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Grounders
I used to do shows with Grounders back in Toronto when I lived there. They were good. They had that sparkly psych sound then too, but it sounds like it’s really gotten the big widescreen treatment on...
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Max Gowan
18-year-old Max Gowan is like the Raleigh, North Carolina equivalent of Australia’s Bored Nothing; both make intimate, Elliott Smith-esque bedroom guitar pop, but less depressing. I almost deleted...
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Vancouver is without a doubt the weed capital of Canada. It’s not legal, buuuuuut it’s common knowledge that no one will bug if you’re caught smoking weed in BC’s largest city. So it makes sense that...
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Tearjerker
Toronto shoegazers Tearjerker go a bit softer, more emotional on “Obviously Wrong”, the first single off their new album, Stay Wild, out July 17th. If you listen to it while watching a sunset or...
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Doomsquad
When did Toronto’s Doomsquad get so into the Talking Heads? Last year’s Kalaboogie was all psychedelic dark forest samplegaze – did the squad have some kind of revelation one night in the tour van...
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Advance Base
I saw the Chicago-based Advance Base (Owen Ashworth, formerly Casiotone For The Painfully Alone) play Silent Barn in Brooklyn a couple months ago. He hooked up some synths and a drum machine and it...
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Prairie Fang
Sometimes something just hits you with its vibe. Hailing from Bashaw, Alberta, a town with a population of less than 1000, Prairie Fang is apparently a dude with a guitar who makes music that sounds...
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Joanne Pollock
Joanne Pollock, an old, friendly acquaintance from Toronto, puts out some weird sounds every now and then. I’ve written about her stuff before, but if you missed that, think the eerie vibe of Laurel...
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Cryptorips
Ignore the ridonc name. Members of Holy Fuck, North of America and Long Weekends got together with a ‘celebrity barber’ to start badass rock outfit Cryptorips in Dartmouth, NS. They just put out two...
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Charlotte Crow
Charlotte Crow‘s bandcamp says she’s from London, Ontario, but I’d prefer to think of her as coming from Rodney, Ontario, which is what Weird Canada put down as her location. Just an 18-year-old girl...
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Grey Darlings
Grey Darlings are some peeps from Winnipeg who make lo-fi sorta twee synth-pop. animals in love by grey darlings animals in love by grey darlings
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HSY
Our friends at Toronto’s excellent Buzz Records are finally putting out HSY‘s first full length, Bask, on September 11th. I remember when I gave the noise punks one of their first shows back in the...
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Eiyn Sof
It’s been a while, but Toronto’s mysterious “post-folk” bedroom artist Eiyn Sof (the project of one Melissa Boraski) has finally gotten around to putting out a new release. The Chthonic Tongue is a...
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No Problem
Ahh, that Maritime charm. These No Problem guys from Truro, Nova Scotia know what I’m talking about. Like how East Coasters are so cool that they’ll send bloggers free zips of their EPs out of...
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MagicPerm
Moody Montreal synth-sadness band MagicPerm put out an EP called Body Sounds in July. It sounds like K Records alum went on vacation in French Canada and smoked a lot of weed in grungy Plateau Airbnb...
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Joseph Landau
My Thornhill, Ontario broseph Joseph Landau put out new EP of idiosyncratic folk back in June. I had been meaning to give it a listen for a while, but when I bumped into him on the streets of Toronto...
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Mauno
Halifax experimental pop studio wizards Mauno probably have some cool songs underneath all the gorgeous arrangements and blissful sounds on their new album, Rough Master (which I think is the name of...
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Was reading Noisey‘s recent feature about Tel Aviv‘s music scene – which isn’t all that great, if you ask me; I lived in the area for nearly two years -and came across this band ריו (Reo). I checked...
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Indian Jewelry
Houston-based dark weirdo experimentalists Indian Jewelry release their eighth album Doing Easy November 27th. I’ve heard about the band plenty of times before but this is the first time I’ve actually...
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Frog Eyes
On August 28th, the Victoria-based Frog Eyes put out their sixth studio album, Pickpocket’s Locket on Toronto label Paper Bag. I’ve been a fan of Frog Eyes (and frontman Carey Mercer‘s work in...
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