Ian Gormely
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Growing up in Vancouver, Ian always feared he'd die buried under a pile of his own CDs, records and music magazines. Now based in Toronto, he still believes that this is how he'll die, only now he rests easy knowing he got paid to listen to all those albums.
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Jory Cordy
Alt-J are a rare case of a band appearing on the scene fully formed. Their debut album An Awesome Wave showcased a confident quartet marching to the beat of its own drum and landed the English group a coveted Mercury Music Prize win.
Yet the band's guitar and bass player Gwil Sainsbury says the group are just now starting to ...
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Yamantaka//Sonic Titan Facebook
Say what you like about Eastern Canadian theatrical rockers YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, the band can't be criticized for a lack of ambition. In between a recent Southern Ontario tour and work on their upcoming video game Your Task // Shoot Things, the Noh-wave crew have been hard at work on the follow-up to their ...
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Carlie Armstrong
Yo La Tengo have made a lot of great albums over their 29 year career. So when people say that Fade, the New Jersey trio's latest, ranks amongst their best it's high praise.
One reason for Fade's success was the group's willingness to run against the grain.
"I like that as we get older that we're more interested in ...
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Jason Merritt, FilmMagic
When discussing Heaven, the seventh full-length from New York rockers The Walkmen, it's difficult to ignore the ever-present influence of indie-folk rockers Fleet Foxes.
Prior to even meeting the Foxes, Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser was a fan. Then The Walkmen opened for Fleet Foxes in 2011, playing cushy ...
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YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
Toronto-and-Montreal noh-rock collective YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN have just a half-dozen southern Ontario dates on their current tour to promote last year's re-release of their debut album, YT//ST, by Paper Bag Records. But it's with good reason. On top of working on that album's much anticipated follow up, the band are ...
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Cindy Ord, Getty
Even during their 13-year long hiatus, the members of Soundgarden were busy dudes. Chris Cornell launched a solo career before delivering three records with Audioslave and an ill-conceived collaboration with producer Timbaland. Bass player Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron played in Wellwater Conspiracy and Hater ...
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Paul Banks Facebook
It's hard to believe it's been a decade since Interpol released their debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights. The group have since weathered band-member departures, major label deals and a thousand imitators, but to many their debut is still the quartet's moody, unimpeachable peak.
It turns out their former label ...
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