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Things have sure changed in the relationship between musicians and film and TV producers since the Flaming Lips pimped themselves out to play the Peach Pit After Dark.
BY Sarah Liss
In indie-rock circles, Omaha, Nebraska has long been best known as the cozy breeding ground that spawned Conor Oberst’s Bright Eyes empire and its multi-armed offshoots. This fall, though, it’s ...
Two summers ago, there was a cacophony in the streets of Toronto — or at least, in the grasslands, parking lots and cozy clubs situated around a tiny cranny of the city just west of U of T. The ...
BY Chris Bilton
A tribute night to a fictional band? Sounds like more hipster antics, right? Not at all. The band in question is Hard Core Logo, in which case a tribute night is more like a celebration of the very ...
The SummerWorks festival — the juried, slightly less overwhelming counterpart to the Fringe — throws its hat into the ring with its inaugural music series
Does Canada need another music award? That’s what the folks over at XM Satellite Radio Canada think. Three years after Steve Jordan shook up the country’s music industry with the merit-based Polaris Music Prize, XM has announced their inaugural Verge ...
As the uproar around CBC Radio 2 proved, highbrow music-lovers are deadly serious about their traditional fare. Unfortunately, a lot of orchestral elitists are also rather narrow-minded when it comes to what constitutes “classical” as a genre. Sorry, but ...
Breaking news! In the latest instalment of what seems to be an ongoing effort to rescue awesome Canadindie bands who’ve fallen by the wayside after inadvertently breaking away from their label homes, Arts & Crafts announced the signing of Ontario’s ...
Charting the history of the Toronto indie music community can be a process along the lines of taking core soil samples: it’s a glorious and somewhat uneven mess of impacted layers made up of elements that frequently recur throughout time.
And now, a statement from the Canadian Indie-Rock Tourism Department: as the dog days of the season turn Toronto into something more akin to a sweaty asphalt dogfight, it’s the time many folks make a hasty exit.