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Continuing on from yesterdays post about Canadian band “Wintermitts”, today’s band is also from Canada. Wolf Parade is an indie rock band from Victoria (British Columbia).

Another band pursuing it’s own idea of what rock music sounds like, there is a joyous edge to their music. They like to take chances

To quote from Wikipedia… Efterklang (the Danish word for remembrance and reverberation) is a post-pop group formed on January 2001 in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The group consists of five core members (Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, Thomas Husmer, Rune Mølgaard & Rasmus Stolberg). OK, I still haven’t figured out “postrock” and now I have to [...]

Fruit Bats is Eric Johnson and a revolving door joblot of musicians. Sadly the band is currently paused while Eric pursues fame, fortune and the rock and roll dream with “The Shins”. Fruit Bats fired up in the late Nineties as a side project (that’s musician talk for stuff that you want to do but [...]

Chairlift are the latest poster children for Apple. Yep these are the dudes responsible for the music in the new Nano ad. (Yes,yes yes, I am being seduced by the music in Apple ads again, rather ironic really when you consider that the iPod doesn’t have a radio, remember when radio was how we discovered [...]

Battles is a really amazing group of musicians, consisting of the traditional rock band line up of two guitar players, a bassist, and a drummer, there is also singing, kind of, well if you class sounding like demented Smurfs on helium as singing (I do but we all know about me). SO aprt from the [...]

Every so often I delve into the world of “post-rock”, mainly because I haven’t a clue what it is as a genre. To me it’s sounds just like music I have been listening to ever since well.. I started listening to music. Anyway today’s find is a local band (well local if you live in [...]

Caverns have been on the MP3 palyer for a couple of weeks now and it took me awhile to get into where they are coming from. No lyrics, no vocalist, no catchy hooks and it’s surprisingly engaging. The ideas that flow freely through the tracks are just great, punk progressive rock? as a genre.  Each [...]