The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Metric , "Speed the Collapse" "Fate don't fail me now," sings Metric's Emily Haines in the ballad-banger [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Luke James , "Drain" "Drain" - part of a 7-inch release - mixes blues and [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : WTCHS , "Adult Crimes" Buzz Records continue to churn out impressive bands to add [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Lioness , "The Night" Dance-rock trio Lioness are creating a lot of buzz with their fiery debut [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Eight and a Half , "What's in it for me" Eight and a Half covers The Walkmen 's [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : July Talk , "Paper Girl" July Talk is Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay, a rowdy [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : PS I Love You , "Sentimental Dishes" Can't wait for PS I Love You's new [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Bishop Morocco , "Bleeds" "Bleeds" is the psychedelic first track on Bishop Morocco's new EP [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Topanga , "Oceans" Topanga's full-blooded sound exhilarates in "Oceans", part of a 7-inch the band [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Bry Webb , "Asa" If you haven't yet, you must listen to [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Trust , "Bulbform" Synth-pop duo Trust will release their debut LP TRST (via [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : Del Bel , "Beltone" A maddening background of strings and guitars shriek as Lisa Conway [...]
The Neighbourhood Mixtape is a collection of newly-released songs by Toronto musicians. The mixtape is meant to celebrate Toronto's music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music. Every Sunday, I post a five-track mixtape (along with my own mini-reflections for each track) that you can download or stream as a soundtrack for the week. Track #1 : LOOM , "There is Blood in my Body" A clatter of percussion, the stray tide [...]
This week’s The Neighbourhood Mixtape features a meandering track called “Everything I Saw” by Bruce Peninsula member Tamara Lindeman, better known as The Weather Station . I’ll be interviewing Tamara for blogTO and I came across a live video session for her track above during research. She has such a lovely voice and since banjos always cheer me up (because it reminds me of Cletus from The Simpson), I [...]
Distant Thunder by Andrew Wyeth To my darling sister, Happy Birthday! I love you always! We slept in today – a rainy Sunday. We took our time making breakfast, and then spent the afternoon driving around and thrifting. Amy found some cool shirts and sweaters, along with an old Andrew Wyeth art book. She took all the photos on my previous post. - Read my latest interview with Toronto shoegaze musician Philip James , and then listen to The [...]
Just a few things I’ve been working on this past couple of weeks: 1. Interview with Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell . 2. Interview with electronic-pop whiz Digits (Alt Altman). 3. The Neighbourhood Mixtape: Weekend Wars and Ponytail . Read ‘em and weep!
The Neighbourhood Mixtape: Love is a Place by BlogTO In case you missed it, check out this week's Valentines edition of The Neighbourhood Mixtape . The collection features songs by Kensington Prairie , Matthew Maaskant , Army Girls , The Runaway Catholics and Shawn Clarke .
A little catch-up... Check out this week’s The Neighbourhood Mixtake: We All Like It A Little Different . Features Drake + Deadboy , Chinawoman , Kite Hill , The Runaway Catholics and Jane’s Party . It’s a very mellow mix this week. I figured with all the extreme weather alerts, snow and trapped cars, listeners might want something a little cozy. Anyway, I’m a big fan of the cozy – the hot cocoa, the baking, the chicken noodle soup and kitten-nuzzles. The [...]
Untitled by petimaj In case you haven’t had the chance, check out this week’s The Neighbourhood Mixtape: Deeper Into Movies over at blogTO . I was very excited about this week’s collection, which includes songs by Wildlife , TERUKO , DD/MM/YYYY , Hands & Teeth and Ruby Coast . There are some real dreamy songs in there. And if you’re looking to catch a concert this week, check out Hot Ticket for live music picks for January 19th through January 25th. [...]
Photo by This Recording It’s been very cold here in Toronto during the last couple of days. The neighbourhood has been quiet and I’ve been working away at the last few articles and columns for this year. Here’s last week’s The Neighbourhood Mixtape: Memory Maps in case you missed it. Also, The Top 10 Songs from Toronto Bands in 2010 article is now up if you’re curious and what a reception it received! Watch an unofficial video for KiD CuDi 's [...]
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