We spent this year’s North By Northeast festival attending conferences, hanging out with rock stars and bouncing all over the city checking out bands. Of note were Winnipeg’s ‘Grand Analog’ as well as ‘Beast,’ a rock/electronica/rap group from Montreal whose bass player weilded a half bass half Micro Korg. Very cool. You can check them out at www.myspace.com/grandanalog and www.myspace.com/beastsound respectively.

Later in the weekend we got invited to the Much Music Video Awards after-party hosted by Perez Hilton. We mainly just chilled, mingled a bit and drank the free Heinekens. You can read Perez’s scoop on his blog here. Unfortunately Kent, who is a Perez addict, had to miss the festivities because he is too much of a good guy to call in sick.