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Like many/most who were immediately taken with Alvvays’ dreamy indie-pop from the get-go, I’d prefer not to be reminded that that self-titled debut album came out a full decade ago this week. Especially since I’d been following the band for a full year and half before then, since first seeing the soon-to-be hometown heroes back […]
I always love it when Song Exploder turns its lens onto artists or songs that I love, so to have local heroes Alvvays featured on the podcast is a real treat. In this episode, Molly Rankin and Alec O’Hanley go way way back to the band’s origins and how they wrote one of their first […]
After a couple years’ break, Alvvays are reviving their holiday hometown stand tradition – from two nights at the Danforth in 2015, up to five nights at the Mod Club in 2017, another five at The Danforth in 2018, and back down to two nights at the much bigger History – starting tomorrow. Similarly, I […]
How set am I on not being overly “extra! Extra! Hot off the press!” with this here blog? Well, my favourite hometown band finally announces a new record after five years, and it takes me… almost three weeks to get around to posting it! Hey, things get busy around here. We are, of course, talking […]
It’ll be five years in September since we last got a full-length from Toronto’s Alvvays, which is kind of crazy – that’s the sort of layoff you expect from veteran artists who’ve settled into a slower pace of working rather than hungry young bands with a strong tailwind of acclaim and adulation behind them, but […]
It’s one of my great regrets that I hung up the old blog before Alvvays put out their debut album, preventing me from properly gushing over the best new band to come out of Toronto in forever. I did, however, get to write them up while they were still “Always” and Molly was still brunette, […]
