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Bravestation – “Tides Of the Summit” / Debut Full-Length Drops July 10

May 18, 2012

I’ve spent the last couple of days in Calgary for my day job, but back in front of the home computer now, and can’t stop listening to this track from Toronto’s Bravestation. Kind of a fun little name too, though reminds me perhaps a bit too much of Superstation TBS, where the Atlanta Braves used [...]

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Said the Whale: In A Competition / They Wuz Robbed Again / It’s Their Birthday / North American Tour Dates

May 16, 2012

When last we left our good friends Said the Whale they were in the midst of releasing videos (the last one we featured was “We Are 1980” in February). Since then … Their video “Loveless” is in a competition over on the MTV website; the winning video gets added to rotation. I’m not a big [...]

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LIVE! Great Lake Swimmers / Cold Specks (pics) / Remaining Tour Itinerary

May 14, 2012

Photos by Aaron Vanimere / Words by New Music Michael A week ago a number of us made our way down to McDougall United Church on the Sunday night for the Great Lake Swimmers show. Even though they’re from Toronto, they have a massive following here in Edmonton, and for very good reason. Even better, [...]

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YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN – “A Star Over Pureland” / Tour Dates (including Edmonton and Sled Island)

May 4, 2012

Honestly, this band’s sound is pretty much indescribable by anyone. I’ll let them take a crack at it, though. YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN are a psychedelic noh-wave opera group fusing noise, metal, pop and folk music into a multidisciplinary hyper-orientalist cesspool of ‘east’ meets ‘west’ culture clash in giant monochrome paper sets. I saw their [...]

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On Tour: Slow Down Molasses – Including Last Minute Gig Here in Edmonton

May 3, 2012

One of our favorite bands from Saskatchewan is heading out on tour this May … and while most of those dates are in Europe, *TWO* are right here in Canada, and include, you guessed it, here in Edmonton. Honestly, what I’m betting is happening is that their flight leaves for Europe out of Edmonton, so [...]

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Rah Rah – Stream New Track / LP “The Poet’s Dead” Drops This Fall / Tour Dates

April 27, 2012

HA! I was waiting for this announcement, and it’s even better news because we get a couple new tracks before I was expecting them by way of a 7″ release titled “Little Poems” on June 12 (Hidden Pony). In fact, the two tracks (the title track plus “I Could Tell You I’m Sorry”) will *NOT* [...]

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Great Lake Swimmers – “New Wild Everywhere” Video / Currently Touring (#yegmusic May 6)

April 20, 2012

If you’re reading this Friday, or even Saturday, I’m in the midst of my sixth and final course trying to attain my accounting designation. I’m also officially “between jobs”, with my last day at Lilydale yesterday (again, if you’re reading this Friday); and I start at Direct Energy on Monday. In the meantime, we have [...]

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Metric – More Details On “Synthetica” – Out June 12

April 18, 2012

Received a few pressers yesterday on the upcoming Metric album, “Synthetica”. Due out June 12, the album will contain eleven tracks (listing below). The band also announced the first single – “Youth Without Youth” (the second track on the album) – will be released May 1. Oh, and there’s cover art now. There, now you’re [...]