New Wax and Toronto

Our new recs look really good. The Black Ships Low 7" sounds heavier than the CD (to me, cos' I'm a nerd), and the Sainte Catherines / Us Against the World 7" is just raging. Still not Getting any... Credibility from the Sainte Catherines stands has one of my fav songs from them, as they take another jab at Simple Plan.

My Ste-4 top 3.

1. The International Badminton Championship (1-2-3 go version, fhh split)
2. Still not Getting any... Credibility (from our 7 inch)
3. Track and Field Style (from Fat release)

Also I was in Toronto this week, I went to Rotate This for the first time since they moved, the new store is pretty cool, they took a bunch of our records. I really like Toronto. The last time I was there was for the Discord / Locust show on the exclaim tour, and it was ok, but this time around I wandered a bit more, and really enjoyed it. Cudos Toronto

the Toronto Star reviews High Kicks

The Stolen Minks, High Kicks. Muddy, party-starting slop-rock by four saucy ladies from Halifax. Exuberant in its primitivism, High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached. It's insidiously catchy, good with a put-down – "Your Broken Heart" and "I Hate You" revel in their cattiness – and able to spin pop gold from a tune called "North End Strangler," so there are definitely worse remedies out there for the January blahs.