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Calm Elliot-Armstrong.   Since signing to Fire Talk / Royal Mountain a few weeks back, Toronto slacker rock four-piece PACKS have been compared to a bunch of rock bands from the '90s (Sonic Youth, Pavement), a few of bands from the past decade who borrowed from rock bands from the '90s (Vivian Girls, Best Coast), and a handful of contemporary artists who borrow from rock bands from the '90s (Disq). These comparisons aren't entirely misleading. "Silvertongue," the single with which they announced their debut album Take The Cake, had all the components of a reluctantl...

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Madeline Link turned her solo project, PAX, into a full band some time ago. Now, the slacker rockers have be...

Gary, Indiana   Will Shields One of the biggest stories to come out of the gaming world last year was the disastrous rollout of Cyberpunk 2077. The hugely-anticipated game was expected to be a huge hit, both critically and commerically, but gamers began reporting bizarre glitches such as cars randomly turning into soda machines and eventually developers CD Projekt took the game off the market until it was fixed. ADVERTISEMENT Where Cyberpunk 2077 failed, Manchester-based trio Gary, Indiana thrive. Their new video, premiering below, is inspired, in ...

Wiretap Records bands list their favorite albums of 2020 Wiretap Records have shared their album of the year lists, including Talk Show Host, American Television, Mercy Music, LOVEBREAKERS, Catholic Guilt, Answering Machine, and In Parallel (who share a member with Hopesfall, who also made us a list). See their lists below. The Casket Lottery, who put out a record on Wiretap this year. photo via Bandcamp We've always described our band with the beginning to a lame joke (“two recovering punks and an indie rocker walk into a bar...”) so our list is divided accordingly and, otherwise, in n...

Indie Basement: Top 40 Albums of 2020 It's a given that 2020 has been a year unlike any that most of us have ever experienced. Time seemed to fold in on itself (for me at least), and March to December seemed to go by in an instant but also in slow motion. If felt this way for music, too. Albums I thought were last year were this year and vice versa. Looking through the months, though, it was a bit shocking how many records I really liked were released and how many of these groups I wish I had gotten to see live this year.