Audio Blood If you've been making your way around the Toronto music blogosphere over the last little while, you'll likely have seen a certain giveaway popping up over and over again, promoting a certain show going down at the Horseshoe next Saturday night. Well here it is again. The occasion is dubbed "Jingle Bell Rock" and is being presented by the folks at Audio Blood with support from aux.tv and Exclaim and will feature performances [...]
Audio Blood is a marketing and publicity company still in it's infancy and are celebrating their first year anniversary. To help celebrate, they've provided with some AWESOME prize packs. Audio Blood has provided a huge role for local talent in Toronto area in addition to a large roster of Canadian artists. While we haven't worked much with them personally, I have the up most respect for the work they do. The event, which has Audio Blood partnered with Third Estate merchandise and Exclaim magazine (my favorite magazine in Toronto by far I must [...]
On December 12th CBC Radio 3 favourite's Oh No Forest Fires , great local bands Make Your Exit , Clothes Make the Man and Ottawa's pride and joy The Balconies will be Jingle Bell Rockin' the Horsehoe Tavern and we want you and a friend to go. You'll also get a chance to walk away with some cool swag. Enter for your chance to win a killer prize pack including a CD from each of the bands playing, mini screen printed poster, Exclaim tee courtesy of Third Estate and pair of tickets [...]
Serious Bedtime The Balconies are an Ottawa three-piece who have leagues of followers in their hometown. Recently, the Ottawa Xpress took a poll and found that the threesome were voted by the Ottawa public as both the best Rock/Pop/Dance/Other Band and Best New Musical Act. As evidence by this, I'm pretty late on this one, also every other Canadian blogger has tipped you to their music. But, their music has hit my ears quite nicely this time and I'm ready to dive right into their self-titled album, released independently on Sept. 22nd. [...]
November 18th, I decided to hit up Irene's Pub. It was a start for my week for checking out live music. This being one of three shows this week. Playing at the lovely venue were: The Balconies Modernboys Moderngirls All I can is that maybe the people at Irene's Pub weren't expecting the show to be very loud last night. Since the venue is known for folky rock style of [...]
The Balcones are a three piece from Ottawa, who have recently relocated to Toronto to attend school. They consist of Jacquie Neville, Steve Neville and Liam Jaeger. On the CD you can hear the occasional three part harmonies for mostly upbeat, catchy song with super catchy riffs. The stand out song on the CD has to be Battle Royale . I played this for Ricky and his response to me was "Man, that Balconies song you played for me was awesome". My response to him was "Yah, too bad it is the [...]
It was a wonderful November 3rd Tuesday evening to see two great bands whom I've seen various times when they play in Ottawa. The bands in question are: Dinosaur Bones from Toronto The Balconies from Ottawa now living in Toronto. Both bands need no introduction since I've covered them on this site alot. This was the first time for myself to attend this show at Algonquin College's The Observatory. Its a nice place [...]
Frank Yang Last Thursday night was spent at The Garrison, the newly - opened west-end venue that'll be home to the final year of Wavelength as well as a plethora of other local music happenings. A fine example of this was this evening's bill, featuring bands with long names from near, far and sorta-near-but-not-that-close: The Wilderness Of Manitoba , Slow Down Molasses and Olenka & The Autumn Lovers . Slow Down Molasses represented the "far", hailing from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and were up first. I'd spent some [...]
Well, it's that time of the year that every Canadian music blogger loves the most: I (Heart) Music 's carefully calculated compiling of The Hottest Bands in Canada . Matthew is the head maestro of that high quality music blog from Ottawa and what he does is he asks several of the country's finest music aficionados (and me) for their personal picks of the 10 hottest bands in Canada. He then takes our respective lists and, using a team of highly respected scientists and mathematicians, puts together the final selections. I was flattered to once again be [...]
As 2009 comes to a close, the "best of" list will begin to multiply exponentially. I must admit that I'm a sucker for a list. This year, BTA participate in i(heart)music 's 2009 Hottest Bands in Canada poll. This year's edition included 34 of Canada's most popular blogs and independent music publications. You can view the results and our commentary here . These groups made my top-10 list: The Balconies - Lulu Think About Life - Havin' My Baby Joel Plaskett - [...]
Its the time of the year that i(heart)music does the Hottest Bands in Canada. Click here for the full results. This is their fifth year while this is my second time doing this. Here is my top 10 form 2008 . For those that want to cheer or jeer. Please make a comment. Here is my top 10 for 2009 who is considered the hottest. Basia Bulat [...]
Frank Yang White Rabbits have got it covered in the name-dropping department. Via TBD Records , they're labelmates with a little British outfit called Radiohead and their critically-hailed second album It's Frightening was produced by Britt Daniel, who sometimes moonlights in a band popular in some circles called Spoon . Yeah, the Brooklyn sextet have got plenty of ammo for cocktail parties, but it doesn't necessarily tell you much about their actual music, does it. Well the Britt Daniel [...]
I know... another week and Iv'e barely even gotten a mixtape together, but at least I got the images from the past two weeks' posts fixed, right? It's progress- as much as I can muster lately. Tracklisting: The Uglysuit - 1902 Deep Ocean Awesome New Republic - Alleycat Cloud Control - Gold Canary Daniel Wesley [...]
Once more, here is October's edition of the Music Alliance Pact . For those of you who don't know about MAP, it's a collection of music blogs from around the world who band together once a month to shed light on up-and-comers from their home countries. It's sort of like the WTO without the human rights violations. This month we've welcomed one new country: Estonia !. This edition showcases 34 tracks from bands around the world and marks the one-year anniversary since IGIF's inaugural edition of MAP debuted [...]
The Music Alliance Pact is a collective of 34 of the world's top music blogs and webzines from 34 countries spanning six continents. Every month, each of these 34 sites picks one hot local song that gets posted on all these great blogs and zines. It's been a year since the MAP was launched, and Indiecision is proud to have been part of it for the past three months. This month we picked New Delhi electronica act Teddy Boy Kill 's 'Tonic' as the Indian representative on this massive international indie mixtape. The [...]
Es 15 de Octubre, momento de otra edición de MAP, ya te comentaba ayer que hoy se cumple un año de creada esta comunidad cuando, te invito a checar los detalles aquí. Emergency Blanket son nuestros representantes para esta edición, la banda está integrada por Paco Holguin - Voz, Gino Solano - 1ra Guitarra, Jaime Urteaga - 2da Guitarra, Lufo Armestar - Bajo, Jeremy Castillo - Bateria, los Blanket han venido haciendo mucho eco en nuestra escena a base de logros y esfuerzo, el pasado mes de Noviembre del 2008 lanzaron su segundo trabajo titulado [...]
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Lipgloss - Land Of Lords This band from Buenos Aires released their first EP a couple of months ago and Land Of Lords is our favorite song from it. Lipgloss sound like they've been listening to British rock all their life and you sure can feel the influence of bands like The Stone Roses at the end of the song, with the psychedelic guitars and all. If you like it, [...]
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