Tag Archive for the term: canadian indie

This beautiful video of Miss Emily Brown playing her auto harp in a British Colombian cemetary is featured on Vimeo HD today, congrats Miss Emily! I’ve had the humbling pleasure of being on the same bill as Miss Emily Brown one time, so I can testify to the fact that aside from her singing like [...]

What I caught of their set at Il Motore last night for Pop Montreal 2009 was electrifying, so here are the videos I’m able to dig up on Canadian indie folk band Bruce Peninsula. These come close to approximating the size of the live sound the Bruce Peninsula make, but not quite, you must add [...]

We had breakfast with Julie Doiron and $100 after an amazing show at the Grad Club in Kingston… She was kind enough to let us record this song… Which I hadn’t heard before that beautiful sunny day – It just happened to be on CBC as I was on my way out the door to [...]

Young Galaxy moved from BC to the MTL a couple of years ago and have been recruiting friends and firing up local hearts with their Arts and Crafts-enabled magical, political, haunting prowess. Yes!
This is music that manages to balance carefully on the political edge, but stays personal and poignant; and while heavy on the [...]

Nelly Furtado is starting her own indie career, even helping new artists create their own indie labels, and Adam Yauch is getting involved in indie film distribution. Well hey, maybe we’re on our way to a brand new day.
Honestly, I do I find it pretty exciting and telling to see people like Nelly Furtado [...]

EXCLAIM.CA PRESENTS
M FOR MONTREAL VS. T FOR TORONTO
SXSW DAYTIME PARTY
WITH THUNDERHEIST, BEAST, WINTER GLOVES, WOODHANDS AND OHBIJOU
MARCH 21ST at EL SOL Y LA LUNA
Montreal, Monday March 2nd, 2009 – There was, there is and there will always be a friendly competition between Montreal and Toronto. We can’t deny it… so we’ve decided to play [...]

True prairie, wind in the hairy, mellow, indie, road rock. Coming at you (yes, you!) straight outta Saskatchewan and inspired by all the roads that run through there from distant sister lands of thoughtful, heartful, musical bounty…
… meet Sylvie…
Formed in Regina, SK in 1999, Sylvie debuted with their first full-length album I Wish I [...]

Sweet sweet terrifically sweet, here’s an indie mp3 for you to download and hold close while you dance through thunderstorms and crumbling love affairs from one of these cold-voiced Canada sweethearts here to plickety plunk, and warm your souls, and oddly haunt you.
Ah, Gentleman Reg.
Gentleman Reg “We’re in a Thunderstorm” (mp3) from “Jet [...]

Paper Bag Records sent me a sweet email today about the new Montag release they have coming out. You can stream the first single from Montag’s “Hibernation” here and buy the album there, and if you subscribe to the Indyish newsletter we’ve got one special track for you featuring Montag and You say Party, We [...]

The loops are described as mathy and the basslines nomadic but really what oozes from Faunts is pure pretty; the low key earnest pretty of a wide cold country speckled with a generation of draft dodgers and their melodic children, all longing. The record is out on Friendly Fire.
Faunts “Explain” (mp3) from [...]