From the category archives:

Electronica

Superhumanoids – Geri / Cover “I Wanna Be Sedated” / New Album Info / Tour Dates

May 3, 2012

One band I haven’t actually talked about this year yet, but I did spend a lot of time talking about them in 2011, is Superhumanoids. An incredibly awesome dreampop act out of Los Angeles, they have a swath of live shows coming up opening up for Active Child and Balam Acab (full itinerary below, but [...]

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Warning Light – “Slept On the Shore”

April 17, 2012

Drew Haddon (aka Warning Light) has more releases than you can shake a stick at, but the shimmering effervescence of his drone stylings are like a push-pull effect. You feel at once pushing towards a goal, and yet being pulled left and right along the way, trying to veer off course. I find it quite [...]

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Porcelain Raft – “Drifting In And Out” Video / 7″ Drops June 26 / Tour Dates

April 4, 2012

Porcelain Raft’s “Drifting In And Out” (stream the video above) is the opening track to their debut full-length album, “Strange Weekend”, full of hazy, wistful melodies wrapped in a cocoon of sun and solitude. The band will be releasing a 7” with the above track on the A-side, and “Chain” on the B-side, on June [...]

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Shout Out Out Out Out – “Never the Same Way Twice” / New Album Details / SXSW Dates

March 8, 2012

Edmonton’s very own Shout Out Out Out Out (that’s four “outs” if you’re counting) are set to release their third full-length album – “Spanish Moss And Total Loss” – on June 19th (Normals Welcome). The first track that they’ve released, which you can stream below – is a bit different than their usual fare, combining [...]

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The Elkcloner – “Sunbird”

February 29, 2012

I find this track undeniably captivating in a way I can’t really describe. The Elkcloner is the project of music composer Filip Mitrovic, who has scored music for several media entities, including films “Resident Evil: Afterlife” and “The Echo”, as well as television shows “True Blood”, “Lockup”, and “The Squeeze”. This track, and the other [...]

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Spanish Prisoners – “Know No Violence” Video

February 24, 2012

Spanish Prisoners – Know No Violence (official music video) from Spanish Prisoners on Vimeo. If you were wondering what happened to all our snow, look no further. In yesterday’s email announcing their new video, Brooklyn’s Spanish Prisoners announced into our new music video for “Know No Violence”. So there you have it. The be-all, end-all [...]

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Little Scream – “Cannons” / On Tour With Plants & Animals

February 22, 2012

One of the artists that has been hanging around my inbox for some time now is Little Scream (aka Laura Sprengelmeyer) – currently on tour with Plants & Animals, and which will be touching down here in Edmonton on March 27th at the Starlite Room (full itinerary below). Sprengelmeyer was born in Iowa, but is [...]

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Fenster – “White To Red” / Debut LP Out March 13

February 14, 2012

The transcontinental Fenster is getting ready to drop their debut album to the world – March 2 in Europe, and March 13th in North America (Morr Music). New Yorker turned Berliner J.J. Weihl and Berlin-born Jonathan Jarzyna met in 2010, when J.J. was a solo act opening for Jonathan’s project at the time, who apparently [...]