Valleys

It’s been about two years since we last heard from Montreal’s Valleys who apparently have had a rethink since then. The band (Matilda Perks and Marc St Louis) have dropped the folky elements of their music but kept the ethereal atmophere, adding layers of analog synths to their sound…

PS I Love You @ BV/M for Montreal – SXSW 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) PS I Love You have a number of summer dates left, including stints at major festivals like Osheaga, Wolfe Island, and Bumbershoot then; come September the band will head out on a large fall tour…

Corrosion of Conformity fans (more by BBG) The lastest list of SXSW additions is below….

DOWNLOAD: Metz – Negative Space (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Valleys – Ordinary Dream (MP3) There was a smattering of band performances throughout the day Friday — anywhere they could cram them it felt like at times — before the night’s “official selection…

The Whitest Boy Alive @ Coachella 2010 (more by Rachell Carr) tonight in NYC * The Luyas secret show * The Specials @ Terminal 5 * Kings Go Forth, Rafter @ Mercury Lounge * Micachu & the Shapes, Mon Khmer @ Mercury Lounge * Sonos, Peter Bradley Adams @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Capstan Shafts, USVS, Lame Drivers @ Public Assembly * Sunglasses, My Gold Mask, Lagoon, Neighbors @ Union Hall * The Thermals, Past Lives, The Tony Castles @ Brooklyn Bowl * The Whitest Boy Alive, Keepaway @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * The Midnight Sounds, Valleys, Sally Head, Psychic @ Glasslands * Kelis, Maluca, Skeet Skeet, Sammy Bananas @ Santos Party House * Apples in Stereo, Generationals, Laminated Cat @ Bowery Ballroom * Mixel Pixel, Hosannas, Unicornicopia, Hermit Thrushes @ Cake Shop * Jakob Dylan & Three Legs (with Neko Case & Kelly Hogan) @ Town Hall * MATA Festival w/ Ensemble Pamplemousse, Lisa Moore @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Miniature Tigers, The Grates, The Stationary Set @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn * Amanda Diva, Apollo Heights, Black Thought, Styles P, Currensy @ Highline Ballroom * Mastodon, Between The Buried And Me, Baroness, Valient Thorr @ Starland Ballroom * Dusty & The Dreaming Spires, Atlantic/Pacific, The Oxygen Ponies, Cat Martino @ The Bell House Miniature Tigers headline a show at Knitting Factory tonight, which is one night before they open for The Morning Benders at Knitting Factory which is four nights before they go out on tour with Free Energy and Jukebox the Ghost, which is three days before they are back in NYC with that tour to play Bowery Ballroom The Grates open that show at Knitting Factory tonight…

DOWNLOAD: Valleys – Silent Woods (MP3) “What seemed like an improvisational, spontaneous unfolding of creative ideas, sounds and unconventional methods of playing standard musical instruments was in fact Montreal’s Valleys performance on Wednesday evening at Sala Rossa…