When You Left The Fire will be released on June 22nd by Toronto’s Vérité recording artists, The Wilderness of Manitoba.
Check out this Band of Horses-esque track from The Wilderness of Manitoba:
Hermit – The Wilderness of Manitoba
And Check out this vid:

For more info:
“Hermit” MP3/Photos/Album Cover: http://www.killbeatmusic.com/thewildernessofmanitoba/
Watch “Orono” : http://www.southernsouls.ca/thewildernessofmanitoba.html
Watch “Evening” EPK: http://vimeo.com/11054990

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Aside from a totally rockin’ logo, Livid Records, a punk rock record label out of Boca Raton, Florida is an awesome Twitter user to follow. This isn’t just your regular retweeting of music related links, this is real engangement with followers, links to funny, sometimes bizarre stories, humorous tweets as well as news, listings and [...]

With hypnotically repetitive choreography, this video left a lasting impression on me the first time I watched it. A friend of mine introduced me to Brit band The xx, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

P.S. Is Youtube addicted to change? Every time I turn around, they’ve changed their video players.
Cheers,
colin.

It doesn’t get whole lot better than this. Alice in Chains, The Deftones and Mastodon are coming to Vancouver to play GM Place on the BLACKDIAMONDSKYE tour. They’ll be here October 7th. Here are the rest of the dates so far:
16-Sep Chicago, IL Charter One Pavilion, on-sale May 22 17-Sep Detroit, MI DTE Energy Center, on-sale [...]

With no official announcement of an upcoming album, Interpol made a new song, “Lights” available for free download on their web site last night. And it does not disappoint. Click here to download.

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Looks like a dull weekend in Raincity, folks.
Fri, 04/30/10

Anoushka Shankar is going to be performing at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts at 8pm – map – tickets – Facebook
Headpins are at the Cascades Casino in Langley – map – tickets – Facebook
Randy Travis who I saw play a lonely, singular song while I [...]

I know I haven’t really been posting lately but that’s for a legitimate reason… Laziness… That and my ever longing quest for more music to fulfill my ears. So this is what’s been on my playlist while I’ve procrastinated my writing & school work!
Caribou
Genius, pure genius. A man with a goal single-handedly makes some of [...]

This video is lighthearted and funny, and for some reason it has me thinking about viral OK Go vids. Anyway. Check it out:

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Vancouver’s Fugitives are heading back home after their Canadian Tour. They’ll be at the Biltmore on May 26th. Here’s Breaking Promises from their recent album, Eccentrically We Love:

Get tickets: Click here!

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Something about me you probably don’t know, is that I am absolutely terrible with song names and album names. Personally, I blame my iPod and digital music. You don’t have to pick up an album and insert it into some machine to play it anymore. Lengthy playlists dilute albums and lose them amongst orphaned songs. [...]