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With “Young Blood,” Canadian indie rocker Mac DeMarco adds his name to the impressive list of fine musicians who’ve contributed to the ongoing Adult Swim Singles Program. The song features a simple, surfy lo-fi groove and Mac’s garbled vocals tell a weirdo narrative about hockey. The single will
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Drake drops a new track with Sampha that’s easily one of Toronto rapper’s best. Not only is it moving and introspective look into Drake’s current state of mind, but the tender beat and vocal contributions from Sampha set the tone perfectly. Enjoy!
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Canadian jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD drop a new original via their YouTube channel titled “Hedron,” and it’s one of the band’s more contemplative tracks. It can be downloaded via badbadnotgood.com, and I have reason to believe these guys should be dropping something later this year, so keep an
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The Spring Up by Shad + Skratch Bastid Shad drops a handful of new tracks with fellow Canadian hip hop artist Skratch Bastid. Shad is on lyrics, and Bastid is bringing the beats, and it’s an incredibly solid effort, which you can grab on Bandcamp for whatever price you’d
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Stream: Voivod – Target Earth Prepare yourself for a feast of delicious thrashy guitar lines and pumping bass and drums. Voivod certainly has all of that, and they have been around long enough to show that they’ve mastered it with some incredible builds and switches like on the self-titled album
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Wilt by Wilt A set of atmospheric black metal tracks from this new, self-titled Wilt EP. Though the songs are very obscured, there are definitely some strange phantom noises floating throughout these tracks. Enjoy!
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Dark Eyes by Half Moon Run Canadian trio Half Moon Run released their album Dark Eyes back in March and it definitely deserves some recognition. It is evident right from the beginning of the album that these guys are extremely gifted musicians and they have tremendous amounts of chemistry with
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On its self-titled debut, the Canadian noise rock band METZ brings some heavy sounds and great riffs, but not a lot of variety or songwriting power. WATCH THE VIDEO
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Dagdrøm by Nadja Nadja is a ambient doom metal duo who hail from Toronto, although, it began as solo project of Aidan Baker. The duo has a startlingly full sound that can easily encompass an entire room with the heavy drones of the guitar and dramatic volume shifts. It creates
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On TNGHT’s debut EP, Hudson Mohawk and Lunice pull together five of 2012’s most essential bangers. WATCH THE REVIEW
