SOMEONE GREAT

Spin Online features Montreal's Winter Gloves and also has their cover of LCD Soundsystem's Someone Great for download.  Winter Gloves are playing Singing Lamb's launch party at the Tranzac on January 10th in Toronto.  Hexes & Ohs are also on the bill and the show to be an early afternoon show.

I also missed Spin's cover story featuring M.I.A.  Read the article here.

Dan Whitford of Cut Copy talks to Exclaim.  They also talk to Alex Angelakos of Passion Pit.

Toronto's $100 are playing Wavelength's 200th anniversary show on February 14th at Sneaky Dee's.  

Now Magazine lists their favourite Toronto shows of 2008.  My list should be up in the next day or so. 

Not related to music, The Globe and Mail's Jessica Leeder examines the current economic crisis and how we got to where we are in 2008.   Read it here.

The New Yorker profiles Naomi Klien, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine.