Slooo-oooan

Sloan is showing their love for their adopted hometown of Toronto playing for free at Record Store Day this Saturday April 17 at Sonic Boom and again at Yonge and Dundas Square on June 18th 2010 as part of NXNE.

Awesome. Just show up and yell your best "SLOOOO-OOOOAAAAAAN" chant when you see the boys onstage.

Sloan - Come On Come On (We're Gonna Get it Started) (mp3) (buy)

Take It Upon Yourself

Sloan has a new single, and they want you to have it for free!

Sloan - Take It Upon Yourself (mp3)

The guys will also be in Toronto on Monday October 19th at the Dakota Tavern, playing a benefit show for War Child Canada. Tickets are $30, and for such an intimate space and great cause, there's no doubt that it'll be worth it. Not to mention, I hear the band is absolutely fantastic live. But as it's an intimate space, tickets are limited, so go get 'em fast! Go!

Is the sum greater than the whole or vice versa?

You know who I love? Sloan. How could you not love Sloan? If you are a kid growing up in Canada listening to rock music, you must have sang along to one of their crazily catchy songs one time or another. And their live shows are so much fun. Nobody does a better scissor kick that Chris Murphy (except perhaps Howlin' Pelle of the Hives). In any case... I heart Sloan.



Sloan - Good in Everyone (mp3)

And you know who else I love and admire? River Cuomos of Weezer fame. Come on, the guy probably has his PhD from Harvard by now and he was in one of the definitive bands of the 90's. He's an academic from one of the best ivy league school and he's a rock star! It's like the best of both worlds.



Weezer - Buddy Holly (mp3)

And they joined forces to record the track "Little Diane", a cover a Dion (not Celine) song for River's solo record "Alone, the Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomos".

Rivers Cuomo (with Sloan) - Little Diane (mp3)