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Montreal’s Ladies of the Canyon are sure to bring a great show to the Blue Gator on Monday, March 23rd.

Built of four of the strongest musical voices in Montreal City’s thriving, internationally celebrated scene, Ladies of The Canyon’s sound is as polymorphic, true and passionate as its members, following the spirit of the moment – ethereal folkie fingerstyle guitar licks might escape suddenly to pounding rock drums and bass, heavy grooves or lush vocal harmonies that soar over a simple piano melody.

Tickets to the March 19th Plants and Animals show at the Habitat are available at Leo’s videos.

Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, featuring two members originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, which comprises guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque, and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woodley. They often describe their music as post-classic rock. They are signed to Secret City Records. Their first full-length album, Parc Avenue, was shortlisted for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.

Theset, from Victoria, are playing at the House. Check out their latest video that’s on Much Music.

The band originally formed with the intention of playing only one set, so they wrote a full set of songs. They adopted the name ‘Theset’ for this reason. The band members originally included Kyle Dark (guitar), Jory MacKay (guitar), Dean Rode (bass guitar), and Tristan Tarr (drums). Dark asked Martin MacPhail (singer) to sing for the band’s set, and he did. The first show was a success, generating many young fans for the new band, so Theset decided to continue making music. When Dark left the country, he was quickly replaced by Elliot Carter (guitar), who had previously played in local band “Lythic Blue” with MacPhail.

Saturday, May 23th:

Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem / King Khan & The Shrines / Ra Ra Riot / Shearwater / Passion Pit / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Vince Mira / Blind Pilot / Owl City / Arthur & Yu / Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / Death Vessel / Hockey / James Pants

Sunday, May 24th:

Jane’s Addiction / Nine Inch Nails / TV On The Radio / Peter Bjorn and John / of Montreal / The Avett Brothers / Calexico / M83 / The Airborne Toxic Event / The Walkmen / The Wrens / St. Vincent / The Dodos / John Vanderslice / The Submarines / Viva Voce / The Builders And The Butchers / AA Bondy / Fences / Point Juncture, WA / Jon Benjamin / Deadmau5 / Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head

Monday, May 25th:

Ben Harper and Relentless7 / Erykah Badu / Silversun Pickups / Fleet Foxes / Gogol Bordello / Santigold / Grizzly Bear / Explosions In The Sky / Girl Talk / Blitzen Trapper / The Knux / Monotonix / Bishop Allen / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Beach House / Mugison / The Dutchess And The Duke / School Of Seven Bells / Horse Feathers / The Pica Beats / Loch Lomond / BLK JKS / Chromeo (DJ set) / Tobacco

Comedy:

Zach Galifianakis / Demetri Martin / Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job / Todd Barry / Jon Benjamin / God’s Pottery / People’s Republic of Komedy

Library Voices is a ten piece pop collective from Regina, Saskatchewan. Blending tremolo soaked guitars with analog synths, vintage organs, circuit bent electronics, accordion, saxophone, and glockenspiel, their songs play out like an AM radio jingle; mixing the best of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and today.

Since making their out-of-town debut at Pop! Montreal in 2006, the buzz surrounding Rah Rah has been growing steadily. They were voted “Best Band in Regina” by a 2007 Prairie Dog’s Reader’s Poll and have since returned to Montreal to play the Pop! Festival again. Since coming off their winter tour of Western Canada, Rah Rah has been hard at work putting together their first full-length album “Going Steady’, which is now available in stores across Canada and on itunes through Young Soul Records. They played to a capacity crowd at Toronto’s NXNE this June and continued performing throughout the summer with a slot at the Regina Folk Festival and other western tour dates. A February tour is in the works….Rah Rah thanks SaskMusic for their support…

Smoking cigarettes and pounding Pabst Blue Ribbon in its East Van practice space, the group––Haywood, Taylor, and drummer Jordan Alexander––explains that it’s taking a live-off-the-floor approach from now on. Twin Crystals, the act’s self-produced eight-song full-length, is rougher than the slick-sounding tribal beats of “Two Girls”. Recorded entirely in the trio’s jam space, the disc presents Twin Crystals at its rawest.

Feb 15- Closing Iris CD Release
Feb 19- Library Voices
Feb 24 – The Waking Eyes & Arkells
Feb 4,11,18,25 – Open Mic
Mar 1- Pride Tiger
Mar 3- Maurice
Mar 6- Brandi Disterheft Quintet
Mar 8- International Women’s Day
Mar 19- Plants and Animals

Just announced….

March 25 – B.A. Johnston
March 26 – Bend Sinister, Fields of Green, Brandon Scott
April 1 – Hey Rosetta!
May 1 – Ohbijou
May 12 – Joel Plaskett