Holy Fuck and Owen Pallet also up for Canada's equivalent of the Mercury Prize

Holy Fuck try to recreate their album’s sounds when they play, without the use of samples or laptops. It’s always made them entertaining live — it’s especially fun watching them work that film synchronizer to add in scratched and squiggles. According to photographer Andrew Youssef, the Toronto band used so...

The “Latin America” video uses lots of time-lapsed footage and live clips of the band over blurry driving scenes and foreign country explorations. The results are considerably more interesting than Band Of Horses’s time-lapse “NW Apt” video from earlier today. The video was directed by Yoonha Par...

Last week at SXSW the Toronto quartet Holy Fuck visited Radio K and performed three songs from their forthcoming third album Latin. You’ve heard “Latin America” — via Chatroulett or otherwise — but they also offered previously unreleased “Stay Lit” and “SHT MTN.&...

Canadian band set for May gigs