Last night in Toronto Daniel Snaith aka Caribou won the coveted $20,000 Polaris Music Prize for his 2007 album Andorra.  Caribou now lives in London but win best Canadian album as he was born in Dundas, Ontario.
Andorra is a departure from heavily influenced electronica of previous albums such as Start Breaking My Heart and The [...]

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Modey Lemon - Season of Sweets is released on Birdman Records
Modey Lemon are a loud, expansive mix of garage rock, post-punk aggression, spasmooodic moogs, fuzzy guitars, a good helping of psychedelia and synthesizer kraut-rock. The success is in the way that Modey Lemon seamless blend of all of these influences into one massive album.
The album [...]

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There’s a real buzz following Cardiff’s manic Threatmantics; and on 20th October, Double Six will release their third single (first for Double Six), Big Man, the first single to be taken from Threatmantics’ forthcoming album, Upbeat Love (due on 3rd November).
For those new to the three-piece, Threatmantics are a rock and roll band from Cardiff. [...]

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Noel Gallagher has written on his personal blog following his assault last weekend while playing at the Toronto V Music Festival in Canada.
Though Gallagher made fun of the incident he also wrote that the attacker, Canadian Daniel Sullivan, will be prosecuted.  He wrote:
“Can’t say much more than that as the ‘perpetrator’s’ gonna get the book [...]

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Smirnoff Nights: Silent Disco & Fun Lovin Criminals @ Koko, Camden, London - 10th September, 2008
Last night Smirnoff held the first night of a silent disco global promotion campaign at Camden’s Koko club (formerly Camden Palace for those party goers of years gone by).
Headlining was Huey and Co. of the Fun Lovin Criminals with a [...]

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