With the mid-winter blues slowly fading and the brightness of spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time for something cheery and fun to chase away our bad moods and put an extra spring in our step. Rocking the Calgary music scene with a fantastic new EP and huge potential, Sunshine Radio is clapping [...]
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Sunshine Radio – “Sunlight EP”
Posted by jenny on February 8th, 2012
Posted in Reviews 
Tags: alt-pop, alternative, Calgary, ep, pop, Radio, review, Sunlight, Sunlight EP, Sunshine, Sunshine Radio 
No Comments »Fur Eel – “Elephant Summer”
Posted by jenny on February 2nd, 2012
The natural tendency when listening to new music is to automatically compare it to something else: “Who does this sound like?” Sometimes this comparison is easy. There might be a clear influence to the sound or perhaps a common element or theme that can be easily compared to some popular artist. It’s the other music, [...]
Indie403 Featured Artist of the Month – King Dylan
Posted by taryn on February 1st, 2012
Indie403 is pleased to present King Dylan as our Featured Artist of the Month for the month of February! Click here to learn more about King Dylan!
Crash The Occasion – “Crash The Occasion”
Posted by jenny on January 25th, 2012
Outside of romance novels, love at first sight is rare. Love usually takes time, patience, and effort to really develop, and even then it doesn’t always last. The same is true of music: most bands need to work for your love, slowly making their way onto your music playlist until you love every beat and [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: Arcade Fire, Crash The Occasion, Indie, Indoor Shoes, Mansion House, MGMT, Muse, Niagara, Release Show No Comments »Open Air – “All My Queens”
Posted by jenny on January 19th, 2012
Stuck in traffic on the long drive home from work, it’s easy to become trapped in a steel cage of road rage and frustration. The music on the radio doesn’t help. Adele? Rihanna? Please. What you need is something fast, something rockin’, something awesome. Bring on Open Air. Based in Calgary, Open Air is a [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: All My Queens, Calgary, Indie 403, Indie403, Make Our Own Luck, Open Air, Steven Mansfield No Comments »Marine Dreams – “Marine Dreams”
Posted by jenny on January 8th, 2012
The independent music world is a beautiful community. We see a lot of crossover, collaboration, and side projects, and familiar faces make their way across the map to create new sounds and adventures in music. Marine Dreams is the new project of former Attack In Black bassist Ian Kehoe, and his self-titled album is creating [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: Attack in Black, Dreams, Ian Kehoe, Indie, Marine, Marine Dreams, You've Changed Records No Comments »Indie403 Featured Artist of the Month – Amy Thiessen
Posted by taryn on January 5th, 2012
Indie403 is pleased to present Amy Thiessen as our Featured Artist of the Month for the month of January! Click here to learn more about Amy Thiessen!
Posted in News, Reviews Tags: Amy Thiessen, Artist, Featured, Give up the Fight, IFAM, Indie403, January, Month No Comments »Septembryo – “The Dreambuilder”
Posted by jenny on December 23rd, 2011
At a time of year known for stress, anxiety and unavoidable family quarrels, nothing is more welcome than a lighthearted and energy-filled escape from the real world. The Dreambuilder, the debut EP from Calgary super-band Septembryo, is exactly what we need right now. It’s catchy, mood-elevating and almost trancelike, making even the most bitter family [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: Affirmations, alternative, Dreambuilder, electro-pop, Head Automatica, iTunes, rock, Septembryo No Comments »Writers’ Strike – “Stay Down”
Posted by jenny on December 13th, 2011
Why are the best albums always so damn short? Like the best romances, they never last long – you start to fall in love and then just like that, it’s over. No phone call, no warning, just a reminder of perfection echoed on repeat. It is nothing but a tease, an unfair taste of unfinished [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: Halifax, Indie, Indie-pop, Nova Scotia, NS, Pigeon Row, Stay Down, Strike, Writers, Writers' Strike No Comments »Today I Caught The Plague – “Lore”
Posted by jenny on December 6th, 2011
On everyone’s music playlist, there are songs and artists that are recognizable from the first beat. Today I Caught The Plague, a six-piece progressive metal band from Ottawa, is definitely one of these bands, and their newest album Lore is unmistakably unique. As the band’s first full-length album, Lore shows from the first pulse just [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: Consequence of Fratricide, Hardcore, Lore, Metal, Ottawa, Progressive, rock, The Plague, TICTP, Today I Caught No Comments »
