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James Blake

James Blake “Voyeur” Music Video

James Blake has dropped a new video game-esque clip in collaboration with his 1-800-Dinosaur label for the Overgrown track “Voyeur” animated by Ferry Gouw. Watch below and look out for Overgrown dropping on April 8th via Atlas and Republic. [...]

April 4, 2013 Music
Movement Phase 3 Line Up

Movement Electronic Music Festival 2013 Update Line Up

We are super excited about the phase three Movement line-up! Some big names were added to the already impressive line-up like the UK’s iconic drum and bass producer Squarepusher. In addition, we were excited to see a couple of great [...]

April 4, 2013 Music
Rebel Rave ft. Damian Lazarus, Infinity Ink and Subb-an at Moskito in Toronto

Rebel Rave ft. Damian Lazarus, Infinity Ink and Subb-an at Moskito in Toronto

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of record label Crosstown Rebels, founder Damian Lazarus gathered Crosstown artists like Jamie Jones, Subb-an and Maceo Plex to join him on a global tour titled Rebel Rave. The tour raved into Toronto last Saturday [...]

March 14, 2013 Live Music, Music
Movement 2013

Movement Electronic Music Festival 2013 Preview

We are counting down to one of our favourite electronic music festivals of the year, Movement in Detroit. There are many factors that make this a great festival besides the line-up. It’s cost-effective, a weekend pass is $79 and a [...]

March 9, 2013 Music
Art Department Social Experiment 003

Art Department ‘Social Experiment 003′

From Barcelona to Toronto, local duo Jonny White and Kenny Glasgow have been throwing amazing parties coined Social Experiment. The success of these parties has also led to full-length compilations. Social Experiment 002 impressively mixed by Soul Clap featured No.19 [...]

January 29, 2013 Music
Pittsburgh Track Authority at Izakaya Sushi House, Toronto-2

Live Music: Pittsburgh Track Authority at Izakaya Sushi House, Toronto

We’ve all heard the saying Thursday is the new Friday and since the re-launch of Archi-Textures that has certainly been the case. This past Thursday the weekly get together, along with local promoter breakandenter brought in Pittsburgh Track Authority. [...]

December 17, 2012 Live Music
Neon Indian Cameo Gallery in New York

Neon Indian & Chrome Canyon at Cameo Gallery in New York

We found ourselves in NYC for Halloween and there was no shortage of great parties to check out. On Friday night we headed to the petite Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg to check out Chrome Canyon and Neon Indian. The fact [...]

November 7, 2012 Live Music, Music
The Presets at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto

The Presets at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto

It’s been over three years since The Presets have played a show in Toronto. On Tuesday night they were at the Danforth Music Hall to support their most recent album Pacifica. The Aussie duo of Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes [...]

October 25, 2012 Live Music, Music
Young Empires at Festival Music House 2012

Festival Music House 2012: Jason Collett, Grand Analog, & Young Empires

Night three of Festival Music House brought together Shawn Hook, Jason Collett, Grand Analog, Young Empires and Down with Webster; a range of different music styles. We arrived in time to see a bit of Collett’s set, which included songs from [...]

September 14, 2012 Live Music, Music
Amon Tobin ISAM 2.0 in Toronto

Live Music: Amon Tobin ISAM 2.0 in Toronto

Last night, Amon Tobin brought his otherworldly show ISAM 2.0 to the Kool Haus. Having seen the numerous videos online of the first incarnation of the ISAM cubes, we sort of knew what to expect. However, all the videos and [...]

September 11, 2012 Live Music, Music
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Live Music: Lee Foss, Matthew Dear, Soul Clap, & Juan Maclean at WKD Beach Party

Saturday was the perfect day for a beach party and the WKD Beach Party did not disappoint. With an impressive line-up of DJs from across the tech-house music spectrum, the afternoon delivered an unforgettable back-to-back dance party. [...]

August 31, 2012 Live Music, Music
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Live Music | Justice, M83, & Austra at HARDFEST Toronto

There is always a lot of competition for summer events, last Saturday being probably one of the busiest with it not only being a long weekend, but the host of two notable weekend music festivals; Veld at Downsview Park and [...]

August 10, 2012 Live Music, Music
Review | Metric ‘Synthetica’

Review | Metric ‘Synthetica’

I’ve always had a bit of a girl crush on Emily Haines. Metric’s front woman has those rock star qualities all of us wannabes are jealous of – looks, voice and the moves. A sorta Canadian Blondie. While Haines’ is [...]

June 9, 2012 Music
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Live Music | Spiritualized at The Phoenix in Toronto

U.K. rockers Spiritualized brought their psychedelic, shoegazey sound to Toronto fans last Saturday in support of their newest album Sweet Heart, Sweet Light. Led by J. Spaceman (or Jason Pierce), the band has changed frequently, but the Spiritualized sound has [...]

May 11, 2012 Live Music, Music
Lioness The Golden Killer

New Music | Lioness ‘The Golden Killer’

Brooding vocals, slick synths and rhythmic drum and bass lines fuel Toronto-trio Lioness’ new album The Golden Killer which just dropped via New Romantic. After a bit of a break Vanessa Fischer, Ronnie Morris and Jeff Scheven have come out with [...]

April 20, 2012 Music