On April 16th at Dovercourt House, winners of the Russian-Language Noise-Rock band most popular with anglophones in the Greater Toronto Area award, Lenin i Shumov will be releasing their first 'real' cd (real in the sense that it will have ...Read More
Ring in the Spring with "The Lovely Music" of the S.S. Cardiacs. Read More
Blocks normally takes pride in being a local, Toronto kind of thing. It worked for Dischord and who are we to argue if something works for Dischord? Well, there's always an exception (even at Dischord) and here when a ...Read More
The first CD release by Toronto's favourite answer to Half-Japanese. Chris (19) and his brother Charlie (13, ex-12) unveil this amazing collection of home recordings and also give a glimpse into the world of wonder and magic that is the ...Read More
Lenin i Shumov's first CD-R Read More
On Oct. 17, 2004 The Blocks Recording Club and Consumption records were given a room at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto by CANZINE, a large and renowned 'Zine Fair held annually by Broken Pencil Magazine. The decision was then made ...Read More
This is the long-awaited, finally available, all-hymns solo recording by Toronto's (ex-Vancouver's) most beloved drunk country and western/rock and roll musician. Contains several big hits: Didn't It Rain?, Down By The Riverside, Just A Closer Walk With Thee.. and many ...Read More
Over two years in the making this is kind of like the Remebrance of Things Past of Toronto-based UK-influenced indie-punk. Ample doses of the Fall, the Birthday Party, Sonic Youth (UK), bound up and analyzed over a long period of ...Read More
The latest EP from the band that was called "the best new band in Toronto" by Now Magazine in 2003. Sure to alienate old fans and be repulsive to those who already found them too annoying or pretentious to palate ...Read More
Deep Dark United come off as a cross between Xiu Xiu, Fine Young Cannibals at 16rpm, Frog Eyes and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Full-blown experimental soul-jazz collides with messy synthesizers and are subsequently chanelled through the Wah Pedal and ...Read More
