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IndieCan Cares and when artists show they care we are there. August 15th, Global Rhythm from Clintons was heard around town and felt around the world. Jenn Martin's report on this and more reviews is RIGHT HERE |
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EPISODE 97 sees IndieCan going PUBLIC From Ruminal Records Sound, we treat the world to another Toronto next-big-thing - Public live at IndieCan. The Stills, Shannon Briggs, Monkey Junk and more CLICK THIS WAY
Episode 96 Is Beaches Jazz & Belle Provence live |
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View Metal Queen Music Festival commentary and images HERE
Announcements coming soon on IndieCan Radio Episode 100 Celebrations!!! - that's a lot of candles - IndieCan will be hosting a free Indie night every Wednesday at The WreckRoom (Bathurst/Bloor) - a new, better reason to to visit Toronto or if you are one of the lucky devils to live here - another blessing to count. Details coming soon. Kick off September 10th. Plan now to attend. |
Summer time and the music is indie
INDIECAN RADIO # 94 Covers artists from This year's Vans Warped Tour, Hillside highlights from this year and last, Eden Ants, winners at the 1st ever TIMAs are live at IndieCan. Tell Me More About Episode # 94
Congrats to everyone who were nominated and everyone who won at this year's Toronto Independent Music Awards July 31 @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre. Japhy Ryder pictured here, were one of many winners and they will be live at IndieCan soon.
TIMA coverage is HERE
Toronto Independent Music Awards
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 Curl up to IndieCan Radio # 93 with some indie veterans. Jenn Martin talks to critically aclaimed Julian Fauth and David Rotundo and Joe sticks to other hard working indies you've never heard of. We talk with The Free Press about Half Truths and Whole Lies, Tanya Davis about Georgeous Morning and we have lunch with Caladonia while you're trying to listen to the radio. This week, Episode 93 hits an all-time low in bad manners. Submit to our abuse RIGHT HERE.
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One Million peple took in the Toronto Beaches Jazz Festival and IndieCan Jenn was there. Pictures, commentary and interviews on our REVIEW page.
Do you have some catching up to do? We have reviews and events coverage including Warped Tour, Modern Boys Modern Girls and more. Scroll and Click, but listen to IndieCan Radio while you do. |
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Warped Tour's first Canadian stop was Toronto July 19th. Other Canuck stops, Montreal on the 20th, Saskatoon on August 5 and Calgary on the 6th. See What IndieCan saw by clicking here:
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 HEY, HEY, HEY, Episode 92 is now available for a free download featuring news on this year's Toronto Independent Music Awards, July 31, 2008 at The Phoenix Concert Theatre. Like every year, IndieCan will be there.
Also this week, HEY OCEAN from Vancouver, caught live off the floor at XM Studio jamming out some tunes and chatting with IndieCan. TAKE ME TO THE SHOW!!!
IndieCan JENN + 300,000 @OTTAWA BLUES FEST for 11 days
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Click here for IndieCan REVIEWS including Modern Boys Modern Girls and Tanya Davis with new CDs and A Tale of Two Canada Days - Funny, muscial and Beautiful with Martha Wainright and Basia Bulet
Click here to check out Toronto PRIDE 2008 on Radio - EPISODE 91 or in EVENTS
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Polaris Music Award 2008 Finalists:
• Black Mountain In The Future
• Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling
• Caribou Andorra
• Kathleen Edwards Asking For Flowers
• Holy Fuck LP
• Plants and Animals Parc Avenue
• Shad The Old Prince
• Stars In Our Bedroom After The War
• Two Hours Traffic Little Jabs
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The Polaris short list is finalized at 10 records. If you really love music from Canada and you likely have an opinion, maybe a strong opinion, like "Why the fuck was Touch Up by Mother Mother completely snubbed?" or "how did Wintersleep not make the top-10?" Or, it's a good list, I don't care who wins as long as it's not Two Hours Traffic."
But here you go, a committee of experts have declared this the top 10 records on artistic merit alone and one and only one will win the truly Canadian sum of $20,000. One of these bands will politely thank the People of Polaris but seriously, this doesn't cover the summer gas tab for any of these bands. With local radio stations giving away 100s of thousands of dollars a year in places like Ottawa and Calgary there is something slightly embarrassing about the token prize money on a National stage. Just a thought - skip the dinner and expenses and send EACH AND EVERY finalists $10,000. I know, opinions are like .... and I have one of those, I may actually be one. But just because something is good, and the Polaris Music Award is good, doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be criticized or improved upon. I see a good thing, a good start and room for growth. Anyway, here's the list, let's keep the discussion going More at POLARIS:
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Half way through a Canadian tour, Vancouver's The Painted Birds played NXNE and visited IndieCan Studios to lay down some "TPB, live at IndieCan style" and discuss the music biz differences of VanCity and what can look like Torontopia, when you are (geographically) beyond Hope (B.C.). Episode 91 opens with The Painted Birds on their painted perch, then heads back stage at the Toronto Pride main-stage to bring you up close and personal with what these people pictured below had to cram in to see and hear. We hear from Mad June of Montreal, Shitt Hottt of T.Dot and Jeffery Straker, from Saskatchewan, no Toronto, no Saskatchewan. - X-Tra, X-Tra Read all about it,
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PRIDE IN TORONTO BRINGS OUT ARTISTS AND FANS TRUE COLOURS
Toronto Pride Fans Welcome Melanie C (no relation to our own Joe C despite the name sake). Melanie C was finishing up her Canadian tour and has been constantly astonished with the support she is getting, "EMI has been great, the band and the crew have been fabulous but mostly the fans - Melanie C loves Canada." Pride Toronto was also rich in Canuck music this year with Hunter Valentine (Episode 56), Saskatchewan - Toronto Bi-coastal Jeffery Strakker and more. More Pride pics, audio and commentary coming your way soon - you know the drill, bookmark us and come back often. For now,
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God Made Me Funky and we can do the same for you!
Team IndieCan reviews NXNE, in the wee-morning hours on Episode 90 of IndieCan Radio. Come and get it y'all
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JULY 1st CANADA celebrates its birthday and IndieCan was out and about celebrating our culture, old and new
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Episode 89 of IndieCan Radio looks at Vancouver Indie Life
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This week's Radio show reviews THE NEW INDIE - a creation of The Canadian Independent Recording Artitsts' Association, (which, btw - is free to join).TNI defines the music biz today from the perspective of many stakeholders. The series has an overview + a detailed focus on Management, Labels & Publishing.
Vancouver's Dan Mangan kicks off the show as we look at NXNE and an artists insight into VanCity music life with words and music. take me to EPISODE 89 NOW |
Episode 88 of IndieCan Radio is also available for free download
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 This Week, the Focus in Canada is North By North East in Toronto. If you were there, here's what you don't remember - If you couldn't make it, trust IndieCan to bring you more NXNE than NXNE. If you were visiting Canada for the music festival we hope you liked us. Can we be your Festival Scrap Book? To the fans, you were great. Music is alive and well and it would all be B.S. if you, the fan weren't digging it the way you were. LISTEN to our last few IndieCan Radio shows to hear how much fun NXNE is/was (it lasts forever at IndieCan), CLICK Here to go to our EVENTS page to see and read more about it. Enjoy the best music you've never heard from Toronto.
Top left, True North's Rough Trade forever changed the Canadian musical landscape, born of the new-wave scene of the late '70's and '80s. Carole Pope won three Junos in that time and the 2008 NXNE opened at the Phoenix for a bitter sweet night. History was celebrated before a living room-size crowd in what was (poorly) billed as a NXNE extra. The Ember Swift Band (bottom right) opened up and delivered what we'll deem a stadium-like folk/jazz performance. Rough Trade followed which included some back-ground vocals from Oakville's Lily Frost and the crowd called out for more. It was then time for 1/2 the crowd which was the Hidden Cameras ensemble to take the stage to close the night off. A friend of IndieCan called it the "private Hidden Camera's dance party." Everyone in attendance was equally delighted by the calibre of entertainment as they were incensed on behalf of the artists that the place wasn't at over-capacity. The festival program didn't have as much ink on the artists and event, nor did the web site. This was called the Mo Retro Showcase and I am sure there is a co-promoter who's road to hell was paved with a plan to promote the event better.
Top right, Julie Doiron (Friday night at the Horseshoe) and bottom left; Matt Mays and El Torpedo (Saturday at the Horseshoe) were the "sorry you can't get in" kind of crowds that we expect at North By. Julie and Dick (Duo) was the only set that IndieCan Joe caught from beginning to end that has us speculating as to what that means - a knack for Canadiana song-writing genius, respect for the musical journey-persons of the Canadian musical landscape or soccer-mom crush - votes are still being tabulated.
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NXNE coverage begins. We continue our look at Festval artsts visiting T.Dot from out of town this week with Fernando Sanders, The Super Fantastcis and The Coackroaches. Also we take you inside the Gala Movie Premier of Cycle of Fear. Mondo Coverage coming with pictures and comentary daily. Start me with this week's podcast/radio show - Episode 87 |
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EPISODE 86 Continues our Music in Movies Theme as we look more at Twisted Pines Music in Movies. We speak with Debbie and Paul about life behind the pines, we hear from pines performers and we preview NXNE 2008 and offer some tips for this year's festival dweller. Take me to the show |
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Next week's show, Episode 87 will look back to Twisted Pines, Look ahead to NXNE and bring you with us To The indie movie premiere gala, CYCLE OF FEAR to party IndieCan Style. Cylce through Pictures NOW from the big event. |
Thanks to those in Toronto who joinded us Thrusday 29th, to celebrate Birthday Bash DEUX, The Sequel for Meg-A-Music & IndieCan Radio, which raide over $1000 for People With HIV/AIDS in Toornto. Isle of Thieves, PhotoCell, Rayna, Drwoning Girl, and Montreal's Jon Cohen Experimental rocked us into year III. Scroll down for more and then check out the commentary and pictures |
From Top left, Kelowna from XM Satellite THE VERGE, Jon Cohen Experimental, Mo from Photocell. From Bottom left, Isle of Theives, Drowning Girl and Radio host, Joe Chisholm. Choose from Dozens of Pics of May 15 and May 29 events. CLICK HERE!! and wait while it downloads. We kind of over did it, but what great memories.
CHECK OUT EPISODE 85 and Meet Garth Hudson, wife Maud and go coast-to-coast IndieCan style
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This week IndieCan Radio # 84, introduces Karen Kosowski, celebrates New Music West, reviews the Birthday Bash so nice, we're doing it twice + travels to Penatanguishine to take in Twisted Pines Film and Music Festival.
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EPISODE 84 Looks West. New Music West was going on in Vancouver so we found a Manitoba native for our 'live at IndieCan' segment who's heading west. Karen Kowsowski in touring her new CD, Meeting the Future at Full Speed in Westen Canada, we draw from our archives to bring you unreleased excerpts from mulit-platinum 54-40's Neil Osborne (who's new video is now on our myspace).
We also feature several great VanCity acts some of which are part of New Music West this year. Read All About Episode 84 and hear the show |
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photo top left top Stripped Media, top right wlrphotography.com, bottom right Greg King
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 PLAN TO ATTEND MAY 29th @ TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR as BIRTHDAY BASH DEUX (The Sequal) if YOU are in Toronto. 2007 Toronto Independent Music Award Winner, Photocell, Montreal's Jon Cohen Experimental, Rayna and Radio Star National Winners Drowing Girl Party with IndieCan Music and Meg-A-Music Toronto. Jesse Rocks covers Party Time I as IndieCan Radio and Meg-A-Music Toronto celebrate their first of two nights of Rock 'n' Roll at Tattoo Rock Parlour May 15th, 2008. The night was devoted to raising awareness and money for Missing Children's Society of Canada.
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IndieCan Cares. May is Missing Children's Month in Canada and we invite every band, every fan-zine, every label and every one who cares to post a link to Missing Children's Society of Canada on your FaceBook, Myspace and web site. One lucky visitor will win big from West-Jet. Children are everyone's responsibility. Let's do our bit to help. Together, think of the people we reach. Read More About it here and/or Click on the image. |
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A proud Canadian from Texas, shows his true colours at The Hamilton Spring Music Festival. See Gordie Johnson of Grady, The Salads and other highlights from Steel Town 2008 by
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Episode 83 of IndieCan Radio with Jeff Martin and three from DWTB
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EPISODE 83 of IndieCan Radio includes interviews with Jeff Martin and Down With The Butterfly's Dave, Ian and Kris, "live at IndieCan" from Ottawa Read all about it and download this weeks show NOW. Like an IndieCan Tea Party! |
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Happy MAY! This week on IndieCan Radio we have touring and session veteran, Sean Ashby LIVE AT INDIECAN promoting his new CD Brass and Gold. If you're not a wee-bit jealous of this guy being one of Canada's most sought after guitar players, wait until you see how Sean can write a song. Man - this show is a treat.
From AirCheck Canada, Seamus McNeil and from Skylar Entertainment, Diane Foy are here for shop-talk and as always, we go coast to coastal with an hour of great indie. LISTEN NOW, DOWNLOAD IT, RIP IT - Heck us Crazy Canucks are giving it away! Click here to learn more
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 Episode 81 of IndieCan Radio celebrates Spring in the air. Cool Planet team-mates Todd Arkell and Cam Carpenter talk shop with us. IndieCan celebrats youth this week as we bring you the masterful chops of Alex Tintinelli Live at IndieCan. Read and Hear All About It! It's all Cool
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 Co-founder of the seminal Toronto post punk band L’Etranger in the early 1980’s, Andrew Cash has had a successful solo career - An award winning Toronto singer/songwriter for 25 years with a dozen records including his most recent, Murder =, his Juno winning music has taken him on numerous North American and European tours . This week, This Cash brother is live at IndieCan and how cool is that!?!
We also introduce you this week to Isle of Theives, Hard Gear and First of June
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IndieCan starts to gear up for The Rogers Hamilton Spring Music Festival, May 8th, 9th, and 10th as part of an episode we call "THE FESTIVAL EXPRESS." We talk with the Hamilton festival founder, Rob Rapiti, we feature Vesta Varro who after Indie Week and CMW will be at Hamilton's music festival to make it three southern-Ontario music festivals in a row. So here's your chance to hear what all the fuss is about. As always we have a few more great artists to introduce you to this week as well. Take ME to read more about
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Raine Maida and friends at IndieCan.com
Raine may have rode high on life during his Our Lady Peace years, selling millions of records world wide, but Indie artist life finds Raine Maide more satisfied than ever . Maida reflects on his life with wife Chantal Kreviazuk, their two boys they are raising, conciousness raising with War Child Canada as well as giving us a private performance - take me to EPISODE 78 of IndieCan Radio for performances and insights featuring music from the all-new The Hunters Lullaby CD
Raine Maida and friends played The Phoenix Concert Theatre March 24 - Read All About It
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 RENO keeps it real on Episode 77 of IndieCan Radio as we share a rare unplugged version of some songs from their new album "Learning to talk Human." Also this week, we bring you inside Canadian Music Week with insights from The Cliks, The Good Lovelies, some learned insiders on"360 Music Marketing" Let's Go hear all about Episode 77 Now |
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More review from Canadian Music Week 2008
If you were at CMW, we share some peak experiences with you. If you couldn't be at CMW IndieCan is brings it to you -Episode 75 is now posted and we have an all-CMW show with 10 acts you can hear from this year's festival.
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| This week on IndieCan Radio hear from Tom Jackson (above - left) who teaches big-ticket world tour artists and indie bands how to create magic, memorable moments from performances on stage. He wowed CMW crowds and he shares with IndieCan what makes a great live performances. Live at IndieCan we are so happy to be bringing you the soon-to-be-released "A Pill for Everyone" from THE POPULARS. From their Fort McMurry Alberta roots to endless touring, to their time in the studio this session, The Pops share with us the evolution of this concept album. Producer Moe Berg joins the band in studio, shares his perspective and jams with the band. Let The Show Begin - take me to Episode 76 NOW. |
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Just added to IndieCan's CMW coverage: SLOAN at The Super Market, Hey Rosetta! @ the XM The Verge Live from The Gibson Show Room gig Friday night, Thursday's Savannah Room with artists from Baltimore, Halifax, Montreal Durham and Regina/Ottawa + much more.
Check out the latest right here!!!!!!
CMW Day Four, March 8th -
IndieCan wrapped up CMW at the Indies. Jeff Leake and XM Satellite hosted the 2008 Indies Awards Gala here's a link to
look at the Indies and other CMW activities. IndieCan had a great time at CMW 2008. Thanks to the organizers, the staff, Planet 3 communications, Rogers Music store and all of the volunteers who made this such a great event this year. To the artists that invited us out and we couldn't accommodate, we'll see you soon, and we look forward to it. So there may even be late reports from team IndieCan regarding the post-Indies events but I assure you we have a bundle of good content to bring your way.
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Friday March 7th
Hey Rosetta opened an XM Satellite "Live to Air" special broadcast from the Gibson Showroom as part of the day three festival. IndieCan was all over the festival for what was another great day for discovering beautiful new muisc.SaskMuisc and BC Muisc were both showing thier pride for their great artists on Toroto's Queen Street. IndieCan was recording bands, meeting fans and celebrating music in what has been the "winterest" wonderland that Canadian Music Week can remember. Flights were missed, there has been a little slipping and sliding but delegates, organizers, artists and fans take it in stride.
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Learned panellists told a packed Royal York Ballroom not to worry about slumping record sales because in the near future potato-chip companies will buy your musical rights and put your CD in a bag of chips.
Everyone clapped. What the hell is wrong with you people! Try thinking this through for a minute. I assure you IndieCan will digest this manager-label cure to our ills and come back with our commentary. I highly doubt you will find us nodding in agreement. You would have found us nodding enthusiastically to Grady's Tattoo Parlour barn burner (sorry to use a fire metaphor when referring to Queen Street West) performance. Now - if this is where the future of music is, I feel better now - to coin a phrase from The Populars new CD. Read the latest on CMW here....... |
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 It is with great regret that IndieCan announces the passing of Jeff Healey today, March 2, 2008.
Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died today (Sunday March 2) in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto. He was 41, and leaves his wife, Cristie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (three), as well as his father and step-mother, Bud and Rose Healey, and sisters Laura and Linda. Robbed of his sight as a baby due to a rare form of cancer, retino blastoma, and he started to play guitar when he was three, holding the instrument unconventionally across his lap. He formed his first band at 17, but soon formed a trio which was named the Jeff Healey Band. Lately he had been doing his Jazz thing with the Jeff Healey Jazz Wizards, but his first Blues CD in 8 years is already out in Europe and will be released in Canada in April. |
 The Big Rude News in Toronto is Jake is back. A veteran of the alternative independent Toronto scene, Big Rude is one of a double bill of influential Jakes on the Canadian music scene. IndieCan isn't about what's hot - we are about what is remarkable. The indie release Blue Pariah is a monster of a recording achievement and for my money is as important a part of a Canadian record collection as "Jagged Little Pill," "Eric's Trip," "Avoid Freud" or "Love Junk." And Jake is at it again, playing Dundas Street's The Lu Lu Lounge March 6th and yakking with IndieCan on Episode 74 of The Toronto Indie Scene. Jake Gold rounds out our Two Jakes are better than one epic episode. Co-chair of the 2008 Canadian Music Week, we let Jake get us in the mood for the week that makes Toronto the centre of the music universe for five days. Jake's been going since 1982 and we are so fortunate to get a sneak peek of what will be going on March 5th to 8th and a hint of what all the buzz will be this year.
We have some IndieCan picks of CMW artists to see this year, but for that propriatorial information you are a couple of "Cliks" away STARTING HERE!!!! |
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NEW MUSIC NIGHT for Kindling Music and The Management Trust with showcase sets by:
Dearly Beloved, Montreal's Dave Martell, Winnepeg's Seconds Away and Prescott Ontario's The Populars. SEE IT READ IT NOW |
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Can you name this member of Team IndieCan? Answer to info@indiecan.com for your chance to win a prize.
Want to see more Funk Factor pictures of The East Coast Music Awards"
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 With it's origins in Vancouver, Concerts for a Cause is now in Toronto. February 28th will be the second in the series featuring THE AVENUE and EDEN ANTS. In January CFAC (Toronto) #1 featured Howl (pictured to the right), Sadie May Crash, Ketch Harbour Wolves, The Miles and The Avenue.
Read all about CFAC # 1
HILLSIDE INSIDE at Guelph Febraury 2 - John K Sampson of The Weakertans did see his shadow, meaning there are 6 more weeks of winter.
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 HILLSIDE -INSIDE COVERAGE IS UNDERWAY - February 2nd, Guelph was treated to 10 hours that included The Weakerthans, Cuff The Duke, Tokyo Police Club, Wintersleep, Attack In Black, Shout Out Out Out Out Out, Roxanne Potvin, Bocce, City and Colour, Xavier Rudd and more.
INDIECAN is taking about Hillside on Episode 72 which also feature the Zappa-like funk of Ottawa's F - TheBand Live At IndieCan. This is a treat. Also, Paul Murphy of Wintersleep talking to us with Dallas Green of City and Colour singing in the background. I mean, where are you going to hear that!?!
Read and see more on HILLSIDE INSIDE on our EVENTS page so check that out here.
Let me listen to Episode 72, Click here to get your Funk Fill.
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 Some of Team IndieCan (Meg-A-Music Mary, Joe, Kings Entertainment, Raquel, Hopper Grass Woodstock and EyeOnIndie Douglas assemble in T.Dot for the Paragon Awards. HOT OFF THE PRESS: Episode 71 features great bands from coast-to-coast including Ottawa's Love Machine and Donkey Punch.
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 The JOYS, a London Ontarion Indie Band Go GOLD
TORONTO, January 22, 2008 - The Joys, a London, Ontario-based rock act have been Certified Gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. The Joys drummer Archie reflects on receiving the Gold Record: ""This award is really cool, but more a testament to our fans than anything; they were the ones that made it possible. In this age of downloading and file sharing, it's nice to see a solid fan-base that supports its favorite band and actually BUYS the cd's; my hats off to them!""
The Joys are a popular, yet still unsigned recording act, that have independently sold over 19,000 CDs at their two hundred plus performances per year. They have been the recipient of several industry awards including "Best Female Fronted Rock Act" Toronto Independent Music Awards, "Favorite Pop / Rock Act" at the 2004, 2005,2006 and 2007 London Music Awards, and "Best Live Act" at the Toronto Independent Music Awards. The Joys also have songs appearing in a new television series, "Chris and John To The Rescue", on OUTtv and have licensed a song to the feature film CAKE starring Heather Graham, Taye Diggs, and Cheryl Hines from
Curb Your Enthusiasm. PlayStation 2 is also using a Joys' song in a commercial laying at the Air Canada Centre during sporting events. Lead singer for The Joys, Sarah Smith, said, "Receiving a gold record was a childhood dream come true! It's a moment that I'll always cherish, but I hope it's just the first of many gold records that will line my walls. It's a wonderful injection of motivation at a time when we're about to head back out on the road for an extended period of time."
IndieCan was at the Toronto Gold Party held Friday February 8th at the Horseshoe Tavern. The Joys as well as The Free Press, The Rockafellers and Voyd put on a great show. Read all about it on our REVIEWS page. Check out The Joys here!!!!!!!!!
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 NEWS: Ultimate Indie was granted a CRTC licence for 100% Canadian, 100% Indie, 100% of the time. The TV programming will be launced some time in 2008. The channel will become one part of Ultimate Indie's planned meshwork of TV, internet and mobile broadcasting that will feature 100% Canadian musical artists from all genres who are not affiliated with the major multinational music companies.
Right now you can go to Ultimate Indie and browse videos and songs. Artist, set up your own page and sign up for their news letter. For more from Jeff Butler, hear what he has to say on IndieCan Radio Episode 61 |
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 La Belle Provence on Show 70
Another IndieCan first as we bring you the Quebec City Indie Scene. We get post-Rock with Marie Jorge and her musical act, Void's Anatomy live at IndieCan.
Also as part of Episode 70 we are so pleased to sit down and catch up with XM Satelitte Radio's Jeff Leake. Click here to listen and/or read more...
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2008 on IndieCan Radio kicks off with Episode 69 - including funkfactor's award winning photographer,Chris Smith (who's work is featued above) as well as a look at the Ottawa Indie Scene with THE COGGS live at IndieCan in Whitebird Studios -- 
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What does IndieCan have to say about the January 5th show feariing The United Steel Workers of Montreal, The Cockroaches and The Unsettlers. Read it here! |
Happy New Year! IndeCan Reviews highlights of the year with a licence to thrill: '007
2007 was magical for music in Canada. We just don't do "Best of" shows. Who's to say - you are. You don't need us or any broadcaster to spoon feed you what's best for you. PHUCK RADIO we say. Let's celebrate music!!!
REVIEW part 1 and part II - 2 one-hour shows.
Hear it / download it now
Visitors to IndieCan's Five Favorite Photo Galleries of 2007
Celebrate Canada Day with 54-40, The Rock Star House Band, Faber Drive, Trophy, Ralley Car, Afternoon Zero, Vanderpark, Pat the White and more.
NXNE as seen by IndieCan with You Say Party! We Say Die, USWM and more.
Punk it Up! D.O.A. visits Toronto and hams it up and talks it up with IndieCan
Canadian Music Week's The Indies Awards Ceremony with Wolf Mother, The Stills, Never Ending White Light, Rough Trade and more.
The Music Cafe with Lily Frost, Great Lake Swimmers, United Steel Workers of Montreal, Hunter Valentine, Justin Rutledge, St. Alvia Cartel, et al. and HillSide Music Festival with Mother Mother, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, The Dears, Sebastian Granger, Danielle Duval, Camping and fun,
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GET YOUR KICKS WITH EPISODE 66
This weeks Radio Show opens up in Halifax as IndieCan bring you the full Don Bronwrigg "live at IndieCan." session. Don and Julie Doiron pictured below are two of the great artists honoured with East-Coast Music Awards nominations. Congrats also to Jenn Grant, Down With The Butterfly, The Superfantatics, Wintersleep, Nathan Wiley, Hey Rosetta, Joel Plaskett, Rebekah Higgs (all of whom we've recently features) + all the other worthy nominees.
Also on this weeks show we talk to Darryl Hurs of Indie Week Toronto who is already planning for next fall's event.
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High on Halifax
IndieCan looks at The Halifax Indie Scene with a revisit of some of the best hospitalitality we found at HPX 2007
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 When IndieCan visited Halifax POP Explosion back in October 2007 our Coast-to-Coast dream's last Internet super-highway spike was hammered in as Team Halifax was established. It was exactly a year prior that we were in Vancouver's Vertical Production Studios for episodes 20 and 21 which were the first ever shows recorded outside of Toronto. Now, Episode 65 features some of the first live recordings from the east coast. It's all new again as you'll hear on this weeks show (you'll know what we're talking about when you tune in -- our first interview sounds like a construction zone recording) but the music is fabulous and the shows more fun that CRTC regulates. We introduce you to Pamela Under Water and TEAM HALIFAX as well as other great indie music from sea to shining sea and beyond. CLICK HERE TO GET TO EPISODE 65 - THE HALIFAX INDIE SCENE :-)
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The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
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"The owner of the club and the guy that books the place are down front playing air guitar" Waco Brothers singer, Jon Langford
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WILL YOU STILL NEED ME, WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME WHEN I AM 64? 
Listen Now if you still love Indie. Episode 64 is here and includes Neill Dixon of CMW (pictured on the right) giving us a world-wide tour of misic festivals and conferences. Hear what he's hearing and saying about Canadian music at Miden, SXSW, Australia and more. Also this week we hear from artists in Calgary, Southern Ontario, Quebec City and Halifax including some new finds at COCA, HPX and The Grey Cup. Read more... hear more...all about Show 64.
Toronto - Nov 25th, 2007: Canadiana Tailgate Party - The Canadian Football League's Grey Cup sees under-dogs Saskatchewan and Winnepeg in Toronto for the great white north fall classic
 Football fans and music fans come together as Toronto put on a Grey Cup week to remember. The entertainment bill could make you forget there was an important football game to play if had...say, one or two, too many. If you could pace yourself this week in Toronto you could have taken in IllScarlet, Sloan, The Salads, April Wine, Teanage Head, Great Big Sea, The Bare Naked Ladies, Kim Mitchell, Spirit of the West, The Pascale Picard Band and Lenny Kravitz. Cogratulations from IndieCan Radio to the Saskatchewan Rough Riders and the loyalist fans in all of sport, Rider-nation. For all the IndieCan Grey Cup photos click here and enjoy.
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EXTRA, EXTRA --READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! IndieCan Book store now stocks books by by "What is Indie" producer Dave Cool and Berklee College of Music Director of Career Development, Peter Spellman. There are several to choose from. Your Successful CD Release is $17 for the PDF. Is it worth it? Spend money cautiously I say, but for the whole IndieCan two cents worth ...
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THIS JUST IN: Ember Swift can now explain to IndieCan the meaning of "Independent by Identity, not by default" in Mandarin, and other Rhyme Crimes by Joe Chisholm...
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| ...but we make it up to as Ember and Lyndell of The Ember Swift band open up an hour long feature of Canada's great songwriters, including these two international exports, second generation song writing, alt-everything from British Columbia to Nova Scotia. We also go behind the scenes of the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities as we vist Border City Rocks in Windsor Ontario. Hear All About It Now |
 we cover The Weakerthans and Jenn Grant. Take ourClick Trip
THIS JUST IN: Canadian Music Week (March 5 to 8, 2008) has just announced that deadlines have been extended until the end of November. The Indies Awards include almost 30 categories so check it out and see if you or a band you love should be nominated. Also, FESTIVAL spots are still available so plan to attend Toronto this March and apply now. CMW WED SITE. Listen in on a special interview with Neill Dixon, CMW President. (coming soon).
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 EPISODE 62 with Josh Bartholomew - a rhyme who's time has come to mind. Josh gives us back-to-back CMW Radio Star winners, and the only reason that's note worthy is we have big news this week about Canadian Music Week March 5 to 8 2008: IndieCan spoke with CMW President Neill Dixon this week who reports that deadlines for both the Festival and nominations for The Indie's Awards are extended to the end of November. If you
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are a band or know a band in Canada or somewhere else in the world let's all go to to CMW 2008. CLICK to learn more. Mr. Dixon's interview will be posted on our School of Rock Page soon.
From Live at IndieCan with Josh, we travel to Halifax POP Explosion where we catch up with Executive Director Waye Mason, Montreal's Besnard Lakes, Halifax's The Superfantastics and P.E.I.'s Jenn Grant who is opening for the sold out Weakertans tour. We caught up with her back stage at The Phoenix  Concert Theatre back in T.Dot. So this week, secrets will be revealed : Why are Montreal and Halifax music acts creating such a buzz world-wide. We also look at why and when artists leave small town Canada for the big cities and what they're looking for.
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NOW POSTED FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE: Episode 60 featuring EDEN ANTS from Toronto, an award winning fixture of the Toronto indie community. Also, we'll talk about the Toronto Songwriters Festival and the Jai Dee Childrens Charity organizers and artists raised money for. Eden Ants will also talk about their cause, The Canadian Centre for Adiction and Mental Health. This week we also start our Halifax POP Explosion coverage. Click RADIO tab to stream or download the show now.
(Above) Eden Ants live at IndieCan with Andre Skinner engineering at Redline Recorders
IndieCan just returned from The Halifax POP Explosion enjoying east-coast hospitality and great music from around the world. Episode 60 shares some of those east-coast highlights
CHECK OUT THE FIRST TWO NIGHTS PICS -We have enjoyed Halifax bands The Super Fantastics,I See Rowboats, Husband and Knife and Laura Peek and the Winning Hearts. From Sackville NB, Blue Heeler, from Montreal, Besnard Lakes and from Toronto, The Bicycles. Coming soon, we'll hear from Waye Mason, executive director of HPX as well as some insights from the bands and Douglas and Joe who are in Halifax now. We have a tonne of great music and pictures to share.
Over 100 Toronto Independent Music Award Pictures Now Posted!!!
Another 100 Pics to prove we don't sleep -We just eat, breath, smell INDIE
INDIE WEEK is in TORONTO And INDIECAN IS THERE.
Here's some sneak previews Read and See Indie Week...
FIDGET Missy, I said FIDGET - Let's get restless on this week's show as we invite Toronto's female musical attention deficit disorder spokespersons, FIDGET into IndieCan Studio. It seems it's contagious as we bounce off the walls as well with early reports on Indie Week and an over-due report on MQ Music Fest from several weeks ago. Hey, we fidget too.... as so should you, so check out this week's radio show, Episode 59!
From KELOWNA we bring you THE SLED DOGS in Episode 58 of the Toronto Indie Scene. We go coast-to-coast, stopping by THE POLARIS MUSIC AWARDS GALA. Toronto just celebrated The TORONTO INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS and we are on deck For INDIE WEEK which will be an intense influx of great music in Toronto.
The 2007 Toronto Independent Music Awards packed The Phoenix Concert Theatre with a stunning night that celebrated great music from all genres. Read and see more...
photos Wendy L Rombough
EPISODE 57 features Tim's Myth as we review The Montreal Indie Scene including our "live at IndieCan" with Tim Smith from Production DNA in Montreal. Dave Cool is also a guest as we review Salon de La Musique Indiependante de Montreal. Take Me there!!!
Meet the Band (click for Picture Gallery of Tim's Myth at The El Mo)
The 2007 Polaris Music Prize was awarded Monday September 24 at a Gala at The Phoenix Concert Centre. 10 recordings, evaluated on artistic merit alone were up for contention. Performances on the evening included Miracle Fortress, Julie Doiron, Patrick Watson, The Joel Plaskett Emergency and The Besnard Lakes. Also nominated were Chad VanGaalen, Feist, The Dears and Archade Fire. And the winner of the $20,000 Polaris Music Prize is ... |
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