Music

The Ballantynes make beautiful nighttime noise. On their latest release, Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church, the garage soul outfit sermonizes on longing and love, vice and sin, good times and bad.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and the unlucky individual who sparked the wrath of Nathalia Pizzaro, the sultry frontwoman of Chains of Love, had better lay low.

Yesterday during an ION lunch break we were just reminising about the time we shot Band of Skulls for Issue 61 back in 2009. Today the band gives us a taste of what's to come from their new album, releasing their new song, "Asleep at the Wheel." We forgot how much we like Band of Skulls and can't wait to listen to their upcoming full album. 

Franco-Pop disco outfit Le Couleur have released their video for "Voyage Amoureux" off of their EP, Voyage Love. Directed by Julien Manaud aka French Fox, the video was shot entirely on an iPhone with a budget of $600 and is described as a spage-age, retro throwback that perfectly encapsulates Le Couler's disco flavoured brand of French dream-pop.

Jody Glenham shows us that under her bath robe are her desert boots with "Dreamer," a cut off her forthcoming EP. She has one of those voices that you just want to wrap around yourself until next Labour Day, with the guitar sounds to back it up. So far she's proving that even without the rest of Pleasure Cruise, you should consider setting sail with her any day no matter the weather.

Being born in the nineties, I missed out on the inception of a lot of things like Inspector Gadget and Super Mario Bros. (which I've played, just never finished). And according to my siblings, a lot of influential music came out of the eighties, such as New Order, Talking Heads, and Depeche Mode. It seems a lot of electronic pop/rock bands are emulations of the genres they grew up on.

"Nerves" is the new single from Vancouver's Indie-Electro outfit, Facts. The first released song off their upcoming EP, landmarks the end of a busy year in the Canadian music scene, and the beginning of creating a new sound that reflect Facts' persona in a new dimension.

If you already know Basia Bulat, then you’ll feel a comfortable familiarity with her latest release, Tall Tall Shadow, almost immediately.  If you don’t, then I recommend going back and starting with her first release Oh, My Darling, not because Tall Tall Shadow is less accessible (it is), but because Basia’s growth as an artist is worth following.

The Band In Heaven is four men and one woman: Ates Isildak, Lauren Dwyer, Joel Tillman, Ryan Burk, Ryan Schemm and they hail from… wait, you can just look that up yourself. We’re not writing their bio. We asked Ates a few questions to get to know who they really are. Also enjoy an exclusive download premiere of their song “Fairweather Friends”. 

Who in the band... 

Libros AC presents Puerto Rican sound artists, Fantasmes, performing "Bare Bones" from their up-and-coming new EP to be released in February 2014 on LOOSE (Canada) and Last Bummer (USA). As psyched