Best Albums of 2012
As another year comes to a close I’ve taken a moment to reflect on some of my favourite full-length albums from 2012. I’ve ordered them in such a way that probably seems rather biased to most, starting with Jessie Ware’s [...]
As another year comes to a close I’ve taken a moment to reflect on some of my favourite full-length albums from 2012. I’ve ordered them in such a way that probably seems rather biased to most, starting with Jessie Ware’s [...]
Perhaps one of the most emotive tracks by Porcelain Raft on Strange Weekend is “The Way In” and Mauro Remiddi has made a music video for it much in the same vein as previous self-directed videos. If you’ve ever had the [...]
After a few kick off parties, we decided to head to the Drake Underground for the first set of North By North East 2012 featuring Eternal Summers, Mac DeMarco, and a highly anticipated set by Porcelain Raft. Though we skipped [...]
We’re always excited to see who will play NXNE 2012 each year and after some pretty amazing past years, it just keeps getting better and better. Stand out acts we’re psyched to see this year include Brooklyn lo-fi outfit Violens, [...]
I must admit I didn’t have high expectations for this show on Saturday night at Lee’s Palace. Vancouver openers Chains of Love started the off night to an empty room with a dull and lifeless set, consisting of scantily clad [...]
Porcelain Raft sat down with La Blogotheque in Toronto to record “Drifting In And Out”, ”Is It Too Deep For You?” and “Backwords” stripped down with just vocals and piano, off his debut record Strange Weekend, which we’ve been playing on [...]
Mauro Remiddi brings us a new Porcelain Raft video today for a new track called “Something In Between” which will appear on the forthcoming b-side of “Unless You Speak From Your Heart” via Secretly Canadian on February 21st. [...]
We had only heard a handful of EP’s from Brooklyn-based Mauro Remiddi, or Porcelain Raft as you probably know him, and he’s gearing up for the big release of his first and very highly anticipated album Strange Weekend, which is set [...]
Last Wednesday in Toronto there was a massive rain storm complete with lightening, tigers and bears, (oh my) so we almost didn’t make it to The War On Drugs show at Drake Underground (no, really, it was pretty darn frightening [...]