Afternoon Headlines: Royal Canoe record release parties! Factor, Elliot BROOD, and more!

Local fave Royal Canoe is staging a pair of record release parties for its latest outing, Today We're Believers: an all ages soiree at the Park Theatre on Thursday, August 22nd and an 18+er at Union Sound Hall on Friday, August 23rd. Nice of them to think of the children.

Montreal's AroarA - The duo of Andrew Whiteman (BSS, AoH) and Ariel Engle - is at the Park Theatre on Sunday, September 22nd.

From the can't-remember-if-I-mentioned-this-one file: Elliot BROOD is at Times Changed on Sunday, September 15th.

Trivium, Devildriver, After the Burial, and Sylosis make up a quadruple bill going down at the Garrick on Thursday, September 19th.

Factor is at the Windsor on Saturday, August 31st.

Lightning Dust is at the Park Theatre on Wednesday, September 4th.

Vance Joy will be at the Park Theatre on Monday, September 9th.

And finally, Les Jupes' Michael P Falk has combined forces with Twilight Hotel's Dave Quanbury to form Oshima. Check out its EP The Age of Shapes here.