The Russian Futurists have emerged from studio seclusion in a flash of live awesomeness. The completely expanded and incredible live band will perform at a select few dates to unveil tracks from Matthew Adam Hart aka The Russian Futurists long-awaited new album The Weight’s On The Wheels. The Weight’s On The Wheels is Hart’s most ambitious creation to date and is sure to be a summer monster.

Two weeks ago the band played the Wavelength 500 Festival in Toronto, previewing 5 brand new cuts from The Weight’s On The Wheels, to fanatic reviews! Next week The Futurists join Plants & Animals, The Acorn and Think About Life at the Billions/Chromewaves Party for Canadian Music Fest. Next stop: TEXAS.

Don’t miss The Russian Futurists at SXSW. The new band will blow you away and you will cry tears of punch-drunk love for the new jams.

THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS @ SXSW

Wednesday March 17 7:45pm
Habana Calle 6 - 709 E. 6th Street – BACK PATIO

Saturday March 20 1:20pm
Paradise - 6th Street at Trinity - Upstairs @ Canada House!

The UC Triple Threat is in effect at this year’s Canadian Music Fest

DVAS – WEDNESDAY MARCH 10 @ THE ROOSEVELT ROOM 10:00pm
EYE Weekly Canadian Music Fest Opening Night Party
w/Parallels, Styrofoam Ones and CFCF
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DVAS, our newest UC addition, will put forth a set of jams from their impending album Society at The Roosevelt Room. If you don’t know by now that you have to experience these guys live, then take this as an advisory to come on out and get your sweat on the dance floor!!

CADENCE WEAPON – THURSDAY MARCH 11 @ 12:00am
EYE Weekly CMF Showcase Party
w/Fields of Fur, Diamond Rings, Empire, First Rate People
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Cadence Weapon is hard at work on a monster new record, and for one single night only, this special performance courtesy of EYE and CMF, Cadence Weapon jumps on stage with his ridiculous studio band loaded with special guests, to give you a sneak preview of the Cadence Weapon experience for 2010. Don’t miss this. It’s going to be huge.

THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS – FRIDAY MARCH 12 @ 10:00pm
Billions/Chromewaves Party
w/Plants & Animals, Think About Life, The Acorn, Winter Gloves
Tickets Sold Out Online!

The Russian Futurists have emerged from studio seclusion in a flash of live awesomeness. The completely expanded and incredible live band will perform at a select few dates to unveil tracks from Matthew Adam Hart aka The Russian Futurists long-awaited new album The Weight’s On The Wheels. The Weight’s On The Wheels is Hart’s most ambitious creation to date and is sure to be a summer monster.

Two weeks ago the band played the Wavelength 500 Festival in Toronto, previewing 5 brand new cuts from The Weight’s On The Wheels, to fanatic reviews! Now, The Futurists join Plants & Animals, The Acorn and Think About Life at the Billions/Chromewaves Party for Canadian Music Fest.

Don’t miss The Russian Futurists at Lee’s Palace. The new band will blow you away and you will cry tears of punch-drunk love for the new jams.

DVAS + PARALLELS are joining forces to kick off the official EYE Weekly Canadian Music Fest opening night party at The Roosevelt Room on Wednesday, March 10, this party is guaranteed to kick off spring!!

As a very special treat, UC has teamed up with EYE Weekly to give you a sneak listen at the brand new single by DVAS, “Society”. The track has already been determined that it “has 2010 Summer Anthem written all over it” (Canadisco.com)

Click here to read EYE Weekly’s feature on DVAS.

Click here to sneak a preview of DVAS new single “Society”

Go here to see Toronto’s hottest new live act DVAS:

Toronto! The Youngblood party presents DVAS live!

Friday, February 19th @ Supermarket in Kensington.

Special ♥ Edition hosted by: Dead Beat (Corey and Michael Mercanti)

DVAS w/ Dinamo Azari, Magicforce, Ludwig Black

Photography by Mathieu Dutan

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*RSVP* first/surname to youngbloodsinc@gmail.com for limited time reduced

Doors @ 9

$5 before 11

Best Beers on Tap and Cheap Mixed Drinks!!

The Russian Futurists are set to release long awaited album, The Weight’s On The Wheels, this summer. The Weight’s On The Wheels is arguably The Russian Futurists most accomplished creation to date. The Russian Futurists return to the stage to make their first live appearance after a year in the studio in celebration of Wavelength 500!

Wavelength is a weekly live music series based in Toronto. It was founded in late 1999 by a loose collective of frustrated yet hopeful independent musicians trying to breathe some life into some of the darker corners of Toronto’s perpetually overlooked indie music scene. Documenting local cultural history was their aim — as such, every Wavelength series show since the start has been numbered.

Wavelength has helped launch the career trajectories of now-internationally renowned Torontonian and Canadian artists like The Russian Futurists, Holy Fuck, Cadence Weapon, The Cansecos, Broken Social Scene, The Constantines, Final Fantasy, The Hidden Cameras, Great Lake Swimmers, Tokyo Police Club, Peaches, Caribou, Junior Boys, Crystal Castles, Fucked Up and many others.

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Our boy Cadence Weapon has done it again! Just when we thought the week couldn’t get any better for Cadence Weapon, after being interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current by the one and only Shania Twain, Canada’s newest national broadcast music television station AUX.TV named Cadence Weapon & Shout Out Out Out Out’s music video for “Coming Home” the #1 Music Video of 2009!

For those of you who haven’t seen “Coming Home”, it’s one of the hottest music videos we’ve seen in along time, literally! These guys are on fire! Literally!

Congrats to Cadence Weapon and Shout Out Out Out Out; and a huge thank you to everyone at AUX.TV who enjoy this music video as much as we do!

Click here to listen to Shania Twain interviewing Cadence Weapon.

Canada’s newest national broadcast music television station AUX.TV caught up with DVAS prior to their sold out NYE show at The Garrison in Toronto. You can watch the interview online on the AUX.TV Guide to New Music page. Find out how the DVAS name originated, how the boys make magic at their live shows, as well as their plans for world domination and haircuts in 2010!

As for New Year’s Eve, if you missed the Shit La Merde party, you probably won’t hear many people talking about it because everyone there was way too crunk to comment!! DVAS had the crowd hot and bothered both on the dance floor and jumping on the stage as they rang in the New Year with a balloon/confetti-soaked set of DVAS high energy trance-dance-pop musique.

Next up for DVAS, the release of their new single “Society” coming very soon. Stay Tuned for news on this!!

Canada Reads 2010, the annual battle of the books involves celebrity guests defending their choice of novel. They debate their choices every day for a week on CBC Radio One before choosing a single book they believe Canadians would enjoy reading. Books are gradually voted off until a winner is declared.

His Lordship, Edmonton Poet Laureate, Rollie Pemberton better known to us as Cadence Weapon will be defending Douglas Coupland’s book “Generation X”.  Pemberton faces off against CityTV Vancouver’s Evening News Anchor Simi Sara who is defending “Good to a Fault” by Marina Endicott, Esteemed Author/Literary Critic/Director/Publisher Michel Vézina, who is defending “Nikolski” by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler, Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada Samantha Nutt, who is defending “The Jade Peony” by Wayson Choy, and two-time Olympian and eight-time Canadian champion Track and Field Athlete Perdita Felicien, who is defending “Fall on Your Knees” by Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Cadence selected “Generation X” because he feels it is representative of him, his friends and the transient nature of youth, “I knew people who’d done some of those things and felt the buzzwords were still relevant. The book is just very real.” Says Pemberton “It’s the one I instantly thought of if I could represent a book, and a book I felt was thematically similar to things I’ve written and believe”

Although they’d never met before, Cadence Weapon and Vancouver Author Douglas Coupland developed instant rapport, often turning questions asked by media into one-on-one conversations. Brian Coulton - Metro Canada

You can catch the Canada Reads 2010 debates March 8 to 12th on CBC Radio One, moderated by Radio 1 Host of Q - Jian Ghomeshi.