CBC Radio 3 is currently holding its annual Searchlight contest.  This time around it's "The Best Musical Festival In Canada".  Guelph's Hillside Festival has made the Top 40!  If you've ever been, you know it's one of the top festivals in Canada.  If you haven't been, just take my word for it.
The winning festival (Hillside) receives national bragging rights and a live CBC Radio 3 broadcast during the festival!
Visit the CBC Radio 3 Searchlight voting page and vote for Hillside!  There are 4 rounds of voting (currently in round 2) each lasting one week.  You can vote once a day!
*UPDATE* Hillside has made the short list (Top 20)!
Keep voting! One more week to make the final Top 10!
**UPDATE** Hillside has made the Top 10!
Keep voting! One more week to make Hillside the Searchlight winner!

Be at the eBar this Thursday night.  Rock. Your. Face. Off.

This Thursday KYEO & The CSA present Evan Gordon & The Sad Clowns with Ian Blurton+Huron=Happy Endings.
Evan is a Guelph music scene staple.  From early stints with Royal City & Constantines to more recent posts with The Magic, Islands, the Skeletones Four & his own band The Sad Clowns.  I'll save you the links to all those bands, but if you have time you should check them out.
The last time I saw Blurton was a couple of years back with his band C'mon.  That show was probably the best show I saw in 2008.  It was what a rock show should be.  Mid show shooters, smashing glasses, crawling on tables, playing the guitar in the middle of the crowd, and rawkin out with your lady the bass player. 
Well Ian is back, this time with Hamilton's Huron as a project they're calling Ian Blurton+Huron=Happy Endings.
These two acts should almost positively guarantee a loud, drunken rawk fest.  Word.  Be there.  It could be the best show of 2010.

I really enjoyed seeing $100 and Attack In Black last night.  AIB sound a bit like Shotgun Jimmie and the Cons.
This song definitely echoes AIB's folk influences - but it still retains a hint of powerpop punk.

Welland Ontario's Attack In Black will be at the eBar this Wednesday February 10 in support of their 2010 Canadian Tour.  Apparently they're recording all the live shows for some type of live release that will come out sometime in the near future!
Also on the bill is Toronto country-ish band One Hundred Dollars and Calgary's Woodpigeon.
Doors at 9:30. $10 at the door.