Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Monday: Fuck Buttons, Growing, + These Are Powers @ Bowery Ballroom 7:30pm $15 [tix]Most acts that set up in front of a table are never able to truly capture an audiences attention in the live setting. They stand there, pressing buttons and twisting ... more info

411 Mania — No Age verses the airline man, Morrissey is unwell, more Pavement news, The new Eeels record, Jarvis Cocker to become a DJ, new Los Campesinos! album, Dark Was The Night makes a load of money for charity, the Fucked Up singles comp and more. more info

Culture Bully — Video footage of Fucked Up performing "Crooked Head" with Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett at the 2009 Polaris Music Awards. more info

Clickmusic — The band win Canada's award for album of the year, beating Metric and Great Lake Swimmers. more info

Rock Sellout —   Ahhh This Week In Music... Back in a bog way! This weekly post will serve as a means to point out interesting music related articles from around the web, that don't traditionally make it to these types of blogs... Let's dive, shall we? !) First o... more info

Stereogum — The Chemistry Of Common Life was awarded the $20,000 Polaris Prize for best Canadian album of the year, beating Chad VanGaalen and Malajube, among others. The band plans to put the money to good use. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "Until this year, we in Fucked Up have never felt part of the Canadian "music community"; we've never really toured Canada, never received any sort of grant money, and I wasn't even a part of SOCAN until last week. It... more info

Quick Before It Melts — The last thing you want from me (and the last thing I want to do tonight) is give you a song-by-song recap of last night’s (or tonight’s, depending on when you ‘re reading this and when I get finished writing it) Polaris Music Prize Gala.  I... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — The following tickets are on sale now: Fucked Up performs The Chemistry Of Common Life featuring Andrew W.K. (Keyboards) / Vivian Girls (Backup Vocals) With Guests: Titus Andronicus / Katie Stelmanis at Brooklyn Masonic Temple on November 5. Tickets... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — COMING UP @ BROOKLYN MASONIC TEMPLETICKETS ARE ON SALE for the Sunn O))), Earth, Pelican & Eagle Twin show happening on September 22nd.TICKETS ARE ON SALE (@ 10AM) for the November 5th "Fucked Up performs The Chemistry Of Common... more info