canada

12.09.2011

[MP3] New Hands – “This I’ve Heard”

and history’s a game of telephone, and that girl’s not your girl until you make her moan

♫ New Hands – This I’ve Heard

Wasn’t it Conficious who once said something about liking his “bass down low?” Well I dont know about that fool but I know that I like my bass the way it is in New Hands’s “This I’ve …

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07.06.2011

[MP3] Celebrity Traffic – “Significant Other”

she put her summer on hold, she quit her day job for you

♫ Celebrity Traffic – Significant Other

Celebrity Traffic are an analog electro band from Victoria, Canada, and have a member named Brandon. Any one of those things are enough to pique my interest but all 3 rolled into one and topped with the special sauce that is “Significant …

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06.28.2011

[MP3] The Natural Shocks – “The Plane”

i happily abate my apathy, it’s everything i want to be

♫ The Natural Shocks – The Plane

A bit a straightforward sing-along rock out of Toronto sounds about right to me. Bounce and OOOh Oooohh along with “The Plane” as let your foot go heavy on the pedal. It’s propulsive music for open roads and the wind at your back. When …

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05.31.2011

[EP] ART IMPERIAL is MY ep of the summer and it should be CRYSTAL clear why

oh life with you there are no obstacles, just sunny days spent licking popsicles

♫ Art Imperial – My Crystal

Art Imperial is the name of a man understads the pain of a long winter. Living in Toronto he spent the last winter dreaming of sunnier climates and in an attempt to capture some of that sun-kissed glory he crafted the …

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05.27.2011

[MP3] HANDSOME FURS know WHAT i like ABOUT getting US all pumped for an album

i’ve been living life so long i know there’s nothing wrong with this

♫ Handsome Furs – What About Us

They were just in Warsaw and I missed them like an idiot. Thank goodness they have a new album (Sound Kapital) coming out and that means a taste of goodness to tie me over. Per usual with these Canadian, …

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05.18.2011

[MP3] BRASSTRONAUT tie SLOW KNOTS around our HEARTS with their TROMPET music

keep on sailing for that far shore cause it’s a tough world  when you’re fighting your own war

♫ Brasstronaut – Slow Knots

Brasstronaut was one of the many bands I wasn’t able to catch at The Great Escape but luckily Silence Killer caught them in Vancouver and I’ll have to live vicariously through his description of the band reaching “a whole new …

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04.15.2011

[MP3] THE WEEKND fill my HOUSE with the sound OF dirty grooves like floating like BALLOONS. Not on the GLASS TABLE, GIRLS!

and i don’t close doors, so i listen to her moans echo

♫ The Weeknd – House Of Balloons/Glass Table Girls

Unh…yeah… UNHH! Say it with me, unhh. It’s kinda like that fake sex noise you make when you are mock-humping something only you extend the groan and get it deeper. That’s the sound of as well as the sound …

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04.11.2011

[LP] MOTHER MOTHER are THE band that makes it hard not to STAND up and dance

alright it’s vodka on ice, but then there’s women on bikes

♫ Mother Mother – The Stand

Why is nobody talking about Mother Mother? The Canadian band just put out their third album, Eureka, and it’s a solid batch of upbeat-good-time-fun-party music. “The Stand” plays with some boy/girl vocal sparring and some catchy hooks for a jam that instantly gets stuck in your head. …

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03.31.2011

[MP3] AUSTRA don’t LOSE any of that opera magic when laying IT on this kam

i get impatient with every word, the more they ask me the more i’ve heard

♫ Austra – Lose It

Winter is getting a firm spring boot to the backside so the window on icy sulk music is closing quickly. Good thing Toronto’s Austra have wrapped their dramatic vocals and lyrics in a bit of bounce and groove. I could almost …

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02.04.2011

[LP] WILDLIFE STAND apart IN THE world of indie bands full of WATER. They are full of MATCHES.

i can be a good friend and i can be a good lover but i can’t do both of them

♫ Wildlife – Stand in the Water

It happens every year. Just as you are wrapping up your Best Albums list you stumble on that album that flew under your radar and is suddenly now blanket bombing your ears with …

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