Indie Music Roundup
January 19, 2007

* And From the Boy this sucks department, our dear friends at the CBC have once agian proved there owed to the public servic as they rebarnd CBC Radio two schueled by Axing there late night and Saturday Night schuecle, that meaning the end of saturday night simulcast on CBC Radio 3 on radio Two(7:30 PM to Midnight) and after almost 23 years on Radio Two "Brave New Waves" with Patti Schmidt(Midnight to 4 AM ) is off the aired as March, In a rebranding of both CBC Radio One (AM 1550 in Windsor) and CBC radio Two (89.9 FM in Windsor).

but in a posting in the radio 3 websight(Link) "The Saturday Night Show was a lot of work to produce, so with this off our shoulders, we can finally start working on projects that until now we just haven't had the resources to tackle", that mening other stuff on the cbc radio which it only on satulitte but they may add the audio feed on the radio 3 sight.

* other news out there, Lily Allen will go on tour in Febuary as part of the MTV Discover and Download tour that will hit seven city but the tour will not hit the detroit area, the closet the tour will com from detroit will be in Chicago, IL at the Metro in Feb.8.

and she have alot on her plate after contoring the UK last year, Her debut,Still , Alright will finally be released here on January 30, and will be the musicail guest on SNL on Feb 3rd, after a birfe tour in euroup she will be back in the UK to do SXSW in march.

* also coming to the state side after almost a full year of Churshe all over the country, thanks for thouse music blog are the UK polka-dot cuties The Pipettes who last year released the debut album "We are the Pipettes" in the UK, they are doing a hand full of show it will be held around the Week before the south by south west fest in austan, TX.

They will play Toronto ON Canada as part of Canadian Music Week on march 10th, NYC Bowery Ballroom with Amy Winehouse on March 13th and will do SXSW on march 14th to the 18th.

No Word on when "We are the Pipettes" be out in the states, but hey it going to be good.

* only 6 and a half weeks away untill the Arcade Fire released the master work which is called "Neon Bible" as you know it will be released on March 6th on Merge and the album will be released on CD, deluxe CD, and vinyl, according to the lable, The deluxe version comes housed in a box with a lenticular cover designed to resemble the graphic on the front page of the album website. It also includes two booklets.

The LP is "double 180-gram audiophile quality with three sides of music and an etching on the fourth side

To warm up for there sold out world tour there playing a warm up gig in all placed Canterbury High School in Ottawa, Ontarn, Canada, why there?

it the the alma mater of Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry, there is a member of the CBC Radio 3 crew embed with the band and will post a report on the radio 3 site and will be repost tonight.