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• NXNE Alum: The Flaming Lips Announce ‘The Terror’ LP

  In 2012 MUSIC, Alumni, Music, MUSIC 2012, News / 24 January 2013

  

  
  

  Our friends over at Exclaim.ca bring news on a certain little band that packed in Yonge-Dundas for  NXNE 2012. The good news? It looks like The Flaming Lips are back at it and getting set to release new material. 

  By Gregory Adams

  Oklahoman pop-weirdos the Flaming Lips have released so many ridiculous artifacts and tag-team tracks these last few years that it’s hard to believe the band haven’t actually released a proper studio LP since 2009′s Embryonic.… (more)

• BEST OF 2012 NXNE VIDEOS

  In 2012 MUSIC / 3 January 2013

  

  Lots of goodies out there. Here were some of our tops:

  10. Bad Religion – 21st Century (Digital Boy)

  With a legendary career spanning 33 years Bad Religion has been around longer than a lot of their fans.… (more)

• 2012 POLARIS SHORT LIST

  In 2012 MUSIC, Music, News / 18 July 2012

  

   

  Taking bets now – the Polaris Music Prize short list is out. Whittled down from the 40 on the long list, yesterday’s announcement revealed the 10 artists left in a no holds barred, polite Canadian fight to the finish of $30,000 + bragging rights.… (more)

• JOHN MAUS

  In 2012 MUSIC / 16 May 2012

  

  The indie world’s foremost philoso-pop preacher man, Maus has a ten year plus career marrying experimental performance art with classic synth-disco, avant-garde meanderings and faux-ironic pop-hits, and at least one – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves – seminal album.… (more)