Tag: music

It’s beautiful summertime and the “Best Music Festival in Canada” is happening imminently. The Evolve Festival is an incredible three-day experience based on the celebration of music, community, art and the planet on which it all happens. Evolve is getting more attention than ever this year, after CBC Radio3 listeners voted the event as [...]

There are very few jurors for the Polaris Music Prize who work in mainstream radio. Adam Thompson is one of those few. He is the Program Director and Assistant Music Director for Sonic 102.9, a modern rock station in Edmonton. Adam was kind enough to sit back and have a candid chat with me about [...]

June 1, 2010 marks the release of “No Ghost” from Ottawa’s The Acorn in North America with a European release following a week later on June 8. “No Ghost” is the band’s sixth release, and their first full-length album since 2007’s “Glory Hope Mountain”.
The Acorn began as a solo project for Rolf Klausener in [...]

It’s been an almost overwhelming time for new albums from Canadian indie artists lately and you can add “New Inheritors” from Wintersleep to the growing list. “New Inheritors” is the band’s fourth album, following the fantastic previous release of “Welcome to the Night Sky” from 2007. The follow-up album “New Inheritors” is currently streaming on [...]

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My initial impression of Andrea Ramolo, when I met her, can be summed up into two words: “Bold” and “Outdoorsy”. Why? When I approached her, she spoke to me as if she already knew me, like an old friend, like no introduction was necessary. The outdoorsy part, well her attire screamed indie folk songstress [...]

When I first heard the band name Type Monkey Type, the first thing that popped into my head was the following Simpsons clip:

Needless to say, I was highly amused at Type Monkey Type’s choice of band name.
The “pre-apocalyptic fusion rock” group from Calgary has been an up-and-coming act since the release of their first EP [...]

Singer/songwriter’s are usually well respected for their finely crafted songs and lyrical poetry, yet many times they are plain hard to understand and relate to. Enter Andrea Ramolo, the Toronto based indie artist, who is currently on a 90+ show tour which will take her and bandmate Jason Skiendziel all across Canada. Her musical path [...]

Said the Whale is a relatively new band, having been formed in 2007. The group was founded by singer/songwriters Tyler Bancroft and Ben Worcester and, after a few lineup changes, now includes
Peter Carruthers on bass, drummer Spencer Schoening, and on keys, Jaycelyn Brown. They have quickly made a place for themselves within the Canadian indie [...]

Peterborough locals Bear Trees fronted by Mike Duguay (also of The Burning Hell) opened the night to a crowded Montreal House. It was an unusually masculine lineup, but delightful nonetheless. Bear Trees played an enthusiastic rock set ending with a song about St. John’s Newfoundland. Mike proclaimed the city to be the best in Canada, [...]

In fall of 2009, I said on a whim to my band-mate, “Hey, we should do a Daft Punk show with our band, Scientists of Sound. We could do their album ‘Homework’ live – nobody has done that before.” “Great!” my band-mate replied, and that was that. About a week later, it started to set [...]