Fish & Bird
Raised on equal parts roots music and Radiohead, Fish & Bird have received praise on both sides of the Atlantic for their refreshingly unclichéd writing. With their fourth album, Something in the Ether (released on [...]
Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers
Winnipeg’s gypsy-folk-orchestral outfit, Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers was a band fascinated by folk tales, puppet shows, and homemade mythologies. They were a dynamic sextet with unique blend of jazz, folk, and musical theatre [...]
Tokyo Police Club and The Elwins play Oakville
By Michael Wynn Oakville, Ontario, Canada - November 2, 2016 - Tokyo Police Club & The Elwins at the Oakville Centre for Performing Arts. Oakville is located about 20 minutes west of Toronto, Ontario by [...]
Leonard Cohen 1934-2016
On Friday 21st September 1934 a middle-class Jewish family in Westmount, Quebec, had a new addition in the form of Leonard Norman Cohen and, by extension, the rest of us got a singer, songwriter, poet [...]
Album releases for Friday 11th November 2016
(according to Amazon.ca) Ariadne's Legacy by Various Artists Label: Centrediscs Format: CD ASIN: B01MPWLKWR Bria by Bria Skonberg Label: Sony Music Canada - Distribution Format: CD ASIN: B01J4QL0XQ Canadian Flute Masterpieces by Susan Hoeppner, Lydia [...]
Still Flux – Still Flux
Still Flux, composed of John Castillo, Johnny Syriani, Luke Winer, and David Hernon is a collaborative rock outfit started by singer/songwriter John Castillo in September 2015. Borrowing elements from Pyschedelia, Metal, and Pop, they bring [...]
We Are Wolves – Wrong
Around 2000, Alexander Ortiz and Vincent Levesque along with Antonin Marquis formed a band with synthesizers, bass, vocals and drums. In their own words the band likes to qualify their sound as “a post-punk landscape [...]
Charlotte Cardin – Big Boy
Montreal singer, Charlotte Cardin, began her music career at a young age when she started attending singing lessons while in the first grade before becoming the lead singer of her primary school's rock group. After [...]
Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness Pt 2
By Darlene Barss Our Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness continues. It began with a Canadian Indie song and that led to another and another until I had 20 songs that I brought to you. We [...]
Album releases for Friday 4th November 2016
(according to Amazon.ca) Bright & Vivid by Kathryn Calder Written and recorded in a relatively short amount of time, Bright and Vividis a masterfully refined piece of work that illustrates a maturation that can only [...]