Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton in Edmonton

That's right, Ms. Haines will be performing Wednesday January 17 @ the Citadel according to Pitchfork. No word on tickets yet.

Wasted State of Mind

Go to MySpace to hear new ...Trail of Dead
I'm digging it

Tragically Hip

The Hip will be back in the Praires this winter
4 Dates have been announced across Alberta
January 13 in Grand Praire @ Canada Games Arena
14 in Edmonton @ Rexall Place
16 in Red Deer @ Enmax Centrium &
17 in Lethbridge @ Enmax Centre

The pre-sale starts tomorrow @ 10am for American Express cardholders & fan club members
with another pre-sale starting @ noon on Wednesday through HOB & the Bear. The password for those two are container (HOB) & inview (Bear). And finally the general on-sale begins on Saturday. Tickets go as high as $75.50 + s/c. Crazy.

So Many Shepherds Reading

more pics @ Flickr

Wincing The Night Away

The Shins record leaked
Lovely listen so far
Nothing mind blowing
Nice tunes for a Sunday

Wowee Zowee

Read up on the newest Pavement re-issue and all the cool extras you can get.

Sparta Stream

Head over to MySpace to stream the new Sparta record
'Threes' hits stores Tuesday

The Black Parade

head over to The Black Parade to stream the new MCR record
I'm quite surprised at my initial reaction to this thing
I was expecting to be turned off of the band by the grandoise nature of this project
Yet on these early listens I'm really digging it
Time will tell

Poetry Reading

An invitation to all

Ian McPhail & Graham Jensen present
An Afternoon of Poetry
Saturday Oct. 21
Cathel Books in Downtown Camrose

readings @ 1, 3, & 5pm

Links October 15, 2006

YouTube - Jeff Tweedy "The Thanks I Get"
Video Clip from "Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest"

Escape From Japan
AT the Terminal 8 food court of Kennedy International Airport, over a breakfast of Coca-Cola and greasy Chinese noodles, Miho Mimura slipped her hand into her new American boyfriend’s and the tears started to flow. “I’m sad, I don’t want to go back to Japan,” she said.

Flickr: Photos from Noah G.
Pics from Noah from the Devandra Banhart Band

Jason Collett pics

Head over to Flickr for more pics from Friday's show @ the Powerplant. I hope to post some video soon.

Billy Talent Pre-Sale

from the Bear

The Bear just announced Billy Talent coming to Edmonton and you Greedy Bastards
get another chance to beat everyone to the punch! The Bear is offering you a
chance to purchase tickets to see Billy Talent, with special guests Rise
Against, Anti-Flag, and Moneen in Edmonton on January 25th at Rexall Place,
prior to the public sale.

The pre-sale begins Wednesday, October 11th at 10:00am and runs until Friday,
October 13th at 10:00pm.

To take advantage of this sale, click the following link
http://www.hob.com/go/ine/315/edmonton_bear/ and enter the password "mass" under
the Greedy Bastards Pre-Sale offer.

Brand New return

from AP

' Influential rock act Brand New have finally announced a title and tracklisting for their upcoming third album. The album -- the group's follow-up to 2003's Deja Entendu and their major-label debut -- will be titled The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me and will feature 12 tracks, including "Sowing Season (Yeah)," "Deguasser" and "You Won't Know," all of which were showcased on the band's headlining tour this past summer; it will be released Nov. 21 via Interscope.

Brand New and longtime friend Mike Sapone produced The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me and Rich Costey, whose credits include Muse, Franz Ferdinand and The Mars Volta, covered mixing duties. The tracklisting is below.

The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
01. Sowing Season (Yeah)
02. Millstone
03. Jesus Christ
04. Degausser
05. Limousine
06. You Won't Know
07. Welcome to Bangkok
08. Not the Sun
09. Luca
10. Untitled
11. Archers
12. Handcuffs'

new Blood Brothers video

from AP

' Seattle-based progressive hardcore quintet the Blood Brothers have posted online the video for "Laser Life," the first single off their new record, Young Machetes, out Oct. 10 via V2 . The video can be viewed in QuickTime, or it can be watched on YouTube.'

Rise Against, Moneen, Anti-Flag, & Billy Talent in Edmonton

The Journal will inform you here on what should be a good nite (Jan. 25) of rock n' roll. Too bad I'll be in Cuba.

Links Oct. 4, 2006

A Secret Society, Spilling a Few Secrets
For more than two centuries, the Freemasons and their grandiose rituals have played a secretive, mysterious role in American life. One of the Masons’ symbols looks a lot like the all-seeing eye on the back of every $1 bill. And look whose picture is on the other side.

Why Couldn't 'King's Men' Put It Together?
As Steve Zaillian's film "All the King's Men" sinks at the box office, he wonders one thing: What happened?

Jingle Bell Rock 2006

More info has emerged in regards to the Coheed show. It will be part of Sonic's Christmas show. Atreyu will be on the bill as well. Tickets are $39.50 + s/c. A presale is now underway through sonic with general onsale this Saturday @ 10am. More info here.

Cold War Kids stream

Head over to AOL to stream the debut full-length from the amazing Cold War Kids.
via Stereogum

Links Oct. 1, 2006

A Guide to the Hold Steady States of America
THE HOLD STEADY was supposed to be a local band, and in a sense that’s what it is. The members mainly live in New York, and Sunday night they’re coming to Manhattan, to Irving Plaza, to celebrate their great new album, “Boys and Girls in America.”

Booked-Up Publishers Could Be in a Bind
NEW YORK — This fall, the largest number of new titles by brand-name authors in recent memory is hitting bookstores, and the publishing world is asking itself an unusual question: Can there be too many good books?

Instead of Bad Movies, Cinema Shows None
The owner gives workers a paid vacation and closes for two weeks to protest 'lousy material.'

Tom Morello Arrested At Protest, Spends Night in Lockup
Guitarist released Friday after protesting for immigrant workers' rights at Los Angeles march.

The Writing Life
Watching a writer write is about as interesting as watching paint dry -- but something hairy is going on...

The Inside Agitator
It seemed somewhat bizarre, then, when Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, chose to make the long odyssey to Alaska at the end of May, near what was the beginning of one of the most intense and closely contested national election campaigns in memory, when every other Democrat in Washington was talking about potentially decisive states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.