Black Diamond Bay

CMJ 2009 - Bill's Saturday nighttime picks

NIGHTTIME As I mentioned in that big post about Montreal bands at CMJ, The High Dials are among them and are just great live — sort of country-tinged jangly shoegaze — and they’re impressive live…

Black Diamond Bay, Organs, Knight School, Right on Dynamite & more in This Week in Indie

DOWNLOAD: Organs EP (Mediafire zip) DOWNLOAD: Knight School – Pregnant Again (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Right on Dynamite – Mantra for the Madness (MP3) We’ve been having pretty wintry weather here lately but it’s nothing compared to the cold snap much of Canada has faced in the last week — Montreal hit record lows last week…

Black Diamond Bay (ex-Dears) - 2008 Tour Dates (3xNYC)

by ‘Week in Indie’ Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Black Diamond Bay – “Blue Mace” (MP3) Watching the new line-up of Dears at Hiro Ballroom two weeks ago during CMJ, as good as I thought they were, it was definitely a bit strange to hear older songs like “Lost in the Plot” and “22: Death of All the Romance” and not see the old band up there, especially emotive guitarist Patrick Krief and fill-loving drummer George Donoso…