Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
Went to see Jose Gonzalez play an instore at Sonic Boom last week and I was reminded how great the acoustic guitar can totally captivate an audience. Feeling the same about what I’ve heard of from next up on the filter, Fink. Maybe a shift from what normally comes out of Ninja Tune, Fink is […]
I didn’t accomplish much when I was a teenager. The best I could do musically was play bass in a band called The Daily’s, win a battle-of-the-bands at the El Mo and put out a two song tape with studio time we won from the show. If I had the mp3s handy, I’d post Kidnapped […]
Got an e-mail in my inbox from Jonathan Clancy, one of the members of A Classic Education. While checking out their myspace page and listening to Stay Son (below), I noticed the band was from Bologna, Italy. My mind swept back to 2002, stop number 31 on my European backpack tour. What a great city! […]
Its a little known fact that when I’m not writing here on the Filter, or working here, I’ve probably got something balancing on my chin. I used to work at a resort in Muskoka (2 hours north of Toronto) and for two years, I was the Jr. Sports Director, responsible for the 10-14 year old […]
It was a quick look before. Here’s more of a story about MGMT. Also known as The Management, MGMT is the name for Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden of Brooklyn. After forming the band at college and touring to support their initial EP Time To Pretend, people took notice. The band started opening for Of […]