Every week, the EYE WEEKLY music braintrust sift through piles of demos to find one act who make us want to scream their name from the rooftops of Toronto. Check out this selection of our favourite up-and-coming indie bands from our recent Disc-Overy columns, and don’t forget to vote for them on InDiscover.net.
BY Howard Druckman
Rob Szabo’s last album, Like A Metaphor, was a power-pop gem with candy-apple hooks that couched the dark content often embedded within.
BY David Dacks
Beloved by North American and British reggae fans, Augustus Pablo was perhaps the least verbose reggae star of all time.
BY Chandler Levack
The mandibles of wasps are used to capture and disassemble prey.
BY Stuart Berman
Signed last year to UK indie powerhouse label Fat Cat (formerly home to Animal Collective and Sigur Ros), Dan Workman’s atmospheric vocals rest on a foundation of hard, doomy rock.
BY Sarah Liss
In a Canadian arthouse rock ’n’ road-trip movie, The Recroom would be the band squatting in a dilapidated but beautiful shanty by the side of Highway 60, where their haunting but curiously ...
BY Michael Barclay
Let's get the obvious comparisons out of the way. Much like The Weakerthans, The Details are from Winnipeg, have song lyrics that read like complete sentences, print their lyrics like prose and ...