This is just a quick note to let you all know that the Hylozoists will be heading to Chicago to take part in Tomorrow Never Knows 2008. The week-long event hosted at Schubas features a long list of amazing artists including our friend and countryman Cadence Weapon. The Hylozoists will be taking part in the Thursday, January 17th show along with Bobby Conn, NOMO and Baby Teeth. TNK is 18+ and you can get tickets here.

After spending most of the summer playing outdoor music festivals across Canada, Toronto’s instrumental collective The Hylozoists are ready to hit to road again, in an effort to bring their special brand of orchestral-pop to the masses. The Hylozoists are starting things off in London this Saturday, September 22nd at the LOLA Festival before heading off for a proper tour with The Besnard Lakes, beginning in Vancouver on September 27th.

The Hylozoists recently re-released their critically acclaimed and long out of print debut,…

The Hylozoists’ critically acclaimed, and long out of print debut, La Nouvelle Gauche, has been repackaged with 2 previously unreleased songs in digipak format. The album will be in stores in Canada in coming weeks, but in the meantime you can buy it now at eMusic!

Tracklisting:
01. The Hylozoists
03. The People is Never Corrupt
05. The Crippled Giant
06. The Iron Chef
07. Details @ Five
08. Red Bird Wishes
10. Permeability
 11. Reprise

It’s true, Grant Lawrence’s fantasies involve The Hylozoists. Sort of… They’re part of his CBC Radio 3 Podcast #98 - “Join Me On My Fantasy” Go download it through iTunes now to hear the following:

ProCon - “Foxhole”
Sharps - “Buff the Mix”
The New Deal - “Gone Gone Gone”
Counterrevolutionaries - “Car Fire”
Ladyhawk - “Came in Brave”
The Sweet Homewreckers - “City on a Hill”
Hylozoists - “If Only Your Heart Was a Major Sixth”
The Sadies - “Oak Ridges”
Camp Radio - “Bleed the Real Estate Girls”
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The Hylozoists played a handful of shows in Austin during SXSW, including a set at the beautiful Volitant Gallery stumbled upon by Joey from About, an early morning slot at the Hot Freaks party (thank you Frank), and an early evening set outdoors under a giant white tent that someone from Stereogum caught and said was “Superb”! None of these shows would have been possible without the goodwill of the Golden Dogs, a band that makes such awesome music it will make your…

On Friday March 16th The Hylozoists are playing a free gallery show at Volitant Gallery on 320 Congress Avenue. Their website is volitant.com and the show is at 8pm and the band will play for a little over a half an hour so please come out. Especially if you live in Austin and hate 8000 Ecoline vans blocking your roads, ride your bike over because the band wants to play for people actually from Austin.

At long last, The Hylozoists have a web site, and not just one page promising a new site in the vague and non-committal, distant/near future. You can stream La Fin Du Monde in its entirety, or look at photos, or see the nice things bloggers and the press have to say about the band… The scroll bar is a ball of string on top of a swirl of string that is very easily missed, so pay attention or you’ll only be…

This Sunday if you happen to be in Toronto you should head down to the Harbourfront Festival for the music of mostly instruments. The mainstage acts will be vibraphone love-fest The Hylozoists and Arcade Fire alumnus Belle Orchestre. The former are on at 3PM, the latter at 4:30. Says Frank of infamous music blog Chromewaves: “It will be epic — a vibraphonic orgy.”

That said, you might be interested in reading this week’s Eye Weekly feature about the Hylozoists so click here.

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The Hylozoists’ long-awaited sophomore album La Fin du Monde, released in Canada just a few weeks ago, is out now in the USA where, just like in Canada, it is taking college radio by storm. La Fin du Monde hasn’t left the top 5 on the Canadian college and campus radio charts in well over a month, and this week it entered America’s CMJ charts at #50!

Featuring a rotating cast of exemplary players - a veritable “who’s who” list of Canadian musicians,…

Last month Zed host, Jenna Chow, headed east to Toronto to soak up all the musical goodness of Canadian Music Week. This week’s episode of Zed Tunes is an all-access tour of CMW featuring Boompa recording artist The Hylozoists, along with Holy Fuck, Magneta Lane, Great Lake Swimmers, The Old Soul and Veil Halen. Go watch it online - click here.

Zed Tunes is a half-hour music magazine show featuring the best up-and-coming new music from Canada and beyond. Watch it Thursday…