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Our 15 Favorite Albums of 2015
After countless meetings, conference calls, anonymous votes and long contemplative walks, weve summed up this years album releases to our absolute favorites.
After countless meetings, conference calls, anonymous votes and long contemplative walks, weve summed up this years album releases to our absolute favorites.
This week Lola Who is featuring a wide range of kickass women, including Grimes, U.S. Girls, Lou Doillon and Dilly Dally. Listen here...
Fort Lean is not a literal place. Itor rather they are a rock band and one not so easily described. To quote a great deal of their previous press, they are classic rock-inflected, hyper-chill Brooklyn indie-poppers and slack-rockers, as well as an east-coast band with a west-coast vibe. In addition to all of that, Fort Lean is a gifted (if…
Album releases are plenty, but these five gems are particularly worthy of your time.
From old-time favourites to newcomers with raw appeal, we picked five albums to listen to this week.
From soul to garage rock and experimental pop, we picked five albums to listen to this week. Leon Bridges Coming Home You might not think that youd necessarily want to hear someone rehash the exact moods, sounds and sentiments of Sam/Otis/Aretha soul music when you can just listen to them do it. That is until you hear Leon Bridges.…
Nine years ago in 2006, 36? began in Taylor Cochranes Calgary basement. At the time, Cochrane was seventeen, on too much ADD medication and full of musical ideas. He self-released three albums under 36? before the project really took shape last year and morphed from a solo project into a four-piece band, adding Ryan Kusz, Mike Malkin and Scott White.…
Based in Oslo, Norway, Level & Tyson is the most geographically remote indie rock band you ought to know about. Known for their raucous but very danceable live shows, Level & Tyson has a remarkable capacity for both catchy guitar-pop and jarring, feedback-ridden experimentations. Their latest single Tied Up veers just towards the former. Lead singer Richard Noir was kind…