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Notta Comet
Some Montreal peeps called Notta Comet make weird music. The reverb is cool. Success With Houseplants by Notta Comet Success With Houseplants by Notta Comet
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Margret
Margret is the experimental, mostly-acoustic project of Montreal’s Chris Hauer. His most recent album, Enough Time To Do Nothing, was released in August, but seems more like the cold, moody bedroom...
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Toronto peeps Programm used to be known as Volcano Playground, but it looks like they’ve been hard at work since those days trying to bang their sound into shape for the big time – or at least bigger...
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Ô Paon
Originally hailing from Montreal but now apparently hanging out with Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie, The Microphones) in Anacortes, Washington, Geneviève Castrée leads the wonderful ambient-pop project Ô...
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Habits Of Being (Audio Zine)
So this is a bit of an unusual mp3 post, since it’s for an audio zine rather than music. Here’s the story: The other day I went to the Silent Barn Paper Jam Small Press Festival and bought a little...
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Texas native and current San Fran or Brooklyn (bandcamp and Facebook disagree…)-based experimental artist Jefre Cantu-Ledesme recently put out a mesmerizing album of gorgeous modular synth waves and...
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Thighs
Alberta may be pretty low on my list of favourite provinces, but there’s definitely been a lot of great music coming out of ‘the Texas of Canada’ in the last couple years. Lo-fi pop crew Thighs...
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Peter Levics
Pretty sure Peter Levics is just two dudes in the UK jamming out on guitar and violin while thinking about the weather, but they’re doing it well. October by Peter Levics October by Peter Levics
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Vaadat Charigim
Israeli shoegazers Vaadat Charigim return with a slightly darker album than last time. Sinking As A Stone, their sophomore release, drops May 5th on Burger Records. They’ll be playing some shows...
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Bed
Portland is awesome. Heartfelt ‘slow-fi’ grunge-alt band Bed is awesome. This song is solid. Fremm by bed.
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Dead Last
An old friend living in Halifax hit me up with some tracks from a new project he’s in called Dead Last. The guy’s a keyboardist who’s played in a bunch of indie rock bands, even sat in with mine for...
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acab rocky
I heard Victoria is maybe even more beautiful than Vancouver. Dreamy indie rockers acab rocky are from there. This EP cover picture is appropriate. (via If It Be Your Will) Truce by acab rocky
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Nedelle Torrisi
On Thursday I handed in a legal paper I’d been working on for weeks, went to classes, then left school to begin my Passover break (which we get instead of March break cuz my school is super Jewish). I...
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Mune
Six piece Toronto dream-pop peeps Mune just unleashed this cool song via Exclaim. It’s off an album called Falling Through that they’re dropping June 6th. Not only is my longtime peer Eytan Tobin a...
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Every now and then something comes out of Tel Aviv to remind the rest of the world that it’s actually a pretty cool place. ZOHARA‘s new indie-electro banger “Bass & Drum” and its hipster-y...
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The Woodheads are back. A little over a week ago, Airick Woodhead, released his second full-length album as Doldrums on Sub Pop. I haven’t made it all the way through that album, The Air Conditioned...
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Man meets Bear
Friend of the site and Ontario-based naturalist psych-folk artist Man meets Bear returns with a new album, Huronian Cadence, May 5th via his own Ur label. Following the band-ready Buffalo Comets and...
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Black Baron
So far my favourite punk album of 2015 is without a doubt Hamilton, Ontario-based Black Baron‘s debut full-length Abject Skin. It drops may 26th on Bloodmoss Records. The band’s lo-fi mix of mangled...
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Omar Souleyman
Omar Souleyman‘s work has been oddly embraced by the Western independent dance and rock communities seemingly since Pitchfork started writing about his Sublime Frequencies-released albums about five...
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Sleeping In
Vermont is known as pretty hippie place, bestowing upon the world its far out gifts in the form of Phish, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. Some of those crazy hippies...
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