Category: Canadian
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Sufjan gets updated and just a little bit “street”!
Found in the ol inbox the other day. I mean, I am not the utmost purveyor of hip/hop mashes, but with Sufjan Stevens involved (or his music at least) you might just start out better than most remixes. I have no problem listening as it is very well done, and you know bloggers and their…
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Post Rock Instrumental Evening – Montreal’s Torngat Is Invited.
Montreal Quebec’s ambient power trio Torngat create majestic instrumental music that is at times as breathtaking as the glorious Quebec mountain range from whom they take their name. Torngat return with “La petite Nicole”, the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2007 effort, “You Could Be”. This time around the band is sporting a grittier,…
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Videos! Metric and Angus & Julia Stone
Some promo video love from the inbox. I am sure that they are making the rounds, but what the hey, new Metric and new Angus & Julia Stone! Take an exclusive download from the band (non album version) for the track by visiting below (you will have to enter an email address…but hey, why not?). …
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Baby Eagle. This is definitely not the Constantines.
Baby Eagle…hmmm, somehow got onto this member of the Constantines solo project the other day. Why is it that the solo projects from band members are often nothing like their day jobs? Maybe a release, maybe they need to expand, spread their wings and just not do the same thing? Most likely…I guess you can’t…
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Rewind Friday’s Outtake
So I forgot an artist I meant to put on Friday’s post yesterday – The Most Serene Republic. My apologies to any Canadian music frenzy that ensued due to this obvious omission (and I had 3 other “Arts & Crafts” bands!!). Oh well, to make it up, here are three little diddies from the Milton,…
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Rewind Friday – Canadian Edition
So in a lame attempt to put a post out, I give you a mish mash of Canadian artists over the past few years. Some newer than others….some better than others…overall a pretty decent Friday I must say. Now, don’t get all “these are simply the mainstream indie-Canadian bands” on me…I didn’t say it was…
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The Best Unknown Artist I Still Don’t Know
Basket of Figs is a seriously entrancing singer songwriter from Toronto, Canada. There…you have as much information about her as I do. Well, almost. Did you ever listen to music that simply amazes you? Everyone needs to, and I recently experienced it with the EP entitled “666” from Basket of Figs obtained through the Yer…
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The Stunning Ohbijou
It really “kicks in” or starts at about 1:18…and check out more of the above Ohbijou performances over on AUX’s “Camera Music” here. Enjoy a couple of tracks from the re-release (re-mastered if that helps) of “Swift Feet for Troubling Times” last year including “Blizzards” that doesn’t appear on the original. Ohbijou “Steep” (mp3) from…
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Ghost Bees & Laura Barrett
photo taken from Aberdeen show flyer So upcoming concert possibility is Ghost Bees and Laura Barrett here in Calgary on December 4th. I am still up in the air on participating so I am putting up a couple of tracks to see if you can convince me that I will be missing something by not…
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Scott Cooper’s Tiny Increments
So, Remembrance Day is here (well in the Commonwealth at least) and on this day of reflection, I am sitting at home (no work today for me) and listening to something that almost got away from me. The Scott Cooper beauty “Tiny Increments” from 2007. And I have to be honest about this as well. …
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Brian Borcherdt – Coyotes (2008)
So I don’t know why I have been waiting on this release for this long. I have been telling everyone I can about how much I love the new album from Brian Borcherdt. I tell you people, this album is probably my #1 album this year (go ahead start judging me!) – but I don’t…
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Oliver Thiessen
Sometimes as hard as you look, you sometimes pass over something in your very own backyard. This is the experience I had with Oliver Thiessen. With the internet, the world is not soo big anymore and the grasp for music goes fully around the globe. That is why I am happy to provide more local…