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Cults are a newly-hatched bedroom pop duo with a swift rise to fame and a subversive sound. The pair, Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin originally hail from San Diego but went to New York to study film. At the tender age of 21 they began creating in-house lo-fi tracks. Neither member had been in a [...]

If I'm never going to update this thing again, I figure the top post for eternity should be something worthwhile. I have a buddy who makes music. http://www.paulcasts.com/

As some of you music lovers, and surely the entire state of South Carolina, might have known, this May 18th could have been an important day for the indie music scene. For on that day, southern-bred Band of Horses released their most recent and much anticipated album, Infinite Arms. Unlike their boasting, upbeat, rocky, and [...]

For any of you planning on making the festival rounds this summer (Sasquatch anyone?), there is definitely one band you should take the time to see. Formed by music students from Texas in 1999, Midlake blends folk rock and indie together in the telling of their brilliant and well crafted stories. Featured as a single [...]

Stephen McBean and Amber Webber deliver grungy anthemic performances on today's track No Satisfaction, from the Vancouver-based indie-rock collective Black Mountain's self-titled 2005 release. Generally regarded as a critical success (ironically, one of the few negative reviews comes from PopMatters, who critiqued the band for taking themselves too seriously), the album marks the...

I've got some more Mother Mother for the masses today, and some contrived alliteration for good measure. Ghosting is another standout track from the band's second full-length release O My Heart, and the fourth song from the album we have highlighted at BowlingStone. The song employs a slightly more subdued approach than most Mother Mother tracks, but [...]

After years of backing Canada's indie-elite, folk rocker Alfie Jurvanen took his Robbie Robertson-esque step out of the shadows last summer (Jurvanen went with live mics mind you). Under the moniker Bahamas, which is inspired by the Wreckless Eric classic (I'd Go the) Whole Wide World, Jurvanen released his debut LP "Pink Strat" on July [...]

I'm a week late on this I know; I've been busy training and whatnot. Regardless, here is the official music video for Gold Guns Girls from Metric's 2009 full-length Fantasies. Reviews: Metric Related posts:Metric - Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic) Metric - Sick Muse Gregory Pepper and His Problems - Knives and Guns Ohbijou - Make It Gold Metric - Waves

NPR music has the entire album up and available via an audio stream here: http://www.npr.org/templates/s tory/story.php?storyId=1252365 15 Related posts:Broken Social Scene - World Sick Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day) Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit Broken Social Scene -...

NPR music has the entire album up and available via an audio stream here: http://www.npr.org/templates/s tory/story.php?storyId=1252365 15 Related posts:Broken Social Scene - World Sick Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day) Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit Broken Social Scene -...

Cramped in a poor excuse for a bar in Gunchester, England, I have to admit I wasn't expecting much when the owner ushered Alberta Cross onto the stage; I was happily mistaken. Despite Swedish frontman Petter Stakee's accent, he sings like a country-boy from Tennessee. Blending a blues-folk sound reminiscent of Neil Young, you'd be [...]

I opted to re-listen to Nils Edenloff's opus Hometowns during my bi-monthly trek from Calgary to Edmonton this weekend. Driving across the prairies on a road you've driven you're entire life down does well to enhance the already abundant sense of nostalgia dripping from The Rural Alberta Advantage's gorgeous debut. Edmonton is the setup track to [...]

Newmarket, Onatrio's favorite indie-rock foursome Tokyo Police Club are back this year with their highly anticipated sophomore LP "Champ", scheduled for a June 8th release. "Breakneck Speed" is the first official glimpse at the album and can be had as a free download from the band's website here. With the bass-heavy foundation, the spatial synth [...]

Midland, Ontario's 3rd finest export, the indie-rock/post-punk revival trio Born Ruffians, are set to release their sophomore full-length effort on June 1st of this year. The album, titled Say It, will be released with the help of Paper Bag Records (Canada) and Warp Records (worldwide), and will follow-up on the band's debut LP Red, Yellow [...]

Not that it was ever in question, but Carl Newman is one of the most gifted crafters of melody you will ever hear; I'm assuming the mind that came up with the melody behind "With a straight shot, a straight shot, lady would you call it off" also came up with "They ruin, like the [...]

After returning home with the prestigous Juno award for "Roots Solo Album" in 2009, Toronto born (Nova Scotia migrated) Old Man Luedecke is venturing out this year with another album. Due for release next Tuesday (March 30th), Old Man Luedecke's follow up to the 2009 "Proof of Love" is titled "My Hands are on Fire [...]

More hook-heavy indie-pop up today, this time from the Vancouver-based quintet Parlour Steps. The infectious As the World Turned Out can be found on the band's latest LP "The Hidden Names", released in October of 2009 by Nine Mile Records; while counts seem to differ across the annals of the Internet, it appears that The Hidden [...]

Up today is another micro-opus from the eccentrically cinematic Gregory Pepper, and his current musical project Gregory Pepper and His Problems. Knives and Guns can be found on the Guelph, Ontario native's most recent release "With Trumpets Flaring", an LP released last summer with the help of Connecticut-based Fake Four Inc. Like many of Pepper's musical [...]

With 4 years logged since his last full-length release (the 2006 "Dan Bryk Christmas Record"), Dan Bryk returned to our playlists last year with his new LP "Pop Psychology". Without the backing of a major label, and with a steadily increasing disillusionment towards the recording industry, it seems counter-intuitive that Bryk would produce some his [...]

We're digging back into the vault today, to find another superlative inducing track from the perpetually evolving Hawksley Workman; evolving may not be the best way to describe Hawksley Workman, as it implies some sort of traceable path; I think "manically reconstructing" is a better way to describe the way that man seamlessly steps from [...]