For any of you planning on making the festival rounds this summer (Sasquatch anyone?), there is definitely one band you should take the time to see. Formed by music students from Texas in 1999, Midlake blends folk rock and indie together in the telling of their brilliant and well crafted stories. Featured as a single [...]

I have 13 minutes until my oven is done transforming my frozen pizza into a little bit of happiness, so here’s a lunchtime song for everyone.  You Go On Ahead is another track from Sunset Rubdown’s fourth LP Dragonslayer, released in June of this year.  I suspect that for most people, Sunset Rubdown’s sound is [...]

Tonight’s tune comes from the Montreal indie-rock band Sunset Rubdown.  The band originally began as the solo project of Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade.  Following the release of Sunset Rubdown’s debut album Snake’s Got a Leg in 2005, the project evolved from a solo act to a full band.  Idiot Heart can be found on [...]

So the Flames lost game 2 of their series against the Blackhawks last night, and are now down 2-0.  It has taken me 24 hours to mentally recover to the point where I can post a song, without it turning into a rant about how much I hate hockey.  Tonight’s tune comes from, in my [...]

I was really really feeling today’s tune at the office today.  It seems to remind me of a harder, darker, more pissed off version of a Broken Social Scene track.  Yes, I’m aware that this song was released long before Broken Social Scene and the comparison should be working the other way around, but I’m [...]