I don’t even recall how I came across them, but I had an email from myself (I’m doing that a lot lately) telling me to check out Vancouver’s Great Aunt Ida (ostensibly two full generations better than regular Ida). It’s that nice quiet, softish, female singer-songwriter kind of thing, and the new album, How They Fly is out tomorrow. I was really enjoying the stream of the song, “Company You Keep,” over at their New Music Canada page, so I clicked over to their website to see if I could get an mp3 of it there, and lo and behold, there it was. Clicking on the track, though, revealed that it was only a partial mp3, which is just about the most annoying and frustrating thing I can think of.

In other Canuckian news, Owen Pallett was the winner of the first ever Polaris Music Prize, beating out a bunch of other really Canadian bands. He poo-ed a prize winning record, and for his effort receives $20,000 (CAD)! Best violindie rocker ever.