New Music: Nightmare And The Cat

Last week the new EP from Nightmare and the Cat landed on our desks, and we gave it a spin. And another, and another. The music is oddly compelling - strangely earnest, yet epic in its rock and roll vibe, with a tinge of folk. In many ways it's theatrical, but it also manages to hold on to a bit of rock and roll grit.

In short, it's fresh and compelling in its sound, and that's enough to get us interested. Luckily, the band has a show at Mercury Lounge tomorrow night, so we'll get to see how the tunes hold up in a live setting. See you there!

mp3: Nightmare and The Cat - Sarah Beth

Broken Social Scene At The Center Of A "Rock Show Romance"

We're not exactly sure what to make of this, but given lead singer Kevin Drew's heart-on-sleeve, romanticism, we're not exactly shocked to see Broken Social Scene at the hub of a new last-chance-at-love romantic drama.

Apparently based around the departure of a girl from a boys life and one night at a Broken Social Scene concert, the preview (above) for This Movie Is Broken appears to include just about every lost love cliche in the book.

That being said, it apparently contains massive amounts of Broken Social Scene live footage, and that's definitely not something we can argue with.