumming behind heartfelt anthemic choruses and impassioned poetry of the street lyrics. The band recently released their anticipated Epitaph-Records debut album On The Impossible Past which received outstanding critical acclaim. The album was ...

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 ...

RIP Yacht Rock : 2005-2010. (What? This thing was on till like two years ago???? Who knew.) Your humorous skewering of smooth, soulful summer jams inspired a whole new generation of smooth, dark, skewed hipster R&B.; Don’t believe me? Take a crayon and draw a family tree, Oh Ye Who Doubt. That 10cc root has grown and blossomed into a beautiful How to Dress Well EP, last year’s Just Once . Okay, okay, so maybe HTDW’s ethereal rhythm and blues is more likely to have descended from good old Janet Jackson and Sade, but never ever (sorry, Michael McD ...

Requested by ZackMilkman • Compiled by The Pop Stalinist The Kübler-Ross model, in song. 01. Radiohead - “How To Disappear Completely” (Kid A) 02. Shellac - “Prayer to God” (1000 Hurts) 03. Stars - “One More Night” (Set Yourself On Fire) 04. Swans - “God Damn the Sun” (The Burning World) 05. Daniel Johnston - “True Love Will Find You in the End” (Welcome To My World)

Brooklyn Vegan : HOPSCOTCH 2012 LINEUP Airstrip (Carrboro, N.C.) Altar of Plagues (Cork, Ireland) Altos (Milwaukee, Wis.) Alvarius B. (Seattle, Wash.) Amen Dunes (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun (Berlin, Germany / Durham, N.C.) Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, P.A.) Baroness (Savannah, Ga.) Beat Report (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Big Troubles (Ridgewood, N.J.) Bill Orcutt (San Francisco, Calif.) Ritmo">Bio Ritmo (Richmond, Va.) BIrds of Avalon (Raleigh, N.C.) Black Skies (Carrboro, N.C.) Boy Friend (Austin, Texas) Built to Spill (Boise, I.D.) Burglar Fucker (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Calico Haunts (Durham, N.C.) Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan (Durham, N ...

The calibre of the stock which birthed Rufus is well known. Born in 1973 to folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle (thus giving him the full name of Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright, dontcha know), he became brother to the equally tuneful Martha and Lucy, and unsurprisingly took to music at a young age, studying the piano at age six and touring with his mother and sister by the time he was 13. It was an eventful but not entirely happy adolescence for young Rufus. He came out as gay whilst still a teenager, and has suggested his parents found ...

Today tUnE-yArDs (with help from YouTube Music) debuts the third video from their critically-acclaimed  Pazz & Jop  topping album  w h o k i l l , for the album's opening track, 'My Country'. You can watch the video below. The video, a spirited second collaboration with director Mimi Cave (who also helmed the brilliant video for 'Bizness'), features young stars from Brightworks, a K-12 school in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Rock Project, a non-profit organisation focused on music education for youngsters. Madeline O'Kennon also reprises her portrayal of tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus, first seen in the video for ...

Today tUnE-yArDs (with help from YouTube Music) debuts the third video from their critically-acclaimed  Pazz & Jop  topping album  w h o k i l l , for the album's opening track, 'My Country'. You can watch the video below. The video, a spirited second collaboration with director Mimi Cave (who also helmed the brilliant video for 'Bizness'), features young stars from Brightworks, a K-12 school in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Rock Project, a non-profit organisation focused on music education for youngsters. Madeline O'Kennon also reprises her portrayal of tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus, first seen in the video for ...

This week on the Punknews Podcast, Chris Moran, Greg Simpson and John Gentile discuss the week in punk news, including our dumb April Fools jokes, Damian Abraham of Fucked Up 's Perry">Katy Perry problem, the next Gaslight Anthem album, Frank Carter's Gallows revelation, and Time Again 's prison bound vocalist. ...all this and music from The Sun The Moon The Stars, Tit Fit and Sectarian Violence . You can click Read More to stream and/or download the show, or subscribe via RSS or iTunes . You can always send us your feedback in the comments section or via e-mail ...

This writer is going to use this moment to reveal something he's long kept a secret from many people: I'm a Rufus Wainwright fan. That's right, this cantankerous, snarky writer can't help but get caught up in the musician's larger-than-life pop songs and is probably the only person around these parts looking forward to his new album Out Of The Game. And Montreal's proud son has snagged a pretty great actress to star is the first video off the album. Helena Bonham Carter pins up her hair and puts on some glasses to play ...

Horse Feathers , led by singer-songwriter Justin Ringle and longtime collaborator, violinist Nathan Crockett, broadens their sonic palette on Cynic’s New Year to include 11 musicians playing instruments including drums, French horn, piano, bells, upright bass and banjo. The album was recorded at Portland’s Miracle Lake Studios with producer Skyler Norwood (Blind Pilot, Talkdemonic) as well as at Ringle’s own Hawthorne Park studio. Praised by NYLON for their “delicately wrought and rustic tales of promise and woe,” the group’s three previous releases have garnered critical acclaim with The Onion noting that Ringle adds “both pathos and mystery ...

Filed under: News Arts & Crafts Stars ' vocalist Torquil Campbell and crooner Michael Buble might be fans of each other's music, but don't expect the two of them to agree on whether fighting has a place in hockey. On today's CBC radio program Q with Jian Ghomeshi, Campbell launched a pointed rant against fighting in hockey which he described as "animalistic violence." The view is in contrast to Buble's comments last October on the game . "It occurs to me that if you let your seven or eight-year-old boy watch two grown men try to injure each other ...

By Jspicer on Mar 28 2012 The mixtape, in its literal form, seems eerily obsolete. This website holds onto its visage like grim death, a point of pride among our legion. Those doomed to a world post-mixtape will exist in a sad world, one without hope springing eternal or the discovery of a band that would otherwise never hit our radar. It’s this inspirational well that The Lemon Tape is drawn from. Hell, just look at the hippie, happy cover art. It’s sunshine all over this cassette, coming straight from the unicorn and rainbow capital, Montreal. Shit! Quebec ...

Attila frontman Chris "Fronz" Fronzak has again been denied entry into Canada. Fronzak released a statement on Tumblr : "Dear Canada, I am sorry to announce, but I WILL NOT be allowed into Canada for the Toronto and Montreal dates of 'The Sick Tour'... My manager and I worked very hard and payed SHITloads of money in hopes that the Canadian government would let me cross the border. Canada basically called my manager and said 'No fucking way'. It pisses me off, but there is nothing I can do. I have a felony on my record and Canada is the ONLY ...