Chiara recommends Elephant Stone Thursday March 21 – 10:30pm at The Garrison w/ Harvest Breed (8:30pm), Folly & The Hunter (9:30pm), Brad Fillatre (11:30pm), Noel Johnson (12:30am) Montreal’s Elephant Stone is led by Rishi Dhir (vocals, bass, sitar) who you might already be familiar with for his sitar contributions to such little bands as The […]

Chiara recommends The Matinée Friday March 22 – 12am at The Supermarket The Agency Group showcase w/ Folly & The Hunter (8pm), Fine Times (9pm), White Ash Falls (10pm), Sam Cash and the Romantic Dogs (11pm), The Washboard Union (1am), Legato Vipers (2am) Hailing from Vancouver, B.C., The Matinée is comprised of five longtime friends: […]

Chiara recommends the Audio Blood Showcase: Thursday March 21 @ The Dakota Tavern A lesson I’ve quickly learned when creating my festival schedule is this: When in doubt, check out what Audio Blood has going on. They’ve gone all out for this year’s Canadian Music Week, setting up in-store performances at Sonic Boom, June Records, […]

I had the pleasure of chatting with Dan Ball of Acres of Lions back in December. Acres of Lions had just finished playing their set at Audio Blood’s 4th anniversary and holiday party at Sneaky Dee’s. When we chatted, the band had just finished up day 4 of recording at Revolution Recording, a room that […]

In January, I was able to sit down with The Strain before they played Nu Music Nite at the Horseshoe Tavern. It was their first time playing the Horseshoe, though the band has played in Toronto a few times before, including Canadian Music Week and NXNE. You may have heard of The Strain before, as […]

As part of Canadian Music Week, the 13th Annual Independent Music Awards (also known as The Indies) will take place at the Kool Haus on March 22, 2013. This marks the first time the event has changed locations. The event will include performances by Metric, Matt Mays, Diamond Rings, Yukon Blonde, The Wooden Sky, Canailles, […]

Canadian Music Week 2012 – An Overview While Canadian Music Week is always jam-packed with conferences and films (plus comedy shows this year too!), we focused entirely on the live music. We still recommend you go out an experience all that CMW has to offer next year, though. We just wish we had more time […]

Sunday, March 25, 2012 David Hustler & The Trustworthy I unintentionally missed The Ship, so I started off the last night of CMW with David Hustler, whose name really is “Hustler,” and his backing band The Trustworthy. Hustler’s Facebook describes their music as “barn burning indie folk/rock,” which is quite apt. There’s an alt country […]

The 12th Annual Independent Music Awards (a.k.a The Indies) took place at the Royal York Hotel in the Canadian Room on March 24, 2012. While awards are given out, the lineup of performers consistently makes this night one of the highlights of the festival. Fortunately, our contributor Jeff was there to capture some great photos […]

Saturday, March 24, 2012 Mad Ones – 9:00PM @ The Bovine Sex Club Mad Ones are the two-piece Toronto hard rock outfit comprised of Andrew DeVillers (guitar, vocals) and Phil Wilson (drummer). Playing an adrenaline-pumping set off their album Behaviour, they started loud and sweaty and didn’t let up for the length of their set. […]