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All the touring with my various bands was coming to a stop, and I had to find a bed. An old friend gave me her Montreal room where I could smoke too much and burn her copper pots. The rest of the songs took shape from the quiet back porch of that temporary refuge.
I have always loved to s
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Apostle of Hustle first took shape after a two-month sojourn in El Barrio Santo Suarez, in Havana, in 2001. This experience was mind blowing for Apostle of Hustle's lead (Andrew Whiteman) from the ground up: the community, the fashion, the pace and the music. Whiteman returned to Toronto invigorated
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Drawing its six members from diverse musical backgrounds, Bell Orchestre has come together to form one of the most cohesive and intuitive bands making music today. Itís as if the group as a whole has tapped into a very particular, very distinct energy: like that of an approaching storm. To say they
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Bishop Morocco is the musical vision of James Sayce and Jake Fairly. The Toronto-based duo recorded its 2008 self-titled debut at a homemade studio inside their shared in Groningen, Netherlands, earning international attention from the likes of Parisian tastemaker Collette and helping develop a stro
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So yeah, it’s been five years since the last Broken Social
Scene album, but it also hasn’t. In the time that’s elapsed
since the release of 2005’s self-titled opus, we were more
than tided over by the 2007 release of founding member
Kevin Drew’s solo al
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Charles Spearin is a multi-instrumentalist who has been an active and influential member of Canada's independent music community since the mid 1990's. He is primarily known as a founding member of the instrumental post-rock ensemble Do Make Say Think and an original member of the indie-rock collecti
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Most of the bands today lose their creative drive after four or five years of being together. Few are the acts that after almost a decade keep surprising each other and finding in their band a sanctuary beyond time, age or circumstance. This is the case of Chikita Violenta, a band that has united fo
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How could I ever stop?
My position is missionary, I finish on top
and while youíre relaxiní, I take action
Guinness world record, I beat it, Michael Jackson
Never stop, I workaholic
I spit sweat splatter Jackson Pollock
but Iím not an artist, I just work the hardest
I beat it to a
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Cold Specks is 23-year-old Al Spx from Etobicoke, Canada. Already making critical waves in the U.K., with television performances on Later With Jools Holland and British media such as The Guardian, The Times, NME and more weighing in on the recent U.K. release of "Holland", Cold Specks is now read
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One of the more slightly awkward questions asked in the course of small talk is often, "Who's your favourite band" -You're supposed to answer, "I don't have one favourite, but I like" which will lead to a discussion of genres and tastes. I am one of the few with a definitive answer: Constantines. I
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Once a mere fresh faced folk singer from Vancouver, Canada, Dan Mangan now stands at the world’s doorstep. The evolution of Mangan’s music is instinctively in line with its breadth and sincerity. As his art has developed, so has the story behind its constant and exponential proliferation.
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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
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For nearly a decade, Leslie Feist did not stop moving. Her 2004 Juno award winning album Let It Die led right into 2007’s The Reminder, which earned her four Grammy nominations, six Juno wins, the Shortlist Music Prize, and the opportunity to teach Muppets to count on Sesame Street. Sh
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Gentleman Reg has been performing in Canada since the turn of the millennium, garnering attention for his two acclaimed full-lengths, 2002's Make Me Pretty and 2004's Darby & Joan. With a voice from the heavens and an unforgettable look, Gentleman Reg is set to make his U.S. debut in early 2009 on A
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Formed in Victoria BC, Canada, in the fall of 2008 and settled now in Vancouver,
GOLD & YOUTH (formerly known as The Racoons, and for a second Jakarta)
has developed their craft on a considerable number of stages. Musically, they
blend synthetic and organic textures. Sequenced bass and programm
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They say that life begins at 40, but in the case of Jason Collett, that’s not just some overly optimistic bumper-sticker slogan. To many indie-rock fans, Jason Collett is the wise, big-brother character in Broken Social Scene: the calm, cool, collected totem of stability in a band defined by drama a
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Heart That's Pounding re-introduces the world to Sally Seltmann.
Previously best known as New Buffalo, Sally is the award-winning Australian songwriter behind intoxicating albums such as The Last Beautiful Day and Somewhere, anywhere.
With her new full-length record, she sheds
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In 2008, Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink moved from San Francisco 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 trio with Dan Goldman (Luxury Pond) and Dan Gaucher (Sandro Perri, Fond o
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Still Life Still have a credo. "Never make a Plan B," laughs drummer Aaron Romaniuk. "It just gets in the way of Plan A. We're strong believers that if you put out your good vibes into the universe, the universe will give you something back."
On December 31, 2007, the five members of Stil
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THE DARCYS are an art rock band from Toronto. Their self-titled Arts & Crafts debut was produced by Murray Lightburn of The Dears and released on October 25, 2011 as a free download and on limited edition vinyl. It is the first in a trio of planned full-length records. Second in the trilogy is AJA,
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To speak of an artist's "growth" is an unforgivable cliche, but it's hard to describe Origin:Orphan, The Hidden Cameras' latest release, as anything but an evolutionary leap beyond their previous efforts. With this album, their fourth studio record proper, Toronto's self-proclaimed "mild-mannered ar
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The Stills rose to prominence with the release of their 2003 debut album, Logic Will Break Your Heart, spawning the singles "Still In Love Song" and "Lola Stars And Stripes". The band honed their songwriting and experimented with new sounds on the underrated Without Feathers. With their Arts & Craft
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Lanark Islands, Ontario. An old farm-house with a brand new 4-track. It was the dead of winter. Outside the window a black goat with devil horns stared up from the blinding snow. Ivan calls those four green walls at the top of the stars the 'happy room'. It was where the songs were born. A dream of
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You work off of inspiration and while you let it flow into tracks it becomes a diary and that entry becomes a piece of history. If you are ever inclined to remind yourself of who you were, you put it on, listen to it and go 'oh yeah!'. Sometimes it might make you smile or laugh and sometimes it migh
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Few bands can be simultaneously timeless and relevant, but that's exactly the hi-wire act Zeus has become as a new millennium hit factory set for a triumphant return with the release of sophomore full-length Busting Visions.
The album follows 2010 Polaris Prize-nominated debut S
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It's fair to say starting a guitar band is hardly the most sensible career move in 2012.
As any Connexions advisor will tell you, its probably just below astronaut and pope on your list of feasible choices. But for four guys from Oxfordshire - Will Daunt, Iain Lock, Dom Millard and Guy Hen
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Phoenix
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While it's true that you have to wait for inspiration to strike, thereís comfort in knowing it will inevitably arise, even if you have to look all over the globe for it before you find itóor so goes the logic behind the epic recording process of Phoenix's new studio album. To write their new album,
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Stars
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Love and death have always been the twin engines of the popular song: the pursuit of love and the mourning of its passing; the havoc death wreaks upon love; love's survival in the aftermath of death; death as metaphor for the loss of oneís identity to the consumptive power of love...
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The Dears
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Born in 1995, The Dears is the lifework of Murray A. Lightburn. Son of a jazzman-turned-preacher, Lightburnís attunement to songwriting was shaped equally by nineties rock and a broad tableau of gospel, soul, and pop music. Early incarnations of The Dears brought bassist Roberto Arquilla into the
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The Most Serene Republic
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There have been countless records that begin with the same bombast as The Most Serene Republic's ...And The Ever Expanding Universe, but few have taken listeners down a path of such enriching, introspective discovery. Long masters at stimulating senses and stirring emotions, the Ontario-based band h
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Young Galaxy
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For their third LP, Young Galaxy gave themselves away. Shapeshifting's 11 new songs, lithe and mesmerizing, were completed at home and then sent away, across the ocean, to one of the world's most acclaimed and secretive producers. For nine months, Dan Lissvik, half of the Swedish duo Studio, curved
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