The Mission District is a Montreal-based six-piece that combines '80s Brit pop like The Cure and New Order with contagious power-fuzz (just made that up!) pop-punk and churns out one fist-pumping singalong chorus after another. In other words, these clean-cut hipsters make dance music you can mosh to. Armed with unstoppable beats and endless sinister keys, the ex-punks have enough nightclub charisma to put glitter on your chest in a single listen.
Brain-conquering singles like "The Age Of Pretending" and "So Over You" have won them a steady online following (16,000 MySpace friendies and counting), a spot on tour with The Bravery, Elbow and most recently, Nightmare Of You. Oh, and Perez Hilton is obsessed with them ("Hot Sweaty Boys Make Hot Sweaty Music"). No big deal.
Get your hands and ears and everything else on the explosive British sound that's blaring out of Montreal's biggest speakers at The Mission's District's MySpace.