Vacuity is a Canadian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band from Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

. Vacuity's albums include The Middle Ground, released in 2004, and 2006's Come On Get Real. The band released its 2008 album, At the Command of a Blanket Sky on CD, USB Drive, and as a free download via their website, and released the song "The 5th of November" as a single. According to some critics, the band's sound is similar to that of Radiohead

Radiohead

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Band members include Rob McFee on guitar

Guitar

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 and vocals, Paul McGough on bass

Bass guitar

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, Greg Osborn on guitar, and Emeri Schweigert on drums

Drum kit

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In 2006, Vacuity played the North by Northeast

North by Northeast

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festival, and in 2008–09 the band toured Canada in support of At the Command of a Blanket Sky. Vacuity is currently working on a new album, planned for release in early 2011.