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If you don’t know much about the band, Paula & Karol may seem like a Canadian girl and a Polish guy who got together to write a few happy folk pop songs on a few folky instruments.
But the real Paula & Karol are not just a duo but a large family of Warsaw-based musicians who, [...]
The Postelles are part of an ideological bloodline that connects The Velvet Underground to the Ramones to Blondie and Television to the Walkmen, artists with unique and varied sensibilities, certainly, but who have in common an allegiance to the unabashedly unadorned rock song. In fact, it was during the late 90s, when New York had [...]
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In 2008, Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink moved from California to Toronto, irreversibly altering Snowblink from a whimsical warm-weather band touting four male backup singers (two of whom were MGMT) to the current acclaimed duo with Dan Goldman (Luxury Pond).
Snowblink quickly became “one of the most compelling new voices on the Canadian scene” (CBC), opening for [...]
If the past couple of year’s have been rock’n’roll’s radio iceage, right now our toes are teetering on the brink of a lush new dawn. The question is; beyond the shit-storm of supposed saviour bands whose name-drops christened the New Year, which of the lauded gangs of axe-wielders are the genuine sculptors of tomorrow? Well, [...]
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Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene + Dave Hamelin and Liam O’Neil of The Stills = Eight and a Half. But while the math is simple, the story behind it is not so.
When Broken Social Scene first emerged out of Toronto 10 years ago, a great deal of the band’s success was attributed to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Named by Paste Magazine as “The Best of What’s Next” – and handpicked as an opener by Mumford and Sons (after seeing their set at Bonnaroo) — The Apache Relay will release their EPAmerican Nomad digitally, in Canada, on March 13. “We were running around at Bonnarooo last year when this band on a small side stage caught our [...]
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This year I am Oak’s second indie/folk album ‘Oasem’ was released, following up melancholic debut album ‘On Claws’ that in 2010 received critical acclaim. The band formed around Dutch songwriter Thijs Kuijken have since played over 100 shows in tours and festivals through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Luxemburg and Switzerland.
The slightly darker ‘Oasem’ [...]
