Monthly Archives: November 2011

Hollerado’s “Good Day At the Races”

By Justin | Published: November 30, 2011

Sitting at a respectable #11 (and having peaked at #9) on the Canadian alt rock radio charts this week, “Good Day At the Races” is, in the usual style of Hollerado, catchy, quirky, and fun power pop-rock. Selected as the first single off their 10-inch compilation album, Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning—which, interestingly, comes bundled with a [...]

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Bruce Peninsula’s “In Your Light”

By Justin | Published: November 27, 2011

Airy guitars and quick plucks of the strings open Bruce Peninsula’s latest indie-gospel choir-rock tour de force, “In Your Light”. The ten-piece Toronto band’s second full-length album, Open Flames, was released last month after the year and a half of anticipation and sadness that followed band member Neil Haverty’s being diagnosed with leukemia. (Haverty’s cancer has [...]

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Said The Whale’s “Love Is Art / Sleep Through Fire”

By Justin | Published: November 20, 2011

I would always sing along to the end of this song whenever I was playing through my Said The Whale albums in iTunes—it’s ridiculously catchy, to be sure—but I never paid much attention to the rest of the lyrics until tonight. My, are they beautiful: She knows the secret of the way into a lover’s [...]

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