Today’s song comes to us from the Abbotsford, British Columbia indie-rock/dance-punk quintet You Say Party! We Say Die!, and their brand new album XXXX, released yesterday.  The album is the third full-length effort from the band (not technically, but pretty much), and follows up on their 2007 release Lose All Time.  The band will be kicking [...]

I returned to the office after lunch today and found a wonderful surprise in my Facebook news feed; that surprise was the new video from my Calgary indie-rock heroes The Dudes.  The video is for Girl Police, which is the newest single to be released in support of the band’s most recent EP “Blood. Guts. Bruises. [...]

Today’s song comes to us from the Vancouver-based indie-pop collective The Choir Practice.  Described as “an excuse to drink wine and sing with friends”, the group is made up of Vancouver artists who perform pop songs in a choral style.  The song I chose to share today is the group’s take on The New Pornographers‘ [...]

I’ve got one more post for everyone tonight, to finish up the weekend on a high note.  Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day) can be found on Broken Social Scene’s self-titled full-length album, released in October of 2005.  Though the album would ultimately divide music critics, it was short-listed for the inaugural Polaris Music Prize in [...]

I learned a valuable life lesson last evening.  If your buddy pisses off a table of dudes by talking to one of their girlfriends, sending the alpha-dude a Pina colada does not smooth out the situation.  Anyways, today’s song comes from the Canadian hip-hop band Grand Analog.  I Play My Kazoo can be found on [...]

Like a grizzly bear awoken too soon, I am currently stuck between being hungry and wondering why I’m not still sleeping.  While sorting these feelings out, I decided now would be a good time to post up a song that’s been stuck in my head all week.  Oh My God comes to us from the [...]

Keeping with the theme of the last post, tonight’s tune is another number that was performed at this year’s Polaris Music Prize gala; The Toronto alt-country act Elliot Brood enlisted the audience’s help on percussion, resulting in a performance that was hard not to enjoy.  Write it All Down for You can be found on the band’s [...]

Congratulations to the Toronto, Ontario hardcore punk band Fucked Up, whose album The Chemistry of Common Life took home the 4th installment of the Polaris Prize last night.  As promised, here are my thoughts on the show last night; In point form of course, as proper sentence transitions are for suckers.

Whoever decided to have all [...]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:  You should not be here right now.  You should be at http://www.muchmusic.com watching the live stream of the Polaris Prize.  All 10 short-listed artists are performing tonight; So far it’s sick, really really sick.  Anyways, before you head on over give today’s post a listen.  Heavens to Purgatory comes to us from the Milton, Ontario indie-rock [...]

I decided to take a break from watching my fantasy football team get destroyed, and post a song for everyone today.  Birds of a Feather comes to us from the Canadian pop/jazz/indie artist Dominic Salole, better known by his stage name Mocky.  Originally from Saskatchewan, Mocky moved east to Toronto, where every good Canadian musician [...]

Hailing from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Beirut is a band driven by the young and talented Zachary Francis Condon.  The band’s debut effort, entitled Gulag Orkestar, was released in 2006 to tremendous critical acclaim; This acclaim included a 7.7/10 from the stingy Pitchfork Media, and the title of best album of 2006 from Rough Trade Records.  The release is a fine [...]

For whatever reason, we’ve received an obscene amount of traffic to the website today; I feel obligated to post up the 2nd song of the day in response to this.  Thirty Reasons comes to us from the Toronto, Ontario indie-rock band Octoberman and their third full-length album Fortresses, released on September 1st in Canada and [...]

Today’s tune comes to us from the Miami, Florida singer-songwriter Tristan Clopet.  The song in question, The End of an Era, can be found on Clopet’s debut EP Duende, released in early 2009.  The song stands out on the EP by stripping the funk/groove instrumentation down, and letting a ridiculously good vocal carry the track. [...]

Super track today from the Guelph, Ontario indie-rock/electronic quintet Green Go.  Brains for Breakfast can be found on the band’s debut full-length album Borders, released in April of 2009.  I first heard this tune after it was emailed to me by a friend, with the subject line “Funnest Song Ever”.  As grammatically suspect as the [...]

I need to try and get this post up as quickly as possibly, as this computer is likely to get thrown off my balcony if Mr. Federer loses this 5th set.  Today’s song is a wicked catchy number from the British Columbia indie-rock quintet Mother Mother.  Hayloft can be found on the band’s 2008 sophomore [...]

This afternoon’s song is a beauty from Amy Millan’s second solo effort Masters of the Burial, officially released on Tuesday of this week; Bruised Ghosts is the opening track from the album.  The album features guest contributions from Millan’s Stars band-mate Evan Cranley and Broken Social Scene band-mate Leslie Feist.  Like Milan’s previous solo release, Honey from [...]

Tonight’s song is another track from the Newmarket, Ontario indie-rock quartet Tokyo Police Club.  In a Cave can be found on the band’s debut LP Elephant Shell, and was one of the 2 singles released as a free download before the album’s full release in April of last year; The highly anticipated full-length effort from the band would [...]

Lunchtime post today, featuring another tune from the BC indie-rock ensemble Pink Mountaintops.  Execution can be found on the group’s 2009 release Outside Love, and is a great example of the shoegazing sound that the band can conjure up; the vibe in this song reminds me a lot of the My Bloody Valentine track Sometimes, [...]

Today felt like a good day to post another Why? track; Fatalist Palmistry is currently my favorite track from the Berkeley, California indie/hip-hop act, though this title seems to change bi-weekly.  The song can be found on Why?’s third full-length studio album Alopecia, released in March of 2008.  Again, Yoni Wolf’s lyrics steal the show on [...]

This may come as a shock to a lot of you, but I’ve got another amazing track from a Canadian indie band coming out of… wait for it… Montreal.  Mollie’s Song can be found on Bent By Elephants’ self-titled EP, released on August 20th of this year.  I don’t have a lot of information regarding the [...]