BLARE’s 5 Best New Artists (October 2012)
With fall tapping at our windows, October’s picks provide some new friends for your ears with Ontario-bred punk, film noir pop, sunsick…
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BLARE Monthly Mix: September 2012
As Mother Nature bites our ears like an ex with a Cosmo fetish, we bring you a 12-track zip of full of new recordings from the past month…
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BLARE’s 5 Best New Artists (September 2012)
With fall tapping at our windows, September’s picks create affairs with your headphones with brash punk/metalcore newcomers, a former…
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BLARE’s 25 Best Songs Of Summer 2012
With music still shredding waves from sunrise to sunset, it’s sort of unfair to abandon our sanctuaries and give the axe to summer…
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The Best (And Worst) Of Osheaga 2012
Contrary to popular belief, Eminem isn’t all it takes to pull in a historic audience. In another hot Montreal summer, the Osheaga Music…
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VIDEO: Dent May – “Do Things” (Acoustic)
If you’ve never heard of Dent May before, there’s a good chance that the Oxford, MS songwriter will haunt the rest of your summer with…
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BLARE’s 5 BEST NEW ARTISTS (JULY 2012)
With summer in full effect, July’s picks are designed to set the mood with the various sides to west coast alt, a rising Brooklyn MC, Halifax…
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GOING LIVE: NXNE 2012 – Day Four
The curtains don’t close without one big bang. Though Saturday wasn’t the official end to North By Northeast, it was the last big night full…
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BLARE’s 20 MUST-HEAR BANDS AT NXNE 2012
Now in its 18th year, the annual destination for new independent music is set to rip apart its shirt Hulk Hogan style to the beat of vintage…
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Select/Start: NXNE 2012 Mixtape
While food trucks roll in, wristband holders plan their five-day schedules and out-of-towners daydream about the undeniable combination…
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