Stephen McBean and Amber Webber deliver grungy anthemic performances on today’s track No Satisfaction, from the Vancouver-based indie-rock collective Black Mountain’s self-titled 2005 release.  Generally regarded as a critical success (ironically, one of the few negative reviews comes from PopMatters, who critiqued the band for taking themselves too seriously), the album marks the debut-effort of the project which is [...]

I’ve got some more Mother Mother for the masses today, and some contrived alliteration for good measure.  Ghosting is another standout track from the band’s second full-length release O My Heart, and the fourth song from the album we have highlighted at BowlingStone.  The song employs a slightly more subdued approach than most Mother Mother tracks, but [...]

After years of backing Canada’s indie-elite, folk rocker Alfie Jurvanen took his Robbie Robertson-esque step out of the shadows last summer (Jurvanen went with live mics mind you).  Under the moniker Bahamas, which is inspired by the Wreckless Eric classic (I’d Go the) Whole Wide World, Jurvanen released his debut LP “Pink Strat” on July [...]

I’m a week late on this I know; I’ve been busy training and whatnot. Regardless, here is the official music video for Gold Guns Girls from Metric’s 2009 full-length Fantasies.

NPR music has the entire album up and available via an audio stream here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125236515

Cramped in a poor excuse for a bar in Gunchester, England, I have to admit I wasn’t expecting much when the owner ushered Alberta Cross onto the stage; I was happily mistaken.  Despite Swedish frontman Petter Stakee’s accent, he sings like a country-boy from Tennessee.  Blending a blues-folk sound reminiscent of Neil Young, you’d be [...]

I opted to re-listen to Nils Edenloff’s opus Hometowns during my bi-monthly trek from Calgary to Edmonton this weekend.  Driving across the prairies on a road you’ve driven you’re entire life down does well to enhance the already abundant sense of nostalgia dripping from The Rural Alberta Advantage’s gorgeous debut.  Edmonton is the setup track to [...]

Newmarket, Onatrio’s favorite indie-rock foursome Tokyo Police Club are back this year with their highly anticipated sophomore LP “Champ”, scheduled for a June 8th release.  “Breakneck Speed” is the first official glimpse at the album and can be had as a free download from the band’s website here.  With the bass-heavy foundation, the spatial synth [...]

Midland, Ontario’s 3rd finest export, the indie-rock/post-punk revival trio Born Ruffians, are set to release their sophomore full-length effort on June 1st of this year.  The album, titled Say It, will be released with the help of Paper Bag Records (Canada) and Warp Records (worldwide), and will follow-up on the band’s debut LP Red, Yellow [...]

Not that it was ever in question, but Carl Newman is one of the most gifted crafters of melody you will ever hear; I’m assuming the mind that came up with the melody behind “With a straight shot, a straight shot, lady would you call it off” also came up with “They ruin, like the [...]

After returning home with the prestigous Juno award for “Roots Solo Album” in 2009, Toronto born (Nova Scotia migrated) Old Man Luedecke is venturing out this year with another album.  Due for release next Tuesday (March 30th), Old Man Luedecke’s follow up to the 2009 “Proof of Love” is titled “My Hands are on Fire [...]

More hook-heavy indie-pop up today, this time from the Vancouver-based quintet Parlour Steps.  The infectious As the World Turned Out can be found on the band’s latest LP “The Hidden Names”, released in October of 2009 by Nine Mile Records; while counts seem to differ across the annals of the Internet, it appears that The Hidden [...]

Up today is another micro-opus from the eccentrically cinematic Gregory Pepper, and his current musical project Gregory Pepper and His Problems.  Knives and Guns can be found on the Guelph, Ontario native’s most recent release “With Trumpets Flaring”, an LP released last summer with the help of Connecticut-based Fake Four Inc.  Like many of Pepper’s musical [...]

With 4 years logged since his last full-length release (the 2006 “Dan Bryk Christmas Record”), Dan Bryk returned to our playlists last year with his new LP “Pop Psychology”.  Without the backing of a major label, and with a steadily increasing disillusionment towards the recording industry, it seems counter-intuitive that Bryk would produce some his [...]

We’re digging back into the vault today, to find another superlative inducing track from the perpetually evolving Hawksley Workman; evolving may not be the best way to describe Hawksley Workman, as it implies some sort of traceable path; I think “manically reconstructing” is a better way to describe the way that man seamlessly steps from [...]

From Regina, Saskatchewan’s eight-piece indie-pop collective Library Voices, comes one of the most satisfying tracks of the year so far; granted I am a sucker for absorbing west-coast(ish) harmonies and sunshine-pop.  Drinking Games can be found on the band’s to-be-released debut full-length album “Denim On Denim” which is scheduled to land on shelves April 13, [...]

Today’s song comes from Calgary’s favorite indie minstrel Danny Vacon and his other musical project, The Dojo Workhorse.  I Got Life can be found on the quintet’s 2009 debut full-length album “Weapons Grade Romantic” which hit shelves last summer.  The project, which emerged to fill Vacon’s need for a non-Dudes creative outlet, produces a folksy [...]

New song up today from arguably the most exciting/buzzworthy band hailing from the great white north right now.  There Are Very Tiny Beasts In The Ground can be found on Kelowna-based We Are The City’s 2009, and subsequently 2010 re-released, album “In A Quiet World”.  The band began making their first steps from the summer [...]

Filed under “nostalgic summer songs”, today’s track is Said the Whale’s Emerald Lake, AB from their 2009 sophomore full-length effort Islands Disappear.  In it, we get a full sampling of what the Vancouver-based indie-rock act brings to the table, from their abilities as lyricists (see: “And I think you’ll agree that? the train tracks are [...]

While I haven’t completely processed MGMT’s brand-new track Flash Delirium, the band has built-up more than enough street-cred with Oracular Spectacular to warrant a blog post for any new music.  Flash Delirium was released yesterday, and is the first taste the public gets of MGMT’s highly anticipated album Congratulations (set for release April 13th).  In an interview [...]