It’s with a hint of sadness I bring you the frantic stylings of The Cable-knits. Technically, the Calgary duo – LeeJay Dunphy and Nate Waters – write pop songs; the infectious guitar melodies and harmonies are often hidden or obfuscated by fragmented blasts of noise and droning waves of sound, but they are the building [...]
It’s very rare that I pay attention to any project that adds the words “synth pop” to their bio, but over the last few years Guelph’s Green Go offered up some fantastic reworkings of the biggest names in the Canadian indie scene. The EPs were stellar; imaginative and well thought out remixes that helped the [...]
Let me say this, if there’s a Juno for “Best Instrumental Hip Hop Album with a Name That Kind of Sounds Like a Word But Isn’t Actually a Word, I Don’t Think”, Vancouver-based producer mikedecline would be a two-time winner by now. I loved his last album, Umbrellatons and after being through it a few [...]
It’s no secret that making money from music is a failed venture. Even the biggest bands in the world are stuck grinding from city to city, dreading the inevitable ding from an increasingly fickle 15-minute timer. For artists like Kevin Stebner, a man making music for an incredibly small subset of the few people left [...]
It’s hard to define Klarka Weinwurm as a musician. She’s one of the staples of the East Coast scene, routinely supporting Jon Mckiel and Shotgun Jimmie, but you’d be forgiven if you hadn’t heard her songs. The soft spoken Weinwurm doesn’t have a Web site and unless you cornered her in a dark alley, I’m [...]
It’s fitting that Calgary’s Reuben Bullock describes his state of mind, and musical perspective, as simply going where the river takes him. In a time when most folk/roots acts feel as natural as salmon fishing in the Yemen, Bullock lets go of any expectations and floats with the current. Bullock is a self-admitted work in [...]
A few years ago, I tried to pressure The Just Barelys to put out a new record with an incessant amount of myspace queries (when that was actually still a thing) and blog posts. Jesus, if Twitter was half as popular as it is today or kickstarter existed, #justbarelyspleaserecord would have been trending daily and [...]
Something almost no one knows about me as that I’m obsessed with murder ballads. Songs of darkness, bloodshed and mayhem under the comforting guise of acoustic melodies or traditional bluesy riffs are as close as I get to the Kirk, Picard or stereotypical comic book geeking. Well, murder ballads and Tom Waits. As a [...]
There’s probably an endless number of reasons an email from Carly Maicher might sit untouched in your inbox for weeks or you might miss her record on the shelves of your local record shop. The Manitoba based songwriter writes and performs subtle, spare folk songs under her own name and prefers to move amongst the [...]
For Paulo, the new EP from Woodpigeon, may have started as a tribute to family road trips and Mark Hamilton’s mandatory musical roots, but there’s more at play here. Hamilton cites touch-points like Fleetwood Mac, Boys Don’t Cry and Iron Butterfly as the inspiration for his melodies, but underneath those lasting nostalgic hues is something [...]