Records
Gem Club: Acid and Everything EP
To be drunk on inhaled clouds of late-summer dust motes and flickers of lightening bugs held in ether; to unfocus...
Aug 08, 2010
Records
Crush Buildings: Things Luminous EP
I once told Crush Buildings singer James Romanuk that I thought there was an imperceptible line between those bands finding...
Aug 03, 2010
Tracks
RatTail: "Polka Dotspoka"
Whoever it was that said “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” clearly did not foresee the rise of...
Aug 03, 2010
Records
Shad: TSOL
The music video for TSOL‘s lead single “Rose Garden” initially seems, like Shad himself, unassuming and underwhelming. In a...
Jul 02, 2010
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The Element Choir: At Rosedale United
It’s easy to get bogged down in the concept behind Christine Duncan’s Toronto-based the Element Choir, so I’ll just give...
Jun 26, 2010
NBHcasts
VIII
Enjoy that early summer beachcombing to the sounds of: Luyas, J’envoie, Dozens, Grimes, Sean Nicholas Savage, Boomsnake, Friendo…
Jun 07, 2010
Tracks
Bgudna: "Reunited at Last"
Bgudna means Björgvin Gudnason, who, if you can’t already tell, is from Iceland. He’s also spiritually lost at sea, projecting...
Jun 03, 2010
Records
Clang Sayne: Winterlands
Sometimes a band comes so close to blending the trends which make up my own esoteric tastes that I could...
Apr 30, 2010
Records
Dozens: Dozens EP
Now this, James Murphy, is how you hit a high note: take a frazzled crossbreed of jazz and space-rock, add...
Apr 28, 2010