Natural Sympathies – Moon Landing (Video Debut)
In a previous life, Amber Goodwyn was a member of not one but two Montreal bands in the forms of Cobra & Vulture and Nightwood but her current incarnation is focusing on, what she describes [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 9th May 2017
Nielsen Canada's new Music 360 report The just released Music 360 2014 study, NIELSEN’s third annual research of the tastes, habits and preferences of U.S. music listeners, found that 93% of the country's population listens [...]
Midday Swim – Hold on Tight
Born somewhere between endless sunny days that slowly turned to balmy July nights, Toronto indie rock band Midday Swim (David Mitchel – Vocals/Guitar, Sebastian Shinwell – Lead Guitar/Vocals, Craig Saltz – Bass/Vocals, Stephan Ermel – [...]
New releases for the week ending May 5th 2017
Released Monday Kiera Dall’Osto – s/t (Independent) Her backstory is pretty interesting, as she may be the only person in the world who moved from Australia to Moncton to Saskatchewan. There's probably more than a [...]
Hermitess – Blood Moon
Hermitess (aka Jennifer Crighton) recently released a video for “Blood Moon”, taken from her upcoming self-titled Album. She has been making a series of artworks alongside the musical compositions: photographs and almost-still videos set against [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Discogs' Crate Diggers record fair is coming to Toronto and Montreal https://nowtoronto.com/music/discogs-brings-crate-diggers-to-toronto/ “Both Toronto and Montreal have increasingly grown in the Discogs community of buyers and sellers,” Discogs spokesperson Jeffrey Smith tells NOW. “[We] want [...]
The Velveteins – Slow Wave
Edmonton-born rock band The Velveteins recently announce the release of their debut album "Slow Wave" on May 12th. Just one say after they shared the video for the band's second single "Midnight Surf" from that [...]
Playlist Friday: 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards Nominees
Playlist Friday has most of the 2017 WCMA nominees that were announced earlier this week. There is 4.5 hours of Jazz, Blues, Pop, Rock and even Country on it. Western Canada has a lot of [...]
New releases for the week ending April 28th 2017
Anamai - What Mountain (Halocline Trance) On What Mountain, Anna Mayberry (HSY) and David Psutka (Egpyptrixx) continue to craft the ambient electro-folk that put Anamai on the map with their 2015 record Sallows. Their new [...]
Music Festivals
With summer just around the corner for those of us in the Northern hemisphere music fans start turning their minds towards the forthcoming festivals. From the larger, multi-day, events that take place in multiple venues [...]