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EPISODE 18: The Dirty Nil

he Dirty Nil’s jagged, no-bullshit garage rock sounds like Blue Album Weezer crushed to death underneath a blown Marshall stack: melodic, memorable, and very, very, very loud. We invited the trio over for Pizza Pops and Steam Whistle — more than enough to coerce them in to a blaring performance of “Little Metal Baby Fist.”

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[chart tv] NOISEMAKERS EP. 18: The Dirty Nil – “Little Metal Baby Fist”

By Dan Busheikin

at 6:09 PM on Jan 03, 2013

The Hamilton trio play a kitchen gig for Pizza Pops and beer. Don't you wish you were in a rock band?

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[chart tv] NOISEMAKERS EP. 17: The Elwins cover Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”

By Dan Busheikin

at 1:59 PM on Dec 19, 2012

The Elwins give Mariah Carey's holiday classic an indie pop makeover.

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[chart tv] NOISEMAKERS EP. 16: Digits

By Dan Busheikin

at 2:18 PM on Dec 05, 2012

We caught Digits performing an earlier song, "Rachel Marie," at Steam Whistle's 24th Unsigned concert showcase, and spoke to him about his craft.

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[chart tv] NOISEMAKERS EP. 15: Mac DeMarco

By Dan Busheikin

at 1:47 PM on Nov 27, 2012

Mac performs his Ode to Viceroy in our living room, and shouts out to his bros in Alpha Cappa Something.

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[chart tv] NOISEMAKERS EP 14: Absolutely Free

By Dan Busheikin

at 3:14 PM on Nov 20, 2012

The band invited us into their practice space (located in a nearly impenetrable underground tunnel maze) for a performance of “UFO,” a buzzing carnival whirligig that sounds like bits of more genres than we have space to name.

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NOISEMAKERS EP 13: Sloan

By Dan Busheikin

at 12:49 PM on Nov 06, 2012

Sloan allowed our cameras in to their recording space to capture a performance of "Worried Now" from their championed 1994 record Twice Removed.

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NOISEMAKERS EP. 12: The Antlers

By Dan Busheikin

at 12:56 PM on Oct 10, 2012

The Antlers perform an expansive and frustratingly beautiful rendition of "Drift Dive" from 2012's Undersea EP, and tell us about the dramatic changes in their lives.

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NOISEMAKERS EP. 11: Odonis Odonis

By Dan Busheikin

at 2:09 PM on Oct 01, 2012

Watch Toronto's own Odonis Odonis bring their "industrial surf-gaze" to Steam Whistle's Unsigned #23, and speak with us about their modest aspirations as a band.

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NOISEMAKERS EP. 10: Phédre

By CHARTattack

at 3:26 PM on Sep 24, 2012

Relentless, challenging and maybe unstoppable, Toronto experimental collective Phédre might take over the world. But for this edition of NOISEMAKERS, they settled for a basement, and performed a never-before-heard song.