Toronto Institution Sneaky Dee’s Launches New Website, Signature Hot Sauce Available for Purchase
Toronto’s beloved go-to Tex-Mex restaurant and concert venue, Sneaky Dee’s is ecstatic to launch their new and improved website! The site continues to boast menu and special favourites, concert listings, and special events, with new additions including “Our Story”, the official Sneaky Dee’s blog, and merchandise! The new, easy to navigate site serves as the [...]
Album Review: David Myles – Into the Sun
Immediately upon listening to David Myles’ treat of an album ‘Into the Sun’ I felt like a chilly day in early November wasn’t exactly the proper time of year for such a glorious sound. But to my own delight, I found that with further listening I had developed such a cheery disposition that I had [...]
Halifax’s Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers Kick Off Canadian Tour Dates in Support of New Album This Week
After an astute performance at last week’s annual Nova Scotia Music Week in Yarmouth, NS, and a wildly successful European tour, Halifax’s Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers launch a Canadian tour this week. To support the release of their stunning new release In The Time of the Great Remembering, the band is temporarily bidding [...]
Toronto’s The Archives Announce Ontario Tour Dates and Release Tour EP Transitions
Toronto up and comers, The Archives are set to release their much anticipated new tour EP ‘Transitions’ available at a slew of tour dates in November. Their unique brand of post rock and roll has earned them loyal followers in southern Ontario. Their constant gigging, has earned The Archives the title of one of [...]
Coffee Shop Project: Pick of the Month November 2011 – The Archives
Everyone knows that there’s nothing like a hot drink on a cold day. That’s why the Coffee Shop Project (CSP) continues to throw good music into the mix to make a good thing even better! This month’s instalment of the Coffee Shop Project will feature the full new EP Transitions from Toronto’s emerging post-rock outfit [...]
AUDIO BLOOD ARTIST LISTINGS – FEAT: CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD, BEN CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS, THE LOVE MACHINE AND MORE (November 2011)
Hey buds! The fall is continuing to fly by, bringing us closer and closer to those frigid winter months. It’s getting darker earlier, so why don’t you let some Audio Blood artists brighten up your evenings with one of many shows! Ben Caplan and Charlotte Cornfield are setting out on a cross-country tour! Carleton Stone is geared [...]
The Love Machine Take Over The Horseshoe Tavern For Vinyl Release Party for Sweater Weather
Ottawa’s The Love Machine will be hitting up The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on November 15th to celebrate the vinyl release of their latest album Sweater Weather. The Love Machine has been named best band in 2011 by I(Heart)Music.net and it’s easy to see why. The four-piece are burgeoning and Sweater Weather is the [...]
Audio Blood Does Nova Scotia Music Week: Featuring Kim Wempe, Carleton Stone, Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers and The Stanfields
Ahoy mateys, Audio Blood is going to be setting sail and heading east again! This year we are proud to be part of the 15th annual Nova Scotia Music Week, with several of our artists ready to take the stage and entertain oceanside audiences. Two Audio Blood artists have been nominated for some awards. Kim Wempe is up for [...]
Carleton Stone Announces November Tour Dates in Eastern/Western Canada
Following the recent release of his self-titled record with Groundswell Music/Warner, Carleton Stone is taking his infectious pop/rock tracks on the road this November, playing for audiences across six of ten Canadian provinces. Stone will be pairing up with veteran Tom Wilson and The Heartbroken on most of these dates. Carleton Stone is quickly gaining a [...]
Toronto’s The Balconies Release Kill Count Tour EP and Tour Dates
Infectious pop rockers The Balconies announce upcoming tour dates in support of their new Kill Count EP, available from the band, strictly at shows. The Balconies will play a number of dates throughout Ontario this fall, including supporting performances with Bedouin Soundclash. The band has shared the stage on previous tours with famous [...]
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD GEARS UP FOR RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM ‘TWO HORSES’, UNLEASHES TWO LIVE VIDEOS, AND SETS OUT ON EXTENSIVE TOUR
Two cities, two people, two forces – this is the grit of Charlotte Cornfield’s debut LP Two Horses, set for release October 25th. The record follows her previous EPs It’s Like That Here (2007) and Collage Light (2009) with a rich, developed sound, produced by longtime collaborator Ryan Granville Martin – and featuring an [...]
Interview – Hey Rosetta!’s Romesh Thavanathan
After a month spent touring Australia, Newfoundland’s Hey Rosetta! have returned to the Northern Hemisphere and began a North American tour tonight at The Echo in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. With a large and energetic crowd on hand the band tore through hits including Yer Spring, Welcome, New Goodbye, and Yer [...]
Album Review: Cults
How do you become a viral sensation without having much of an internet presence? Ask Cults. Last year, Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin started putting music up on Bandcamp.com to amuse their friends. A few months later their summery single, ‘Go Outside’ was an internet sensation. But those songs were their sole internet existence; [...]
Album Review: The Gertrudes keep listeners on their toes with Till the Morning Shows Her Face to Me

The Gertrudes serve up a heaping dish of playfulness and surprises in their sophomore LP, Till the Morning Shows Her Face to Me. Someone forgot to tell the Kingston 12-piece that you can’t be this weird and still call yourselves a folk band. Otherwise, where would we put the nice earnest songwriters with their guitars and banjos? The above was [...]
Cursed Arrows: Strike Again.
Our favorite Halifax rockers have been extremely busy recording, thus leading to lots of new material. Having released “The Madness of Crowds” in April they have quickly followed up with “Skin Behind the Shroud” One in the blue - Is the first track to be released on “Skin Behind the Shroud” which is set to be [...]
Album Review: Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring For My Halo
Yeah, this album came out a few months ago, but who pays attention to release dates anymore? Afterall, it’s never too late to discover good music… Kurt Vile’s Smoke Ring for My Halo is an album of deceptions. First there’s his name; usually artists with monikers like Vicious, Rotten, Manson and Failure have a certain image to [...]
Hollerado Calls Toronto Home, Pack A.D. Rocks Hard, Wildlife Wows
As I approached the Opera House for the sold-out Hollerado show I was met with a line that wrapped around the block to see the country’s premier party-rockers. I decided to defer standing outside in the frigid evening in favour of waiting the line out at the newly opened Goods & Provisions for a pint and a snack; it [...]
Katie Rox Talks ~ Japan
Katie Rox and Danny Echo have recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Japan for the Kansai Music Conference in Osaka this fall. I caught up with Katie to ask her about her time there and the benefits of the trip. I know you have been to Japan before, what was the purpose of the [...]
