Broken Social Scene – “World Sick”
Broken Social Scene will return after five long years of solo efforts with the release of Forgiveness Rock Record on May 4th, 2010. To celebrate the occasion, they’re giving away the first single “World Sick” on their myspace.
Even better, they’re hitting The Fillmore in San Francisco on May 1st, 2010 [...]

Rock and roll? Check. Beautiful festival setting? Check. Theoretically, not much is missing from this combination – in fact, festivals like Monolith, Sasquatch! and our very own Treasure Island and Outside Lands demonstrate that you need not much more than some ace bands and lovely views to make for a good time (well, beer helps [...]

It’s that time of year again — the turkey leftovers are long gone and we’re hearing Christmas music in every store in town, so it must be time for best-albums-of-year lists.
After screaming matches, insults and a fist fight or two, the dust has settled and the Stranger Dance staff stands before you united with our [...]

It’s finally here. Though the months of anticipation, Outside Lands-related posts and Radiohead worship have been fun here at the Stranger Dance, it’ll be nice to get this bitch done with, so we can have some fun. So, in the spirit of community, good citizenship and milking this high-traffic cow one last time, we present [...]

[Update: Looking for playlists for the 2009 festival? We've got you covered: Friday, Saturday & Sunday]
Here’s the third and final installment of our Outside Lands Festival preview. Today, we bring you songs by all of the artists appearing on Sunday of Outside Lands.
You can find the two previous installments here: Friday & Saturday
With our fancy [...]

So, exciting times around these parts. Not only are 5 bajillion cool bands playing at Outside Lands a mere nine days from now, but we’re also breaking out of our little shell and throwing a party to celebrate the release of Cousin Chris‘ debut album Moon Paper. We’re inviting all our readers and fellow bloggers [...]

Although Canning released the album digitally in response to a leak weeks ago, the physical thing is now “officially” in stores. I highly recommend picking it up, especially if you are a Broken Social Scene fan.
Read my review of Something for All of Us if you still aren’t sure.

Originally, Brendan Canning was going to release Something for All of Us on July 22. However, the web had other ideas and Canning was forced to release his album early via the Arts and Crafts online store. He issued the following statement via his MySpace blog:
“It has come to my attention that an unmastered version [...]

It’s Sunday, I’m still in D.C. and I’m bored. I can’t think of a better time to kick off a new weekly feature I like to call “Meow Mix” – ten tasty mp3s from Vague Panther.
MP3s:
Darondo – Didn’t I
Midlake – Balloon Maker
The Snake The Cross The Crown – Cakewalk
Rogue Wave – Christians in Black
Grizzly Bear [...]

OK, we’d really be remiss if we didn’t at least pay cursory attention to the (shudder) R. Kelly trial. The man who has inspired a brilliant Chappelle’s Show sketch, a brilliant South Park episode, and who can actually be a fairly brilliant artist himself (when not trying to write 926-part, thinly-veiled homoerotic, midget-obsessed mini-operas), [...]