Apologies by City Light

Who: City Light from San Francisco.
What: Bridging that open area between post hardcore influenced indie rock and downtempo electronics, check out long time Seattle friends Matt Shaw and Nick Andre, collectively called City Light. From a collaboration that had the two mailing tracks back in forth, we now how their sophomore album Burned Out Bright; […]

Take A Trip To The Middle East

I’m just going to point you towards a great blog with a great post on a great band from Queensland called The Middle East. IGIF has two tracks from the band including ‘Blood‘, which is my idea of what they Great Lake Swimmers would sound like if through the song they kept inviting members of […]

Beach Comber by Real Estate

Who: Real Estate from New Jersey.
What: A new band on my radar, New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker called Real Estate. For fans of the pop bliss of The Feelies and Yo La Tengo, listen to the drony guitar picking and the simple marching beat […]

Video: ‘Privy’ by Clothes Make The Man

Privy by Clothes Make the Man. Catch them at one of the dates below. Oct. 14 @ Van Gogh’s Ear 3rd Floor, GUELPH Oct. 15 @ El Mocambo, TORONTO Oct. 16 @ Circus Room, KITCHENER Oct. 22 @ Marcellos, MISSISAUGA Oct. 24 @ The Green Bottle, OSHAWA Oct. 28 @ Red Rooster, BURLINGTON Oct. 30 […]

Meet & Greet

I’m in the most recent issue of Exclaim! Magazine in the Meet & Greet Section. This is the place in the magazine (and online) where music industry people are interviewed on a variety of topics. In this specific interview, I was mainly focusing on blogging, but we talked a lot about finding new music and […]