Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
This one has been in my inbox forever, glad I’m finally doing something about it. A little while back while enjoying drinks at Toronto’s best east end bar, I couldn’t ignore the music playing in the background. It sounded familiar, yet completely unheard of. Alice let me know that it was the album Dada Bandits […]
‘I Hate My Friends (Radio Edit)’ by Sebastien Grainger
The Balconies are an Ottawa three-piece who have leagues of followers in their hometown. Recently, the Ottawa Xpress took a poll and found that the threesome were voted by the Ottawa public as both the best Rock/Pop/Dance/Other Band and Best New Musical Act. As evidence by this, I’m pretty late on this one, also every […]
Who: Fang Island from Brooklyn, NY.
What: A quintet reaching that perfect spot where anthemic, soaring and chaotic all meet. The band began as an art school project while the band members were attending the Rhode Island School of Design (also the foundation for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savvy Fav, Lightning Bolt, Six Finger Satellite). With […]
Who: Postdata (Paul Murphy from Wintersleep and his brother Michael).
What: A couple years ago, brothers Paul and Michael Murphy shared scotch and started writing songs at their parents house in Yarmouth, N.S. They were penning tuens for their mom about people in their family; all captured through the mic of a laptop. 12 ideas were […]