Merry Christmas Eve! Had my radio show on Christmas Eve. So I decided to play alot of Christmas Holidays tunes. Thanks to The Line of Best Fit , I mostly played from the Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada Compilation. Played alot of Canadian tunes. Check it out! Here is the playlist: The Elwins - Baby Rudolph [...]
Norman Wong Considering their fanbases intersect pretty heavily, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to think that Stars' Autumn jaunt supporting Metric across Canada's finest arenas would constitute the bulk of their touring in support of their latest effort The North . Not unreasonable, but also incorrect. Following forays to Europe and Australasia this Winter, Stars will embark on another transcontinental tour in the Spring with certain cities hosting a two-night stand that the band promise will be more than just repeated sets. They've dubbed these shows "Evenings [...]
Marc Pannozzo It's true that Crystal Castles had to push the release of their third album (III) back a week from this past Tuesday to next, but they only barely needed the extra time. The record went up as an advance stream earlier this week at MuchMusic , offering further evidence that the Toronto duo of Alice Glass and Ethan Kath have come a long way since the glitchy, more spectacle than songcraft hype of their 2008 self-titled debut . (III) is still built on bent beats, shrieked [...]
Michael Halsband Twenty is a nice round number for an anniversary, and Sloan marked their two decades as a band in fine style last year, releasing the milestone-referencing Double Cross and touring a career-spanning set more extensively than they have in some time. Fifteen is also a pretty solid number, so when they busted out a One Chord To Another recital for last year's Fucked Up-sponsored fundraiser , it could also be seen as marking an occasion. [...]
Frank Yang To call Divine Fits and their debut, A Thing Called Divine Fits , formulaic will probably be interpreted as a slight, but it shouldn't. The album is rather exactly the sum of its songwriting parts - half Spoon , half Handsome Furs ; a taut and lean thing built on spikes of square waves - be they made by synthesizers or fuzz pedals - and beats so tight they may as well have been quantized through state-of-the-art technology (though they almost certainly weren't). That it's [...]
Zuzana Hudackova It's shaping up to be an Autumn of Can-rock double bills high on value. Folks thought that it was a pretty impressive pairing of talent when it was announced last month that Dan Mangan and The Rural Alberta Advantage were teaming up to cross the country in October, or the June announcement that Metric and Stars were hitting the country's arenas together, but that were just the first of a number of impressive double-bills looking to share driving duties across Canada this Fall. [...]
Facebook Custom dictates that for tenth anniversaries, the traditional gift is something made from tin and the modern equivalent is aluminum. Or diamond. How on earth do you get from tin to diamond? Happily, Toronto's Paper Bag Records pays no attention to such convention and to mark their tenth year of releasing great music from both Canada and abroad, they've opted to put together three nights of shows at The Great Hall from September 27 to 29 and featuring the best of their current roster as well as a surprise and welcome return [...]
Amanda Leigh Smith And we're back. Gotta tell you, folks - actually taking a holiday during the holidays? I could get used to that. But if I stayed off the job, then I couldn't write about Blouse and I kind of want to write about Blouse, considering I was listening to their self-titled debut an awful lot in the weeks leading up to and throughout the holidays. The trio collects their mail in Portland, Oregon but draw their inspiration from the great English art-rock labels of the '80s; their [...]
Another North by Northeast music festival is in the books, and with it, the bustling metropolis of Toronto is a little more quieter. Between June 15th and June 19th, an estimated 650 artists representing any and every genre you can think of played well into the Toronto night at close to 50 downtown venues. Streets where a great deal of bars are clumped together, like Queen West, the festival headquarters at the Hyatt Regency hotel on King, as well as the public square at the [...]
youarestars.com The promo and touring cycle for Stars' last record The Five Ghosts - released just about a year ago - largely wrapped last Fall, just in time to take a break and allow Amy Millan to have her first child. The Montreal quintet are ready to get back into action, though, and are doing so not with a release of new material but of old. Specifically their previous-to-last album, 20072s In Our Bedroom After The War , or more specifically the demos [...]
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Check out all of the notable new releases listed below and check out some sample tracks at the bottom to try before you buy. New Music Releases - Tuesday, June 7, 2011: - Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See - Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal? - Battles - Gloss Drop ( Stream ) - Beirut - East Harlem [...]
Canvas Media There's records that you hear and, regardless of how you personally feel about them, you know that they will be a big thing, that their contents will resonate with the masses and will prove to be game-changers for the artist who created it. Timber Timbre's 2009 self-titled album was not one of these, or at least I didn't hear it. Building swampy textures and tempos around Taylor Kirk's low, drawling Randy Newman-ish vocals, it didn't seem the sort of record with a lot of crossover appeal and yet it did [...]
Ryan Marr Toronto's Forest City Lovers began essentially as a pseudonym for singer-songwriter Kat Burns, and while ably assisted by members of Toronto's burgeoning music community her debut The Sun & The Wind was accordingly spare, but still gave hints to her broader pop ambitions. 20082s Haunting Moon Sinking found Forest City Lovers no longer a pseudonym but a proper band and accordingly, it was a much fuller and rangier affair with a few moments of pure pop bounce amidst the more contemplative [...]
Frank Yang A local scribe much wiser than I recently pointed out that everyone - in Canada and Toronto specifically - has some baggage when it comes to Broken Social Scene , and you can take it from the fact that I'm quoting him that I wholly agree. This is the band that, for good and bad, came to be the musical ambassadors for Toronto to the world, would become pretty much inescapable both in the music world and the real world (swing a stick in Toronto, hit a BSS-er) and launched a thousand bands with [...]
Hace unos días la gobernadora de Arizona, Estados Unidos, aprobó una ley que criminaliza la inmigración indocumentada y que afecta de manera directa a los trabajadores latinoamericanos que cruzan el río en la búsqueda de mejores condiciones de vida. ¿Y qué tiene que ver esto con la música?, se preguntarán ustedes. Bueno, pues resulta que entre aquellos que han decidido hacer un boicot al estado hasta que esta ley no se retire está Stars , el grupo canadiense que por cierto está a punto de lanzar su nueva producción en un par de meses. La [...]
On the docket for this episode, Kyle, Erin and I discuss Courtney Love 's uncanny ability to not sound like a drugged up hose beast, Pitchfork's secret love of ska, polite Twitter banter between Canadian bands - and I shoehorn in some metal while discussing Skeletonwitch 's obsession with kitty cats. We've got these and many more caviar dreams right here on today's Music News Show. The Music News Show (4/29/10)
After working as a violinist/string arrangement for bands like Beirut, Arcade Fire, Pet Shop Boys, Grizzly Bear, Mika, Holy Fuck, Great Lake Swimmers, The Mountain Goats, Stars, Fucked Up and The Hidden Cameras, Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy) has recently released his third album Heartland on Domino Records. The new single "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" is due March 29th and now has this borderline NSFW video.
Yannick Grandmont It's a bit eerie, but with the exception of an in-store in a couple weeks, details noted further down, I've got nothing going on in the way of live music for more two weeks until Canadian Musicfest starts on March 11. And that's really just fine with me, because the double-shot of CMW/CMF and SxSW was exhausting when I was a younger man - these days, I am going to need the downtime to rest up in order to survive that gauntlet of concert-going, airport-hopping and breakfast taco-eating. And [...]
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