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The Drums from The Big Funky Disco on Vimeo.

The Drums – Best Friend (LIVE) from Dilly Blog TV on Vimeo.

Miracle Fortress is a Montreal act that my friend John just turned me onto. Apparently we’re going to see them on Thursday August 6th at the Theatre Centre, here in Toronto. I’ve never ever heard of that venue!

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UPDATE:
Ok so now that I’ve seen Miracle Fortress live, watch the video below to share in my shock/confusion:

I went to Lee’s Palace a couple of nights ago to see Friendly Fires and White Lies with Barb, Justin, John and Thilo. John loves Friendly Fires but unfortunately we only got to see a couple of songs when they opened for Lykke Li back in the spring. They were great and a lot of fun… and that singer does not stop dancing!

White Lies were good, too, but it’s difficult to compare the bands as they are so different. Friendly Fires clearly has more experience and is more comfortable on the stage. White Lies did a good job but I think they’ll be much more confident after a couple more tours. They looked exhausted and also a bit frightened! I’d been looking forward to seeing them and I clearly wasn’t the only one, seeing as the show was sold out.

Here are a few pics and videos that I took:

Here are a few pics from tonight’s Radiohead concert. I’ll add a link to the full gallery later.

Here’s a track from UNKLE’s upcoming album, End Titles…Stories for Film. It’s a re-working of instrumental track “Chemistry” from their previous album, and now features Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age on vocals.

Thanks to Pitchfork for the embed.

I’ve been listening to some great new records lately. Here is some information about a few of them:

Grand Archives – The Grand Archives (2008) (US) (myspace)

Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (2008) (UK) (myspace)

The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia (2008) (US) (myspace)

Portishead – Third (2008) (UK) (myspace)

The Envy Corps – The Envy Corps (2008) (US) (myspace)

Radiohead is having a contest to remix the song “Nude” from In Rainbows and are posting the top 10 remixes here.

My friend Vicente and I went to check out Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan. It was a great show, except for the annoying girl who kept asking me to move over, but who was talking continuously through each song.

Here are some pics and videos from the John Vanderslice concert from a couple of weeks ago.