Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
Alvin Band “Temple Pressure” from Travis Schneider on Vimeo. Rick Alvin Shaier of Miniature Tigers has just finished his solo debut titled ‘Mantis Preying’ under the name Alvin Band. A true testament of ‘unadulterated stream-of-consciousness musical exploration and an impressive investigation of bedroom recording’, these songs have many interesting parts that we’ve taken notice of. […]
I recommend a good amount of this. Check out Pterodactyl Squad‘s compilation of Weezer classics made from 8-bit sounds from your favorite old-school video games. This 14 song mix features such songs as In The Garage, Buddy Holly and El Scorcho (my favorite). Now leave it to Weezer to take notice and integrating it into […]
Who: Why? from Oakland, CA.
What: From the upcoming follow-up to the acclaimed Alopecia LP, here’s Why? with This Blackest Purse from the album Eskimo Snow. Perhaps these two records maybe should have been a double? Both were recorded at the same time, the former ‘delivering a tight set of intricate rhymes, live loops, slurred hooks […]
It’s All Over Kid Koala + Dynomite D + 6 Turntables + Wolfmother’s Rhythm Section = The Slew A couple years back, Eric (aka Kid Koala) and Dylan J. Frombach (aka Dynomite D) were approached to create a psych rock-influence score for a documentary. Problem was that after the work was done, the film folded […]
Toronto loves Frightened Rabbit. Something quite amazing has happened here since Oct ’08, when this Scottish four-piece had performed to an enthusiastic half full crowd at Lees Palace. Either word really got around about how awesome that show was, or it was just a matter of time before people realized just how good this band […]