From the monthly archives:

July 2011

On Tour: Austra (Here In Edmonton!!! And Calgary!!!)

July 29, 2011

Something that started buzzing around the twittersphere yesterday is now confirmed on the Union Events website. Friday, November 18, at the Brixx …. AUSTRA !!! Fresh off a short-listing for the coveted Polaris Music Prize, and a very favorable review of her latest album “Feel It Break” by yours truly (an 8.3), all of the [...]

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Mode Moderne – “Real Goths” / 7″ Coming Soon on Light Organ

July 29, 2011

I thought we should finish off the week with just a little more Cancon. Vancouver’s Clint Lofkrantz approached production guru Felix Fung and singer Phillip Intile about starting up a dance-pop project. The resulting first track will apparently never be released, as it was apparently “the most obscenely ridiculous song you’ve ever heard”. However, the [...]

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Cloud Control – “Gold Canary” Video / North America LP News

July 29, 2011

Cloud Control just finished winning the Australian Music Prize (similar to Canada’s Polaris) for their debut full-length “Bliss Release”, and are now starting to find some serious buzz in the UK and Europe thanks to the release of the album by Infectious Music. I just got an email today that we should expect their album [...]

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The Smiths – Complete Deluxe Collectors Boxset (for only $389CAD)

July 29, 2011

Rhino Records UK recently announced one of the craziest collector boxsets I have EVER seen. It includes: all four studio albums (“The Smiths”, “Meat Is Murder”, “The Queen Is Dead”, “Strangeways Here We Come”, “Rank”), PLUS live album “Rank”, PLUS “Hatful of Hollow”, “The World Won’t Listen”, and “Louder Than Bombs”, all “lovingly remastered by [...]

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London’s Binary – “Turquoise”

July 28, 2011

You know what’s odd? Despite living in Canada, I think I might actually get more “coldcall” emails from bands in the UK asking for a little exposure. I wonder if our bands are busy emailing bloggers in England too. At any rate, the email from Binary’s been sitting in my inbox for over a month [...]

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – “Tomorrow Dies Today”

July 28, 2011

I’m of the mind that, if your band name is going to be 85 syllables long, and require SEVEN capital letters, your track names should at least be really short. Like “Hey”, or “Donna”, or something. But I guess “Tomorrow Dies Today” isn’t all that long a song title. Stream the new track from The [...]

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Young Galaxy – “Blown Minded” Video / On Tour With Junior Boys This Fall

July 28, 2011

Earlier this month Young Galaxy released their newest video, “Blown Minded”, directed by renowned Montreal artist Carine Khalife. It’s an epic animation amid a dreamy yet sometimes dreary track; Khalife spent four months creating a series of paintings that were then captured frame by frame with a fixed camera. Check it out. Young Galaxy has [...]

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On Tour: Painted Palms Joining Pepper Rabbit & Braids

July 27, 2011

One of the bands that’s been getting an awful lot of airplay on my iPhone the last few weeks is Painted Palms. I first streamed their new EP “Canopy” for readers back in early May, and you can once again stream it below. However, the big news is that you lucky folks who get to [...]