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Every week, the EYE WEEKLY music braintrust sift through piles of demos to find one act who make us want to scream their name from the rooftops of Toronto. Check out this selection of our favourite up-and-coming indie bands from our recent Disc-Overy columns, and don’t forget to vote for them on InDiscover.net.

The Withouts

BY Sarah Liss

Cherise Burda has a voice that sounds engineered to front a power pop band.

Nicole Lizée

BY Chris Bilton

Hardly a side project from Besnard Lakes multi-instrumentalist Nicole Lizée, This Will Not Be Televised collects her classical electroacoustic music, including her master’s thesis piece ...

Group Inerane

BY Dave Morris

There will always be questions of how releases like this one are shaped by the tastes of the westerners recording and marketing them.

Lioness

BY Alex Nino Gheciu

Lioness is the latest project to arise from the post-controller.controller fallout, containing that defunct band’s rhythm section paired with former No Dynamics howler Vanessa Fischer.

Bob Dylan

BY Jordan Timm

He’s always had a knack for choosing and drilling musicians, but it wasn’t until 1997 that Bob Dylan began recording with the crack units that have accompanied him on The Never Ending Tour (twenty ...

Rob Szabo

BY Howard Druckman

Rob Szabo’s last album, Like A Metaphor, was a power-pop gem with candy-apple hooks that couched the dark content often embedded within.

Augustus Pablo

BY David Dacks

Beloved by North American and British reggae fans, Augustus Pablo was perhaps the least verbose reggae star of all time.

Mandibles

BY Chandler Levack

The mandibles of wasps are used to capture and disassemble prey.

Ten Kens

BY Stuart Berman

Signed last year to UK indie powerhouse label Fat Cat (formerly home to Animal Collective and Sigur Ros), Dan Workman’s atmospheric vocals rest on a foundation of hard, doomy rock.

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The Recroom: Wake Up The City

BY Sarah Liss

In a Canadian arthouse rock ’n’ road-trip movie, The Recroom would be the band squatting in a dilapidated but beautiful shanty by the side of Highway 60, where their haunting but curiously ...

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