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Your Prairie Home Companion
 Posted 3/11/2010 10:34:00 AM
The Weakerthans' new release, Live At The Burton Cummings Theatre, hits stores March 23 via Epitaph. The CD/DVD captures the band in its hometown playing the best of their extensive songbook, augmented by a host of musical friends who add a wide range of sounds to John K. Samson's tales of love, work and play. The package's artwork features paintings by bassist Greg Smith and provides the perfect backdrop for the sounds inside. The band will bring the whole experience to life when they play the Queen Elizabeth Theatre May 26 (tickets are on sale now). And Greg’s paintings will be displayed at an art show with the entire band in attendance March 24, 8pm at The Sixth Gallery (1642 Queen W.).
SEE SALLY AT CMW
Sally Seltmann — the Aussie songwriter who to date has released two LPs under the name New Buffalo and is best known ...
Resistance is futile
Posted 3/2/2010 9:54:00 AM
I had the opportunity to see the opening night of Muse's North American tour this past Saturday night in Atlanta. The band — who've achieved royalty status back home in the UK — are on the verge of attaining A list status over here, and to seal the deal they made the last-minute decision to fly over (well, float over, actually) their much-heralded 360-degree sound and light show for the tour, which hits the ACC next Monday (March 8). While sampling favourites from their past four albums, the show's tone and feel is built around the epic prog-pop grandiosity that began with 2006's Black Holes and Revelations and was taken up on notch on last year's worldwide No. 1 release The Resistance. The show finds the band in constant motion, bashing out elaborate arrangements on a stage that morphs from set-to-set and backdrop-to-backdrop throughout the two-hour show. That the power ...
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