Plastic CrimeWave comes to montreal

14 November, 2008 Casa del Popolo 4873 St Laurent $10.00 advance $12.00 door

DJIN AQUARIUS (Drag City - guitarist of YA HO WHA 13) PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND MONDO DRAG

Plastic Crimewave Sound RULES, and probably wont be back in Montreal for a while if ever ... (I hear they played once before) So I encourage all you montrealers to pack Casa on Nov 14th!!!


Here is a pic at Casa from their last show.

Black Ships // Montreal Mirror

Black Ships
Omens (New Romance For Kids/FAB)
After two all too brief EPs, these locals make good, with the brutal blast on this full-length being entirely worthwhile. Now that Cursed have given up the crown, Black Ships are only too eager to pick it up with a completely punishing blitzkrieg. Producer Julien Brousseau manages the impossible task of making everything louder than everything else, with needles firmly planted in the red and the band more focused and to the point than ever. As far as modern Canadian hardcore goes, it just doesn’t get any better than this. 8.5/10 Trial Track: “The End” (Johnson Cummins)

the Stolen Minks RULE

I love the Stolen Minks, not only do they play loads of shows, write great songs but they also do shit like this :

http://thestolenminks.exclaim.ca/

Very, very entertaining tour blog.

keep playing it ya'll, keep playing it

!earshot Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Artist - Title - (Label)
1 Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane - (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop)
2 Mother Mother O My Heart - (Last Gang)
3 The Stolen Minks High Kicks - (New Romance For Kids)
4 Okkervil River The Stand Ins - (Jagjaguwar)
5 FemBots Calling Out - (Weewerk)

BLACK SHIPS / DECIBEL MAG

check out this glowing review of Black Ships' Low EP in decibel.

Black Ships

Low

New Romance For Kids

Come sail away

No one wants to reinvent the wheel and, really, why should they? Throw some killer rims on those things and watch the cavemen shit their saber-tooth drawers. And Low by Montréal’s Black Ships are 20-inchers with spinning pot leaves that shoot fire.

Working the same punk/rock/metal blitz of bands like Coliseum and Trap Them, this four-song EP does everything right by starting pissed and staying pissed, hurling riffs like bricks and cursing everything around them. It’s true that this could be said for a whole mess of bands right now—some D-beating, a few slabs of anthemic breakdowns, some thorny melodies and shredded vocals—but Black Ships raise the bar. The gnawed tongue aggression against the splintered and sorrowful hooks is like chewing on the best tasting tinfoil you’ve ever had.

I’ve admittedly been getting tired of the old-but-new-school metal/punk hybrids, and I think far too many bands are jumping on this particular wagon, but if Black Ships keep putting out records like Low, and other bands follow suit, I’ll happily keep listening. So yeah, go buy the record. And send us photos of your rims.

Stolen Minks crack top 5

!earshot Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
1	Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane - (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop)
2	The Stills Oceans Will Rise - (Arts & Crafts)
3	The Pack A.D. Funeral Mixtape - (Mint)
4	The Stolen Minks High Kicks - (New Romance For Kids)
5	Hexes And Ohs Bedroom Madness - (Noise Factory)