SIRIUS: Face The Music [Contest]

Face The Music gives fans from across Canada the chance to win an intimate concert in their city by playing a “name that tune” style music game. Whichever city ends up with the highest score will host one of these “big-band-in-a-small-venue” shows, while anyone who’s competing has the chance to win a trip to the concert of your choice in the next two weeks, just by getting the highest score in the game.

My top score is 315550. Think you can do better? sure you do! Go on, put me in my place….

More details plus find out which bands could be headlining your city after the jump

One Day You’ll Be Cool: VOLCANO PLAYGROUND (Plus Exclusive Dave Newfeld Remix)

It only takes about eleven seconds to realize what you’re hearing is unique. Around the second chord in “Waiting,” the tonal shift if you will, the slightly faded nostalgia of the opening hum miraculously turns into the sound of now and the song explodes from there. In a swirl of lush dream-pop that both echoes and expands the growing trend of revamped shoegaze that Volcano Playground has found themselves tided in on, the song quickly expands into a distinct melody that is so emotive that it may as well be sung in Martian tongue.

PLUS check out this EXCLUSIVE remix of Volcano Playground’s “Waiting” by Broken Social Scene producer Dave Newfeld

WAITING (Newfeld RE-Mix)

Broken Social Scene vs R Kelly “I’m a Flirt 7/4 Shoreline”

Dear players, flirts and douchebags everywhere, here’s a tip: go pick up at a Broken Social Scene show.

Much more after the jump

State of the Confederation: Part 3

The success of Broken Social Scene, Feist and Arcade Fire may have killed Canadian music’s international rep as a pop-culture punch line (see: Dion, Celine) but any viable scene needs fresh blood. As such, an eclectic new generation of musicians have picked up the proverbial torch and marched across the borders that the early-2000s Can-indie explosion blew apart.

State of the Confederation: Part 2