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Apollo Ghosts: Dirty Letters to Nora

Cutting through the romantic sap straight to the more explicit underpinnings of Valentines Day, we present to you the newest single by Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts, recently offered up for free on their Facebook page. Its a beatnik sounding experimental number…

Chikita Violenta: Tired

Released on January 25th via Arts & Crafts , TRE3S, the new album by Mexico City’s Chikita Violenta, was recorded on three sporadic trips to Canada throughout a year and a half (2009-2010). Many recognized musicians from the Canadian indie…

Boys Climbing Ropes: Dirty Bots

The Shanghai features continue this week, climbing toward the Chinese New Year with another indie amalgamation made up of three Canadian foreign nationals from Ottawa as well as Chinese vocalist, Little Punk. A vagabond and self-published poet from Jianxi province,…

The Wilderness: Realpolitik

The Wilderness is a Toronto based experimental rock outfit. Comprising of men-about-town, Lee Piazza (lead vocals), Nate Lyons-Fisher (guitar/synth), Jay Organek (bass), Chris Mason (drums/synth) and Jamie Lefebvre (guitar/vocals). There is definitely a sense of community for The Wilderness, that…

Wildlife: Stand In The Water

This Wildlife’s album Strike Hard, Young Diamond comes at the heels of their EP of the same name. Confusing? Probably, but these twelve tracks feel like one of the most memorable finds of the entire year. Leading off with ‘Stand…