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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I haven’t listened to Metric in months.  I didn’t really fall in love in love with their last album.  After waking up to this song this morning, I’ve decided it may be time to re-evaluate certain life-decisions I’ve made.  Sick Muse was the 3rd single released in support of  Metric’s fourth full-length effort Fantasies, which hit [...]

May 4th, 2010 is without a doubt the most highly anticipated Tuesday in Canadian indie-rock history.  With one rolling-over of the clock, two of Canada’s most revered indie-rock collectives will release their latest albums.  Toronto-based Broken Social Scene will serve notice with their 4th full-length release “Forgiveness Rock Record”, and Vancouver-based The New Pornographers will [...]

Montreal’s all-female four-piece Pony Up returned to studios in the Spring of 2008 to begin work on their sophomore full-length release.  Working with producer Murray Lightburn (who also serves as front-man for the Montreal act The Dears), the group recorded the 2009-released LP “Stay Gold” from the world-renowned Hotel2Tango recording studio.  At the time of [...]

The self-described (and by no means out of line) “sonic tour-de-force” Broad Way Sleep released their self-titled debut LP on February 9th; Too Late is the first single supporting the album, and was released in the first half of November last year.  The Toronto song-writing collective is made up of Ralph Joseph, Alexander The (Styrofoam [...]

Patrick Watson’s third full-length album Wooden Arms did what any good album should do, and divided music critics last year.  While some praised it’s audacity to experiment with nods for album of the year, others denounced its sound as too organic and went as far as describing the sound as “a group of classically-trained buskers”; [...]

Vancouver indie-rock/pop ensemble The Zolas are back with another deceptively infectous track from their 2009 debut album “Tic Toc Tic”.  Produced by Howard Redekopp (notable for producing albums from Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers, and Mother Mother), Tic Toc Tic does well in delivering a three-piece band wrapped in a full-stage sound; The Great [...]

The west-coast trio of Ashleigh Ball, David Beckingham, and David Vertesi (otherwise known as Hey Ocean!) released their sophomore LP “It’s Easier To Be Somebody Else” in September of 2008.  The album, described by the band as “funked up party-pop”, follows-up on the group’s 2006 debut effort “Stop Looking Like Music”‘; today’s song Fish can [...]

Toronto-based indie-poppers Ohbijou delivered their long-awaited (I suppose it was only 3 years) sophomore album “Beacons” this past year, following-up on their 2006 debut release “Swift Feet for Troubling Times”. Make It Gold can be found in the oft-controversial #9 position on the album, and is gorgeous number that begins by feeling almost underscored (by [...]

Up today is another fantastic track from the Toronto-based indie-rock/pop ensemble The Ghost Is Dancing.  Battles On can be found on the band’s defiant 2009 effort of the same name, released on April 28th of last year.  The album follows-up on the group’s 2007 debut LP “The Darkest Spark”, a self-titled 2006 EP, and a [...]

Today’s song comes in from Toronto-based singer/songwriter/producer Royal Wood and his second full-length album A Good Enough Day, released via Canadian Dead Daisy Records in 2007.  The album follows-up on Wood’s 2004 debut LP Tall Tales, and has since been followed-up by a 2009 EP titled The Lost and Found EP.  This past November, Wood supported [...]

Up today is some sublime lo-fi indie-rock/pop, care of Vancouver-based The Awkward Stage.  Consisting of frontman Shane Nelken, Tygh Runyan (Beans) on guitar, Tony Koelwyn (Bossanova) on drums, and Chris Mitchell who plays with the Vancouver Symphony on trumpet and keyboards, The Awkward Stage have two full-length releases to their name since forming in 2006. [...]