Yes today is almost over, but I’m guessing you could use a boost to get yourself through the rest of the day, and the week for that matter. I might suggest you get that boost from Gets in Car the sparking, frayed electrical wire of an EP from Sackville NB’s Yellowteeth. This foursome plays a(…)
Ah, the weekend. A time to get drunk and make mistakes. Dangerband, a snotty power pop explosion from Toronto, is here to soundtrack that experience for you. On the surface, “Stupid Boyfriend”, sounds like a juvenille response; a Ducky-worthy plea sung over top of a chugging guitar riff, banged out keys and sing/shout backing vocals.(…)
As we sink deeper into the technological abyss, synthesized emotions and digital conversations have become as important as physical contact. I guess it’s fitting that many bands have opted to replace the natural pump that forces blood through our veins with electronic clicks programmed to achieve ideal beats per minute. Pristine and calculated, we are(…)
It is Wednesday, and also the day after Halloween, so I’m sure most of us are a little groggy today. Be it from ingesting far too much candy, or from dealing with kids who were off the wall with the expectation of winning the candy lotto, most of us could likely use a sonic boot(…)
I’m one of those people that can never completely disconnect. I check my blackberry on vacation, at night. It annoys me and frustrates my wife, but I can never completely turn work off. I guess it’s not shocking that even when I wanted a week off from blogging, I couldn’t make a clean break. You(…)
After stumbling across a previously, ahem, filed, email for Kobayashi Maru, the latest EP from Toronto outfit The Natural Shocks, I’d already planned to post something on it, but the wallop mother nature has delivered over the last 24 hours makes posting on a band with such a name a tad eerie. So here’s hoping(…)
The other day, I found myself in a discussion about art and how it is made and received. Ultimately, there are artists – be them actors or painters or musicians – that treat their art like a job. They have schedules, deadlines and deliverables. Each time out they get better at what they do, but(…)
I’m not nostalgic at all. I have absolutely no interest looking back. If I fell into that Hot Tub Time Machine, I’d beg you to step on my neck until I stopped moving. My trepidation is not some carpe diem like nonsense. It’s that the regrets and the bad decisions still sting. The good, sure,(…)
Let’s start this week with some good and some bad. First, it appears that the electronic escape duo, Southern Shores, has packed up, headed west to Toronto (in both the literal, and Miracle Fortress sense) and left behind Canada’s ocean playground. It makes sense, obviously, to gravitate to a larger city with a better climate(…)
My goodness, this might be the Summer of Hand Drawn Dracula. After co-releasing the fantastic debut LP from Dusted, HDD ups the ante with a 100 tape run/digital single from the new Toronto band, Breeze. With little more than pencil schematics scribbled into his trusted notebook, Josh Korody slowly recruited an army of talent to(…)
