by Tiana Feng

Duchess Says are a group of thrashy punk rockers from Montreal, Quebec. What I enjoy most about their music is that production doesn’t suck. Even though they have a slightly lo-fi feel it’s very purposeful. I got to love what they describe as “doubtful noises”. Check out Narcisse from their 2011 release In a Fung Day T!
Duchess Says- Narcisse
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by Tiana Feng

Here’s one for all you who like music on the heavier side. This is Halifax’s Bloodhouse. Their heavy pop punk has jarring guitars with vocals that are mixed in on the softer side.
Bloodhouse- Please Don’t Meet Me
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by Tiana Feng

The last band I saw that night was Cloud Nothings. Thank you all the blogs I follow for talking immensely about them because I actually really enjoyed myself. They play a combination of punk/noise rock but there’s something about the sound that captivates you in a sort of trance. If you took a look at the audience everybody was in their own sort of Cloud Nothings daze. I wasn’t even on anything (didn’t drink, don’t do drugs) and I felt the experience. The live set is something that their recorded albums can’t even compare to. My photos of the band aren’t very good because me and Photogmusic were trying not to get squished by the mosh pit behind us (we were front and centre). At one point we had to protect our cameras by keeping them on stage. It was so much fun though!

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by Tiana Feng

We Fled Cairo is a group of people who write some angry sounding music. Although they didn’t always. They seemed much happier in their first album which I enjoyed much more. Among some of the new stuff I dig Stealing Stolen Bikes, it’s a piece of instrumental flailing that has some graspable hooks that seem oh so simple. Then it’s all over in a minute and you’re like damn.
We Fled Cairo- Stealing Stolen Bikes

I post a ton of pop stuff but how about somebody who’s inspired by metal names such as Meshuggah and Converge? It’s not nearly as hard but that sense of sound catastrophe is there. Check out Soothsayer from their upcoming album to be released February 28th.
Failure Epics- Soothsayer
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by Tiana Feng

My boyfriend and I have a really different taste of music and yesterday he took me to a concert that was more his scene. We arrived at Siesta Nouveau which wasn’t like a traditional venue. It was more of a loft that held concerts and booze was BYOB. I loved the friendly vibe of the scene. The music of the night was hardcore noise rock, a lot different than what I normally listen to but I still had a rad time. The one band that did catch my attention was Toronto’s own Animal Faces. They do this really random thing where they set up lamps for their sets. For a band who’s vocals was all screaming, I really didn’t expect the frontman Ryan Naray to be a little Asian guy. I was rather impressed by their fast paced playing. It almost reminded me of a faster paced version of some of the indie garage rock I listen to like The Pack AD. Check out this track called Follow Faster.
Animal Faces- Follow Faster
If you’re interested in hearing more, their EP is available FREE on Bandcamp.

by Tiana Feng

Let’s listen to something a little bit “darker”. Halifax’s Bad Vibration brings to us a sort of dark rock with riffs that sound quite evil. I feel like I’m in a movie scene walking away from an explosion when I listen to What Now. The track comes off their latest Black Train which will have a limited vinyl pressing of only 300.
Bad Vibrations- What Now
Check out the video. I was too scared to finish the whole thing though because needles creep me out.

What Now? Bad Vibrations from heather rappard on Vimeo.