I like watching bands get better. And from these earlier posts, you can see that I've been watching this 5-piece band from Hamilton (with songs about factories) grow into a powerhouse live band with a great album to back it up. Charlemagne became Arkells and Arkells have come into their own. This year the band signed [...]
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Who : That's The Spirit from Ottawa. What : Spending some time here listening to the debut LP (Staying Places , Antique Room ) from That's The Spirit , the moniker of Ottawa local multi-instrumentalist Ben Wilson. In his music you might hear something along the lines of Yo La Tengo mixed with Iron and Wine [...]
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I was sitting here trying to figure out who The Silent Years were. Its took me a while to realize that I had written about the band in November, two years ago. Wow, glad I have that search function on my website…… Why are you looking at me like that? I don't have the memory I [...]
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Photofunia. Thanks Emma-Lee, got inspired from your profile pic.
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Sometimes I wish there were 25 hours in the day. I’d really want to spend that time getting to all the e-mail in my inbox, which does happen, but not always in a timely manner. For example, I would have liked to have told you about Brasstronaut last week before their show at the Drake [...]
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Who : Marching Band from Sweden. What : To follow up my previous note on this band, it seems as if Erik and Jacob have been really busy with their new record. Since Spark Large was released by U&L Records in August, the band have had reviews in Rolling Stone, a KCRW session with Nic Harcourt, [...]
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Who : The Dead Trees who formed in Boston, now reside in Portland. What : A band simply doing garage well; two guitars, bass, chaotic drums and an unforgettable vocal melody belted out towards the last row in the audience. Since garnering a lot of support for last years Fort Music EP , they supported Albert [...]
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Confirmed both on the panel I did this weekend at WordCamp and again on this posting, Indie Music Filter has a pretty consistent theme when it comes to the content that I put up on the site. It's to the point. My goal is to really act more like an introduction or referrer when it [...]
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Check it out. We seem to be posting a ton of videos these days on the site. For a while, I was searching for a plugin that would aggregate all these videos in one spot. Now I think I've figured it out with the Vodpod Video Gallery Plugin for Wordpress. Click on the image to [...]
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Who : Cut Off Your Hands from Auckland, New Zealand. What : They've conquered Australia and their homeland of New Zealand and now begin their invasion of North America. They're a new signing to Frenchkiss Records , who plan on releasing an introduction EP (Happy As Can Be ) on Oct. 21st, followed by a full [...]
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Or more specifically, Rogue Wave does Myspace Transmissions. Get the whole session here, or check out the videos and interviews.
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Going through the backlog of videos that I'd love you to see, why not put them all in one post? The Walkmen - In The New Year Wye Oak - Please Concrete. Interested for sure, would love to get to know this band better. Broken Social Scene - Part 1 in Juan's Basement. Final Fantasy - The Butcher. The Jealous [...]
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Who : Wax Stag from St. Albans (UK). What : This is the kind of music that bass/percussionist Rob Lee from Friendly Fires makes when he's up on imagination behind the keys of his synthesizer. From the debut Short Road EP , which has been applauded by Hot Chip and MTV2 , you'll find a slew [...]
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Seems as if I’m a day late here…. I blame that on moving offices and festivals wanting to be eager enough to start on wednesday. So, we’ll seperate the picks by the ones that have already happened which you’ll need a time machine to attend, and the ones that run from now until the end [...]
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Who : Alaska In Winter from most recently Berlin.What : A song named from where the new album was created. Bedroom recording genius Brandon Bethancourt recorded all the songs off the upcoming Holiday (to be released by Milan records Nov. 18th) using only a Powerbook Laptop, an effects processor, a small midi keyboard, a microphone [...]
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FYI, we’ve got a new address. If you’re a band/publicist/pr company/or anyone that sends us music, please update your records with our new address. All other contact info is still here.1103-170 Bloor St. West. Toronto, Ontario. M5S 1T9. Canada
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I’m excited. Don’t really know who will win, but now I’m leaning towards Caribou or Holy Fuck. Here are the nominees.Black Mountain - In The FutureBasia Bulat - Oh, My DarlingCaribou - AndorraKathleen Edwards - Asking For FlowersHoly Fuck - LPPlants And Animals - Parc AvenueShad - The Old PrinceStars - In Our Bedroom After [...]
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“I don’t care what happens in the video, as long as I get to drive a DeLorean…..”that’s what I would have said if I was Matt Mays.Check out the new video for Matt Mays‘ song Tall Trees, which we wrote about a while back. He’s on the road with a huge Canadian tour right now, [...]
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