Local Arts

- The xx - Coexist (Young Turks Records) Rating: 9 out of 10 It has been three long years since The xx released their debut album to huge critical response.

Vancouver international film festival

American Idol star in town for Youth Waves

- The Word On The Street (Sept. 28-30): Friday programming at Banyen Books & Sound, 6: 30-8 p.m., and Historic Joy Kogawa House, 7: 30-9: 30 p.m.; Saturday programming at the Carnegie Centre, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Feist's album Metals won the 2011 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album last night in a gala ceremony held at the Concert Hall Studios at Bell Media's Masonic Temple in Toronto.

HE TOOK A PLANE TO TORONTO. Once there, he'll go to a bank. If all goes well, he'll come back with merchandise worth $7.5 million. North Vancouver musician Ariel Barnes is one of 10 cellists competing in the 2012 Musical Instrument Bank Competition.

- Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge) Rating: 9 (out of 10) Spoon + Handsome Furs = Divine Fits.

Sept. 4 Animal Collective - Centipede Hz; Cat Power - Sun; Bob Mould - Silver Age; Stars - The North; The Vaccines - The Vaccines Come of Age; T.I. - Trouble Man. Sept.

Roots musician opening new season at Cap U

Local filmmaker Jamie Travis makes his feature-length debut