News September 24 2009

District 9
Nigerian officials say they've asked cinemas to stop screening the sci-fi movie District 9, filmed in South Africa, because of its portrayal of Nigerians.Information Minister Dora Akunyili said Saturday that the movie — a thinly veiled apartheid tale involving aliens — portrays Nigerians as cannibals and gangsters."We have written to the producer and distributor of the film, Sony Entertainment, expressing our displeasure and demanded an apology," Akunyili said. "We have asked that the areas where Nigeria and [former Nigerian president Olusegun] Obasanjo are mentioned should be edited from the film."Akunyili says she has asked the country's film and censor board to confiscate copies of District 9.
cbc.ca



Polaris Prize


Fucked Up won this years Polaris Music Prize! this prize is probably one of the best you can win because it's based on the artistic merit of the album you release not on sales or any of that business. Congratulations Fucked Up

Keane

Keane drummer Richard Hughes is to accompany Amnesty International on a visit to a prisoner on death row in Georgia, USA to help highlight what is widely believed to be a miscarriage of justice. Hughes, 34, is visiting Troy Davis, 40, on death row at the Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson,in the US state of Georgia on Saturday 26 September. Mr Davis, who has always protested his innocence, has been on death row since 1991. Last year Mr Davis came within two hours of execution, but last month the US Supreme Court ruled that he should be allowed a new hearing to establish his innocence. Troy Davis was convicted in 1991 of killing a police officer called Mark Allen MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia in 1989. However, the authorities failed to produce a murder weapon or any physical evidence linking Davis to the crime, and seven of nine witnesses against him later recanted or changed their initial testimonies in sworn affidavits. Amnesty International has a petition for Troy Davis at: www.amnesty.org.uk/deathpenalty
music-news.com

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We're Moving!

Today is our last show in the old house at 91 St. George St. Next week we will be broadcasting from Hart House. Our show will be done live every Thursday from the Map Room Studio, which is located almost directly across from the Porter's Desk on the main floor. One of the exciting things about this new studio is the set up. There are glass doors and windows, and a huge lounge outside, so anyone can come down and check us out broadcasting live!

We say goodbye to our old house, we will always remember all of the good times in this building. And we welcome the new space in Hart House and look forward to all of the exciting experiences to come.

xoxo

Playlist Sept. 24, 2009

1. Emmy the Great - Where is my mind? (Pixies cover)
2. Papercuts - Future Primitive
3. Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animal
4. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
5. Metric - Twilight Galaxy
6. MSTRKRFT - So Deep
7. A Fine Frenzy - Electric Twist
8. The Arkells - Tragic Flaw
9. Grand Analog ft. Kyomi - Touch Your Toes
10. Tusks - Mans Best Friend
11. We Are Scientists - Cash Cow
12. Joel Plaskett - Through and Through and Through
13. Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr. A
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life
15. Cougar - Stay Famous
16. Band of Skulls - Fires
17. The Fratellis - Z Movie Saga
18. The Duke & The King - If you ever get famous
19. Maximo Park - Lets Get Clinical
20. Zero 7 - Pop Art Blue
21. Little Miss Higgins - In The Middle of Nowhere
22. Two Hours Traffic - Wicked Side
23. Hockey - Learn To Loose
24. The Clientele - Harvest Time
25. The Morning Benders - Worth The Fight
26. Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You To Know
27. Amy Milan - Low Sail

Event/Concert Listings

The Watchmen w/ Paper Lions
Friday September 25 & Saturday September 26, 2009
@ The Horseshoe
10:15pm
$20-$25

She Wants Revenge
Monday September 28, 2009
@ Pheonix Concert Theatre
9pm
$20

Dinosaur Jr.
Wednesday September 30, 2009
@ Pheonix Concert Theatre
9pm
$30

Word on The Street Festival
Sunday September 27, 2009
@ Queens Park
11am
FREE

Sadie May Crash
Saturday September 26, 2009
@ The Mod Club
Free w/ Guestlist email: band@sadiemaycrash.com
9pm

Polaris Finalists 2009 - Gala Tonight!

The Polaris Prize has been around since 2006. It is a cash award of $20,000 to a Canadian band or artist with the best full length album. This is determined by artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. Past winners include Final Fantasy, Patrick Watson, and Caribou.

Here is the short list of nominees for the 2009 Polaris Prize:

Elliott Brood — Mountain Meadows
Fucked Up — The Chemistry Of Common Life
Great Lake Swimmers — Lost Channels
Hey Rosetta! — Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood)
K'Naan — Troubadour
Malajube — Labyrinthes
Metric — Fantasies
Joel Plaskett — Three
Chad VanGaalen — Soft Airplane
Patrick Watson — Wooden Arms

The winner will be announced TONIGHT (Sept. 21) at 9pm. You can catch the Gala live on Sirius Satellite ch. 86 or www.radio3.cbc.ca

News September 17 2009

A Career Change
Lily Allen has revealed that she is taking a break from music to try her hand at acting. The singer said after four years on the road, her voice has been through enough and she is ready to try "something new". She announced her news as she played Bestival on Saturday, telling the crowd: "I'm not going to record and tour again for quite a while. I finish up my gig dates in March and I'll be ready to do something else. "I've been on the road for four years and I've given my voice a real run for its money. "I'm struggling, so I'm going to try something new. "Allen is set to tread the boards and make her stage debut in the West End in a play by top writer and director Neil LaBute called Reasons To Be Pretty, the sequel to hit shows The Shape Of Things and Fat Pig. She said: "The play is about themes close to my heart, things I touch on in my track The Fear, about the really damaging cult of beauty among young girls.
music-news.com


A New Album from The Bravery
The Bravery's third album -- "Slow Poison," due out Nov. 10 -- will be "darker and angrier" than its predecessors, according to frontman Sam Endicott. But it's not a wholesale reinvention of the band, either. "I'd say it's more like the first record (in 2005) in that there's a lot of electronics on it, but it still sounds very human," Endicott tells Billboard.com. "It's also like the first record in that it's a party album. It's uptempo, fun music, although it does have a range of things. There are slower, dreamy songs, and our bass player (Mike Hindert) wrote a song ('She Is So Bendable') that sounds like a '50s ballad or something."The Bravery started working on its follow-up to 2007's sophomore effort "The Sun and the Moon" in October of 2008, working up songs in an abandoned church in rural upstate New York. The group then returned to Manhattan to work with co-producer John Hill (M.I.A., Santigold). "He taught us a lot of ways to manipulate synthesizers and guitars in a way that we had never done before, so the album sounds spacier," Endicott explains.

billboard.com


If you like Harry Potter you'll love This
Harry Potter is getting his own theme park. Universal Orlando has announced that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will open some time in the spring of 2010. Actor Tom Felton, who plays villian Draco Malfoy, made the announcement in Orlando yesterday. The $200 million park will include a major ride called Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, as well as exclusive merchandise, food, candy and gadgets from the books and films, and an Ollivanders wand shop, where the experience of having your wand select you is somehow being developed.

Some more events to check out...

Tomorrow night! (Sept 18) @ The Pheonix Concert Theatre
K'Naan
9pm $23.50

Also tomorrow night:

Modernboys Moderngirls CD Release Party
@ Sneaky Dee's
w/ Clothes Make the Man, Black Hat Brigade, & Morning Electric
$10 w/CD 9pm

Playlist Sept. 17, 2009

1. Jay Reatard - I'm Watching You
2. The Dodos - Fables
3. Kasabian - Fire
4. Mando Diao - Give Me Fire
5. Mute Math - Electrify
6. Metric - Give Me Sympathy
7. We Were Promised Jet Packs - Moving Clocks Run Slow
8. The Tragically Hip - Honey, Please
9. Lioness - What You Do will Come Back To You
10. Malajube - La Valerie
11. Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
12. Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
13. Hannah Georges - The Beat Stuff
14. Sam Roberts - Up Sister
15. The Requesters - Pianobytes
16. The Fratellis - Z Movie Saga
17. The High Dials - Oisin, My Bastard Brother
18. Wolfmother - New Moon Rising
19. The Besnard Lakes - And You Lied To Me
20. Muse - Resistance
21. Kill The Lights - Little Ninja Boots
22. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
23. Octoberman - Trapped In the New Scene
24. Cuff The Duke - You Were Right
25. We Are Standard - The First Girl Who Got A Kiss Without A Please
26. The Ting Tings - Great DJ

Event Listing

Thursday September 17th
at Neu+ral Lounge (349A College Street, at Augusta)
Stephanie Braganza (www.stephanieb.ca)
The Groove Suit (www.myspace.com/thegroovesuit)

$7
9pm
19+

Poll

Hey Everyone,

Michelle here...

I am encouraging everyone to vote YES! on our poll to convince Erin she should try out to be a Much Music VJ.

The poll closes on Thursday September 24.

Thanks in advance!

New Arctic Monkeys Music Video

Here is the new Arctic Monkeys video for the song Crying Lightning which is off of the Crying Lightning E.P, available now!

Playlist Sept. 10, 2009

1. Cougar - Foil Epee Sabre
2. Portugal, The Man - The Sun
3. Midnight Masses - Preacher's Sun
4. The Coral - Who's Gunna Find Me
5. Amy Milan - He Brings Out the Whiskey in Me
6. Amy Milan - Bruised Ghosts
7. Octoberman - Trapped In The New Scene
8. The Cribs - We Were Aborted
9. Jason Collett - We All Lose One Another
10. Secret Broadcast - Shatter
11. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
12. My Morning Jacket - Touch Me, Im Going To Scream Pt. 2
13. John Legend - Everybody Knows (RAC Remix)
14. Kill The Lights - Little Ninja Boots
15. Depeche Mode - Peace
16. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
17. Kid Koala - Robbin Banks (Doin Time)
18. Roman Candle - They Say
19. The Paper Cranes - Chivalrys Dead
20. The Dutchess & The Duke - Reservoir Park
21. Mute Math - Odds
22. The Junction - Pick Your Battles
23. Liam Finn & Eliza Jane - Long Way To Go
24. Plasticines - You're No Good
25. Metric - Gold Guns Girls
26. Band of Skulls - Death By Diamonds & Pearls
27. The Darcys - I am a Ship
28. Brendan Benson - Don't Wanna Talk About It

News Sept 3 2009

Kenny vs Spenny

Kenny vs Spenny is a show all about the rivalry of these two long time friends. In each episode the pair compete in a challenge to see who is the "best" friend in the end the loser must perform a humliation as past down from the winner. The sixth season of the show is coming to showcase in November and the boys need your help creating new challenges. Any person that lives in Canada (excluding Quebec) and is age of majority in their province/territory can send in a possible challenge idea. To enter go to showcase.ca and click the Kenny vs Spenny Banner.

Pearl Jam
Pearl Jams "The Fixer" has made this weeks highest debut on the billboard music charts. The Fixer settled that the number 56 spot on the hot 100 and sold 32,000 digital tracks online, beating their former personal best of 20,000 in 2006.

Wanna be on TV?
If you love music and are looking for a job why not try to be the next Much Music VJ. With the departure of Leah Miller Much Music is looking to fill her place, you can enter starting Tuesday September 8th at five pm. For tips on what you need and how to enter go to vj.muchmusic.com/

Playlist Sept 4 2009

1.The Airborne Toxic Event- Does This Mean You're Moving On
2. The Arkells- The Choir
3. Brand New- At The Bottom
4. Joel Plaskett- New Scotland Band
5. The Weakerthans- Virute the Cat Explains her Departure
6. Spinerette- A Spectral Suspension
7. Regina Spektor- Dance Anthem of the 80's
8. Passion Pit- Moth Wings
9. White Lies- Farwell to the Fairground
10. Octoberman- Trapped in the Scene
11. Wilco- You Never Know
12. Alexisonfire- Heading for the Sun
13. Grand Analog- Electric City (ft Shad)
14. The Noisettes - Monte Cristo
15. Soul Position - Priceless
16. Miike Snow - Black and Blue
17. The Danks - Die Young
18. More or Less & Fresh Kills - Rip Rap
19. People in Planes - If you talk to much (My head will explode)
20. Golden Dogs - Never Meant Any Harm
21. The Machines - Track #1
22. Secret Broadcast - Shatter
23. Lupe Fiasco - Intruder Alert
24. The Junction - Pick Your Battles