HOT LIPS – “LIMELIGHT” AMERICAN HARDCORE EP (2017) Independent December 8, 2017 Hot Lips — now that’s an understatement. The Toronto trio have just released the video for their American Hardcore track, [...]
THE CROOKED – “TAROT CARDS” Single (2017) Independent December 7, 2017 Toronto based The Crooked have released their second single, “Tarot Cards”, and as predicted, it’s a hot one. “Tarot Cards” [...]
WAVES THAT STRAY – “BRICK BY BRICK” SINGLE (2017) Independent December 3, 2017 Bio Waves That Stray is an ambient/industrial pop band that functions as the personal diary of Toronto songwriter and musician Sean MacLean. MacLean [...]
DYLAN HENNESSY – “BATTLE OF ALEPPO” SINGLE (2017) Independent November 30, 2017 Dylan Hennessy. Live looping artist. I know, yawn. Wait a minute.. you haven’t heard him yet? Prepare to have your mind…..blown. One of [...]
PIGEON PARK – “BOYS ON STEROIDS” BOYS ON STEROIDS (2017) Independent November 27, 2017 Vancouver’s Pigeon Park holds today’s spot of Track of the Day, with just the right blend of blues, rock, and muscle. The first [...]
WOODPIGEON – DEVASTATING (TRAPPER REMIX) DEVASTATING (November, 2017) Independent Sunday, November 26, 2017 Woodpigeon was coined in 2005 to shelter a revolving cast of Mark Hamilton’s musician comrades as they coalesced around his first [...]
MUSHY CALLAHAN – DEEP MEADOW SINGLE (2017) Independent Saturday, November 25, 2017 Mushy Callahan is an indie, alternative rock band consisting of four brothers Noah, Joel, Jacob and Lucas. Originally hailing from Northern Alberta, the [...]
THE REED EFFECT – “NO WAY OUTTA HERE” A STRANGE CURIOSITY (NOVEMBER 10, 2017) Independent November 24, 2017 Want the true definition of Canadian Kickass? Here it is.. The Reed Effect. The Toronto-based trio of Kirk Reed on [...]
2017 Polaris Music Prize Gala @ The Carlu, Toronto September 18, 2017 Columbian immigrant Lido Pimienta is the winner of the 2017 Polaris Music Prize,for her album La Papessa, beating out such Canadian greats as Gord Downie, Leonard Cohen, as [...]
Festival d’Été de Québec @ Québec City, Québec July 6 – July 16, 2017 Bonne Fête Festival d’Été de Québec! Fifty years and counting! Here’s to many more! For the 50th consecutive year, beautiful, historic Québec City [...]
THE DIRTY NIL – “CAROLINE” MINIMUM R&B (APRIL 28, 2017) Dine Alone Records April 7, 2017 Fresh off a global tour and JUNO Award win, Hamilton rock n roll trio The Dirty Nil have announced the forthcoming release of Minimum [...]
HOT LIPS – “AMERICAN HARDCORE” SINGLE (2017) Independent March 6, 2017 Better turn down the heat, because it’s getting hot in here. Hot Lips have recently released their latest single, and it is a scorcher. [...]
JIM DAN DEE – “THE SILENCE” [SINGLE] (2016) Independent December 15, 2016 Jim Dan Dee’s latest effort “The Silence” packs an old school punch with modern-day smarts, and well it should. While the band has its [...]
TURF – Toronto Urban Roots Fest @ Fort York Garrison Common, Toronto September 16-18, 2016 Day One Modern Space Fun, fun, fun. That was the order of the day for Toronto’s newcomer Modern Space. As a selected participant in [...]
Limblifter @ The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto June 30, 2016 Limblifter: according to Ryan Dahle, it is another word for a landlubber. A landlubber? The band’s performance last night in front of packed house at Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern [...]
I Mother Earth @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto June 3, 2016 What a night. I Mother Earth, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of their album Scenery & Fish, packed The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto for what was the [...]
THE ROAD HEAVY – “WORDS DON’T MEAN A THING” SINGLE (2015) Independent The Road Heavy recently released their brand new single “Words Don’t Mean A Thing” on Thursday April 28, 2016. This is the band’s [...]
Yuck @ The Silver Dollar Room, Toronto April 9, 2016 It was a full house at The Silver Dollar Room that stopped by to see British Guitar-Pop band Yuck, on the Toronto stop of their current North American tour. In spite of the unseasonably cold [...]
BLACK MOUNTAIN – “FLORIAN SAUCER ATTACK” IV (APRIL 2016) Dine Alone Records Monday, March 21, 2016 Vancouver’s Black Mountain share their new single and Chad VanGaalen directed and illustrated video for “Florian Saucer [...]
PLANT AND ANIMALS- “NO WORRIES GONNA FIND US” WALTZED IN FROM THE RUMBLING (APRIL 29, 2016) Secret City Records Friday, March 18, 2016 Eight years after their debut album Parc Avenue (2008), Montreal based and Polaris-Prize nominated [...]
OPERATORS – “BLUE WAVE” BLUE WAVE (2016) Last Gang Records Thursday, March 3, 2016 Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits) recently announced the debut album for his band Operators, titled Blue Wave, out [...]
DEAD HORMONES – “IF I DON’T MAKE IT HOME” ‘NOTHING, NOTHING.. THEN SOMETHING’ (2016) Warren Records Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Hull UK’s finest alt-rock exports Dead Hormones released their brand [...]
I MOTHER EARTH – “ONE MORE ASTRONAUT” SCENERY AND FISH (1996) EMI Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Just in case you haven’t heard the news by now, I Mother Earth announced plans today for a twenty year reunion gig celebrating the [...]
GLASS AMPP – “HOW IT’S GONNA GO” JELLYFISH EP (2014) Independent The past few years have been a whirlwind for Vaughan, Ontario’s, Glass Ampp. Winners of multiple local radio stations’ talent search contests, [...]
