Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
The album (titled Heron Act, which is available physically only in the US and digitally worldwide via Paper Bag) was released yesterday and features a collection of live recordings, b-sides and rare songs. To go along with our recent update, The Acorn are having a tremendous 2009 thus far. Here’s a sample of the album, […]
The remix. Really common in this generation we’re living in. Problem is that I hear so many of them that make songs worse than the same or better. Its rare that I come across one that peaks my interest as an artist building upon a previous artists work with something new. Guelph’s Green Go have […]
Who : Gigantic Hand from Brooklyn, NY.
What : From their debut album ‘Permanent Skin ‘, check out the focus track SuAnne Big Crow from Brooklyn’s Gigantic Hand . Started in 2003 iin Detroit as Kris Kaczor’s acoustic endeavor, the band took more shape after Kaczor moved to NYC in 2007 and collaborated with Rory O’Connor […]
Who : In-Flight Safety from Halifax.
What : Off the new album We Are An Empire, My Dear , here’s Halifax’s In-Flight Safety with Actors . Perhaps it was because of two Doves postings this week, but I’m really hearing some of that sound in In-Flight’s. The record comes out on the 27th and to support […]
I really wish I had more time to write here, but I’m tying up some loose ends before I go away for the weekend. I’m heading up north to a farm for a relaxing weekend, hot tubbing, generous amounts of beer and maybe I’ll figure out some Bon Iver songs on my classical guitar that […]