Tag Archives: 2009 in Toronto

Originally founded mainly because Volcano Playground in ’09 2009, Toronto-based quartet Programm contains bassist/singer Jackie Game, guitarist/singer Jacob Soma, keyboard player Mark Game, and drummer Andrew Reesor. The music group created shadowy digital indie pop tunes, heavily affected by shoegaze, post-punk, psychedelia, and Krautrock. The group gigged thoroughly across the …

Marrying basic but melodic music and impressionistic lyrics using a raw and thunderous guitar strike, Dilly Dally are an indie rock-band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada shaped by longtime friends Liz Ball and Katie Monks. Ball and Monks have been close friends since senior high school; they were critical fans from …

Toronto-based dubstep/house act Zeds Lifeless — named following a line from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction — certainly are a creation duo comprising DC (Dylan Mamid) and Hooks (Zachary Rapp-Rovan). Both first created the hip-hop-oriented Mass Productions in 2004 and released an unbiased album, New Beetz, 3 years later …

The dark electronic pop project of Toronto’s Robert Alfons, TR/ST began this year 2010 after Alfons met Maya Postepski, also the drummer in the like-minded band Austra. Evaluations to Depeche Setting and Joy Department started with 2011’s debut one, “Candy Wall space,” that was released by Sacred Bone fragments and …

Unlike the number of rock bands that reveal the same name, the Canadian indie group Zeus forgoes doom and gloom to create music with three-part harmonies, Americana sensibilities, and sunny force pop hooks. After parting methods using the 6ixty8ights, years as a child close friends (and ten-year veterans from the …