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It’s been available for a couple of months but I only just spotted it on Gorilla vs. Bear via Last.FM - Great Lake Swimmers have released a 5 track live EP recorded at Toronto’s Church of the Redeemer for free download (31.5Mb).
Great Lake Swimmers have also contributed an original song entitled, “Gonna Make it Through [...]

PJ Harvey is coming to New Zealand and Australia in February for a handful of exclusive solo shows. A limited number of tickets will be available from http://www.frontiertouring.com from Thursday 8 November 12 noon AEST to Friday 9 November 12 noon AEST. Tickets will go on-sale to the general public on Tuesday 13 November [...]

Flaming Lips are doing a Halloween parade in Oklahoma City - The March of a Thousand Flaming Skeletons. They’re looking for 1000 people to be the flaming skeletons. You need to be in Oklahoma 26-27th for the parade. It costs $25 but you get to keep your torch and skeleton outfit so that would be [...]

Kevin Drew’s new video “Backed Out on the…”, the first single from his forthcoming album, Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew, “Spirit If…”
This song was recorded with Joules Scott Key of Metric and Bang Lime on drums and J Mascis and Kevin Drew on guitar and vocals. The video happened last minute after a Dinosaur [...]

GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS and (weewerk) are asking for 30 seconds of your favourite/significant travel footage. Share your secret spot, beautiful scenery or interesting experiences with us. Selected footage will be edited together to produce a finished video for Great Lake Swimmers’ Passenger Song.
Your submission needs to be on common digital video file formats (ie. AVI, [...]

I’m finally planning on breaking my gig fast….Motorhead are playing TSB stadium New Plymouth October 20
Weird they’re not playing Auckland but it works well for me. I know Motorhead played Palmerston North when I was a very young whipper snapper, if I remember rightly there was a stabbing incident. Support from Rose Tattoo, surely [...]

The Tripwire have posted a selection of YouTube Glastonbbury highlights. Ah balmy UK summer festival season.
 

Canadiana-indie-folk-country act Great Lake Swimmers have recently released a video for Backstage With The Modern Dancers off their latest album Ongiara.
Not sure whether the Great Lake Swimmers albums are available in NZ music stores but you can download the lot from the great little Canadian independent music store Zunior.com. I say buy the lot! [...]