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Album Review: No Frills –”Sad Clown” : Honest songs that chime and chill from Toronto’s Lo-fi indie realists.

It’s been a while since anything’s been heard of Daniel Busheikin and his No Frills buddies. The Toronto band’s self-released debut album ‘Downward Dog’ trundled into the US college radio…

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Video Premiere: Dolium – Get Off on My Machine

Get Off On My Machine’ is the first single to be taken from Dolium’s previously unreleased third album, Brother Transistor, now to be released on 18 October. BSM is honoured…

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Album Review: Michael Scott Dawson – ‘The Tinnitus Chorus’ : A poignant and moving ambient statement crafted through collaboration.

Saskatchewan sound artist and producer Michael Scott Dawson is someone who’s both artistically prolific and restless. A stalwart for the Torontonian We Are Busy Bodies label, he’s released three solo…

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Say Psych: Premiere: Sister 9 Compilation – High on Low Fidelity

As part of their 20th Anniversary celebrations, Sister 9 Recordings present High On Low Fidelity — The M.A.D. Sessions, an intriguing insight into the roots of the label, the Parlour…

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Video Premiere: Dolium – La Faga Ragazza

2024 marks the 20th Anniversary of Sister 9 Recordings, and to celebrate they have all manner of exciting things going on. BSM brings you the premiere of the first of…

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Premiere: Stream Careful’s first new music in a decade, the ‘Promise/Practice’ EP

Back in June, Eric Lindley resumed releasing music as Careful after taking a hiatus from the project following 2014 album The world doesn’t end. His first new release since then…

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Premiere: Careful explores painful intimacy on bare-bones new single ‘I had a secret’

Last month, the San Francisco-based Eric Lindley resumed activity as Careful after a hiatus of nearly a decade, announcing his intention to release a new EP in September. Today, Lindley…

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Gallery: Badly Drawn Boy / Alice Jago – The National Stadium, Dublin 20.04.203

Something To Tour About: 25 Years of Badly Drawn Boy hit the stage of The National Stadium Dublin with Damon Michael Gough holding the audience in the palm of his…

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News: Belfast Artist Thom Southern releases Lo-fi heartbreaker today

A one-off release, the enigmatic Belfast songsmith is back with a new single that finds him stripping back the sonics, to craft something of an unadorned and unassuming beauty. Pared…

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Track/Video : Ambient keyboardist Nico Georis announces his contemplative ‘Cloud Suites’ album with the glistening ‘Ice Crystals’.

“It’s nature’s way of telling you in a song” said Randy California and artists like Nico Georis create through that connection. A gifted classical pianist who stepped beyond such disciplined…

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