Free Tickets: Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton - Go see Postdata, Julie Fader and Clinton St. John

Postdata is heading to the west for a few days with Julie Fader and Clinton St. John and we've got 4 free sets of tickets to each show

If any of these names aren't immediately familiar to you

Postdata is the side project of Wintersleep's Paul Murphy.

Julie Fader has been called the Polaris secret weapon having played on albums by Chad Van Gaalen, the Great Lake Swimmers, Sarah Harmer and many, many others. She will soon be best known for her solo work.

Clinton St. John is the singer songwriter behind such acts as Cape May and the Pale Air Singers

If you would like to go to any of these shows drop an email to northbyeastwest@gmail.com, give me your full name and let me know which show you'd like to go to. Don't worry you won't be put on a mailing list or anything.

March 18 - Calgary, AB @ The Republik w/ Clinton St. John & Julie Fader
March 19 - Edmonton, AB @ Brixx w/ Clinton St. John & Julie Fader
March 20 - Vancouver, BC @ The Media Club w/ Clinton St. John & Julie Fader (early show)

Postdata - Tobais Grey

Enter the Sandman Viper Command - Brother's Contest

As part of the Sandman Viper Command residency we're co-sponsoring with Audio Blood - we're running a bit of a contest. Here are the details from Sandman Viper Command



So, that about sums it up. To enter send your brothers to svc@audioblood.com and the best brothers will be chosen by the band themselves!

The winner will win:
1 - Sandman Viper Command CD - Everybody See This (coming out March 2nd)
2 - a screen printed Sandman Viper Command poster!
3 - a Clothes Make the Man CD
4 - The Darcys CD - Endless Water
5 - and an awesome Audio Blood screen printed poster!!

Sandman Viper Command - Yo Bobcat

Bend Sinister, the Left & We Are the City Named Top 3 at Peak Performance Project

The Peak Performance Project has announced that the results of their online voting are in and Bend Sinister, the Left and We Are the City will share $275,000 towards career development (1st place – $150,00 2nd place – $75,000 and 3rd place – $50,00). Fourth and fifth place went to Adaline and Kuba Oms who will automatically be in the top 20 for next year's Peak Performance Project.

Who is in what spot for the top 3 will be announced at the final Peak Performance showcase on January 22nd, 2010 at the Commodore Ballroom. Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Friday, December 18 for $10.05.

For free downloads from all of this year's peak performance acts visit http://www.peakperformanceproject.com/?p=1127.

Canadian Blog Awards Round II: NxEW.ca Still Up for Four

The 2009 Canadian Blog Awards have now entered the second and final round of voting. We're sadly out of the running in the Best Overall Blog and Best Pop Culture blog but you can still vote for us in:

Best Culture and Literature
Best Group Blog
Best New Blog and
Best Podcaster/Vlogger (for the Mixtape Podcast)

You can vote until December 19 (please?).

Contest - Arts and Crafts giving away Constantines Stuff!

Arts & Crafts are having a contest and want to give you (or at least a few of you) presents for the Constantines contest. A posting on their website says:

"In celebration of the Constantines 10th anniversary, Arts & Crafts and Lifetime Collective are giving fans a chance to some great prizes. The winner will receive all 4 hand screened, numbered posters as well as the band's CD discography. 3 runners up will win the bands CD discography. Send your name and address to contest@arts-crafts.ca for your chance to win!"

That's all there is to it, no real "rules" to speak of just drop an email to contest@arts-crafts.ca with your name and address and then cross your fingers!

Inaugural Class in the Album Hall of Fame

The voting is all over and, in case you missed any, the inaugural class in the NxEW Canadian Album Hall of Fame is:

the Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
Neil Young - Harvest
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People

Soon there will be a permanent page on NxEW.ca to hilight your choices and next year at about this time five more albums will be added to the list. The 45 albums that made this years final poll will automatically be included in next years and the albums of 2005 will be eligible. Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted.

Contest: A Very Bloody Xmas (Win prize packs from Audio Blood)

Audio Blood and the Third Estate are having a holiday party at the Horseshoe tavern on December 12 and you could be the one getting presents. Attending the party will be Oh No Forest Fires, Make Your Exit, Clothes Make the Man and the Balconies and one person is going to win a prize pack with a CD from each of the bands playing, a mini screen printed poster for the event, an Exclaim tee from the Third Estate and two tickets to the show!

Not only that but a runner up will win CDs from the Balconies and Make your Exit!

For a chance to win send an email to northbyeastwest@gmail.com so that we can get ahold of you if you win. (We won't spam you, we won't even keep your email address when the contest is over. We just need to be able to get ahold of you if you win.)

The Winner (and runner up) will be chosen at random next Wednesday (December 9)!

For more information on the party visit the FACEBOOK EVENT