THE INDIE MACHINE

First ‘Meet Me In The Basement’ and now another fan made video for ‘All To All’. Arts & Crafts released this video today for the ridiculously catchy song off of Broken Social Scene’s latest effort, ‘Forgiveness Rock Record’. BSS was recently shortlisted for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize, the winner will be announced on September 20th. Check them out on Myspace.

Relocating The City Streets of Montreal to Toronto – even for a temporary stint/visit – is just hard….I mean, the physical layout of the two cities just isn’t even comparable – one of them is like a “T” and the other is like a circle – and then the transit system on those streets in one city kinda sucks. Wait, what? They’re a band? Oh! My bad….I was starting to think I was gonna have to start explaining the intricacies of urban development. We caught up with the Edmonton/Montreal pop rock trio at The Bovine Sex Club this week. Check out their rockin’ tracks “All Is Grace” and “Mastodon”. The City Streets on Myspace.

The City Streets – Wired: Episode 21 from The Indie Machine on Vimeo.

Syracuse New York’s Ra Ra Riot are set to release a brand new album (The Orchard) August 24th via Barsuk Records. The band recently premiered the song ‘Too Dramatic’ via our friends over at Stereogum. Check it out and while you’re there have a listen to the first single off the album, Boy. Ra Ra Riot play the Molson Amphitheatre August 28th with Tegan and Sara. Check them out on Myspace.

Every single one of us has a devil inside, and The Indie Machine is no different: this week we indulged our inner demons and joined up with Toronto’s Black Devils Brigade at THEIR locale to put together battleplans for a war-like onslaught of the music-loving populous. Check out their songs “Killing Business” and “The Fire Code” and then go spread the word about Part A of Operation: Infiltrate….we need more infantry.

Black Devils Brigade – Sessions: Episode 17 from The Indie Machine on Vimeo.

Black Devils Brigade are a straight up rock n’ roll band. The Toronto foursome have released a handful of demos and are currently working on their debut LP. You can catch them live this Friday night @ Duffys Tavern and again August 7th @ Rancho Relaxo. Check out a couple of their demos, Gemini and The Fire Code.  Be sure to tune in Thursday night between 6 and 8pm for the interview and live session.  For more info on BDB head over to Myspace.

Teenage Kicks frontman Peter van Helvoort claims “We’re not very cool, we never have been”. Who needs to be cool to make good music I say. Not these guys. The band is set to release their ‘Shook Our Bones’ 7″ August 17th and are currently working on their first full length album. The release party for SOB will held at Sneaky Dees in Toronto on the 20th of August. Get ready for some heavy guitar action kids…this is one you don’t want to miss. Head over to Myspace to hear what I’m talking about.

The City Streets originally hail from Edmonton but now call Montreal home. The band has recently released their third album, ‘The Jazz Age’ on Clamour Records. They spent the majority of June touring in support of the new album and are slated to be back in Toronto August 5th at the Bovine Sex Club. Head over to their website to download The Jazz Age absolutely free. The City Streets on Myspace. Photo below taken by Genevieve Lui at The Take Media.

Toronto’s ‘All Day Driver’ will be live on The Indie Machine tomorrow evening. As individuals they have played with the likes of Oh No Forest Fires, The Hidden Cameras, Holy Fuck and Gentlemen Reg just to name a few. The band recently released their self-titled debut EP. You can download the EP for free over on Soundcloud. Be sure to tune in just after 6pm tomorrow night to catch the interview and acoustic session. Check out ADD on Myspace.