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Sound Advice: Token’ 808 by Vlsonn

Bass-music producer Vlsonn covers a lot of terrain in very little time on his new EP.

Token’ 808, the latest EP from Toronto bass-music producer Vlsonn, manages to pack a whole lot of diverse sounds—ranging from soft, introspective minimalism to in-your-face dance floor energy—into one very tight, well-conceived package. Consisting of three songs and two remixes and borrowing from dubstep—think Skream and Benga, not Skrillex— as well as 2-step and old [...]

Sound Advice: The Weight’s on the Wheels by the Russian Futurists

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. The homemade nature of Matthew Adam Hart’s music might make one assume that he could or should be cranking albums out a lot faster [...]

Sound Advice: Special Affections by Diamond Rings

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. After the success of last summer’s “All Yr Songs” video, one-man bedroom-popsmith Diamond Rings kept churning out singles, and it seemed to be a [...]

Sound Advice: Remix Volume II by Green Go

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Guelph’s favourite synth-spazzes, Green Go, take a trip down memory lane with their newly released Remix Volume II. Before releasing their much-loved, electrifying debut [...]

Sound Advice: Disambiguation by Bocce

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Nothing from Waterloo has any right being as cool as Bocce‘s indie poptronic, but with their latest self-released album, Disambiguation, available now for free [...]

Sound Advice: Remorsecapade by Woodhands

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. When Woodhands released Heart Attack in 2008, their ferocious dance party was a modest worldwide success, and it also happened to blend seamlessly with [...]

Sound Tracks: “CP24″ by Woodhands

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. Featuring two new Woodhands tracks in as many days is worth the risk of supposed favouritism, because both their [...]

Sound Advice: Everything All The Time

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Like a ray of pop-nostalgia sunshine, the new self-released, self-titled EP from Everything All The Time finds its way into our sad-bastard acoustic hearts [...]

All That Glitters is Noisy Treasure

Fool’s Gold Records, known for their dirty, cut-up, fidgety electro artists, recently signed Atlanta-based Treasure Fingers. Tomorrow, May 15th, Treasure Fingers teams up with rising bloghouse master Kill The Noise for the “School’s Out Forever Tour” at Wrongbar, courtesy of the boys at Dopplehertz. Plus there is the added treat of a DJ set from [...]