Ra Ra Ra for Ra Ra Riot

I’m looking forward to picking up Ra Ra Riot‘s CD single “Can You Tell” that Barsuk plans to put out March 3rd. It will feature a new song, RAC and Tom Campesinos! remixes, a Daytrotter track, a 2006 demo and a mp4 video of the band in the Attic Sessions. Catch them on the road […]

Got plans for sunday?

If you’re in Toronto, or nearby, check out this lineup for the Rogers Picnic. Here’s the lineup. 9:40pm – City and Colour 8:20pm – Cat Power 7:15pm – Tokyo Police Club 6:10pm – Chromeo 5:05pm – Animal Collective 4:00pm – Vampire Weekend 3:00pm – Dizzee Rascal 2:15pm – Born Ruffians 1:35pm – The Carps Nokia […]

Elephant Shell (remixed)

Been listening to the remixes of Tokyo Police Club‘s new record Elephant Shell in the last couple of days. Its definitely grown my interest in this band. On the 5 song 7″ there are remixes by artists like Dntel, Flowers Forever, and The Good Life. The best one is Field Music‘s verison of Tessellate, head […]

The Coast – Expatriate

*disclaimer: Just as a side note, I (Burtch) am unbiased when it comes to the Coast. I’ve known the band through Chris (who works for them) for a while, but I’m not a lackey, paid or otherwise. Now on to my posting: The Coast have been floating around the Toronto Indie Rock scene for a […]

Ra Ra Riot

I started my night at Nathan Phillips Square for a free Tokyo Police Club show, as part of something called WinterCity. One of the MC’s who were introducing the band made we laugh quite a bit after announcing “The Weakertons” were going to be performing the week after…. I had no idea they changed their […]