After setting a Guinness World Record for longest solo-piano performance last year, what's there left for Chilly Gonzales to do? Why, make a feature film, of course — and hire non-actors like Peaches, Feist and Tiga to star in it. We visit the Yorkville penthouse set of Gonzales' directorial debut, Ivory Tower.
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Sparklehorse fans are still reeling from the sudden death of Mark Linkous, who took his own life March 6 at the age of 47. For Metric/Soft Skeleton frontwoman Emily Haines, Linkous was more than just a brilliant songwriter, but rather a person who she, over the past few years, had grown close to as a friend and soon-to-be collaborator. In this eulogy, Haines pays her respects to a man whose music had a profound influence on her own work.
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The coolest indie-rock two-piece in Canada isn’t from Vancouver, Montreal or even
Parkdale. They reside in the university town of Kingston, Ontario and shred like
Yngwie Malmsteen. We speak to PS I Love You singer/guitarist Paul Saulnier about Pitchfork praise, the perfect mixtape and boners prior to the band's CMF show tonight at 11pm at the Silver Dollar. ...more
If there’s any justice, Toronto indie-rock trio RatTail
will become the next Toronto band on the rise — thanks to their capricious
brand of melodic grunge-folk (sung by a vocalist who
sounds like a British Karen O.), not to mention a name so good, it’s
surprising no one else thought of it first. The band play Unfamiliar Records' fifth-anniversary party tonight at The Cryptic Canvas.
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It all makes sense now. Last Sunday's Olympic closing ceremony wasn't some horribly misguided display of Canadian pride;
it was actually a strategical tactic by CTV to make this year's Juno
Awards nominees — announced this morning under the watchful eye of its
host network at the Royal York Hotel — seem not so bad. ...more
Labeled by Blocks Recording Club-founder Steve Kado as “the conscience of Toronto,” introspective solo musician James Klassen a.k.a. Tradition is certainly the strong and silent type. EYE WEEKLY spoke to Klassen about his direct approach, the Blocks ethos and the difficulty of projecting intimacy through a microphone. Tradition plays Double Double Land (209 Augusta) tonight (Feb. 26) to launch his split seven-inch with Nifty.
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