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 : Wax Stag from St. Albans (UK).
What : This is the kind of music that bass/percussionist Rob Lee from Friendly Fires makes when he’s up on imagination behind the keys of his synthesizer. From the debut Short Road EP , which has been applauded by Hot Chip and MTV2 , you’ll find a slew […]
Seems as if I’m a day late here…. I blame that on moving offices and festivals wanting to be eager enough to start on wednesday. So, we’ll seperate the picks by the ones that have already happened which you’ll need a time machine to attend, and the ones that run from now until the end […]
Who : Alaska In Winter from most recently Berlin.
What : A song named from where the new album was created. Bedroom recording genius Brandon Bethancourt recorded all the songs off the upcoming Holiday (to be released by Milan records Nov. 18th) using only a Powerbook Laptop, an effects processor, a small midi keyboard, a microphone […]
Dan Snaith (known in the music biz as Caribou, or formerly Manitoba) has taken home $20,000 for beating out 9 others to win the 2008 Polaris Prize. More of the story here.
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