Doldrums

Crying High preps debut LP for Arbutus, touring (listen to "Hold Yr Terror Close")

Crying High is the new project from Toronto-born multimedia artist D Kleiser who makes ghostly, appealing low-fi pop. His debut album, titled 斤, will be released on April 22 via Montreal label Arbutus Records…

Montreal artist Karneef (Doldrums / Cadence Weapon) releasing new solo LP 'I'm Phoof' (listen)

Karneef is a fixture of the Montreal music scene, having brought his multi-instrumentalist skills to Cadence Weapon, Pat Jordache and Sean Nicolas Savage. He’s currently drumming in Doldrums. He makes his own music as well, an appealingly bonkers strain of hyperactive beat-sliced funk, that owes a little to Prince, Kool Keith, Aphex Twin, Max Tundra […]

Doldrums share clattering instrumental "Gerbil"

A new near-industrial instrumental cut from this talented Canadian artist.

M for Montreal 2015 day 1 review: Dilly Dally, Doomsquad, She-Devils, Calvin Love, CRI and more

The 10th edition of M for Montreal is currently underway, bringing in a couple hundred mostly Canadian acts to this four-day event that’s part industry confab and part music festival…

M for Montreal announces full 2015 lineup & schedule

M for Montreal‘s 10th edition happens November 18 – 21. As in years past the first two days are more industry-oriented with single shows each night and then Friday and Saturday turn into a full-blown festival all over Montreal…

Pop Montreal Day 4: The Cribs (with Lee Ranaldo), Doldrums, Absolutely Free, Blanka & more

After three days of perfect weather (this is my first time in Montreal where it was hot) we got rain on Saturday (9/19), which was also the most walking around I’ve done all week…

Arcade Fire doc 'The Reflektor Tapes' premiering at 2015 Pop Montreal before North American release ++ fest's full lineup

The 2015 edition of Pop Montreal is coming up in less than a month (September 16 – 20) and festival organizers have recently made a few additions to the already robust lineup…

NXNE kicks off; Doldrums added to BV showcase

Toronto festival NXNE happens this week (June 17-21) with hundreds of acts playing venues all over the city. BrooklynVegan will be there too, with our showcase happening Friday (6/19) at Lee’s Palace with Atlas Sound,  Foxes in Fiction, Fresh Snow and a late night set from Yvette…

new Young Magic remix album includes The Acid who play Lot 45 in Buswhick with them

“Remixes Vol. 1” is a new compilation with “contributions, unreleased mixes by LA experimentalists The Acid, New York’s Rioux and an exclusive mix from Nicholas Taylor of Gray (Basquiat’s no-wave project)…

check out Toronto psych band Fresh Snow who are playing the BrooklyVegan NXNE showcase w/ Atlas Sound & more

Toronto instrumental quartet Fresh Snow have been making mutant, motorik psych for about four years now. They’ve got a 2013 album and a couple singles (including a split with METZ) under the belts and a new one is on the way…
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