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You would expect the collaboration of three classically trained University of Ottawa students to be pertaining to composing concertos or scores for Victorian films. But in the case of The Balconies, you will find them in dimly lit bars banging out catchy melodic pop rock to beer-drinking, dancing college kids on weekends. The Balconies formed [...]
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You gotta hand it to Slash. There was a time when walking out on Axl Rose would have made you a persona non grata within the world of rock. Fortunately, Slash was right on the money when he left Rose and the iconic Guns ‘n’ Roses in 1996. Since then, he’s managed to wipe the [...]
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TORONTO, ON – January 26, 2012 – SiriusXM Canada (TSX: XSR), the country’s leading audio entertainment company, today announced that it will host the SiriusXM Indie Awards as part of its sponsorship of Canadian Music Week. The 12th annual celebration acknowledging the year’s top Canadian independent bands will take place in Toronto at the Fairmont [...]
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It’s easy to say that Burton Cummings is a Canadian treasure and music legend. He has been around for more than 40 years, as a solo artist, as well as the lead singer and co-writer for one of the most succesful Canadian bands of all time, The Guess Who.
Cummings has been inducted into the [...]
~ Plus another 150+ artists announced ~
TORONTO – January 19, 2012 – With just nine weeks to go, Slacker Canadian Music Fest is pleased to announce another round of headline performances from The Temper Trap, Treble Charger, The Inbreds, Dragonette, Nneka, and Andy C:Alive along with an additional 150+ showcasing acts.
Running March 21-25, 2012 throughout [...]
Although they claim to be transparent Amos are anything but. They live between the light and the dark, sometimes in the shadows, occasionally in the dark, more often in the light. Their songs take them there. Quantum shifts between heavy and light, soft and hard, loud and quiet.
Much like the band itself, the songs from [...]
Winter People were born into tradition, but raised on distortion pedals and amplifiers. Combining the pastoral harmonies of the old world, with the bitter edges of the new one. Songs of the modern wilderness.
Aiming to blend a established auditory sepia with contemporary pop sensibilities, Winter People deliver a sound reminiscent of what seems to be [...]
When Glasgow’s Twin Atlantic released their 2009 mini-album, Vivarium, it immediately found an awestruck audience. The reviews were uniformly ecstatic. Grand, sweeping and eloquent, it was a collection of songs with a heart and soul, crafted by passion and informed by staunch lyrical and musical frankness. It set Twin Atlantic on a rollercoaster – one [...]
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Considering how quiet they’ve been over the past couple years, you’d think the Big Sleep decided to suddenly take their name seriously after the tireless tour cycle behind 2008’s Sleep Forever LP. The truth is much simpler…
“We took a little break, worked on stuff separately and just lived our lives,” explains bassist/vocalist Sonya Balchandani.
“It obviously [...]
