Can Winter Blues make you happy? How about tap your toe?

[indie at indiecan.com]

OK Music lovers,

We’re ready to get busy if you are.  We have reviews, events and radio for
you.

IndieCan gets the Winter Blues and loves it:
http://www.indiecan.com/radio.htm - read all about it
We cover The Maple Blues Awards with MonkeyJunk live at IndieCan thanks to
“team Ottawa.” Many thanks to Sean Kelly, Jenn Martin and Douglas Graham
for making it happen.  We also have guests from House of Blues + Toronto
Blues Society and great artists like Fathead, Danny Marks, Ross Neilsen
and The Suffering Bastards, Scott McCord and the Bonafied Truth, Julian
Fauth Dalannah Gail, Bowen, Keith Hallett and Jack de Keyzer.
http://www.indiecan.com/118IndieCanRadio.mp3 - listen now

REVIEWS and EVENTS:
We review David Rotundo Band’s upcoming release, “No Looking Back”
http://www.indiecan.com/reviews.htm

We cover The Maple Blues Awards, The Blues Summit IV including a special
dedication to the late Jeff Healey.  No matter what musical genre you
enjoy, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the Blues.  We have pictures, we
have commentary.  If you “got the time we got the place:”
http://www.indiecan.com/events.htm

INDIECAN WEDNESDAY at The Annex WreckRoom (Bathurst and Bloor).
For those of you within winter-driving distance of Toronto, tonight’s show
is too good to let the weather slow you down.  Patrizia blends Opera with
Rock and Metal.  Think – female Freddie Mercury (you don’t wan’t to miss
this!)  Also, Vercity includes one of IndieCan’s own.  Engineer Mike
Berengut does more than edit IndieCan Radio – come out and see this
Cerebral Grunge (AKA Geek Rock) as these boys blend their influences – I
Mother Earth, Rush, Black Sabbath, Deftones, Finger 11, Billy Talent,
Moist, Soundgarden, Ratm, Pearl Jam and Our Lady Peace.  Hey Mike – is
Raine Maida coming out to do a tune with you guys tonight?

What’s more Canadian than defying the elements for our cultural fix?

COMING UP:
Next week we introduce you to The Legions (never heard of them?  That’s
why you count on us), we talk with 25 year music veteran Danny Marks and
we get through a worthy stack of new releases.

Look for a review of the new United Steel Workers of Montreal CD in February.

Our web site is getting a face lift.  And I mean “our” website.  This is
my community and your community so speak up about what you can’t wait to
see gone and what idiosyncrasies you would bemoan the loss of.  Speak up. 
Not only can I not spell my way out of 6th Grade, I am colour blind too. 
So don’t be sitting on the sidelines.  Talk to us at:

info at indiecan.com
http://www.myspace.com/indiecanmusic

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24421965144

MUSINGS FROM BUDGET DAY
Did you know the average earnings in the music business is about $16,000 a
year?  While great efforts will be wasted on saving Nortel and the
automotive industry in the next couple of years it will be lost on
politicians that long after capitulation about Canada not being a world
force in manufacturing, musical artists will still be standing head and
shoulders along side other world leaders. Right now the world leaders in
record sales are Canadian, sitting in first and second place. I can’t see
us ever being the worlds best car manufacturers – can you?  So while our
floundering government cuts arts funding and uses that money to pay auto
executives bonuses we will just have to get along without their help.

Personally, I think every dollar investment in music would come back as
three dollars or five – and quickly.  Maybe at the next leaders’ debate,
every candidate should perform a song they wrote on guitar or piano. 
Without this kind of creative ability, we’ll keep getting 70’s style
budgets and an opposition that doesn’t even recognize the complete lack of
creative vision on the part of the ruling party.

I also read that the United Nations deems that the support of 12 Million
is required to support and legitimize a culture.  So my next goal for
IndieCan is 12 Million regular listeners.  So once again, we’re all in
this together.  To any of you that find our brand of entertainment
remarkable please don’t be shy about telling your musically inclined
friends what you like about us.  Maybe they’ll tell someone.  With more
listeners maybe we could double or triple the average earnings of a
Canadian full-time musician.  That would hardly make them obnoxious
millionaires and I suggest they will do more to make us at least as proud
of Canada  as new cars and phones will.

Over and out
.

Joe Chisholm
host
IndieCan Radio
www.indiecan.com
info at indiecan.com