The Radio Dept. is an indie pop band from Lund, Sweden signed to Labrador Records. The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called “Radioavdelningen” (The Radio Department in Swedish). However, Almered and Duncanson soon stopped playing music together, putting the band on hiatus. According to Labrador Records and confirmed by the group’s official Facebook page, their third album Clinging to a Scheme is going to be released on April 21, 2010.

As you all may know, Broken Social Scene is my favorite band of all time. They can never jump the shark, and they can never be classified or genre’d. They are the perfect storm that encompasses several entities all based out of Austin North aka Toronto Ontario. I will find a way to see them on this tour but there are several scheduling conflicts. New album is released May 4th. Reminds me of being in England, pre ordering the cd and listening to it weeks before the cd arrived. I heart BSS.

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Yelawolf is a rapper from Gadsden Alabama. All I can say is white boy can rap. I also like his hobo aesthetic that I sometimes try to emulate. Cheap watch cheap shades cheap whip.

Gotta love a put together video! Close your eyes and tell me this guys doesn’t sound like the Lincoln Park bro.

This is Lemonade’s follow-up to their praised and explosive debut album. This EP is an utterly unique take on electronic dance music, this time focused and melodic. It incorporates more explicit soca, dub, and calypso influences into Lemonade’s existing ravey palate. Even if those sounds are channelled through 16-bit samples and city stories the record has a certain wetness to it- a rich vegetation of sounds. Tight electronic arrangements layered with Alex Pasternak’s fiercely clattered drums, Ben Steidel’s invitingly rubbery bass and Callan Clendenin’s wobbly vocal harmonies float in and out of scope. The whistles of Bedstuy’s West Indian Day Parade ring out in “Banana Republic”, Ballearic synths carress “Remain In Jah”. The EP’s leading track “Lifted” somehow submerges its anthemic chorus and raindrop synths under a deafening waterfall. It feels good. If their debut was citric slime, this EP is an orange; firm and almost uniform in its peel, sweet and wet inside.

Middle Distance Runner is an indie pop group hailing from the District of Columbia. The group was started in 1998 by Allan Chappelear, Erik Dean and Steve Kilroy. Over the next few years, members Jay Smith and Ian Glinka joined the group, thus completing their present day lineup of five. The band then went on to release their debut album “Plane in Flames” in 2006.

8000 bam bam (Samuel Cooper) & Baby Seal (Brady Keehn) first started working together at Savannah College of Art and Design during the post production stage of Samuel’s senior thesis film, MILES. Their relationship was strictly dealing with dialogue and the mixing of original songs for the short film, in which Brady was the Post Sound Supervisor. Eventually having completed MILES, the two had worked so well together on the last project that starting a new one only made sense. Thus SUNGLASSES was born.

Still Life Still is a Canadian indie rock group, formed in 1999 in the former East York (now Toronto), Ontario. The band’s line-up has undergone minor changes over the years, but currently consists of guitarists/vocalists Brendon Saarinen and Eric Young, bassist Derek Paulin, drummer Aaron Romaniuk and his brother, keyboardist/percussionist Josh Romaniuk.