Sloan Playing Free Show Before Leafs Game

09/11/09 1:47pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Sloan will play a free show outside Toronto's Air Canada Centre on Wednesday, Sept. 16 before the Toronto Maple Leafs-Boston Bruins hockey game.

Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson and Andrew Scott announced the show on their Twitter on Friday. They'll perform from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

There's a good chance you could hear some new songs at the gig. Ferguson recently told Blare Magazine that Sloan have been working on a new EP, which will be an online-only release. Sloan have apparently become exceedingly frustrated with CDs (and Thom Yorke can relate).

"I don't want to manufacture CDs. It's pointless," Ferguson told the magazine. "I don't mind making vinyl and I don't mind putting music up online, but manufacturing and distributing CDs is just a headache, to be honest.

"I know it still exists and you still have to sort of cater to it, but I kinda want to turn that off soon. This EP will be the first foray into that."

The EP doesn't have a title or release date yet.