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Cannon Bros.
Winnipeg’s Cannon Bros. are finally putting out a follow-up to their incredible 2011 album Firecracker Cloudglow (which we wrote about here). The new LP is called Dream City and it drops October 9th...
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Taste
Taste is a new band from Toronto’s Ewan Kay. I’ve know Kay since about 2007. He’s a good dude. He’s also a member of another great Toronto band, Moon King. Kay’s latest project shares some of that...
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Collapsing Opposites
Collapsing Opposites is the idiosyncratic pop project of Vancouver’s Ryan McCormick. Recently, he released a new album called Dreamland on my friend Soren little Brothers‘ label Ur Audiovisual. It’s...
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Steven Lambke
Steven Lambke is best known as a member of the Constantines, but he’s been releasing quiet, folksy solo music for years under the pseudonym Baby Eagle. On October 30th, he’ll release Days of Heaven,...
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Nailbiter
The man who seems to have a hand in everything cool coming out of Toronto these days, Josh Korody (Beliefs, Wish), got his hands on some modular synth stuff and now there is more cool music in the...
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Germaphobes
Some goofballs called Germaphobes from my hometown of T-dot, Ontario made some nice tunes. (via Aux.tv) Magic Eye by Germaphobes
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Valiska
A trip to ‘the old country’ inspires a glacial set of compositions from modern-classical Calgarian experimentalist Valiska. (via Weird Canada) Repetitions by Valiska Repetitions by Valiska
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Primitive Ricky
Lexington, Kentucky’s Primitive Ricky released his great Cave Horse cassette about five months ago, so this post is a bit on the late side. But better late than never. I was in LA in November for my...
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Red Cabin
This Long Island-based power pop dude Red Cabin made another album recently called Camp Fire. It has some catchy tunes. Camp Fire by Red Cabin
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Laura Lacy
Laura Lacy works at my neighbourhood coffeeshop in Williamsburg. She is very nice and sometimes puts on Broken Social Scene music when I come in for my morning coffee+reading. She also makes her own...
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Shotgun Jimmie
Canadian East-coast indie-rock hero Shotgun Jimmie returns with a new album! Field of Trampolines! And of course it’s produced by Joel Plaskett! Damn I miss Canada! Field Of Trampolines by Shotgun...
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My fellow Torontonian Jason Collett released an album last month called Song and Dance Man – I didn’t even know until now! The title track (which you can hear in the video above) is a wonderful little...
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Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
I was over at Academy Records today (my “happy place”/my wallet’s unhappy place) and they tossed this album by Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band on for a bit, since they apparently just got it in...
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Fog Lake
With the release of latest single “Rattlesnake”, Newfoundland’s whispery, bedroom dream-pop artist Fog Lake is startin’ the buzz up for a cross-Canada tour next week and a new full-length in the fall....
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Holy Wall
Holy Wall is a dude in Asheville. He made an EP of lo-fi ambient samplegaze. It’s called Night Stops. It officially comes out April 16th.
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Max Gowan
Raleigh’s Max Gowan released another wonderful album of 90s-indebted bedroom indie rock. It’s called Mass Transit. Mass Transit by Max Gowan Mass Transit by Max Gowan
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Old Cabin
Old Cabin is a dude from White Horse up in the Yukon Territories (in Canada). The name Old Cabin is pretty appropriate – the stuff is folksy, mellow, a bit rustic. The vocals don’t sound that...
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Adrian Teacher and the Subs new album, Terminal City (out now on the excellent You’ve Changed Records), is about a couple things, including gentrification. The band is based in Vancouver – where I was...
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Heaven For Real
I know the Grundy bros from back when I lived in Halifax. They were making cool tunes then, and now, with bandmates Cheryl Hann and Nathan Doucet, they’re making cool tunes with shades of twee, nervy...
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Weird Lines
Just in time for this year’s Sappyfest, a gaggle of Eastern Canadian indie rockers (including Julie Doiron) band together to put out a very nice little album on a new label called Sappy Futures.
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