New Music-Puro Instinct Dream Lover

More 80's like goodness from synth pop band Puro Instinct. Featuring sister act Piper and Skylar Kaplan (must have hippie parents with names like that) the song features beautiful harmonies slightly overridden with gorgeous synth pop. This is a follow up single to one of my favourite albums from last year- Headbangers in Ecstasy.

Puro Instinct-Dream Lover

New Music-Eternal Summers You Kill

I fell in love with the band Eternal Summers when they played NXNE a few weeks ago. Their poppy post punk is perfect for summer-thus the name of the band. Eternal Summers new album Correct Behaviour is out on July 24th.

Download: Eternal Summers-You Kill

Eternal Summers play The Garrison in Toronto on August 7th.

New Music-Diana Born Again

This band is starting to get some serious buzz. At least the Guardian has picked up on this band and featured them on their music site yesterday. The best part of these guys are that they are from Toronto. The band sounds like late seventies pop mixed with modern day chillwave which makes sense because they employ Destroyer's saxophonist Joseph Shabason.

Listen:

!!! (Chk Chk Chk)-Live at Lee's Palace

When I was perusing through the concert listings last Thursday I was shocked to see that dance punk act !!! were playing a show at Lee's Palace on the following Saturday. They haven't released a new album since their 2010 release Strange Weather, Isn't It and there has not been any news about them releasing any new material. I had heard a lot of good things about their live show and I knew I had to see them. I always love it when bands come through town and they are not promoting a new album or there is no buzz surrounding them. It usually means that the show will not sell out. This was the case on Saturday as Lee's Palace was only at 75 % capacity.
The show opened with a band called Dopes led by former Tangiers and Bad Tits singer Josh Reichmann. The band consisted of two members-one playing guitar and Josh playing a keyboard which was perched on top of two of Lee's infamous red stools. They were backed by a Macbook that provided pre-recoded backing tracks. The songs were an odd experimental mix of post punk and pop music. The last two songs were sung with auto tune-I'm not a big fan of auto tune and songs came across too weird for me.
After a 45 minute wait it was time for !!! to take the stage. Lead singer Nic Offer came onto the stage wearing only a pair of boxer shorts. Apparently they were porno shorts, but I was too far back of the stage to see what pictures were emblazoned on them.  He later explained that he bought them at a Thrift shop in Athens Georgia. The first song was the classic All My Heroes are Weirdoes. Nic Offer started doing the frenetic dancing he is famous for and the rest of Lee's Palace followed suit. Nobody was left sitting at the side tables or the previously mentioned stools.The band raced through some of their classic material like Must Be the Moon,Yadnus and Heart of Hearts leaving the crowd in a sweating frenzy. Nic Offer also made a couple of forays into the crowd and did a few tightrope acts on the wooden side bars around Lee's pit. Kudo's to the dude in the Pure Energy T Shirt who jumped up on stage and out danced Offer. Offer didn't mind as he danced along with him and invited him back for the encore. The band played two new songs called Except Death and Jack Ruby. Offer also announced that they have completed recording a new album and it would be released "whenever the internet says it is cool to do so." Looking forward to it. They only played one encore song which is probably a good thing as the crowd and the band looked like they were drowning in sweat due to the crazy amount of dancing mixed with the sweltering venue. However myself and the rest of the crowd were left wanting more.
Next time.....

Here is the set list from the show

All My Heroes are Weirdos
Jamie, My Intentions are Bass
Except Death
Must Be The Moon
Byron
Jack Ruby
Yadnus
Cokie
Heart of Hearts

New Music- Comanechi Major Move

Yes!!!! Comanechi has released new music. I have been a huge fan of lead singer Akiko Matsuura  ever since she started drumming with The Big Pink. She has this fun, crazy personality and likes to get naked when she performs. I saw the band perform twice at Toronto's NXNE festival a couple of years ago and was blown away. Akiko was wearing a "barely there" swimsuit and the guitarist, Simon Petrovitch, kicked a monitor over and it landed on my foot.
Akiko also has another band called Pre.

You can order the 7" single via Comanechi's website

The song is a grunge punk rocker and apparently the video was filmed in Akiko's living room.

Favourite Songs-Art Brut Axel Rose

This is a song that would make the lead singer of Guns 'n Roses very proud. A punk tribute featuring a "fuck you" attitude sung with the heart of Johnny Rotten era Sex Pistols. Eddie Argos' spoken word delivery never sounded better. The song is taken from the 2011 album Brilliant! Tragic! which was produced by Frank Black.

"This world is fucked and you're an idiot/
Why don't you take a long look at my middle digit!"

Listen: Art Brut-Axel Rose

Music Mix-TomKat

Today's music mix is dedicated to TomKat or Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. May their relationship rest in peace.

Plants & Animals- Tom Cruz
from the album La La Land

Com Truise-Broken Date
from the album Galactic Melt

Tom Vek-C-C (You Set Me on Fire)

Cat Power-Metal Heart
from the album Moonpix

Bonus: From Tom Cruise's fellow Scientologist-a really good break up song

Beck-Sea Change
from the album Sea Change