Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
I heard about this movie from reading The Playlist. The film is getting pretty good reviews, but its also has a killer soundtrack. MGMT, Ting Tings (who played here last night, I went to Annuals), Black Kids, and some Canadian love on there with Unicorns, New Pornographers and Patrick Watson. Dawn of the Dead by […]
Who : Creaky Boards from Brooklyn.
What : Does that first line/melody sound familiar? The band thinks that Coldplay s’ newest single/ipod commercial borrows their hook, as they were performing this song at CMJ 2007, thought they saw Chris Martin enjoying it and taking mental notes. Here’s a video stating their case, head to Stereogum to […]
A $20,000 Prize will be awarded to the best full-length Canadian album released from June 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008, judged solely on artistic merit, without regard to genre or record sales. The list was selected by the 185 members of the Polaris Music Prize jury, which consists of music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers […]
Who: Pete Samples from Winnipeg, via Montreal.
What: A new song off this multi-instrumentalists newest mini-album entitled The Jumper Cables. Its his “most flirtatious endeavour with pop music, yet it maintains a firm foot in his roots of hip hop, electronic and rock”. This song below is beautiful. Check him out tonight at the Hideout, 9pm.
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What does everyone think of the new Sigur Ros record?? You can stream it from the band’s website here. I’m liking the 2nd (Inní mér syngur vitleysingu) and 4th (Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust) songs a lot right now. Festival has a great build. Gobbledigook is a great opener, but is quite different from […]