Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
Dan Black – Symphonies Couldn’t get this song out of my head all weekend. Had to keep opening youtube to play the video, just to hear it and I guess to satisfy my minds primal urge for a hook very close to Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’. But, Dan‘s chorus surprises while enlightening me with the direction it […]
Here’s Dream City by Free Energy (from Fader). DFA puts out their debut in the fall, I guess moving more towards bangers from the 70’s or sounds you might hear on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack. Thats it for me this week, I’ve got no words left. Hopefully soon I’ll have more words to string […]
Introducing Palace Players – Mew It’s the first track from Mew‘s upcoming release No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away due out on Columbia on August 25th. Doozy of an album name.
Who: The Sweet Serenades from Sweden.
What: Seems as if we’re collecting songs called Die Young this week, anyone else got a song with the same name? This one is from The Sweet Serenades featuring Karolina Komstedt from Club 8 ; an atmospheric duet describing the downsides of being Fuck Buddies. Two questions. Can I […]
Who: Lightning Dust from Vancouver.
What: Don’t call them a side project. Vancouver duo Amber Webber and Joshua Wells (both founding members of Black Mountain) are Lightning Dust. Infinite Light is their sophomore effort (out in Aug, Jagjaguwar) and promises to be fuller and more charged, perhaps reminding us that ‘what makes the mountains so very, […]