Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
So I heard this news today. Really sad to hear this. My thoughts go out to the band and their families in this difficult time. Bottom of The Hudson are a band from Brooklyn who I really wished I had gone and seen last week when they were on tour in Toronto.? Transforming from a […]
Let’s say you’re at a bar, a DJ is spinning brit-rock and you’re having a good time. You’d normally expect to hear ‘Rocks‘ by Primal Scream. But the DJ can’t find that disc. Instead, he/she puts on Pop Rocks by Saturna. You’re just as satisfied. They’re a band from Portland, OR, music in the vein […]
After growing sick of Neverland, Eugene Francis Jnr, one of the lost boys, decided to start a career in music. In his video for Poor Me, we’d normally assume its all some sort of weird dream sequence. For a lost boy? That kind of stuff happens all the time. – I was nicely surprised today […]
I was listening to this the other night and losing myself in the ambiance. This is the Riceboy Sleeps, music to float away to. This is the project between Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros) and Alex Somers. The music has come out of a four year music and art collaboration and serves as a soundtrack to […]
Wear Em Out (featuring Dan Boeckner on vocals). I’ve played it 4 times already tonight. Can you wear down an mp3? So there’s this guy named Ryder Havdale. He’s got this pretty cool band called The Mohawk Lodge in Vancouver. He also runs a record label called White Whale Records, home to bands like Castle […]