Years spent on the Indie Rock scene should be measured in dog years: if a band manages to maintain its original line up for an entire trip around the sun, it should count as seven. Toronto’s Talladega has featured many members over the years, but the original core-duo of Stewart Whitehead (ex-Grace Babies) and Sean Bettam (ex-Chicklet) guides its flight path with endurance. Tonight, with new members Mark Buffone and Dave Cyr, they launch their......

After the live music orgy that was NxNE last weekend, the upcoming week shows a considerably lighter concert calendar. The can't-miss show of the next seven days is Sleater-Kinney at the Phoenix on Saturday, promoting their new speaker-destroying rock opus The Woods. After producing two relatively pop and accessible albums with All Hands On The Bad One and One Beat, they opted for some sonic reinvention at the hands of uber-producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips,......

With their third proper album (not counting a b-sides comp), Manchester's Doves continue to prove themselves worthy of carrying on the tradition of great music originating from Northern England. Some Cities starts off on a surprisingly un-Dovesish note with the crunchy title track immediately followed by the Motown stomp of lead single, "Black And White Town". For a band that made their name with atmospheric and anthemic songs like "The Cedar Room" and "There Goes......