Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
Who: Sunbear from Dublin, circa 1999.
What: These songs might not be new, but probably new to your ears. Sunbear, Dublin’s answer to the shoegazer’s of the late 90’s (MBV, Ride, Sweredriver), really made a name for themselves with the release of their 1999 self-titled album. But the band had a collection of other unreleased songs […]
Stumbled upon this today. Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratories. In the future, I can only hope my head will be preserved for its ability to be used as a sample.
You’ve probably seen us posting about School of Seven Bells recently, as they’ve recently released a deluxe version of 2008’s Alpinisms. I’ve seen the live show (when they opened for M83 in Toronto last year), but haven’t seen them in a headline spot. Soon I’ll get my chance, and so could you…. Contest: Correctly spell […]
All reports out of LA are glowing for Thom Yorke, his supergroup (Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco), and their performances this past weekend at the Orpheum and the Echoplex. Playing a mix of songs off Thom’s solo work The Eraser, Radiohead b-sides and new Radiohead songs (which are below from The Echoplex […]
I saw the countdown clock at ithinkuracontra.com which sometime around 2:30pm EST today reached zero and pointed us towards Vampire Weekend’s homepage. Like the image above indicates they’re offering a free download of the song ‘Horchata’, the first track off the upcoming release of Contra (Jan 11th and 12th), with or without the old e-mail […]