Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
I have a good reason for not posting. I spent the last 6 days in Austin, TX (also known as Awesome, TX) seeing concerts, eating nachos and drinking bad beer. Top award goes to a beer called Fat Tire. It scored high for having a cool name, but was knocked down to a low score […]
I first heard The Acorn while listening to CBC Radio 3’s podcast. The song ‘Blankets’ came on (from the bands second effort, an EP called the ‘Blankets!’ EP) and it stuck with me for a couple days. Then as I heard more of their music on their website (or on their label’s site, Kelp Records […]
So, last night I went to a concert, some guy pushed me, then the crowd started swirling. Then I got kicked out. And never got to talk to that girl that I was meant to… Maybe I’ll have to watch this video a couple more times. (It’s in windows media format, if it doesn’t work, […]
I had to look up the meaning of Fjord to refresh my memory. Was I ever taught this word in school? To quote the band from their New Music Canada site, Fjord Rowboat has been trying to ‘save the world with Reverb since 2004’. Does saving the world mean recording and performing lush atmospheric shoegazer […]
I’ve been planning a showcase for my artists during Canadian Music Week (CMW) for the better half of two months. And Saturday morning, I had this awesome feeling that everything was going to work like clockwork. Until I got this e-mail at 12:30pm….. It was from one of the production people at CMW responding to […]