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Juniore
For my weekly listening pleasure I always catch-up with Sheila B's weekly podcast "Sophisticated Boom Boom." Each show is a tour de force of - as Sheila B herself describes the eclectic potpourri -...
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Fanny Bloom
Another "heavy-weight" album from another of this Blog's favourite artists... The auteure-compositrice-interprète Fanny Bloom has been crafting intelligent pop music for several years; from the light,...
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Véronique Bilodeau
Heralding from Rimouski in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, the young - and immensely talented - auteure-compositrice-interprète Véronique Bilodeau has been one of my favourite artists ever...
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Geneviève Racette
Geneviève Racette is another of my favourite Québec artists, who - similar to Véronique Bilodeau - I consider to be amongst the vanguard of the Nouvelle Vague of la belle province's music scene. So the...
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Beverly
So a couple of years ago I went to see Frankie Rose at the Echo (I'm a bit of a Miss Frankie Rose aficionado if the truth be known) but to be honest I left that evening really impressed by her...
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Parks at Night
This post comes by way of a comment following my review of Hamilton's Basement Revolver suggested that I ought to checkout Toronto's Parks at Night and take a listen to their recently released EP...
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Jonesies
I don't really now that much about Madison, Wisconsin band Jonesies save that a chance encounter with their debut EP, "Meet The Jonesies" on Bandcamp suggests that here is a band that I really should...
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Claudelle
Last year I stumbled upon a delightful four-track Country-Folk tinged EP "Le Fort" by the young auteure-compositrice-interprète Claudelle - a year after its original release(!) - and which not only...
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Marianne Dissard
You, dear reader, may have noticed that these pages haven't been updated for ** coughs ** a while. However it takes a rather special artist to jolt me from my slumber and to pick up my metaphorical...
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Phosphene
There's a couple of interviews with Portland-based Phosphene's Rachel Frankel and Matt Hemmerich where they discuss the post-election events which in-part shaped the writing and recording of their...
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Lisasinson
If I was to describe my musical taste, I'd say it was "somewhat eclectic." On the one hand - as befits someone who cut their musical teeth on Punk - there's a healthy collection of what is loosely or...
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Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters
You can count the number of cover albums I own on the fingers of a hand which has come off second best in an argument with a meat cleaver. The (very) honourable exception being Cœur de pirate's...
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Marianne Dissard
So I recently confessed my undying admiration for Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters' beautiful covers album, nine gorgeously rearranged songs which seamlessly accommodated Tanya's distinctive...
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Lina Rodrigues, Raül Refree
Sometime during the early nineties I wangled a gig in Lisboa for a few weeks, but ended-up finding myself at a loose-end over the weekends. Sure there was a fair bit of sight-seeing (it is an...
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The Luxembourg Signal
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Early last year I was working my way through the musical provenance of the members of jingly-jangly indie-pop merchants Jetstream Pony - an...
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Maria Rodés
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } The first of a couple of posts featuring artists who 'cantante en español' and who have also released two of the finest albums of last year....
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Agustina Paz
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Following my blog post about the Catalan singer-songwriter-composer Maria Rodés and her album "Lilith", this second post features a 'cantautora'...
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Thirty-Odd for Twenty Twenty
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Theoretically I should write something profound to preface this retrospective of my favourite albums from the previous 12 months, but to be honest...
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Vanille
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Back in 2017, Montréal trio Vanille - the project of singer-songwriter-composer Rachel Leblanc - released their debut EP "My grandfather thinks...
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Aiko El Grupo
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } So back in September I wrote about those Valencian post-punk noise-popsters Lisasinson,...
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Via Mardot
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } I've often remarked that while it has never been easier for artists to release their music - thanks to the plethora of affordable tools and apps,...
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Julie et Joe
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Julie et Joe are Julie Big - her of the gorgeous vocals on Le Superhomard's"Meadow Park Lane" - and Joe Moore - singer-songwriter-producer and the...
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Romane Chante
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Throughout my blog posts I always seem to circle back to the importance I place upon lyrics and lyricism, and so it's no surprise that from time...
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Lia Pamina e Os Peregrinos
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } To be honest I'm not quite sure why the Castellón cantante y compositora Lia Pamina - or Rosalía Díaz as she's better known to familia y amigos -...
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Majorelle Blue
div { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } I may have mentioned - and have most definitely tweeted - that Scandinavia is the epicentre of what's new and exciting in the world of indietastic...
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