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Jagwar Ma’s “Come Save Me” has a feel of Kasabian or Death In Vegas, which I guess equates to old-school psychedelia filtered through a big beat/rave-inspired ’90s-Manchester rock lens. Elsewhere, he sounds like The Orb. It’s all very good.

TweetShare KA-POW! That has absolutely nothing to do with this post, I just like saying that.  From their upcoming third album “La Liberación” this new track is much more tame than some of their previous offerings, throwing out the dance-freaky nature of their previous two albums (“Donkey” and “Cansei de Ser Sexy”) in favour of [...]

TweetShare It’s been a couple of months since I had Torontonian duo Freedom Or Death on the site, the last time when I posted their video for “Lost In Dances” and now they’re back with an original take on Nas’ “classic” Hip-Hop anthem “If I Ruled The World” featuring Lauryn Hill. The reason the title [...]

TweetShare Poverty and the lack of culture is just as influential in breeding creativity as being cultured and well-off does.  It gives people a way out, a desire to succeed at anything if it means they can escape their life of ennui. Some of the greatest bands of all time have grown up with nothing other [...]

TweetShare Back in July I introduced you to Freedom Or Death, a duo from Toronto who “have made an EP that scale the walls of dark and haunting electronic music, creating a modern-day Joy Division-esque atmosphere with Miike Snow beats and the bite of Handsome Furs.”. Up until now there were no public pictures of [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

TweetShare On their MySpace page Freedom Or Death so eloquently sum up the entire premise behind their motivation for making music. Its the way I want to live my life Having the freedom to make my own decisions and not adhere to the rules of others To make art for my own well being, not [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

TweetShare After forming in 2008, Factory Kids (Christina Marie and Tim Chaplin) initially released their music via blogs and compilations and then soon after released their debut album “Factory Kids” on Powertool Records. They’ve since released a single and two more EPs on Oddbox Records and 17 Seconds Records respectively.  Their music is simultaneously dreamy and heavily [...]