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When AUX TV launched online on November 24, 2008, it had an honest, simple mandate to support Canada's exploding music scene, inclusive of genre and level of exposure. Right out of the gates, their programming included brand new music videos, exclusive interviews and performances, and full-length programs featuring some of new music and media's foremost aficionados and figureheads. Most of it was produced on modest budgets with the resources, hard work, and the tapped-in creativity of a young group of brains and bodies who were either already part of the scene they were documenting or who were just as eager as AUX to jump headfirst into the momentum. In one week, on October 1, AUX TV will emerge from its nerd cave inside the internet and expand onto basic digital cable, where it will make instant Canadian TV history by being the first network to make a web-to-air transition and where it will deepen its still incalculable—but already promising—impact as it strikes while our country's music-community iron is so very shit-hot.

Yes, it's kind of cool to hate on Alexisonfire once you've reached puberty. And no, Crisis, their last record, wasn't filled with delightfully twee indie pop, but pretty much every person who reviewed it dug it like whoa. And the fact remains that as played out as "screamo" gets, these guys have been doing it since long before downtuning and shouting put you on the fast track to rock 'n' roll success. They've bucked trends like awesome make-up and wickedly heavy breakdowns. They paid their dues in halls across this country about a blagillion times, and now they're effing huge. Good on 'em.