Tag Archives: The Hidden Cameras

New York-based pop quintet My Various other Friend shaped in Brooklyn in 2006 throughout the abilities of Kelsey, Tobi, Holly, Andy, and Tara, a volatile staff that specializes in alternately bouncy and moody indie rock and roll peppered with guy/gal harmonies which have drawn evaluations to everyone from Belle & …

Toronto-based violinist/singer/songwriter Owen Pallett is a person in the groups Les Mouches and Picastro, and a touring person in the Concealed Cameras and Arcade Fire–he made up strings for the latter’s Neon Bible album. Last Dream, essentially a one-man single task with occasional help from drummer/engineer Leon Taheny, released its …

Formed throughout the talents of Rodrigo Amarante (singer/guitarist from Brazilian indie rock and roll outfit Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for the Strokes), and Binki Shapiro (a Los Angeles-based singer), Small Joy found fruition after an opportunity encounter between Amarante and Moretti at a festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Moretti, Shapiro, …

A virtuoso within the kalimba — an African device also called the thumb piano — Toronto-based singer/songwriter Laura Barrett also takes on with indie pop collective the Hidden Cams. Barrett’s personal music is very simple, often comprising simply the kalimba and her tone of voice, and frequently quirkier: she started …

Canadian multi-instrumentalist/maker Michael Olsen operates a saving studio called Unpleasant Silence in his local Toronto. An extremely prolific cello participant, Olsen is a normal person in the Hidden Cams, the Jim Guthrie Music group, and Kill Device, and a contributor to Montreal’s Arcade Open fire.

Blessed in Trenton, Ontario, and raised in nearby Guelph, the quirky vocalist/songwriter Reg Vermue moved to Toronto during his twenties to pursue music. He included himself with Canadian collectives like Broken Public Picture and Hidden Surveillance cameras, the latter which allowed him to openly exhibit his own homosexual politics, but …

Texas-born singer, songwriter, and actor Jay Brannan’s angelic voice and folky acoustic approach could make him look like a garden-variety modern singer/songwriter, but his musical sensibility brings him nearer to hard-to-fit-in-a-box feminine performers like Ani DeFranco, Lisa Loeb, Sinéad O’Connor, and Liz Phair, and he appears like nothing a lot …

The Langley Colleges Music Project isn’t so much an organization because the name that served as an umbrella for two super-obscure, privately pressed LPs by Canadian elementary school students within the mid-’70s. The recordings had been supervised and organized by Hans Fenger, a Vancouver musician who experienced used a post …

With a variety of queer politics, explicit sexuality, symphonic indie pop, and theatrical spectacle that edges for the religious, Toronto’s the Hidden Cameras will be the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb. The 2001 debut record Ecce Homo — a assortment of four-track demos released on Gibb’s very own Evil Bad …

Toronto’s breezy synth-pop clothing DIANA began like a cooperation between drummer Kieran Adams and saxophonist Joseph Shabason, fixtures from the city’s music picture who met while studying jazz in the College or university of Toronto (later, they used functions including Warm Misconception and Destroyer, respectively). Having created an album’s well …