Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
Finding a way to describe a band gets tricky sometimes. When hear music that sounds very instrumental and symphonic I think soundtrack. Or dream like. As I sat in the the humidity at the Harbourfront’s CIBC stage watching the Hylozoists perform, I wasn’t losing myself dreaming in the music. In fact, the more I listened […]
I figured out where Eagle*Seagull got the name for their band. and all I had to do was ask Eli Mardock, the band’s lead singer. The opening track “Lock and Key“, off their self-titled record, builds slowly into this crazy, chaotic guitar effect outro. The band, while discussing the studio session over beers, said the […]
I was surprised to hear that my picture had made it into Chill magazine (the free magazine in Beer Stores). A pretty interesting article though; apparently fashion has a hell of a lot to do with winning games. You can read the whole article here, which is our blog on our brand new myspace page.
I think this is Raliegh, CA’s answer to Canada’s Old Soul. Can’t put it much better than this. “Carefully layering each song with a thousand noises and feelings, Annuals camoflauge the deep simplicity of what they do, belying their youth with deftness & complexity.” Be He Me is due out in October on Ace Fu. […]
I thought Junip was an English word I hadn’t learned yet, but I still can’t seem to find anything on that. Perhaps I was thinking again about crossing things again; delicious Turnips and a Jujube. Wikipedia has this: Junip is ‘a swedish band featuring Jose Gonzalez‘. Its an interesting extension of his acoustic crooning. A […]