The latest album from the Toronto musician and member of the Deadly Snakes. André Ethier‘s new album encompasses percussive folk, adult contemporary stylings, and lounge jazz moods. … Continue reading
Kingo Halla joins me for episode 23! Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading
Not an EP, apparently. Totaling only six tracks, the latest album from the Toronto trio is a dextrous display of avant-garde jazz and cinematic instrumentation. Here’s my… Continue reading
The partnership we didn’t know we needed. Buzzy Baltimore hardcore punkers Turnstile have collaborated with the Toronto jazz outfit BadBadNotGood for three surprise reimaginings of three tracks from Turnstile’s… Continue reading
Produced by Raphael Saadiq. Last year I was very happy to hear Daniel Caesar working with BADBADNOTGOOD on the excellent “Please Do Not Lean,” which ended up at number… Continue reading
Impossible not to groove to this. Toronto’s Chris A. Cummings is Marker Starling. His latest single, “Silk Rock,” is a winding and casually circular whirl of retro-indie-boogie,… Continue reading
Saitama, Japan producer Toru Yaginuma, bettter known as Yagi, is a central fixture in Tokyo’s beat scene. It was in Tokyo that he first met Ta-ku and Repeat Pattern, who… Continue reading
I first got introduced to Charlotte Day Wilson by hearing her vocals on fellow Torontoist jagged jazzists BadBadNotGood’s “In Your Eyes” from their latest album IV. Since collaborating with BBNG, Charlotte… Continue reading
The Canada is strong in this one. Ryan Hemsworth‘s Secret Songs series just keeps getting better and better. Here he’s highlighted Canadian beatsmith Jon Lawless aka Swim Good‘s collaboration… Continue reading
I wasn’t sure if 18-year-old singer Alessia Cara was Canadian, but then it was immediately confirmed when I heard the line “Pardon my manners, I hope you’ll understand it.” “Here”… Continue reading
I’ll be honest, whenever I see the words “Bad Bad Not Good” and “Kaytranada” on a track, I know my headphones are in for some quality. Listen to the 22-year-old… Continue reading
Let Toronto’s Harrison take you back in time with this monochromatic, retro-fantastic music video for his track “Akira.” Harrison – “Akira” (Official Video) Hear more… Continue reading
That chunky bass guitar, that soaring soulful vocal, that acoustic guitar strim-strum, that pleasing woodblockish beat from Toronto’s Slakah the Beatchild. “I Surrender” sounds like it could be an unplugged Raphael Saadiq jam. Slakah the… Continue reading
Guadeloupe’s Tysmé fuses 90s hip-hop flows in French with the electronics of the early 2010s. “Future School (Ipòp Elòj)” is produced by Toronto beatmaker Sunclef. Free download of Tysmé’s latest album… Continue reading
Jazz (We’ve Got). Bad Bad Not Good are no strangers to the shores of Neon Milk, and they’re back with their second full-length LP BBNG2, where James Blake, Gucci Mane, and Kanye West… Continue reading
You know when you’re compiling an end-of-year Top 10 album list and then you wander over to a Bandcamp site on a whim and all of a sudden you hear your new favorite… Continue reading
