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Actions speak louder than words: Action Makes at CMW

By Richard Trapunski

If you noticed the Toronto segment of our Canadian Music Week Dark Horses feature seemed a bit scanter than its Honorary Torontonians component, that’s because we were originally going to include Action Makes, an excellent local garage rock band and the newest signing to Toronto’s  Optical Sounds Records. Bass player Andrew Stoeten was nice... »

20/20 vision from Optical Sounds

By Marsha Casselman

By Richard Trapunski You’ve got to hand it to Optical Sounds. It’s underground, it’s grassroots, and it’s small, but the young Toronto record label is just so, well, cool. There’s really no other way to put it. In just a few short years and with just a few little bands, the label has managed to create an... »

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