Last.fm Presents the Top 40 Artists of 2009

(UPDATED!) Just like last year, Last.fm (formerly know as AudioScrobbler) presents the hottest artists of 2009, based on user scrobbles. This year, 40 bands and musicians are on the list, instead of only ten in 2008. A new part of the charts is revealed every wednesday of December; as of now, number 40 to 11 have been announced. Visit the Best of 2009 page on December 16 to have a look at the top ten of hottest music. Artists on the list are those who released an album between October 1, 2008 and November 16, 2009, excluding live albums, greatest hits, EPs and singles. Read more »

Review: City and Colour in Montréal

City and Colour is the solo folk rock side-project from Alexisonfire's guitarist Dallas Green. He was in Montréal last Saturday, here's what Ben and Hugo from Noise Press thought about it.

As Dallas Green hit the stage, the crowd went wild. Green, while being one of the most talented Canadian musician and singer, remains a shy individual we love to stare at. He’s never one to steal the spotlight, even though, everyone gathered in the St. Denis Theatre came to see him, he let the merch guy steal his thunder for the first song of the show. The show went on with Harris, the merch guy who also played the piano with Black Lungs during last year's tour, doing "Bohemian Rhapsody" on an acoustic guitar with the crowd taking care of the singing.

Dallas came on stage and opened with "Forgive me", the first song off his second full-length album, Bring Me Your Love. He also ended the show with the last song of the album, "As Much as I Ever Could".

Dallas kept switching sets from a whole band, to himself alone playing the songs. Supported by Attack in Black for the first part of the show, Dan Romano, guitarist for the Welland, Ontario-based band, accompanied Green for most of the show. Green even played a new song and a cover from Neil Young, "Cowgirl in the Sand". For "Body in a Box", a song that requires both a guitar and an harmonica, he played it alone, for the auditive pleasure of the home crowd that kept yelling sexual innuendos. Alexisonfire's guitarist cleverly responded to one of the "Make me a baby!" yelled by a man with "Physically impossible."

The show seemed too short, but it may be because time stopped for a while on St. Denis Street in Montréal.

More photos from City and Colour in Montréal.
Photos of Attack in Black.

Photo in article by Hugo Royer.