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Band of the Month: Neighbourhood Watch

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Happy Friday!
Today’s band is Thornhill’s Neighbourhood Watch. Embarking on their third year together, the band has honed a colourfully guitar driven, suburban rock style unlike any other local indie acts. With upbeat tempos and a plethora of harmonious synth and guitar melodies, Neighbourhood Watch delivers an energetic live show that’ll make you move.
You can see for yourself when they release their new EP, Static Ocean, May 10 at Cinecycle in Toronto. In the mean time, check out their music below!

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Band of the Month: Patrick Watson

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Hello readers!
This time I’ve decided to feature a band not so unheard of, but one that has owned so much play time in my headphones over the last several days. Montreal’s Patrick Watson has a prolifically beautiful and articulate way of musically flirting with a marriage of classical and contemporary. The band has toured with the likes of The Cinematic Orchestra, Feist, and James Brown, showing a versatile yet accessible sound that can persuade everyone from babies to bubbies to sing and sway along.
Check them out below!

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Band of the Month: Fire/Works

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Good Friday, readers!
Today’s Band of the Month is Montreal’s Fire/Works. Motivated by the marriage of rhythm and ambiance, this French-Canadian progressive folk duo take a unique spin on organic acoustic instrumentation by adding a tasteful layer of patiently explosive effects to acoustic guitar and banjo. Lead by sweetly engaging vocal harmonies and backed by distant and pulsing drums, Fire/Works is a band perfect for kicking off those slow moving, long weekend mornings. You can listen to, and buy their album Grand Voyageur on bandcamp, and take a listen below.

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Band of the Month: CRHYMES

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Good day readers!
This Friday’s band of the month is CRHYMES
Soft and poetic, and sonically eclectic, this Toronto 5 piece showcases moments of longing, contemplation, and joy, all within the sweetly short seventeen and a half minutes of their debut ep ‘Our Surprises’. With moods of patience and transition, CHRYMES is Band of the Month as the perfect partner as we slip into spring and the season becomes diverse and more alive.

CRHYMES plays live at Toronto’s 751 (Queen W) on Saturday, Mar 30 with other lovable bands; Jive Bullshit, Human Bodies, and HIGHS. Don’t miss this one! Here’ a link to the event… Night Sweats Volume 1.

Check out a track or two as you pass through the last weekend of winter!

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Band of the Month: The Jessica Stewart Few

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Heya TAG readers, it’s Band of the Month time!
Today’s band of the month is The Jessica Stewart Few. A Toronto folk-jazz fusion three piece with trans-continental instrumentation. With a rhythm section of drums and double-bass, and a singer/guitarist/koto player, JSF has a listen-ably diverse mix of progressive folk, jazz, and contemporary rock, with unique blend of instruments to uplift any mood your day may bring .

JSF has played in Canada’s biggest music festivals across the nation and has had two nominations in last years Toronto Independent Music Awards for Best Live Performance, and Best Recording and have been in regular rotation on the CBC. The band will be touring Canada and Japan this year in support of their upcoming album Two Sides To Every Story.
Catch them live soon and take a listen below!

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