for all the lucky bums going to Glasto

NME has a sneak peak at who's playing the Pyramid Stage and Other Stage at Glastonbury...
The line-up is totally amazing of course!

what's standing in the way of clothing?

Beth Ditto struck a rather shocking pose on the cover of this week's NME.

Pitchfork interview with Miss Leslie Feist!

Sam the Record Man's flagship store in Toronto is closing.

all my heroes are getting old

Happy 40th Birthday to Noel Gallagher today! And props to whoever thought it would be funny to sponsor a monkey in his honour!

control

The Ian Curtis (Joy Division) biopic "Control" is all the buzz with its recent acclaim and prizes from Cannes. Check out the trailer and this feature/interview with director Anton Corbijn.

Blur’s Alex James looks back fondly on blowing $1M on drug’n’booze-fuelled orgies. Classy.

The Streets are working on the 4th album.

Liam Gallagher reportedly bought brother Noel a trip to space for his 40th birthday.

"i didn't even have time to get drunk"

NME has the scoop on all the Ivor Novello award winners. Amy Winehouse gave the best quote of the night.

The White Stripes new video for “Icky Thump”... Exactly what you’d expect.

Lily Allen is set to duet with Debbie Harry (and the rest of Blondie) tomorrow morning on The Today Show for anyone who wants to pull a sickie or who, like, doesn't work.

guess who's back in town

I made it home from the great north via Air Canada Jazz on Sunday night despite a delay that I’m happy we as passengers weren’t told about before boarding the plane. My visit to Timmins was awesome and the fireworks over Toronto on Sunday at 9:30ish were spectacular from the view up above!

Thanks to Elias for sending me this video of vintage Pete Doherty. Sigh. Now that was the man we all knew and loved.

Speaking of, Pete did something good!

M.I.A. has cancelled the first of several scheduled North American festival appearances this summer. Visa problems again. Who'da thunk it with all her terrorist talk.

As someone who’s been attacked by a Canadian Goose (seriously) I appreciate THIS for noting that they have been known to inflict some nasty injuries. I'm only half joking.

headin north

The Arcade Fire show last night was brilliant!

No new posts for the next week... I'm flying up to Northern Ontario tomorrow for a friend's wedding this weekend and I won't be back in town and blogging 'til at least Tuesday!

kill all seals... j/k... obvs...

Lily Allen has realized "there's more to life than being thin" and has taken to bashing some popstar no one outside of Britain has ever heard of. Entertaining!

I really like The Cribs new single "Men's Needs" but I had no idea the music video would be so racy! (Totally NSFW!)

A bunch of musicians/bands (that don't live anywhere near here) want to stop Canada's seal hunt... Don't even get me started on this shit again...

Arcade Fire tonight! I'll be the bitch with the awesome view :)

feathers and fun

I wish I had gone to the big Pillow Fight this weekend!

Lily Allen is contemplating weight-loss surgery. Cos she's SOOO fat.

Bryan Ferry can no longer call himself a male model.

Pitchfork has an interview with The Arcade Fire. I can't wait for their show tomorrow night at Massey Hall!

i can't wait for a day off

Osheaga has snatched up the best of V-Fest's performers.

A new Rilo Kiley album, 'Under the Blacklight', will be released in August! Yay!

The new Interpol album cover reminds me of trip to a museum of natural history.

Demetri Martin is awesome (in a convenient, low budget kinda way) in the new Travis video.

losing faith in pd

Pete Doherty's been arrested again on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug.

Peter Hook says New Order have split for good this time.

Larrakin Love have split.

The Guardian reflects on the union of Johnny Marr and Morrissey 25 years ago.

I knew I wasn't going crazy when I spotted some Killers when I was watching the game with my boy on Friday!

I'm going to see The Kooks tomorrow night so don't hold your breath for an update!

hit that

Most of my favourite songs ever topped NME's Greatest Indie Anthem Ever poll. Uh, so I guess the moral is either I have fantastic taste OR I'm not very original! Here's the full list.

Stereogum has a new track from M.I.A."

This made me laugh. Especially the New Order/Joy Division one.

go rappy-taps!

Coachella went down over the weekend Pitchfork and NME have coverage. I could care less - I'd rather not know what I missed out on.

The Shortlist finalists have been announced. Yawn.

Blur – complete with Graham Coxon – plan to reunite in the studio this summer says Alex James. It better not be a dirty lie Mr. James!

Pete Doherty’s completed his first solo album.

Stereogum has Jason Collett covering Stars and new music from Interpol.

Aren't I too old to be excited by this?

PS: GO RAPTORS!