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: That band who brought us the classic ‘Feel The Pain’.
What: Not sure if this song will live up to the above, but I’m digging it. From the forthcoming album Farm, due out June 23rd on Jagjaguwar, here’s the song ‘I Want You to Know’. The reunited line up of J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and […]
SFMOMA‘s (The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Artscope project. Its a visual browsing tool that allows one to explore more that 3,500 works of art at the gallery. I need this for my site. Not the art, but the tool that navigates it. I’m a huge fan of band poster art and want to […]
So much to do, so little time. Have a couple contracts to send out, a song pitch for a US tv show, a massive mailout and an e-card. Realisitically, I’ll get this done middle of next week, but I’d really like to use Friday to make a big dent in that. So, quick post here. […]
Pretty cool concept for a compilation album. Every Wednesday for 16 weeks, 3 musicians showed up at MCM Studios in Winnipeg ready to collaborate with each other. Their task was to write, record and mix one song. And that song would be made available for download the following morning. Talk about quick turnaround. And in […]
The new Deastro track ‘Vermillion Plaza’ (from Pitchfork). ‘Plucky synth arpeggios, end-of-the-world choruses, joyously careening melody lines ‘. Starts kind of like Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap.
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Demonstration by The Honey Brothers. New York’s “new wave folk” outfit (and real-life brothers and longtime friends) kick off summer with their 3rd release, the ‘Demonstration’ digital EP […]