by BBG Jeff Wilson on stage with Doomsday, his project with Bob Fouts ( more by Carmelo Espanola ) You may not have heard of them yet, but Chrome Waves is on the move. Featuring Jeff Wilson (Wolvhammer, Nachtmystium), Bob Fouts (The Gates of Slumber, Apostle of Solitude), and Stavros Giannopoulos (The Atlas Moth, Twilight), the trio are set to release a six song EP that features the tracks "Blackbird", "Height of The Rifles", and "Light Behind a [...]
Wrekmeister HarmoniesAlong with the city's vibrant metal community, one of the things I miss the most about living in Chicago were Tuesdays at the Museum of Contemporary Art (220 East Chicago Ave.). Admission was free, and quite frankly, you couldn't put a price on some of the oddities on display. Goes to show that art is alive and well, depending on your definition of "art."Tonight, as part of
Do you need even more new music in your life? Don't you already have enough to listen to?Chrome Waves says you don't. And with a lineup that features Stavros Giannopoulos (The Atlas Moth, Twilight), Jeff Wilson (Wolvhammer, ex-Nachtmystium), and Bob Fouts (Apostle of Solitude, ex-The Gates of Slumber), you're in no position but to agree.The trio has just released a song called "Height of the
- Chromewaves reviews Snowblink . - Exclaim! has a new track from Canadian Music Legends Sloan , celebrating 20 years with new LP and the song " Follow The Leader ". - Pitchfork has a track from 13 & God , a project between German electro-pop outfit the Notwist and avant-rap crews Themselves and Subtle. I'm a fan so far in " Old Age ". -If you're a fan of Dr Dog , you're going to probably love The Devil Whale . Check out " [...]
Jan 11, 2011, 4:38pm
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Facebook How do you like your British Sea Power ? Abrasive and anarchic as on their debut The Decline Of British Sea Power ? Slick and anthemic as on the follow-up Open Season ? Or are you loathe to choose between the two and prefer the middle ground that album number three - Do You Like Rock Music? - treads upon? If you raised your hand for option c), then the Brighton-based Brits' fourth effort [...]
Jan 5, 2011, 1:45pm MBV
Sarah Bowles If there's any upside - and I type this knowing that there's not - to the fact that the holidays are over and it's back to the workaday week, it's that my inbox and RSS reader are once again filling up with interesting news bits (and tonnes of uninteresting ones) rather than lists upons lists and year-end retrospectives. And that includes concert announcements, of which there were more than a few yesterday. Including a return to North America for the first time in a couple years from Brighton, UK's premiere electro/indie/hip-hop/dance/ro ck party-all-over outfit [...]
2010 was a banner year for the Canadian music scene. Festivals like Toronto's NXNE blew up bigger than ever, indie darlings like PS I Love You and Diamond Rings debuted to rave reviews, and established artists like Broken Social Scene and Tegan and Sara proved they're at the top of their game with no end in sight. To mark the year's close, we've assembled some photographic highlights of musical moments captured on stages across Toronto by Chromewaves ' Frank Yang. Happy New Year! [...]
From the moment I first spun The Rural Alberta Advantage's 2009 album Hometowns, I knew I had found a band I'd love forever. Then I saw them live a few months later, and I was even more smitten. So I have been keeping a watchful eye on the interwebs for news of the band's followup. This [...]
Dec 7, 2010, 5:54pm MBV
Ground Control So maybe some of you heard that Jeff Mangum, that guy who used to be in that one band, played a surprise show of Neutral Milk Hotel tunes to a Brooklyn crowd of about 75 this past weekend ( MP3s or it didn't happen ). And while that's a pretty cool thing in and of itself, not to mention giving those in attendance bragging rights in certain circles for the rest of their lives, that it happened just before word that the Elephant 6 collective of which the Neutral [...]
Oct 21, 2010, 4:47pm MBV
Frank Yang One of the perks of being my own boss, as it were, is that no one can tell me what I have to cover when I'm out and about, particularly at a festival like Halifax Pop Explosion . And since I've already had and taken the opportunity to see many of the big names playing the festival, I went into this week with the mandate of seeing stuff I hadn't seen before, be it on recommendations from others, positive MySpace first impressions or just because it's located nearby and I'm lazy. The [...]
Oct 19, 2010, 12:01pm MBV
Robin Sharp The Diamond Rings journey thus far - from viral video through legal scuffle , at festivals at home and abroad - has been documented hereabouts pretty well , I think, but there's still one fairly important - or only important - facet of the tale to be considered - the debut album, Special Affections , which finally arrives next Tuesday, October 26. For an artist who has been so successful with the single format - a new track, or [...]
Oct 13, 2010, 4:28pm MBV
Valerie Phillips When Why You Runnin' , the debut EP from Rock Island, Illinois native Elisabeth Maurus - aka Lissie - was released late last year, she was heralded as a bright new voice of the alt.country scene and indeed, her emotive voice and songwriting had the right balance of twang and rasp that she could well have become the next big crossover act for the genre. The problem with this was that in many ways, alt.country has become as rigid and codified a style as the Nashville scene that [...]
Oct 12, 2010, 3:09pm MBV
Frank Yang One might think that after last weekend's three-day salute to the '90s I'd be ready to get back to the 21st century, musically-speaking, but instead last Wednesday night turned the dial on the wayback-machine even further - Chapterhouse was in town. The North American leg of their reunion tour, which began in late 2009, was delayed from May until this Fall due to volcanic ash though the Toronto show was cancelled earlier for reasons unknown. Hogtown was back on for the new dates, however, and at a larger venue no [...]
Oct 8, 2010, 6:25pm MBV
Joe Fuda And now, a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with a certain record label that is now old enough to drink in the US. Starting locally, with The Rural Alberta Advantage . After one of the best and busiest 2009s on record, the trio has been relatively quiet through most of this year working on the follow-up to their debut Hometowns , as these photos (sort of) attest. But you can only keep road warriors in one place for so long and [...]
Oct 7, 2010, 6:04pm MBV
Frank Yang If there's an upside to getting a full night's sleep after turning in at 5AM, it's that it eliminates a lot of the decision-making around what to do with one's day. Hauling my ass out of bed at almost 1PM meant that all I had to do for the last day of Matador at 21 was shower, cram myself with enough food to get me through till the wee hours of the morning and stand in line waiting for the doors to the Pearl to open. Easy peasy. The weekend's [...]
Oct 6, 2010, 4:26pm MBV
Frank Yang The generally packed Matador At 21 schedule didn't allow time for much activity beyond getting rocked and sleeping it off, but on Saturday I still managed to get away from The Palms and over to the strip with Dave Rawkblog and Brad Almanac for some Vegas-style (read: totally excessive) buffet and celebrity-sighting (Pete Rose and Tim Gunn were hanging at Caesar's Palace while I bought a new mouse), and it's a good thing that I loaded up before the evening's festivities, because this day was going to be a long [...]
Sep 24, 2010, 5:04pm MBV
Frank Yang As a genre/style, power-pop is not one that traditionally gets a lot of respect. Though its primary qualities of melody and harmony are essential facets of pretty much every style of music that can be hyphenated with "pop", in its undiluted, guitar-driven form it can be far too easy to do middlingly and incredibly difficult to do well. And so even when you're a band that does it masterfully, as Scotland's Teenage Fanclub have for over twenty years, you still might not have more to show for it than confirmed cult status, [...]
Sep 23, 2010, 5:44pm MBV
Adam CK Vollick When it was announced that Neil Young was working with Daniel Lanois on a new record, you couldn't help but pay attention. Not only did you have two Canadian musical icons working together for the first time, but Lanois was behind records that rejuvenated more than a few legendary careers, including those of Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris . Whether Young's career - 40 years old and defined by numerous artistic swerves - needed rejuvenation is another matter but the fruits of his collaboration with Lanois, [...]
Sep 22, 2010, 6:03pm MBV
Elizabeth Weiberg A note: I'm presently barely conscious after staying up way too late the other night doing the Polaris post-game, so I'm just going to start tossing up stuff that's been collecting in the hopper over the last few days until I pass out. And we'll kick off with a new batch of fully realized, produced and presented songs from the inimitable John Vanderslice , collected under the title of Green Grow The Rushes . It's being given away for exactly zero dollars in both high-quality MP3 and uncompressed WAV [...]
Sep 16, 2010, 4:41pm MBV
Ryan Walter Wagner I had the opportunity/duty of thinking very hard about Black Mountain's last album, 20082s In The Future , when it was put on the Polaris Music Prize short list for that year and I was put on the grand jury. And while I respected the craftsmanship and scope of the record, I couldn't quite take it and its big, vintage stoner-rock moves seriously enough to champion it and couldn't get past the impression that it was a nudge-nudge kind of joke to the band [...]
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