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Sex With Strangers – Behaviours

Sex With Strangers - Behaviours

Welcome to the thirty-first post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is power rock pop with a review of Sex With Strangers’ album ‘Behaviours’. We also have some bonus footage of Sex With Strangers from their show at The Media Club with The Never Surprise and Fine Times. Sex With [...]

Dear Suzy With Die Hölle Orchestra At The Biltmore

Dear Suzy - Die Hölle Orchestra

Welcome to the thirtieth post in a weekly series on new Canadian music! This week it is classical harmonies folk pop with a review of Dear Suzy’s debut album ‘Die Hölle Orchestra’.

Eurosonic 2013 Day 3 Pt. 2: Listen With Your Eyes

Nelson Can

When I wrote that Efterklang were the nestors of the 2013 edition of  Eurosonic, I hadn’t done enough googling on Italy’s alternative rock quartet A Toys Orchestra. They’ve been around since 1998, almost three years longer than Efterklang. A Toys Orchestra, like their fellow veterans from Denmark rely on reinforcement troops for their live shows. [...]

Eurosonic 2013 Day 3 Pt.1: Hail To The In-Store Gig

Eurosonic 2013 – Satellite Stories (Photo: Ruud Pot)

On Friday afternoon the hostess of a fine B&B in Groningen was surprised to find the three grown men that stayed there during Eurosonic on their beds chillin’ out to Mile Davis. Why weren’t they out there getting S,D or R? Well for starters, for the three men the opportunities to chill out are infinitely more [...]

Eurosonic 2013 Day 2: The Art Of Planning (Badly)

Casper from Efterklang

On Eurosonic day two we learned that industry people enjoy taking the fast lane past al the regular wristband folk queuing to see the latest buzz-band, only to stand outside smoking and discussing unrelated stuff.  It must be horrible if attending gigs has become a dreary routine aspect of your work and if the status [...]

Eurosonic 2013 Day 1: Greek Post-Punk To Finnish Metal

Eurosonic

If there is one thing we’ve learned at the opening day of the 17th edition of Eurosonic, the most important showcase festival on the mainland, it is that nowadays the synthesizer has become a totally accepted and vital instrument to any genre, from singer songwriting to hard-rock.  Being a child of the eighties, I can [...]

Indiefuzz Staff List: 29 Best Albums of 2012: 3, 2, 1

White Lung - Mish Way

It’s been an absolute blast to listen to not only the first 26 records of our Top 29 countdown. There were many more albums and live gigs that we enjoyed greatly as well. We hope to hear more from these and new exciting artists in the future. As humble purveyors of the great–and the occasionally [...]

Indiefuzz Staff List: 29 Best Albums of 2012: 7 to 4

purity ring_venue

In 2010 we had a top 21, last year we had a top 26, so naturally this year’s is a top 29. We are getting really close, I mean really close to the final three. First we have a tie at seven, a single sixer and then another tie at four. 7. PS I Love [...]

Indiefuzz Staff List: 29 Best Albums of 2012: 13 to 9

Alabama Shakes - Brittany Howard

No, no, no this is not the top 29 of best Canadian albums of the year. We resent that remark. The Dutch branch of the Fuzz really tried and tried to give the list a European flavor and the year started hopeful. Somehow most of those fine albums from the old country have been crushed underneath [...]

Indiefuzz Staff List: 29 Best Albums of 2012: 17 to 14

dirty-projectors

Tied at number 17, we have Canadians and Americans. No, these aren’t the standings for the world field hockey championships. This is still Indiefuzz’s countdown of the best records released in 2012 with numbers 17 to 14. T-17. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Scrappy Happiness (MapleMusic Recordings) The track Lightning Bolt won a Bucky Award in [...]