This is one for all you aspiring indie bands out there: Jordan Holman and Mark LeRoy of the Toronto indie band Vas Vega sent their four song demo off to the five producers that they most wanted to work with. Remarkably, it all happened for them. Two months later they were in London recording with Chris Potter (Rolling Stones, U2, The Verve). with the first taste from that session the beautiful single above. The video was directed by Jonathan Bensimon.

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Toronoto-based guitarist and vocalist Adam Cooper explained to me that he wants to make people sick with his band, Orn, much the way French shock films such as Irreversible do. When the trio hit the stage at the Smiling Buddha in Toronto, I understood exactly what he meant.

Beneath the crushing doom and glass-gargling screeches, a low churning emanates from Cooper’s amps via a subtly employed delay pedal. It was barely perceptible beneath the loud guitars, but much like the spinning camera movements in Gaspar Noe’s devastating film, it made me want to vomit.

We checked in with Jimmy Shaw from Toronto group, Metric, and asked him about the music that inspired their latest recording, Fantasies. He started by propping the Rolling Stones’ classic, Exile On Main Street: ‘I set up a turntable because my friend left all of his DJ records at my house for a year and a half. It’s the only non hip-hop record, which is funny because all they were doing was trying to sound black. Either way, the record is warped and sounds awesome’. Read the rest of Metric’s Secret Playlist.