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On Tour

Interview With Sleepy Sun’s Bret Constantino / Remaining Tour Dates (Play Calgary Tuesday)

May 6, 2012

There’s a few bands I talk about repeatedly here on New Music Michael, simply because I absolutely love them that much. Without a doubt one of my two favorite bands over the last couple of years (the other being Joy Formidable of course) is Sleepy Sun, whose last two albums have just completely blown my [...]

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On Tour: Slow Down Molasses – Including Last Minute Gig Here in Edmonton

May 3, 2012

One of our favorite bands from Saskatchewan is heading out on tour this May … and while most of those dates are in Europe, *TWO* are right here in Canada, and include, you guessed it, here in Edmonton. Honestly, what I’m betting is happening is that their flight leaves for Europe out of Edmonton, so [...]

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Superhumanoids – Geri / Cover “I Wanna Be Sedated” / New Album Info / Tour Dates

May 3, 2012

One band I haven’t actually talked about this year yet, but I did spend a lot of time talking about them in 2011, is Superhumanoids. An incredibly awesome dreampop act out of Los Angeles, they have a swath of live shows coming up opening up for Active Child and Balam Acab (full itinerary below, but [...]

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Wilco – My Own Sled Idaho / Tour Dates

May 1, 2012

Wilco went ahead and announced another swath of tour dates yesterday morning. Still none closer to us here in Edmonton than a late June date in Boise ID, to which I have tickets to, as it makes a nice little tag-along to the Sled Island music festival in Calgary (which announces its lineup later today, [...]

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Rah Rah – Stream New Track / LP “The Poet’s Dead” Drops This Fall / Tour Dates

April 27, 2012

HA! I was waiting for this announcement, and it’s even better news because we get a couple new tracks before I was expecting them by way of a 7″ release titled “Little Poems” on June 12 (Hidden Pony). In fact, the two tracks (the title track plus “I Could Tell You I’m Sorry”) will *NOT* [...]

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On Tour – Gardens & Villa

April 27, 2012

When last we left Gardens & Villa, we streamed a couple of their tracks – “Black Hills” and “Star Fire Power” in early February. Since then, they played a couple of massive weekends at Coachella, and from all accounts kicked some serious ass and made a whack more fans. Well deserved, my friends, well deserved. [...]

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On Tour: Of Montreal

April 26, 2012

I was hoping against hope Of Montreal, who hail from Athens Georgia, would include a western prairie swing in this year’s tour to support “Paralytic Stalks” (February 7 / Polyvinyl), but it’s not meant to be this year. Not at all surprising, since they were at Sled Island in Calgary last June, I suppose, but [...]

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Metric – More Details On “Synthetica” – Out June 12

April 18, 2012

Received a few pressers yesterday on the upcoming Metric album, “Synthetica”. Due out June 12, the album will contain eleven tracks (listing below). The band also announced the first single – “Youth Without Youth” (the second track on the album) – will be released May 1. Oh, and there’s cover art now. There, now you’re [...]