Oh man is All the Money I Had is Gone a gorgeous song.  Makes me feel so warm on these cold Winter days!  Don't stop there.  Listen to more from The Deep Dark Woods!

I thought I'd try having the "blog"/music page as the main landing page for a while.  Seems more visually pleasing than the calendar page.  What do you think?  Any suggestions or improvements?

No time for a proper write up, but this Wednesday and Thursday December 16 & 17 at the eBar in Guelph, KYEO & The CSA Present: Stay Out Of The Mall VIII in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.
Wednesday's line up:
The Burning Hell
Wax Mannequin
Diamond Rings
Valery Gore

Thursday nights line up:
By Divine Right
Julie Doiron
The Skeletones Four
Gregory Pepper & His Problems

Do yourself a favour.  Stay out of the malls this week and take in some incredible live music in our city.   You'll thank yourself sooner than later.

The Constantines are playing Guelph's eBar December 13 (Sunday night) as part of their 10 year celebration tour.  In case you've been living a sheltered life, Royal City's own Constantines, are arguably one of Canada's best bands.  I know for me, they were my first introduction to "independent" Canadian music back in the early 2000's.  Come see the show!  You will not be disappointed!
Also on the bill, Toronto's Tropics.

"One of the more slightly awkward questions asked in the course of small talk is often, “Who’s your favourite band?” -You’re supposed to answer, “I don’t have one favourite, but I like…” which will lead to a discussion of genres and tastes. I am one of the few with a definitive answer: Constantines. I can’t recall the first time I heard them, but it would have been on CD, their first, self-titled 2000 release. It came in a beautiful hand-made package that contained a wooden match, an appropriate way to light a long creative fuse that led to 2002’s brilliant Shine a Light, through to the even stronger Tournament of Hearts in 2005, and culminating now in the explosive Kensington Heights. I love that they are a real band—five distinct and original musicians working together to produce this democratic roar of music. Primary vocalist Bry Webb has a beautiful, distinct voice—rasping, plaintive, yet powerful and fluid. His lyrics are just as unique—a strong, observant writer full of feeling and whimsy and insight, a writer who gently distorts the world and makes us hear it in a new way. This unique voice is set to equally unique music—drummer Doug MacGregor and bassist Dallas Werhle split open the seams of regular rock patterns and stitch together something surprising and distinct, while multi-instrumentalist Will Kidman, along with Webb and Steve Lambke (who is also brilliant in his role as sometime vocalist/lyricist) on guitar, embroider something challenging and instinctually melodic. The Constantines are the best live band I have ever seen, entirely dedicated to communicating with an audience. Able to produce moments of sustained and complicated quiet, they are also one of the loudest bands I have encountered. Yet the volume is never used to repel the listener. Instead, they co-opt the sometimes aggressive conventions of rock to express the overwhelming parts of being alive, to explore the themes of community and struggle, to remind us we belong to something larger than our individual selves. The decibels tell us we are not alone. This new record might be my favourite simply because it best captures the elements of the live show that has so often moved and inspired me. Named after the street in Toronto’s vibrant Kensington Market area where they practice in a basement, Kensington Heights, like the neighbourhood itself, is a vibrant maze of histories and sounds. The album is fittingly dedicated to the late Gar Gillies, the Winnipeg amp-maker who designed and built the Garnet amplifiers that defined the overdriven classic Canadian-rock sound of the Guess Who and BTO. Gar was building and refurbishing amps right up to his death last year at the age of 85, and some of his last work was used on Kensington Heights, a familiar sound finding a radically new voice. From the massive opening number, Hard Feelings (“Some people’s love isn’t strong enough”) to the gorgeous thudding close of Do What you Can Do (“You do what you can do with what you got”), Kensington Heights is a tour of original themes and multiple genres, full of infectious hooks and evocative lyrics. It is the sound of my favourite band at the height of their considerable powers." – John K. Samson

Toronto's indie scene darlings, Cuff The Duke are playing the eBar in Guelph this Thursday December 3!  On tour in support of their latest record Way Down Here, Wayne Petti and the boys are doing a few Ontario shows this December before touring Western Canada with Blue Rodeo in the new year.
Tickets for the show are available here or at The Bookshelf in Guelph.
Also playing Thursday night is Toronto's The Rival Boys.