Who: Milks and Rectangles from Charlottetwon, PEI.What: In 2005, this band started like all bands, in a barn. Now Christian Ledwell, Mike Carver, Justin Uyterlinde and Brandon Williams have put together 6 indie pop songs for their upcoming release Civic Virtues. The EP was produced by Daniel Ledwell (In-Flight Safety, The Prospectors’ Union) in a [...]
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Check out the TV spot for the movie The Invention Of Lying starring Ricky Gervais. Born Ruffian’s have their song ‘Hummingbird’ starting off the clip, with ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky finishing the spot. .
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Featuring performances by: Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, Fever Ray, Micachu & The Shapes, Clues, Think About Life, Cadence Weapon, Japandroids, Dragonette, Joel Plaskett, Kid Koala Presents: The Slew, and many more…Check the schedule here. Here’s my quick picks, to go along with the ones above (check schedule for times and locations).Wed: Bahamas, Amy Millan, [...]
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I’m currently mapping out my work schedule for October and November and thinking that I’m going to be screwed for free time. I’ll be promoting 5 albums to tv/film/advertising people before the end of the year, not to mention trips to Halifax for Pop and possibly LA in November.I guess I do like being busy, [...]
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Who: City Light from San Francisco.What: Bridging that open area between post hardcore influenced indie rock and downtempo electronics, check out long time Seattle friends Matt Shaw and Nick Andre, collectively called City Light. From a collaboration that had the two mailing tracks back in forth, we now how their sophomore album Burned Out Bright; [...]
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I’m just going to point you towards a great blog with a great post on a great band from Queensland called The Middle East. IGIF has two tracks from the band including ‘Blood‘, which is my idea of what they Great Lake Swimmers would sound like if through the song they kept inviting members of [...]
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Who: Real Estate from New Jersey.What: A new band on my radar, New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker called Real Estate. For fans of the pop bliss of The Feelies and Yo La Tengo, listen to the drony guitar picking and the simple marching beat [...]
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Privy by Clothes Make the Man.Catch them at one of the dates below.Oct. 14 @ Van Gogh’s Ear 3rd Floor, GUELPHOct. 15 @ El Mocambo, TORONTOOct. 16 @ Circus Room, KITCHENEROct. 22 @ Marcellos, MISSISAUGAOct. 24 @ The Green Bottle, OSHAWAOct. 28 @ Red Rooster, BURLINGTONOct. 30 @ Montreal House, PETERBOROUGHNov. 7 @ Blackshire Pub, [...]
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I’m in the most recent issue of Exclaim! Magazine in the Meet & Greet Section. This is the place in the magazine (and online) where music industry people are interviewed on a variety of topics. In this specific interview, I was mainly focusing on blogging, but we talked a lot about finding new music and [...]
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Gorilla vs Bear tipped us to this today. Great remix on a great song (which we tried and tried to get on IMF Volume 6, to no avail).
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Apparently Pingvinvärmen is Swedish for the warmth of Penguins. Is that what’s going on here?Tvärvägen – Pingvinvärmen from Henrik Ohberg on Vimeo.Grab the song here and head to Knoppar for more great music.
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Who: Yukon Blonde from Vancouver.What: Originally from Kelowna, but now based in Vancouver, here’s a four-piece bringing us nostalgia from those smoother sounds of the 60’s. Touching upon multi-part harmonies and thick yet simple hooks reminiscent of older bands (Fleetwood Mac, Crosby/Stills/Nash and America) and newer artists (Fleet Foxes and Local Natives), the band already [...]
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They are free and here. And I totally forgot to mention this a few weeks ago when I got the memo.
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While watching TV the other night, I found myself a little confused watching those funky stop-motion commercials for Sun Rype. You see, I always thought the song in the background was ‘Sleepy Tigers‘ by Her Space Holiday. Chances are you’ve seen it.Well, the one I saw the other night had a new song in it. [...]
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Who: Winter Gloves from Montreal.What: Just a couple days after posting their video for Party People, I’m once again blasting Winter Gloves from my stereo, this time a remix for their song Invisible by Ease V. It comes from A Way To Celebrate, a reworking of the band’s debut LP as a digital release collection [...]
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IMF fave School Of Seven Bells will be releasing a deluxe edition of their debut album, 2008’s Alpinisms (one of our top 10), with 9 bonus tracks on October 13th. The bonus tracks include alternate versions, live cuts, demos and new mixes. The first new track to be released is an alternate take of “Iamundernodisguise”, [...]
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Head over to myspace to stream all the songs off the upcoming ‘Turning The Mind’ from UK’s Maps. This record hits stores on Monday in the UK, but not until October 20th for North America.The myspace page comes with short video previews at the top. Loving the look and the sound so far.
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Who: Luxury Pond from Toronto.What: The songwriting project of Toronto-based musician Dan Goldman. Instead of a pond as a simple body of water, think of this music as a culmination point down river, which collects from many streams, each with their own current. This second of Dan’s albums features Canadian musicians Owen Pallett and Ryan [...]
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