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Soundscapes

About Me

Gentleman Reg in-store performance:

Timber Timbre in-store performance Part 1:

Timber Timbre in-store performance Part 2:

Born Ruffians in-store performance:

The Acorn in-store performance:

Rick White in-store performance:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/24/2006
Band Website: www.soundscapesmusic.com
Influences: Music.
Employees Greg, Jay, Phil, Craig, Dan, Julie, Sylvie, Mike, Colin, and Ernest
Sounds Like:

Soundscapes is an independent music store located at 572 College Street in the Little Italy neighborhood in Toronto, Canada. We carry new CDs, DVDs, music books & magazines. We also sell concert tickets for most shows at Lee's Palace, the Horseshoe, the Mod Club and many other venues in Toronto.

We like to concentrate on carrying most things considered a little left of centre but try to expand our scope over all horizons. We stock the best in music from all genres including indie pop/rock, psych/garage, punk, prog, noise, rock/metal, americana, folk, soul, jazz, blues, electronic, experimental, hip-hop, reggae, dub, french-pop, brazilian/tropicalia, international music, classical and 20th/21st century classical. We're also proud to support the Canadian & Toronto independent music scenes through our vast consignment section and our ongoing work with the Toronto Public Library's local music catalogue.

We carry most releases from 4AD, 5rc, Ace, All Tomorrow's Parties, Anti, Arts & Crafts, Barsuk, Beggars Banquet, Blocks Recording Club, Blood & Fire, Bloodshot, Blue Note, Buda, Constellation, Domino, Drag City, Dust to Digital, ECM, Honest John's, Impulse, K, Kent, Last Gang, Leaf, Load, Light in the Attic, Matador, Merge, Mint, Mute, Numero, Paper Bag, Radioactive/Fallout, Rev-Ola, Rat-Drifting, Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguar, Smithsonian Folkways, Soul Jazz, Stones Throw, Sub Pop, Sublime Frequencies, Sundaze, Temporary Residence, Three Gut, Thrill Jockey, Trojan, Touch & Go, Type, Tzadik, Vampisoul, Warp, Yazoo and hundreds of other independent labels. We also carry select releases from the major labels.

We've hosted in-store performances by Great Lake Swimmers, El Perro Del Mar, Creeping Nobodies, FM3, Iron & Wine, My Morning Jacket, Badly Drawn Boy, Neil Halstead, Jens Lekman, the Concretes, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Kid Koala,and many others. Please check this site for the schedule of upcoming performances.


Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Giant Bands!

By my calculations, there's a total of 36 musicians on the three tracks uploaded to the player today.  Holy smoke.First off is "Shutters" from Bruce Peninsula's long-awaited (and now available!) full-...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:21:00 GMT

Timber Timbre

Hey all,Be sure to join us this Thursday, January 15th at 7pm for a very special (and free!) in-store performance by Timber Timbre.  His new self-titled album is available at this very moment here in ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:09:00 GMT

New tunes

There are new ear ticklers in the player today from a few recent releases:First off is "Infant King", from Toronto's dad-rock emperor Andre Ethier.  "Born of Blue Fog" is out now - on Blue Fog, natura...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:28:00 GMT

BLOOD CEREMONY

Out of the depths of the great chasm, from amidst sulphurous clouds punctured by the reeking deathwind of flapping leathern wings, we got some Blood Ceremony CDs.  Heavy.
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:52:00 GMT

Oh no, it's the Bicycles!

New in the player is the title track from The Bicycles' brand new disc "Oh No, It's Love".  If you missed their riotous in-store this past Tuesday, you can catch them tomorrow as they celebrate t...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:14:00 GMT

Laura Barrett - Victory Garden

New in the shop today is Laura Barrett's debut full-length Victory Garden.  As with her ep Earth Sciences, Laura's kalimba and voice are the main vehicle for the songs, but this time we hear them...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:42:00 GMT

FemBots in-store *next* Thursday!

Oops!  It seems weeks were scrambled, so... Be sure to join us next Thursday the 25th at 6 pm for a free in-store performance from FemBots, whose new album Calling Out was released...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:38:00 GMT

New local music!

Hello folks, If you've been in the shop lately, you may have noticed our revamped Independent section with a little more room to display our favourite local artists.  We've received a whole ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:37:00 GMT

New music from The Magic

From Guelph comes masked disco-pop strike force The Magic, the latest project of Barmitzvah Brother Geordie Gordon.  Mr. Hollywood comes from their recent self-titled EP, a little preview of what...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:20:00 GMT

Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko

Ninki Nanka Banjo and kora intertwine on this track from Africa to Appalachia, the recent collaboration between Toronto native Jayme Stone and Malian griot Mansa Sissoko.  The disc collects Sisso...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:20:00 GMT