NATURAL CHILD w. GRAND TRINE / REGULATIONS w. SPECTRES + TV FREAKS / CHEAP TIME w. MANNEQUIN MEN

It's the Return of the Rat ( me)! I Kid.. or is it iKid?

I'm busy³ working on the 1 Year Anniversary book + launch, so forgive me if I'm tired all the time and have even more of a one track mind. Big things are in the works, ok!!

Here's some photos from the past couple weeks!

NATURAL CHILD are from Nashville, TN. Their song " I Don't Want To Fuck You, But I Got To" is by and far the most hilarious song I've heard since the Leather Uppers put out "Don't Sell Hotdogs Tonight".

REGULATIONS are a crucial and crushing Swedish punk band that blew apart the Shop on a sleepy weekday night. If you liked Black Flag as a young person and still do, listen to this band!

CHEAP TIME are from Nashville as well, as almost every relevant band of today is. The singer looks a hell of a lot like what Superman would look like if he were actually a real human man in his mid 20's. Thats a good thing, at least I always think so. I really dig Cheap Time for their music, though!

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←LANTERN
← GRAND TRINE!
↓NATURAL CHILD



← SPECTRES + TV FREAKS!
← REGULATIONS
← CHEAP TIME @ the silver dollar
← Mannequin Men!

XO

FRIENDS ON THE SPIT+ANAGRAM+PIERCED ARROWS+PEACH KELLI POP+NATURAL CHILD

Here's what I've been up to the past couple weeks. Apart from working at the Treating Yourself expo last weekend.

← yup.

Starting the month of my birth of right, a bunch of friends and I biked out to the lighthouse on the Leslie Spit with the loose goal of watching the 6 planets align in the pre-dawn sky. While we did see the grand cosmic dance, we did not utilize the rather large telescope that Nigel biked across town with. Watching the sun rise over Lake Ontario in the cool summers morn was like a scene from a Sofia Coppola film.

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The Garage (73 Cecil) is set to be one of the best pop up venues in the city. I'd love to see Quest For Fire, Dentata, One Hundred Dollars or like Career Suicide there. Here's Anagram/Tonka&Puma/False Face ripping the place on June 3rd.

←↓ ANAGRAM


← FALSE FACE, TONKA&PUMA

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Peach Kelli Pop are a bunch of darling pop crooners from Ottawa whom I adore a whole lot. I love the new lineup too! From the show with the incroyable Sphinxs at The Shop on June 5th.

← PEACH KELLI POP
← THE SPHINXS

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Now, Natural Child ( from Nashville) ARE awesome, and they were one of my top 10's from SXSW this year, but this was a weird show. They were definitely good, but it didn't have the same pull as back in Austin. I really really like them though, that song that goes something like " Let me hit that cop/ let me smoke that rock" and the other one about not wanting to fuck someone, but doing it anyways? Pure Diamond Gold.

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And last night the best musical example of a successful marriage happened at the Silver Dollar. PIERCED ARROWS ( ex Dead Moon) my friends. Pierced Arrows. Pierced damned Arrows. In an insanely fitting move, Lullabye Arkestra and Ell V Gore opened the show up. The Ark did a North American tour with P.A last summer. It's like gazing into the mirrors of time, comparing Kat and Justin with Toody and Fred.

←ELL V GORE

←THE ARK

←↓ PIERCED ARROWS, Guns of Thunder
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XO