The Inbreds Tribute- Wanna Be Your Friend will be released July 31, and is available to order through me or Zunior.com. If you order through me you can Paypal $16 ($14 CD, $2 Shipping in Canada, USA $3.00 Shipping = $17.00, International $4.50 Shipping = $18.50 ) to gooseberryrecords@hotmail.com. All funds in Canadian dollars please.

Here is the tracklisting:
Andrew Glencross- Whitecaps
International Falls- Attitude
In-Flight Safety- Any Sense of Time
The Superfantastics- Yelverton Hill
Bontempi- This Train I Ride
The Forum- You Will Know*
Share- Turn My Head
Ruby Jean & Her Thoughtful Bees- Amelia Earhart
Slowlover- Never Be
Jonathan Inc- Drag Us Down
Matt Reid- Reason Why I’m Shy
Catriona Sturton- North Window
Alicia Penney & the Excellent Navigators- Cut My Throat
The Just Barelys- Moustache
Ruth Minnikin & Her Bandwagon- She’s Acting
The Memories Attack- Everytime I Turn Around
Stereo Moon- Dangerous

*The Forum are Matt Murphy, Chris Murphy, Sarah Millman and Rebecca Mendoza

Preview tracks at www.myspace.com/gooseberryrecords

The Zunior version of the album also includes bonus classic covers from The Inbreds themselves.

Don’t forget to check out Zunior’s Free Music Sampler [currently on Ver.2.15]

A lot of work went into making this happen, congrats to Scott for it seeing completion!

Based on the pics alone they look like they’re having a great time.
For all the dirt visit: http://www.minksontour.blogspot.com/

They even have a Wildlife Spotted scorecard!
Current scoring:
Moose: 1
Groundhogs: 4
Deer: 9
Coyote: 1
Frogs: 1
Bats: Many
Canada Geese: Many
Bears: 1
Prairie Dogs: 2

And here’s a great poster from Mike Holmes for the tour:

The Onion’s AV Club chimes in (lukewarmly) on Dog Day’s Night Group:

…poundingly infectious, punctuated with lyrics that wander lazily before resolving chirpiness and desolation into a single, synth-buoyed hum.

Norwood Cheek, director of over 70 music videos (by bands like Super Chunk, the Donnas, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Ben Folds Five), is teaming up with the www.atlanticfilm.com to pair 10 East Coast filmmakers with 10 East Coast artists to produce, over a four-day boot camp, the ultimate music video to be screened as part of the Inspired Music Showcases during the Atlantic Film Festival. Here is the call:

Applicants Sought for Music Video Project with New Inspired Music 10 X 10 Project

The 27th Atlantic Film Festival’s Inspired Music Program announces that the Call for Applications for the new 10 X 10 Project is now open.

The project will pair 10 East Coast filmmakers with 10 East Coast artists/bands to produce, over a four-day period, the ultimate music video. All finished videos will then be screened as part of the Inspired Music Showcases during the Festival.

The project is open to any Atlantic-Canadian filmmaker and to Atlantic-Canadian artist/band. Artists/bands must have released at least one professionally manufactured CD.

The deadline for application is Monday, July 30th, 2007 and there will be an entry fee of $25.

For more information and an application visit www.atlanticfilm.com.

The 27th Atlantic Film Festival takes place September 13-22, 2007, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Here is a direct link to the PDF application. I should also disclose that while I do some freelance work with the festival, I have nothing to do with this program…I just want to give it a plug!

Advice = GO

First [poster nicely designed by DWTB’s Jason Burns]:

And then:

His new music video for the single STARTING OVER has been added to MUCH MUSIC’s indie spotlight with more rotation to come this week. It was shot in Toronto with director Sean Wainsteim in April and he’s really glad to see that they have picked up on the tune.

In other video related news the video is the featured music video on www.cravefest.com, a music festival website dedicated to great indie music videos. Please take a second to vote for Jonny’s new video and hopefully win him a spot on this years festival in Toronto in August.

The album is available for download through Canadian label zunior.com
http://www.zunior.com/product_info.php?products_id=1102

It is also available on Itunes and most other digital download sites.

In other news:

I’m going to be releasing a FREE EP with priority going to you folks first in the coming months. It will include 3 new studio tracks featuring my backing band the Racket with two live tracks recorded on our recent tour at the Red Rooster in Burlington, Ontario.

Finally I’ve got some shows coming up over the summer like Privateers Festival in Liverpool, NS and the Capitol in Fredericton, NB. I’m really excited about my show at the Abbey Lounge in Boston, MASS on July 7th not only because i’m playing with Ducky Boys frontman Mark Lind but because the next day I set sail from Marblehead, Mass back to Halifax on my now annual rock and roll voyage. I’ve got a boat full of musicians and i’ll be sure to post some photos and stories once I arrive home again.

Thats about it for now, thanks for tuning in and take a second if you don’t mind to vote for the single at www.eastcoastcountdown.com.

First off you missed a great set last Saturday when the guys opened for Pride Tiger. Not only did they clearly win over some new fans they also managed to keep the attention of some of the guys from Pride Tiger most of their set.

In regards to their album Beware! The Fuzz [I am now half thinking the title is also a warning to bands lacking in the live show department] we have the album mastered - although there may be one correction being made*, a rough up of the cover art [below] and are just waiting to have the album sent off - we have to figure out of the vinyl and CDs will be pressed at the same place.

We hope to have the CDs and records back by the end of July, watch for some early chances to preview the album and get a copy in August before a September release and supporting tour to Ontario and back at least in late September/October.

*Once that is figured out we’ll be posting the tracks on FHTT’s site

Apparently some people out there would think From Here To There was screwed before we got started [mind you we don’t expect to sell 150,000 albums per year, but still c’mon] [ASIDE: C’mon has a new site as well - go see that - even though they have nothing to do with this post]:

Fortune’s Dennis Hau on the economics behind Burgendy Records’ contracts with older artists…Because it [Sony BMG’s Burgandy classic imprint] has a full-time staff of only about two dozen employees, it expects to put out no more than two or three albums a year.”

[From Fortune via Coolfer]

As noted on Hypebot as well:

They don’t seem to have learned anything about indie frugality. Sony BMG’s Burgandy classic imprint has 24 employees to work 2-3 new releases a year. Next idea…

I don’t even want to think about what I could accomplish with the help of 23 other people [or why I would need that many to put out the same number of albums Joi and I will this year]. Fuck.

Then they hit the stage later that night at the Attic with our very own Myles Deck and the Fuzz

For the week just ending because I’m on the ball this week!
Check it out regardless

And from the comments on that post here’s another review from Hero Hill