Monthly Archives: August 2010
Seen and Heard: Best Coast, DD/MM/YYYY, Big Boi, more
New feature! A regular-ish collection of the latest in videos and songs on the web Best Coast has a new Super 8-eriffic video.
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Today In Music News: Thu Aug 26
Matt and Kim are hitting the road in support of both their new single — “Cameras,” out August 31 — and their new album — still untitled, out this fall.
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Today In Music News: Wed Aug 25
Of Montreal have a new album, False Priest, coming out on September 14. They also have a new EP, The Controller Sphere, out next spring. They’ve been busy.
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Timbuktu, the Backburner crew, and Stranger Danger
Hey Toronto! This may be news to you, but there is a really awesome hip-hop community in this city. So many Toronto show goers are really stuck in one genre or another and would never consider going to see a … Continue reading
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Future Islands Release Live Acoustic Video and MP3 from ‘In Evening Air’
Future Islands are one of my biggest surprises of 2010, for a couple reasons. The first reason: their album In Evening Air is the best record I heard this year on a complete whim. I didn’t know anything about the … Continue reading
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Review: Higher Rites — Refusenik
Bands form, bands play shows and release albums, and then bands break up. That’s the reality of being an indie band, anywhere. In the current music landscape, the life expectancy for a band seems shorter than ever. Sometimes they don’t … Continue reading
Today In Music News: Tues Aug 24
Ra Ra Riot announced a free Toronto show to celebrate the release of their newest album, The Orchard. You can get a chance to win a ticket to the August 30 show at the Mod Club by emailing contests@arts-crafts.ca, or … Continue reading
Releases: Tues Aug 24
New feature! We’ll be giving y’all a quick rundown of what’s coming out on vinyl each Tuesday, with notes about what we want to hear, or plan to pick up, or are kind of horrified by. Album information courtesy of … Continue reading
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The Pack a.d.Offer Up New MP3 & Launch New Contest
Click here to download B.C. Is On Fire off the new record We Kill Computers Vancouver garage-rock band The Pack a.d. are heading out on tour, and in celebration they’re offering up a free track off their new record We … Continue reading
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Review: Nada Surf — If I Had A Hi-Fi
There is no such thing as a perfect covers album, although Seu Jorge came pretty damn close. Honestly though, the reaction is always the same when a band is about to put out a collection of covers: fans of the … Continue reading
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