Soundcloud closes 2 offices laying off 40 percent of its workforce

In shocking news to its employees, SoundCloud, the digital music service provider, has decided to shut down its offices in San Francisco and London making roughly 41% of its staff unemployed. Though SoundCloud had already [...]

By | July 10th, 2017|Categories: News|25 Comments

New releases for the week ending July 7th 2017

Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder Before taking a break of seven years from releasing albums, Broken Social Scene established itself as one of indie rock's most epic practitioners. The group's ambient, experimental 2001 [...]

By | July 6th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: , |36 Comments

Arcade Fire crank up the satire & weirdness at London gig

In a case of "if you can do it why can't we" Arcade Fire decided that, if US 'it-girls' Kylie and Kendal Jenner could sell classic band T-shirts with their own image or logo superimposed [...]

By | July 5th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: |17 Comments

ICYMI for Tuesday 4th July 2017

Left on the dial No surprise, it's taken more than one radio station to replace Radio 3. "Replace" is the wrong word, because nothing will replace it. But S2W has assembled a listening roster that [...]

By | July 4th, 2017|Categories: News|18 Comments

New releases for the week ending June 30th 2017

Doldrums - Esc (Dead Oceans) Montreal’s Doldrums certainly have a mastery of textures. On their latest release they take elegant melodies and dance-ready electronics and mash them together for a middle-ground between EDM and indie-rock. [...]

By | June 29th, 2017|Categories: New Music|24 Comments

ICYMI for Tuesday 27th June 2017

Ontario to ban scalper bots The Liberal government said Monday it will introduce new legislation this fall that will make automated ticket-buying "bots" illegal. It would also cap markups on resold tickets at 50 percent [...]

By | June 27th, 2017|Categories: News|21 Comments

New releases for the week ending June 23rd 2017

Bison (B.C.) - You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient In Europe, July 7th in North America You are not the ocean. You do not orchestrate a beautiful cacophony of life and death, [...]

By | June 22nd, 2017|Categories: News|43 Comments

Natural Sympathies – Space Invaders (Video Debut)

If you are a regular here, and why wouldn't you be, you might be able to remember that we had the privilege of debuting Natural Sympathies' video for Moon Landing six weeks ago. Once again, [...]

By | June 21st, 2017|Categories: Video Release|Tags: |18 Comments

ICYMI for Tuesday 20th June 2017

SOCAN Awards Shine Bright Lights on Canada's Music Creators and Publishers Songwriters, composers and music publishers behind some of the biggest songs in the world gathered in Toronto Monday night – with a who's who [...]

By | June 20th, 2017|Categories: News|19 Comments

Jon Stancer – For The Birds

This coming Friday will see the release of Jon Stancer's debut solo album For The Birds (iTunes preorder) on which, Toronto singer/songwriter Jon dabs his brush in many musical palettes. Produced by Jono Grant (John [...]

By | June 19th, 2017|Categories: New Music|23 Comments