The 2012 line-up for the Burlington Sound Of Music Festival has been announced.  This year's edition takes place June 14-17th at Spencer Smith Park in Burlington. Highlights include: The Arkells Born Ruffians Big Sugar Basia Bulat Wintersleep Treble Charger Mother Mother ...and many more Best of all, the shows are completely free.

Keswick, ON based four-piece, The Elwins announce a series of dates in Ontario and Quebec this spring including a special performance for Record Store Day and a coveted opening slot for Zeus. To celebrate Record Store Day, The Elwins will be performing at Toronto’s Soundscapes where they will have 50 handmade CDs available for free that will include a remix of the track "Behind My Eyes" and their cover of Beyonce’s "Countdown" featuring Born Ruffians’ vocalist Luke Lalonde. The Elwins’ Record Store Day release will be available for free on the band’s Bandcamp page on Saturday, April ...

The Magic is made up of members of Islands, Geordie Gordon and Evan Gordon. They are joined by Sylvie Smith of Hymns">Evening Hymns and Aaron Curtis. It’s a bit more danceable than the tunes you hear from Islands. They will be releasing a full length album in June mixed by Robert Leavens (Born Ruffians and [...]

At the 2009 All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, New York, Caribou 's Dan Snaith performed a special set as Caribou Vibration Ensemble, accompanied by 15 musicians including Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, Sun Ra sideman Marshall Allen, John Schmersal of Brainiac/Enon, Yeasayer/Of Montreal collaborator Sinkane, and Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians. The results were recorded and released as an album by ATP in 2010.

WHO:  The Elwins and Luke “Born Ruffians” Lalonde WHAT: A video series by Mojito Mastering, in collaboration with Southern Souls, to get two bands/artists into the studio to collaborate on a cover, then capture the whole process on film. WHY: Why??  Because it’s damn fun, that’s why!  In fact, we can all take part in [...]

THE ELWINS & LUKE LALONDE – “Countdown” by Beyonce from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo. I’ve got a thing for indie artists covering pop acts, and I’m fully aware of how cliche it is – but I’m not sorry. Watch this video of The Elwins and Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians cover “Countdown” by Beyonce [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: The Morning Benders, Born Ruffians, Bowerbirds Song: The Dodos - Black Night [download here ] What's so good? Last night’s NoisePop 20th anniversary finale featured none other than The Dodos. I’d never seen them live, but Indie Shuffle was fortunate enough to be invited to the show. It wasn’t an easy decision: seeing a live show on a Sunday night before the workweek involved a bit of mental debate. Ultimately, I caved, and thank the Lord I did so. Seeing The Dodos live gave me a whole new appreciation for their ...

by teepoo It’s a time for another exciting night of music at Steam Whistle brewery. This time performing will be indie-rockers Boys Who Say No, the super group The Paint Movement and Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians. The set is pretty fantastic and the $5 it cost to get in will go towards helping the [...]

A brief history of Will Currie's career, both with his band, The Country French , and on his own (as part of the sort-of supergroup Novels): 2006: he releases his debut EP . It's heavily influenced by '70s pop. 2008: his first full-length . It's heavily influenced by '70s pop. 2009: he releases an EP with members of Born Ruffians and Tokyo Police Club . His contributions are...heavily influenced by '70s pop. Do I really need to tell you how the newest Country French album, Awake, You Sleepers , sounds? That said, if you ever wanted to hear an argument that ...

Adorably jejune flickering lyrical inflexions of playing with "a dangerous flame again", darting woodwind to bring tears to the bloodshot eyes of Tim DeLaughter, the boisterous melodiousness of Born Ruffians, glib "nah nah nahs" genuinely worthy of Black Parade-era MCR, the odd Wombat-like "whoo", and ecclesiastical harmonies all contribute to, without ever clashing on Show Me, the first release from Team Me's  forthcoming long-player, To The Treetops! Out March 5th, the spring-heeled single that precedes the Oslo troupe's eagerly awaited debut full-length fizzes and pops effervescently throughout, prior to eventually exploding into the sort of sparkling denouement only ...

Honheehonhee , Shouts ( Self-released ) WHO Yelpy Montreal five-piece. DISCOGRAPHY Shouts ( Self-released , 2011) IN A NUTSHELL Honheehonhee may incorporate other bands' sounds into Shouts , but the end result is a product all their own. THE STORY I can definitely see why some people reference Fire">Arcade Fire when writing about Honheehonhee's debut EP, Shouts . I mean, they're from Montreal, and frontman Greg Halpin has echoes of Win Butler in his vocals. If I was feeling uncharitable towards the album -- or even just looking for an easy reference point as part of a quick review -- I'd probably say that the ...

Any number of great shows could qualify as solid picks this week (Ryan Adams, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, etc), but I had to narrow it down, so here are my concert recommendations for the week: The National w. Neko Case and Wye Oak, Air Canada Centre, Dec 8 Wow, how The National have taken off.  They've been great as I've seen them in increasingly large venues.  We'll see how they handle the cavernous ACC.  Oh yeah, Neko Case is no slouch either. Tokyo Police Club w. Born Ruffians and Said The Whale, The Phoenix, Dec 8 ...

Multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab has had his hands on more indie rock bands than Mountain Dew. You may recognize him onstage in bands like of Montreal, Caribou, Born Ruffians, or currently as a fulltime member of Yeasayer, a band diligently working on an album of demented R&B; . His solo project Sinkane is all set to release its fourth album, Mars , and SPIN has the first taste, "Jeeper Creeper." Fans of Yeasayer certainly won't be disappointed in its Afrobeat-inflected rhythms, chilltastic wooshwave, and gallons upon gallons of reverb.

die letzten jahren hatte es gezeigt, ein besuch beim on3 festival in den studios des bayerischen funkhauses sollte kurz vor dem jahresende immer fest im terminplaner verankert sein. wenngleich vor allem die letzten beiden veranstaltungen meine persönlichen präferenzen weniger ansprachen, zog sich doch der überraschungseffekt quer durch die konzerterlebnisse. da konnte man in 2010 born ruffians oder crystal fighters und heuer moop mama oder team me gegen scout niblett, the felice brothers oder cat power halten. die wertigkeit entsteht nicht über den namen, den bekanntsheitsgrad, sondern einzig und allein über die gebotene performance. insofern ist es und war es je ...

Ever get the feeling that you need to yelp very loudly in the intro of your song, but don’t because it would sound like shit? Canadian indie band Born Ruffians had the same idea, only when they did it, it sounded awesome. The yelps really do add something to the track Barnacle Goose, a feeling [...]