Music

This week in new music: June 28 - July 2, 2010

by Ciaran Thompson

In case you’re tuning in for the first time this week, every week we’ll give you a roundup of our top music news stories:

In celebration of Canada Day, Barry Taylor counts down the top ten things Canadians like to do at concerts. Please read it, thank you.

Check out the profile on Wolf Parade, July’s X3 Artist of the month.

Metric debut their new music video for the song they collaborated with Howard Shore on entitled “Eclipse (All Yours).”

The noisy Vuvuzelas you’ve been hearing during this World Cup have been banned at the upcoming T in the Park music festival in Scotland. Find out what the organizers had to say.

Hear the closing track off the Bjork/Dirty Projectors collaboration album called “All We Are.”

Watch the clip of Vince Neil talking about his new book Tattoos and Tequila and becoming sober before he was arrested a few days later for DUI.

Pavement are currently on a worldwide reunion tour and in an interview with AUX set the record straight about the possibilities of recording new material after the tour.

Our Download of the Week features “Summer Flies” by The Wilderness of Manitoba.

Former KISS manager Bill Aucoin died this past week at Aventura Hosptial and Medial Centre in Aventura, Florida. He was 66.

In our inaugural Top Ten list, we select the Top Ten Most Metal Band Names. The list includes Torsofuck, Cattle Decapitation and Crucifixxx Sodomy.

Memoryhouse sent us their first tour blog. Check out their words and pictures from Paris.

See what the ladies of Warpaint had to say to our five questions.

In what has been our most competitive edition of Throwdown yet, it appears Hatebreed’s “Everybody Bleeds Now” is tied with As I Lay Dying’s “Parallels.” Be sure to look at the comments section where the war of words didn’t let up the whole week.

Chromeo have released the first single “Don’t Turn the Lights On” off their forthcoming album Business Casual.