The Arcade Fire have made another entry into the history books. This time not for being the biggest Internationally recognized Canadian recording act since Celine Dion, but for making the most innovative music video since The Buggles launched MTV in 1981. Why is it so important? Because this music video is tailor-made for me.
Osheen Harruthoonyan’s Nocturna Artificialia pays homage to the creative process. Each atmospheric print was created by spending up to 8 hours with a 4” x 5” exposed negative, treating them with an array of tools including paintbrushes, make-up remover pads, q-tips and dental tools. The intimacy of his fingerprints can be found in the chemical [...]
The music could be playing during a make-out scene in some 1950’s teenager’s alternate reality. Falsetto harmonies bleed your heart and the electrified guitar tone that would make any parent fearful for their sons and daughters.
Director, editor and sound man Mitch Fillion makes brilliant and intimate music videos for Southern Ontario musicians. Each artist chooses a location for the video shoot. Keeping the camera close to the performers while framing interesting shots, the videos capture the musician’s personal elements that big-budget video shoots rarely can.
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Egyptrixx’s bio says his music is “a shifting balance between melodic and dissonant, rapturous and antisocial.” Now magazine says it’s “dirty, sleazy bass-heavy club beats.” So I wondered, what the hell does that actually sound like? I checked out his new EP, Battle for North America, and had a quick chat to find out. Along [...]
Basia Bulat’s powerful voice and lively song writing can both inspire the imagination and heart rate of her listener. Her second full length Heart Of My Own was released on January 26th in Canada on Secret City Records with glowing accolades from critics and contemporaries complimenting her accomplishment. I caught up with her over a [...]
Gather round everyone! It’s time to meet Keith Hamilton, leader of Toronto’s Rock and Roll choir Hamilton Trading Company and generally hard-working music. Armed with a guitar and his voice Keith is on average joined by 15-20 singing, clapping and stomping choir members who create the chorus and rhythm section for the original music.
As the [...]
Whether you are an art lover, collector or simply a fan of walking down Queen West’s Gallery District, make sure to stop in this weekend to see in person the rich colours and textures of Scott’s work.
Have you ever seen that t-shirt? It says something like ‘I was listening to your favourite band 5 years ago’. You all have a friend (maybe more than one) who seethes with (un)justified anger when a band that they ‘discovered when the first album came out’ becomes popular on their 3rd album. Generally popularity of [...]
Montreal band Land Of Talk are the latest (lucky) musicians to get to work with Toronto’s multi-media dream-team, We Were Monkeys. The artists, Mihai Wilson and Davide Di Saro, began working together when they collaborated on Malajube’s Le Crab video. After being nominated for the 2007 MTV People’s Choice Video Award, they knew they were [...]