Nu Sensae in Toronto, March 13, 2012

most played song of all time

Swell Maps “Helicopter Spies” and “H.S. Art”, 1979

Hamish Kilgour hijacked 1600 words to talk about writing Anything Could Happen with the Clean. Interesting stuff at stuff.co.nz

Chrome Meet You in the Subway 1984, via WFMU

The Conservative government has promised to re-introduce and ram through a new set of “Lawful Access” electronic surveillance legislation (specifically, Bill C-50, C-51, C-52) and a handful of other crime bills within the first 100 days of Parliament. These laws allow authorities to access the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant, at cost to the taxpayer.

Remind Stephen Harper that the 76% of Canadians who didn’t vote for him aren’t into fascism. Sign the petition and send emails to your elected officials at stopspying.ca.

Embedding disabled by request. Watch here. “Don’t forget, waitresses work for tips.”

Iceage (please pronounce it like a Descendents song, I would think it’s funny) is a band from Copenhagen with a Justin Bieber look-a-like, and you might have seen them in the copy of Viacom Magazine sitting in the bathroom of your shitty retail job.

I wore a Suicide shirt to work the other day and a guy got excited and told me about how Suicide invented Industrial and influenced Nine Inch Nails and didn’t mention punk once. Iceage is sort of like that. People keep calling them post-punk or hardcore or punk or no wave, because they work in all those frames of reference. They’re young and noisy and write catchy songs (a couple songs are pop-punk for sure, or maybe just Futureheads rip offs), so you probably like them already.

They arrived Stateside on tour not long ago, and last week they played a set on WFMU, including two covers that aren’t on New Brigade, for the new fan / completist.

Iceage plays their first Canadian show at Parts and Labour on August 17, with guests to be announced. My money is on Dentata.