Newest Obsession Toronto dream-pop crew are making a buzz with their latest act. Photographer / Simon Mohos —- If the name Moon King is new to you right now, do yourself a favour and give this stuff a listen. It’s the dreamy, bouncy, gritty (yes, all in one) brainchild of ex Spiral Beach member, Daniel Woodhead. Like what you hear? Well, good. Because even though Moon King’s first EP, Obsession I, was released just recently, Woodhead has already made his …
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It probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Jacquie, Stephen and Liam of The Balconies seem to be having a genuinely good time as their friends lose it over their inescapable deaths by zombies in the new video for “Do It In the Dark.” Last week the band premiered the video for their reproduced single on MuchMusic, and it’s now up on YouTube and iTunes. They’ve worked with director Alon Isocianu and producer Anna Junger of Reactiv Pictures …
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Combine the dark and soulful Cold Specks with London, England based director Olivier Groulx and you’ve got a match made in some sort of haunting, goose bump-inducing heaven. “Hector” is the third song off of the album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion to get the video treatment (by Groulx nonetheless) and this one is, by far, the darkest of them all. In it, we see Cold Specks mastermind and front woman Al Spx as a milky-eyed, pregnant zombie bride, dragging …
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It’s Not Cool – It’s Magic For two brothers that defied collaboration for years, the eventual team-up is leading to new things and even better sounds. Photographer / Thomas Van Der Zaag —- The Magic has chemistry only capable of family. When I sat down with the two brothers on a rather rainy day in September, drinking water out of watermelon cups and getting attacked by the photographer’s mischievous cat, there was this back and forth attitude of playfulness …
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Though Inlet Sound bailed on wearing costumes to their album release show on Saturday, they can be forgiven because they dressed damn finely. They opened their set with the album’s title track, Romantics 1. It was a strong starter, as not only is it representative of the project as a whole, but also how their sound has grown with this album: a quietly strummed guitar quickly picks up pace over the first 30 seconds to make way for pointed, more …
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It’s been a few years since I sat down to chat with the guys of Young Rival in one of those dark basement rooms of the Horseshoe Tavern—that article is totally vintage OTM, you guys—and I’ll admit that they haven’t been played on my iTunes much since then (my music collection is quite large, okay? Sometimes things—good things—get lost!). But that’s why I was so happy when I was asked to review their new album, Stay Young; it reintroduced me …
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