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IndieCan
Radio this week visits the Pride Toronto music
stages, introduces Ottawa's Dirty Beloved
and retuns to North by North East
From
Whitebird Studios in Ottawa we rock the radio
air waves with Dirty Beloved. We bring you
some of the music of Pride Toronto and we
made another dent in our NXNE CD stack. Over
the hour we have Caledonia from Halifax, Hannah
Georgas from Vancouver, Justin Bental from
Alberta, Jen Lane from Saskatchewan (hard
to spell, easy to draw), The Lovely Killbots,
THe Most Serene Republic, Carole Pople and
Geoffrey the Giant
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It
Came from Toronto - the Radio Show spawned
by North BY North East (Part
1) - IndieCan hits the streets June
17, 18, 19, 20 |
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Halifax to Vancouver, the best music you've never
heard was celebrated in T.Dot and IndieCan-iacs
were bouncing from club to club and venue to venue
like pong balls on crack. We chill in the hotel
with Maggie Martin of EMI
Music Publishing to talk shop and find out
what brought her from L.A. to T.O. We compare
notes with Melanie Schade of Indie
Solo. One of the IndieCan bands that left
with Jumo hardware this year filled Dundas Square
with sound so we kick off the show with Wintersleep.
Then we hear from host town acts, Afterparty,
Justin
Rutledge and
Fjord Rowboats, we go west for Axis
of Conversation, Laura
Smith,
Language-Arts, Perfect
Hour, we go QC for
Zeros and Flotilla
and west on the 401 for Olenka
and the Autumn Lovers. While you're listening
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musical exchange - IndieCan embarks on our first
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Rock you tenderly and Folk you hard in Episode
136. I find it is best just to make nebulous statements.
More explaination reduces the chance of being
thoght of as profound. However, I will tell you
that this week we do something so new and exciting
I am gitty just writing this. The Great
Lake Swimmers are touring their new record,
"Lost Channels." Stories of this Toronto's
band's sell-out performances overseas are part
of present day folklore as indie music artists
and industry muse about how it "could and
should" be over a cold one. So, I had to
check this out for myself. From The
Glee Club in Birmingham England we were part
of a sell-out crowd enjoying the Great Lake Swimmers.
We bring you the after-show interview with Tony
Dekker. Also, we talk with the man who books Great
Lake Swimmers in Birmingham, Markus
Seargent, about the UK's fascination with
Canadian indie music.
Also
this week, Madison
Violet, Jerome
Godoo, The
Compound, Lily
Frost, Corbin
Murdoch and The Nautical Mile, Rude
Boy, a new project from Winnipeg called
Record
of The Week Club and the UK's Tara
London.
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This week is Retro IndieCan with snippets from our three years of archive. We hear the tasty tunes of Dearly Beloved, The Audrey's (going vinyl) and My Darkest Days and “live at IndieCan” chat and performances from The Strip, Tim’s Myth, Chameleonize, Don Brownrigg and Young Rival It’s a tour from
Halifax to
Montreal, to
Toronto to
Hamilton, starting with Hamiltonians, preparing for NXNE and Canadian tour chatting to us about vinyl from the
Halifax Pop Explosion. We hope you like our show J
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Hamilton
or "The Hammer" as locals call it is home
to a first class musical treat every year - the Rogers
Spring Music Festival. Hear all about it - Click this
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We
check in with festival director, Rob
Rapitti to get the "behind the scenes"
on this years edition of the spring music festival.
We hear from
Grady and other out of town visitors, Mach
22 and representing from Ontario, Apollo's
Down and The
Free Press - all part of the 2009 festival. Next
week we'll have more with Jay Sparrow and The Spades.
see Grady on IndieCan
Crappy-CAM
Also
this week, let's look at a couple of tracks from Caledonia's
new CD as well as Poor Marqus (which I am still not
sure if it's pronounced " Marcus" or "Marks"),
Jody
Glenham, Sara Hays, John
Pippus and A
Minute Away
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Episode
129 features new releases buzzing in 2009
Big
Ideas, Mike
Evin, WakingupCrosseyed,
Public,
United
Steel Workers of Montreal, Ladyhawk,
Sean
Jones, Bavura,
more Wet Secrets, White
Cowbell Oklahoma, Blackie
& the Rodeo Kings, Chad
VanGaalen and from Vancouver we talk to Alan
Doyle on the Juno red carpet and we remember
Superbeing
- a band with a new brand, but we look back
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Juno
winners The
Stills (Montreal), Juno performer
Kathleen Edwards (Hamilton), Juno Cup team-mates
Dearly
Beloved (Toronto) and Acres
of Lions (Vancouver) are part of Episode 127.
From Saskatchewan, Jeffery
Straker and Ultimate
Power Duo, from Edmonton, My
Sister Ocean and from Nova Scotia, Andrew
Hunter will be loud and proud this week but first,
the "vintage" stylings of
Stephen Fearing of True
North Records - live at IndieCan from XM Radio's
street front studio in Toronto, talking about his
solo work, what's next for Blackie
& the Rodeo Kings, his new home in Halifax
and touring with Catherine
MacLellan. More back
stage & front row JUNOs
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Fearing, The Stills, Rob Higgins, scores
Juno Cup winning goal against NHL legends |
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is in a Juno Town kinda' mood this week so we are leaning
on Vanocuver artists with The
Pack A.D., The
Flairs, Joey
Keithley's Band of Rebels,
Elias and
Roche Limit. Also - bands we saw Juno Week - Dan
Mangan, Said
the Whale (working on a new CD now) and 54-40,
who put on what we thought was the week's highlight
show. Also this week, Static
Lab, Manana
and next week's feature artist,
Stephen Fearing. It's our great pleasure to share
our conversation with Radio Hall of Fame inductees for
2009, April
Wine. 11 times since 1969 when the band hit the
scene, they have been Juno nominees. |
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April
Wine @ Canadian Music Week. See more
April Wine here: See more
Junos
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CMW
2009 in review by IndieCan Radio freatureing Vanderpark
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performs some of the music
that got them featured in This year's Canadian Music
Fest + lays down something brand new for IndieCan listeners;
Neill
Dixon, festival president, gives us a recap of the
festival, tradeshow and conference that was; we travel
through the streets of Toronto catching up with Saskatchewan's
We
Were Lovers, Juno bound
Hey Rosetta! and The
Midway State, New Jersey CMW
visitors, Jet
Lag Gemini, Amos
The Transparents, from Ottawa, Vancouver's Radio
Star winners, The
Latency and host town festival closers, Make
Your Exit See Vanderpark
live @ IndieCan Catch more
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Episode
122 features Northern Ontario's Angie Nussey live
at IndieCan + more of our chat with Peter Spellman,
co-author of "Your Successful CD Release."
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week we introduce The
Done Fors, The
Parlotones, Roche
Limit, Sab,
Peace
Work and the
Russel Leon Band. Ember
Swift, a career artist with 10 Do It Yourself CDs
to her credit is often referred to in the book, "Your
Successful CD Release" co-authored by Montreal's
Dave Cool and Berklee School of Music Director of Career
Development, Peter Spellman who chats with us about
CD sales in the 21st century. Angie
Nussey, winner of several awards for performance
and song-writing was first introduced to IndieCan at
the Toronto Independent Music Awards and has been on
our "must have" list ever since. This week's
show opens with performance and conversation with Angie
Nussey
more
pics from Wendy L. Rombough & The Verge
XM Radio Studio HERE |
HOW
GREAT WAS '08? Year in Review Part II
2008
In Review II# 115(click/download)
2008
In Review II# 115(click/stream)
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so our Year in review isn't very sophisticated, because
it was all so good. We shuffled the deck, started from
the top and crammed in what we could, but it worked
out pretty darn remarkable. Here we go - Alphabetically,
we have: Jim
Armstrong, Don
Brownrigg, Caledonia,
The
Cockroaches, Creepshow
The
Free Press, The
I Spies, The
John Henrys, The
Midway State, Mother
Mother, The
Painted Birds, Justin
Rutledge, Staylefish,
The
Unsettlers and Mike
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This
week, IndieCan can't get over our Montreal love-in
so we have some spill over - USWM + Adam
and Amethysts + an interview with one of IndieCan
Wednesdays highlights - October
Sky. Also from our Wednesday at the Annex WreckRoom
in Toronto: Edmonton's, 40
Thieves and Calgary's the
Wax Poets. I proclaim on the show that "next
week The Wax Poets" will be live at IndieCan.
That session is recorded and in on-deck, but I am
saving it now until after my "The Great 08"
Year in Review which will take two shows to do proper
justice to.
We
cross the Atlantic in two ways this week. Toronto's
The
Outfit has morphed into Les
Gars, re-branding themselves in the UK. Son
of Dave and Hospital
Bombers are trying to increase their musical scope
by enduring themselves to Canadian music fans and
I think we should adopt them. Both bands are making
shovelling Canadian inroads and we're proud to bring
them to you. Our cross-Canada trip includes, from
Saskatchewan's deep-freeze The
Blood Lines and Pearson,
from frosty "Winterpeg" we have Twilight
Hotel, we solve some secrets about ghost tracks
by Mother
Mother in Vancouver and from T.Dot we feature
the eagerly awaited CD from The
Strip + we open with a Justin
Rutledge track with a song about loved ones that
are missing. So from IndieCan to everyone who finds
their bloodlines incomplete this time of year, our
thoughts are with you.
Check out October Sky, 40 Thieves
and other IndieCan Wednesdays performances HERE.
Wax Poets HERE
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week is our "Advanced Copy" show.
Blackie
and The Rodeo Kings have a compilation CD not yet
released and we got one from True North to share with
you. Flying
Eyes had their CD release November 22 and we have
it, Anthony Gomes and
The New Soul Cowboys are up to something new, too.
Every heard of Nineteen
Seventy-seven or The
WitHouts? Now you're getting how this works - of
course not - you hear it first on IndieCan Radio.
From
Calgary,
Wax Poets were at IndieCan Wednesday's as part
of a cross-Canada tour. Their CD comes out officially
upon their return, but we have it for you this week.
Also on the show, "live at IndieCan" flashbacks
from Raine
Maida and Once
Just, Night Flowers
who come to IndieCan Wednesday soon and from Newfoundland,
Sherry
Ryan
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- IndieWeek 2008
This
week we celebrate the 5th year of Toronto's
IndieWeek, a festival that has grown to be better
and better every time. This week we hear from Iguanadonho,
Marky
Ray about his 30 years of indie bands and stadium
headliners.
Our
all IndieWeek musical features include, from yester-years,
Peter
Katz and The Curious, Hello
Beautiful, and Vesta
Varro. In this year's competition, The
Dunes, Hello
Bella, Bella
Clava, Walter
Mitty and The Realists, Christina
Maria, Isle
of Thieves, The
Free Press and Ontario Independent Music Award
winners, Fidget.
- It's a good one, bet you can't listen just once.
While
you're listening, check out the
pictues and commentary on IndieWeekntary
on our events page
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Radio Episode 101 - Babes for Breasts + David Usher
on social media (see how Facebook, Myspace and Twitter
changed Music)
Babes
for Breasts organizers and performers Amanda
Rheaume and Ana
Miura chat and perform at
Whitebird Studios in Ottawa, also form Ottawa,
Rory
Gardiner, Mike
Yates and the Candidates and Iconoclast.
Montreal is represented by Sule
and Plants
and Animals, Vancouver has
Lindsay
May and The
Painted Birds - Crash
Parallel are touring with and in support of the
new recording, "Wake Up and Say Good Bye,"
released by David
Usher September 23rd. David was at PodCamp
Montreal September 20th, talking to social media
geeks and freaks about the impact of YouTube, Myspace,
Twitter and Facebook on how songwriters and fans relate
to each other. Much of what he shared with podcasters,
he covers off in a conversation with Joe Chisholm.
We also hear from Matt
Mays & El Torpedo and Saturna
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IndieCan
Radio # 101 (click/stream)
bonus
time (things to do while listening to IndieCan Radio)
CLICK
HERE TO SEE PICS FROM PODCAMP
MONTREAL & INDIECAN's EPISODE 100 Party in OTTAWA
CLICK
HERE TO SEE DAVID USHER and friends, LIVE IN TORONTO
CLICK
HERE TO SEE EPISODE 100 FUN IN TORONTO from September
17th with The Painted Birds, The Februarys and DR.
dFunkt
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Episode
100 finds us at the Toronto International Film
Festival's Canadian
Music Cafe, celebrating three days of music in
one hour with special attention on Montreal's newbie
Final
Flash and second-generation Martha
Wainwright, Collingwood's Midway
State, Whistler's Ali
Milner, Toronto's Gentleman
Reg, St. Cat's City
and Colour, Ottawa's Kyrie
Kristmanson, P.E.I.'s Two
Hour Traffic and coast-to-coast Jill
Barber. 2007's Music Cafe is where we met Justin
Rutledge (Episode 99) so we shout out last year with
some new Die
Mannequin. We also talk to someone who knows something
about Music supervision, himself, this year's Cafe
Coordinator, Michael
Perlmutter
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#98:
A show we call "Friends Down in Flames"
As
we approach epic Episode 100 we are in a reflective
mood at IndieCan. This week we look at carnage - great
Canadian bands that have fallen by the wayside since
IndieCan came on the scene in 2006. Fortunately these
artists left behind a great legacy of music that we
were lucky enough to be a part of. We remember Tacoma
Redd, The
Darns, Anti-Hero,
Aide de Camp and
Lucy - may they Rest In Peace.
Still
alive and well we have new music from Latefallen,
Black
Diamond Bay (Patrick Krief), Ben
Sures, Elliott
Brood and next week's feature artist, Justin
Rutledge. We are also pleased to introduce, for
the first time at IndieCan - Night
Flowers.
Hey,
if you like this weeks' show TELL YOUR FRIENDS, send
an email, start a Facebook group. Over 100,000 listened
in during August. Wouldn't it be cool if we had 1
Million listeners by Show 100. Now that would be special
-lol. Enjoy the music, share your thoughts. We're
listening. Hf you like this weeks' show TELL
YOUR
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IndieCan
Radio goes PUBLIC in Episode 97 as
we are pleased to welcome into the world of IndieCan
listeners, Toronto's Public,
live at IndieCan. We are live from a facility new
to IndieCan - Ruminal Record Sound in Port Credit
where we hope to bring more great IndieCan finds to
you. Also this week, Jenn is in Ottawa talking to
MonkeyJunk,
we have new Shannon
Lee Briggs and The
Stills, we introduce Tamara
Miller and The
Sourkeys, a few of you have been bugging us with
requests so we have The
Chronicles, Bukkake
Katholik and Julian
Fauth, as requested.
IndieCan
Radio # 97 (click/download)I
IndieCan
Radio # 97 (click/stream)
SEE
MORE PUBLIC PICS,
recording at Ruminal Records Sound - While you're
listening this week, we are thinking about Episode
100 coming soon and what we think about
that milestone doesn't mean a pinch of fly shit compared
to what you think about that mile-stone. Be heard,
praise us, bitch at us, tell us how we should be doing
things, we actually care. We're on Myspace
or as Monkey Junk would say, come sit on our Face
Book and tell us what you really think.
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HILLSIDE
Main Stage fans pictured above were some of 5,000
daily visitors.
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Episode
94 is a Mixed Bag of summer time music fun as we start
our Hillside coverage, with some memories of last
year's
Mother Mother performance,
Broken
Social Scene and Spiral
Beach (Catch
more Hillside 25 on our EVENTS page
while you listen), Toronto
Independent Music Awards
made us nostalgic so we have Eden
Ants, winners at the
first ever TIMA awards at IndieCan studios and from
Warped Tour, we have The
Creep Show, Staylefish,
One
Night Band and then
we bounce from coast to coast with Briana
Stewart, Birthday Boy
Jim
Armstrong and recent
Videofact award winners, Down
With The Butterfly
IndieCan
Radio # 94 (click/download)
IndieCan
Radio # 94 (click
to stream)
Next
week, more Hillside with East-Coast's Jenn Grant live
at IndieCan, Justin Rutledge, Mandibles, The Monster
Show, Bass Lions and we check in with Spiral Beach,
Plants and Animals, Land of Talk and Hillside Office
Manager, Jessie O'Donnell
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GOD
MADE ME FUNKY was one NXNE highlight, rockin' at the
Reverb!
IndieCan
hangs with God
Made Me Funky from in-store appearances to closing
out NXNE @ the REVERB, to back stage and talking shop.
Dig it, this show will make you funky too. Also this
week,
Public, The
Pack AD, Hello
Beautiful, The
Johnstones and Modern
Boys Modern Girls. Also this week we hear about
what the mysterious world of Publishing look like
now in THE
NEW INDIE coutesy of The Canadian Recording Artists
Association. You are one click away from getting informed,
finding God and getting Funked up right:
IndieCan
Radio # 90 click/download
IndieCan
Radio # 90 click
to stream
See
More God Made Me Funky in store, at the Reverb, back
stage
RIGHT
HERE
above photos by Jenn Martin, jennmartin99.hotmail.com
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Vancouver's
Dan Mangan, live at IndieCan - lucky us!
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Episode
90 of IndieCan Radio is here featuring North By Northeast,
Vancouver style. We look at the VanCity indie scene
with Dan
Mangan live at IndieCan with bassist, John Walsh.
Dan was the man, that brought IndieCan to the west
coast - all will be revealed in this weeks show. We
also feature NXNE-west festival highlights with The
Pack AD, Said
The Whale + Saskatchewan's The
Blood Lines, Halifax's Rebekah
Higgs, Indie legend Carole
Pope, who teamed up with Kevan Staples and crew
for a Rough Trade show and Lotus
Child which is another shout out to IndieCan's
first VanCity sojourn.
From
our industry insider files we have an exciting project
to tell you about. The Canadian Independent Recording
Artist's Association has produced THE
NEW INDIE which is an in depth look how the music
biz works these days with insights from a world renowned
think-tank of artists and insiders. We preview this
program, which is available in a 4-CD box-set or as
a free podcast. This will be the first in a two-part
review, this Episode and next. You can jump ahead
and learn more from IndiePool.
IndieCan
Radio # 89 click/download
IndieCan
Radio # 89 click
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Legends
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Kosowski "live at IndieCan" |
IndieCan
celebrated the week of New
Music West with a "go west young music fan"
leaning. From Winnigeg, living in Toronto and now
touring Western Canada, Karen
Kosowski is our live-at-indieCan feature act.
Recorded at her CD Release Party at the Rivoli with
Philosopher King connection, Sunshine State, IndieCan
is pleased to bring you this female fronted "Coldplay-esque"
stylings and some candid chat on Queen Street West
about maturing as a song writer.
From
our archive of great interviews we bring so previously
unheard excerpts from Neil
Osborne of 54-40 on music videos, the cosmic energy
of live performance and more Zen-Rock wisdom. Bellevue
is our only true east band and then it's all west-coast
with The
Flairs, Daniel
Wesley, The
Smears and 54-40.
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Osborne from the IndieCan vault |
IndieCan
Radio # 84 (click/download)
IndieCan
Radio # 84 (click
to stream)
Joe
Chisholm wishes he could have been with friends in
Vancouver for New Music West but that's no reason
not to devote a show to you. Check out the new word
- peace video featuring Neil Osborne called
Northern Soul
This
new video will grow on you if you let it. Everyone
should see it at least once - maybe twice.
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If
all the word is a stage Sean Ashby may have played them
all
Alex
Tintinalli shows us that the kids are allright on # 81
Vesta
Varro NEW IMPROVED MIX + IndieCan looks ahead to Hamilton
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78 - Raine on IndieCan - In a post Our Lady Peace,
post majorlabel life, Raine Maida finds life as an
indie artist, life as a father, life as a "Monday
morning activist" better than ever. Live at IndieCan,
Raine Maida
performs from his solo project, "THE HUNTERS
LULLABY," shares his thoughts on War Child Canada,
life as an indie and the Slam Poetry movement that
he finds so captivating.
Pictured
(above) Woodstock, Raine Maida, Joe Chisholm (Photo
Barry Roden)
Darryl
Hurs of Indie Week 2008
chats with us and other great artists this week include
Sproll
and Chris
Colepaugh
from New Brunswick, Pascale
Picard
and Krief
from La Belle Provence, Why
from The Peg, Mother
Mother
and Elias
from VanCity.
IndieCan
Radio # 78 (right-click/download)
IndieCan
Radio # 78 (click
to stream)
Forecast
for more Raine, uncut/full length interview with Raine
Maida @ indiecan
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Raine
Maida played The Phoenix Concert Theatre March 24
2008 - Read
All About It
photos
Wendy L Rombough
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EPISODE
77 previews rENO's
"Learning to Speak Human"
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Toronto's
rENO is "live at IndieCan" this week with
Reno and Kevin performing some unplugged numbers from
their new record, "Learning To Speak Human."
We also hear from new friends and old as we hear from
The Goodlovelies and The Cliks from Canadian Music
Week. Panelists share their ideas on the new "360
marketing" model and pontificate on what changes
may be afoot in North America for how music is marketed
- provocative to be sure. Other great artist include
Dave Martel, Hue, The Reels,Vesta Varro and more.
INDIECAN
RADIO # 77 (right-click/download)
INDIECAN
RADIO # 77 (click
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We
are stoked to bring THE
POPULARS from XM
Studio "Live At IndieCan" with
their soon-to-be-released LP "A Pill for
Everyone." The band is joined by Indie
Hall of Fame Inductee
Moe Berg who produced this new record.
Tom
Jackson wowed CMW crowds with his eXtreme
performance makeover clinics and he is our guest
on IndieCan talking about what makes for memorable
live performances. You'll love it, or your money
back!
Also
on our cross-Canada post-CMW indie trip, State
of Shock, The
Left, TV
Heart Attack and The
Daniel Wesley Band from the west coast,
Rebekah
Higgs from the east, Andy
Swan and as a sneak preview to next week,
new music from Reno.
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Welcome
to Episode 75 - The Canadian Music Week Show
This
weeks show is an all-CMW show case with Lotus Child and
The Painted Birds from the west coast, Amanda Rheaume from
Ottawa, The Besnard Lakes from Montreal, Jenn Grant, Down
With The Butterfly, Hey Rosetta and Don Brownrigg from the
east coast and from host town Toronto, Dearly Beloved, Drowning
Girl, Joshua Bartholomew and much, much more. It's a pretty
fun show, if I do say myself. We also have a sneak preview
of some soon-to-be-released music by THE POPULARS.
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to download DOWNLOAD
THE SHOW NOW
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A
Tale of Two Jakes is the theme of Episode 74 - Jake Gold
and Big Rude Jake both grace our radio show and generously
share their insights into the Canadian indie scenes over
three decades
If
you get your entertainment from Canadian TV, you know Jake
Gold from Canadian
Idol and if you get your entertainment from the streets,
clubs and arenas from Victoria to St. John's then you know
Jake Gold from his work the The Tragically Hip, The Salads,
Sass Jordon, The Cliks and more. This year, Jake Gold of
The
Management Trust and Kindling Music is co-chair of the
2008
Canadian Music Week and on this weeks show Jake gets
us all ready for the one week in March when Canada is the
centre of the music universe.
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student of the Canadian music scene can consider
themselves ready for graduation until they have
contemplated the impact of Big
Rude Jake. A gifted songwriter, Jake brings
his engaging story telling skills to Show 74
and takes us on a punk meets jazz trip through
a crucial part of the history of alternative
music in the Windsor to Quebec City corridor.
But
wait - there's more! To get us in the CMW mood
we hear from Chris
Koster, The
Audreys, Kyrie
Kristmanson, The
i Spies, The
Chronicles and 2008 Indies Awards performers
The
Cliks.
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WEEKS RADIO SHOW REVIEWS
INDIECAN
YEAR II
As
IndieCan's 2nd anniversary approaches we are feeling
reflective and nostalgic. We are reviewing the IndieCan
year two that was. The goal, this show is to cram
as much "live at IndieCan" into 60 minutes
as we possibly can and here's what we've come up with
for Rock 'n' Roll School reading week:
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From
team "Constant Crush" we have Tin Bangs
and The Outfit, Vancouver's Mother Mother from their
Hillside Summer session this year and Rally Car from
the awesome Canada Day we enjoyed at Downsview Park,
remember when we borrowed The Salads Mista D to yack
with the London Reggae band, Staylefish? How about
Peterborough's The Kiss and Tells and we explore band
manifestos with Hunter Valentine and Dearly Beloved,
both of which IndieCan was in attendance for this
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week.
But wait - there's more. The Cindy Doire Band, The
Cliks and Toronto's The Strip are also packed into
this hour or this part self-indulgence and part one-a-day
vitamin for your soul. I hope we bring back some memories
and tease you with anything you might have missed.
The
biggest thing in reflecting over the year in review
is how, just by having fun and sharing the fun, we
have all made Canadian indie music stronger and better.
IndieCan has grown because those of you who were strangers
before have become friends and those who were friends
have become family. This show is dedicated to the
music fans - thanks for loving music makers.
INDIECAN
YEAR II in REVIEW (stream)
INDIECAN
YEAR II in REVIEW (right click to save as and
keep)
Get
a double shot of IndieCan by listening Saturday 3
PM EST to the first ever IndieCan on Channel 52 THE
VERGE on XM Satellite Radio (click for free trial)
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EPISODE
70 Opens in Quebec City
Our
industry insider is Jeff Leake of
XM Satellite Radio who proudly champions Canadian indie
music through XM's channel
52 THE VERGE. IndieCan caught up with the very busy
Mr. Leake and this week we bring you the first instalment
of this interview where we hear about the growth, the advantages
and appeal of Satellite Radio in Canada and world-wide.
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Other
great artists featured this week include Quebec City's Pat
the White, Montreal natives now living in Toronto, The
Dress Whites, from Kelowna B.C., Ryan
Donn and from Toronto, The
Outfit and Bebop
Cowboys. But first, we invite you to open your hearts
and minds to Void's
Anatomy as we bring you a live recording from La Ninkasi
in Quebec City and our interview with principal composer,
songwriter Marie Jorge. IndieCan must thank David Gendron
of Midaltern
Studio for engineering the QC portion of the show and
Barry
Mell, IndieCan's Quebec City friend and liaison.
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'007
The year with a License to Thrill
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2007
in Review Part I
the
first of two "YEAR IN REVIEW" shows, crams
as much music and indie life into an hour as is possible,
coast-to-coast. We'll hear from Daniel
Victor, The
Stills, Kevan Staples and Carole
Pope from CMW-2007, Mother
Mother from Hillside, Lotus
Child and Wintersleep
in tale of two archaeologists,
Psychotic 4 and Dave
Martel from Montreal, Down
With The Butterfly and Drowning
Girl, The
Cliks, and to kick things off the year in review…
Episode
67 opens up with an offering from Calgary's Once
Just who we recorded at Life Is Good Studios in
the Gatineau Hills. Listen to this song "Shine
Down." I hope it does for your soul what it does
for me.
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2007
in Review Part II
When
in Halifax, interview a Vancover band, I say - we
bring you the words and music of Pride
Tiger. Also from our East-coast love-in, we have
Hey
Rosetta and The
Superfantastics.
We
check back in with our Quebec City find, Pascale
Picard, from Ottawa, Tim's
Myth and The
Coggs, and then we head back down the 401 to check
in with Sam
Hell, Eden
Ants and Hunter
Valentine (wouldn't that be a weird date?), long
time IndieCan friend, Ember
Swift and end in Windsor with Inoke
Errati.
This
look back at '007 was a true pleasure to produce and
we hope you like it.
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IndieCan
would like to salute and thank all those who have stepped
up to the plate, the mic, the merch table, the sound board
and computer to help make this year possible.
Niell
Dixon of Canadian Music Week who I interviewed this fall
said to us about networking at music festivals, "No
contact is too small, even if it's just a place to crash
next time your in town…" and in that spirit, no friend
of IndieCan is insignificant – from those who have hosted,
made posters, sent out notices, told a friend to check us
out and those we have slept with (so to speak), we thank
you for your commitment to the indie music of Canada.
In
less than two years we have recorded artists in a dozen
different studios – many of which would welcome us back
- lol. We've been main-stage, side stage, back stage; in
festivals, bars, alleys and offices – where ever the never-ending
tale of Canadian Indie is happening, we want to be there
and in '007 we have been to and done a lot. It's a time
for reflection and the image in the reflection is smiling
ear-to-ear.
GET
YOUR HALI-FIX on EPIOSODE 66
This
just in: The
East-Coast Music Awards nominees just hit my inbox and
our feature  artist
this week, Don
Bronwrigg is up for a few of them. So is
Julie Doiron of Sackville, NB. Also on our coast-to-coast
in one hour - which not even Air Canada can do, I might
add - we bring you Vancouver's
The Painted Birds, from Montreal, The
Famous Lovers, The
Craft Economy hail from Guelph, Vancouver, Montreal
and PEI. From Toronto we have Ketch
Harbour Wolves and brand new Dearly
Beloved.
We
also have Vesta
Varro from Ireland as the were winners at this years
Indie Week Toronto. We hear from Darryl Hurs about the
fourth annual event ths October and his plans for 2008.
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#66 - click here to stream the show
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Neill
Dixon, President of Canadian
Music Week talks with us about over 20 music festivals
and conferences he attends world wide and how that's
helping Canadian artists.
Episode
64 will be rich in music with many regions well represented.
From
Calgary, The
Dudes and Cort
Delano, the sad sorry-ass folk singer,
from
The Peg, it's Inward
Eye,
from
Ontario Mandippal
Jandu and Square
Root of Margaret,
from
Quebec City, Void's
Anatomy and The
Pascale Picard Band and
from
Halifax, Pamela
Underwater, Don
Brownrigg and Wintersleep.
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(Seen
above: Don Brownrigg on vocals and guitar and Kris
Pope on the lap-steel. Seen at right: Neill Dixon,
CMW)
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Episode
62 Opens with a 2007 Toronto Songwriters Festival
highlight, Joshua Bartholomew live at IndieCan and then
it's all about the Halifax POP Explosion
Photos
Wendy L Rombough
Why
is Halifax such a hot bed of music therse days? It's no
fluke according to Waye Mason, Executive Director of Halifax
POP Explosion. Here what he has to say about HPX and
how the music community of Halifax have created such an
effective and inified voice. Do you love music and care
about the future of it? Then there some lessons to learn
from Professor Mason.
Other
great music will be coming to you from P.E.I.s Jenn
Grant, now on tour with The
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more about the cause behind The 2007 Toronto Songsriters
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Weakerthans
(See reviews),
Halifax's The
Superfantastics and Montreal's The
Besnard Lakes and of course, we open up in Toronto with
a treat to our ears, Joshua
Bartholomew who talks about small town life, what it's
like to open area rock venues for your hero's and his own
process of song writing.
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#62 - stream
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Show
me some HALIFAX
POP EXPLOSION COVERAGE EH?!?
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love is like an H-Bomb baby... Canadian
Radio Star winners, Drowning Girl at IndieCan,
clowning around, chatting it up and laying it
down Live at IndieCan This Week.
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IndieCan
is busy again this week. We're going To COCA
(Canadian Organization of Campus Activities) in Windsor
Ontario.
Drowning Girl will be there as well as Tin
Bangs, Windsor's own Inoke
Errati, Hello
Beautiful and other IndieCan friends (complete
list here) as well as some new best friends we
haven't met yet.
Douglas
and Joe were at Halifax POP Explosion and we look
forward to bringing you more East-Coast Indie than
ever before. Jeff Butler of Ulitimate Indie was at
the Western
Canadian Music Awards and he reports on the Moose
Jaw Saskatchewan goings on as well as previewing the
all new
IndieTV.ca. Barney
Bentall was performing there and up for an award.
He hear from him this week.We caught up with Vancouver's
Mother
Mother and just can't help including another tune
from thier CD Touch Up. From Halifax, we introduce
Myles Deck and The Fuzz. Joe talks to ex-Nova
Scotian Jon
Adams about his new CD The Perfect Flaw...secets
will be revealed.
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#61 - stream
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EPISODE#61 - download (right click and save link)
Show
me some HALIFAX
POP EXPLOSION COVERAGE EH?!?
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EPISODE
60: Artists supporting causes and previews Halifax
POP Explosion
Winners
of the first ever Toronto Independent MusiAwards BEST
INDIE BAND, Eden
Ants are, at long last LIVE AT INDIECAN. Also, this
week, we hear from the great work of Shawn & Thanou
through The Toronto
Songwriters Festival.
Other
artists include Toronto's Bombay
Doors, finalists from Indie
Week
Toronto, SunLit
Ambush and Kingston's Pelt
who were helping raise money for breast cancer research
this month, Laugh
Out Loud, More and The
Ryde for this year's TIMAs as well as the United
Steel Workers of Montreal and introducing Don
Brownrigg, both of which are gems from our Halifax
POP Explosion trip. Pictures
of Eden Ants and more to watch while you listen
to the showcommentary coming soon. In the mean time,
enjoy the show
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at MQ Music Fest, Fidget at IndieLove.ca, Fidget at IndieCan
You
were told, "Don't Fidget Missy!" but someone wasn't
listening. IndieCan is finding fidgeting going on everywhere,
you restless bunch you. EPISODE 59 features Toronto's punk/pop/ADD
quartet, FIDGET,
we review MQ
Music Fest with organizer
Metal
Queen Management's Betty Dworatschek
(sorry, no pronunciation key provided), we start our Indie
Week Toronto coverage, we dig up a dusty old fossil, with
great fascination and moderate reverence and we start a
run-on-sentence we can't escape.
LISTEN
TO TORONTO INDIE SCENE#59
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Packed
into another hour of the best music you've never heard we
include Stella
Panacci, Automan,
High
Voltage, Little
Sunday, The
Space Ship Blues, Hello
Beautiful, Drowning
Girl, The
Great Lake Swimmers and ladies
and gentlemen, Murray
McLauchlin.
Whlie
you're listening fidget to
Fidget pics and check out
or Indie
Week coverage. More Metal
Queen Music Fest Pics
IndieCan
Radio Celbrates great indie from B.C. to Nova Scotia - Polaris
is Awarded.
THE
TORONTO INDIE SCENE#58
- stream
THE
TORONTO INDIE SCENE#58 - download
(right click and save link)
If
you haven't met Kelowna's THE
SLED DOGS, now's the time.
Episode brings them live to IndieCan. We also review the
2007
Polaris Music Awards - Founder
Steve Jordan is our guest. Great artists this week include
Jen
Melitia, Jr. Vice Presidents,
Feist,
Patrick
Watson, Chad
VanGaalen, Down
With The Butterfly and Julie
Doiron.
IndieCan
visits Salon de la Musique Indepenante de Montreal
TIM'S
MYTH from Ottawa was in Montreal
and we capture Tim Smith live at IndieCan and discuss Tim's
Myth's recent $350,000 radio award, rolling with the ups
and downs in the music biz and how to focus on what's important.
Dave Cool talks to us about what's new at Stand
Alone Records including services
he's availing to indie artists. Other artists featured this
week include WHITE
ROOM, BRAIN
CHILD, SKIP
JENSEN and MIRACLE
FORTRESS which is a preview
to our Polaris
Music Prize coverage.
THE MONTREAL INDIE SCENE#57
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SCENE#57 - download (right click and save link)
Tim's
Myth live
at Toronto's Elmo while I
listen...
The
Toronto Film Festival promotes muisc with the Canadian Music
Cafe
Hunter
Valentine lays down some new
music "live at IndieCan" IndieCan's behind the
scenes coverage at The
Canadian Music Cafe continues
as this episode features some of the other 14 artists, Jessica
Rhaye, Oh
Susanna, Chris
Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew,
Justin
Rutledge, The
St. Alvia Cartel and The
United Steel Workers of Montreal.
THE
TORONTO INDIE SCENE#56
- stream
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TORONTO INDIE SCENE#56 - download
(right click and save link)
Come
see Hunter
Valentine in the studio -
See all 15 featured Canadian artists that were selected
as part of The
Canadian Music Cafe
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TRASNPLANTED
FROM EDMONTON TO TORONTO, SAM HELL LIGHTS UP INDIECAN
THE
TORONTO INDIE SCENE#55 - stream
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With
the Toronto
International Film Festival
in town, The
Canadian Music Cafe, now in
it's third year showcases great-white-north music to Festival
delegates (only) but IndieCan is there to bring you the
music and the story behind it. Music Cafe organizer Chris
Tetter talks to us about how and why this showcase is so
important. We also tease you with two of the 15 elite artists
selected to perform, Hunter
Valentine and Lily
Frost. We also hear from another
Edmonton transplant Sonica
who are hitting the road so, USA listeners, we're exporting
some of our finest - check to see if Sonica is coming your
way.
Sam
Hell is just off a Toronto to Vancouver to Toronto tour
which they'll talk about. If you don't know what the SAM
HELL is going on get ready
to get down with your old-school classic rock selves - turn
up the speakers and dig the SAM (HELL) JAM. This unassuming
Kensington Studio that we recorded in has some awe inspiring
history of greatness created. We hope we live up it of Episode
55. While listening, CLICK
HERE and we'll take you inside to see the session.
Visit
our EVENTS
PAGE for new coverage of The
Canadian Music Cafe which will be updated regulary. Hey
music fans - do you own WHAT IS INDIE YET? Click Below for
a Trailer. For being an IndieCan fan, you're entitled to
a discount from ordering from here.
EPISODE
54 of INDIECAN RADIO WITH CALGARY's ONCE JUST
THE
GOOD BYE SUMMER CANADIAN INDIE SCENE
I
just got a new copy of "Summer's Over" the Moe
Berg solo CD second hand on Bloor Street - $7.99 and worth
every penny. So that's the theme of this weeks show. We
have a dart-board review of Summer 007 and some new stuff
that if you miss you'll be like those un-cool kids still
wearing white after Labour Day.
So,
new stuff: From Windsor, welcome Corporate
Saturday. To any U.S. boarder
crossing guards who subscribe to the show, of course they
were joking about how they get to Detroit to play shows
there. Toronto's contribution comes from Numbers
and Figures from their CD,
The Parable of The Broken Window. From Montreal, The Dear's
guitarist
Patrick Krief is re-releasing
Take it Or Leave and we'll hear from Patrick and some of
his band mates. From Guelph, Sam
Turton, who I met at Hillside
and became captured by his Activist meets Blues playing
slide guitarist messin' with the Baptist preacher's wife
kind of sound. Really, it's a genre - look it up. While
you're looking thigs up, find Manotick on a map - home of
the 613 area code mop-tops Hollerado.
We shared some stories and laughs outside the Silver Dollar
earlier this summer and I would like to share it with you.
So
much happened this summer that a review in an hour is laughable.
But I bring back as wide a range of random coolness. The
show includes the words and live music of Marc
Gelinas, and Psychotic
4 from Montréal and Rally
Car from Vancouver as well
as Toronto's Trophy.
So
that's how we're starting September - a little old meets
new. On deck in the next couple of weeks we'll be hearing
from Calgary's Once Just and Alberta deserters Sam Hell
who are now calling T.Dot home.
IndieCan
will be at Halifax
Pop Explosion so anyone with
East-coast show ideas, you know how to reach us.
Have
a Happy Fall! Put those un-coool white shoes away and come
download some way-cool indie music.
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IndieCan
spends some time in the nation's capital, Ottawa and we
found great music from across the country. This weeks show
is a show case of music we just love.
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IndieCan
is delighted to continue what we started last week with
focusing on the Ottawa Indie Scene. Trevor
Finlay is live at IndieCan,
thanks to
Whitebird Studios. Douglas
is here to talk about the Ottawa Scene. This week we are
pleased to show-casing Kelowna's SLED
DOGS, Winnepeg's
WHY as well as UNDADOGG,
MAVIS
DRIVE, THE
ALEX TINTINALLI BAND and from
Calgary, ONCE
JUST
How
about showing me some pictures of The
Ottawa Super Ex, Once Just and Mr. Finlay?
EPISODE
51 of INDIECAN RADIO TAKES ON WARP DRIVE
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IndieCan
travels to Vans
Warped Tour 2007 to
meet up with Institute of Independent Music reps Mrs.
Jones and Charlotte, more notoriously known the music
community as the Blonde Shells. Episode 51 includes
the words and music of Toronto's THE
SALADS, London's STAYLEFISH,
a chat about IFI
Music.org, More OTTAWA
INDIE SCENE with more Krista
D.,
Natasha Peach and
Amanda Rheaume live
at IndieCan.
Other
great Indie artists include Scarlet
Sins, Little
Sunday, The
Revelevens, Johnie
3, The
Handsome Furs, and introducing
Lara
Yule Singh.
THE
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WARPED
TOUR PICTURES (while
I listen....)
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This
weeks show includes an interview with Mind
Benders Music's Greg Simpson,
we review Hillside
Music Festival and we hear
from Danielle
Duval, Sterling,
Rob
Szabo, Jim
Armstrong, Eden
Ants, Once
Just, My
Darkest Days and Down
With The Butterfly. The show
opens where Hillside closed on the Lake Stage, surrounded
by an appreciate audience enjoying Mother
Mother. This Other/Other sounding
band from Vancouver is live at IndieCan with a couple tunes
off of their full length Last
Gang Records CD Touch Up and
the introduce the world to a brand new tune.
Check
out our Events
Page for more Hillside Coverage.
HILLSIDE
REVIEWED AND MQ MUSIC FEST PREVIEWED in Episode 49
WELCOME
TO PUNK U - 30 Year Indie Vet, Joey Keithley look at Punk's
history
Episode
48 is an educational trip into the history of the world's
most prolific genre for activism, PUNK. Since 1978 D.O.A.
have been travelling the world singing songs that mean something
to them and putting out recordings via their Do It Yourself
label Sudden
Death Records. Front man,
Joey "Shithead" Keithley talks with host Joe Chisholm
by phone and we look at 30 years of punk in Canada.
Ontario
Punk laces up the skates against Team Vancity as we feature
artists Anti-Hero,
Bukkake
Katholik, Pointed
Sticks, Mongoose,
Band of Rebels + a special
interview with The UK's Buck
Brothers who we granted honourary
Canadian status due to the sheer number of gigs they've
played in Canada in the last year.
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Show
me more pictures of The
Buck Brothers and friends at the Drake Hotel
Show
me more pictures of D.O.A.
at Kathedral in Toronto 07/07/07
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TORNTO'S
THE STRIP BRING CULTURE AND GOOD TIMES TO INDIECAN STUDIO
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Fans
and Artists will want to hear what TORONTO
INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS founder,
Daniela Ovila has to say. Deadline for the October 2007
Awards is August 9th so if you feel you might want to regognized
you need to submit very soon.
Musical
artists this episode include Focus
Puller, Letters
to Elora, Natalie
London, Afternoon
Zero, Vanderpark,
Fidget
and Joey
Keithley and the Band of Rebels.
Live at IndieCan we combine class and culture with down
and dirty fun.
THE STRIP is here.
Episode
46 brings us back to Montreal with Marc Gelinas
and Julien Smith
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Production DNA, Marc Gelinas debuts "Waiting
at the Red Lights" for IndieCan listeners
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Our
Industry Insider is pioneer pod caster (I overdo
the alliteration thing don't I?) Julien Smith,
who's pod cast
IN OVER YOUR HEAD
has been heard since 2004 is an in-demand public
speaker and consultant. If you feel you have something
important to say, Julien will be challenging you
to start your onn pod cast.
In
continuing with our West-Island of Montreal themeatic
episode, Marc Gelinas, who grew up with Sam Roberts
- only referred to as another West Island referene,
shares songs from his new CD "WWaiting at
the Red Lights" with IndieCan listeners first.
If you're like me, you'll love Marc's matter-of-fact
attitude to music career swirves in the road and
how he keeps focus on the music.
Other
great artists include Vancouver's THE
FLAIRS, from Quebec
City,
PAT THE WHITE and
other Montrealers, KAMIKAZE
BABE and LIQUID
LTD.
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seen the future - it's an entertainment and
news on demand world called Planet Pod Cast.
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The
Cindy
Doire Band is like
a breath mint for the soul. I've looked forward
to sharing this with you - I think we have another
magical musical IndieCan moment captured. We also
have Montreal's Marc
Gelinas, Red
Roses Black, 13
Wyde, Factor
Fiction, Amanda
Rheaume, Southpaw,
The
Leatherettes and Inoke
Errati. It's a show
so nice you may have to listen twice. So click to
stream, or download and enjoy over and over.
Tod
Maffin brings a glimpse
of the future to audiences around the world. Our
industry insider talks with authority and passion
about broadcasting and the turn it is taking. Todd's
passion is contagious so no operating heavy equipment
while listening.
And now for something gone terribly wrong -
TOD
MAFFIN the ROCK STAR
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IndieCan
"on the street" at NXNE and Front Row Centre at
Canada Day Rock the Park at Downsview (a FREE all-day concert).
Come hear the preview!
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IndieCan wraps up NXNE with a low-tech, high-speed "meet
10 bands in one hour" frenzy + We preview
Canada Day's Rock the Park at Downsview
July 1 with Todd
Arkell. 54-40 headlines a
great line up of all-day, coast-to-coast bands.
On this
week's show, hear from Lotus
Child,
Hey Rosetta,
The Scenareo, High
Voltage, Nerv,
The
Jamestown Union, Rally
Car, Rides
Again and Trophy
CHECK
OUT INDIECAN's coverage of Canada
Day at Downsview
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Rally
Car from Vancouver are going coast-to-coast & stop at
IndieCan during NXNE
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IndieCan is all over the 2007 NXNE, bringing you the great
artists, the music and the behind the scenes industry insiders
that are devoted to Canadian culture. We catch up with CBC
RADIO 3 Music Director, James
Booth out side the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern as he prepares
for this year's CBC RADIO 3 - SIRIUS Satellite show case.
James shares CBC's commitment to finding and showcasing
great Canadian music - where ever it may be. Loved on both
sides of the Atlantic, Vancouver's RALLY
CAR performs some tunes and
talks about a rigorous tour that will include Canada Day
at Downsview Park in Toronto and a trip to Europe that is
in the works.
Episode
43 introducer's P.E.I.'s Nathan
Wiley, from Montreal, The
Ease Down, Jacob
& Lily from The Peg, Vancouver's
Mother Mother, Sudbury's High
Deafinition, Peterborough's
The
Kiss and Tells and from Toronto,
Hello
Operator and great IndieCan
supporter, Sarah
Burton
Hear
what many of these NXNE artists have to say - listen
now!
THE
JOYS AT NXNE, Toronto Independent Music Awards, and IndieCan
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TORONTO INDIE SCENE#42 - stream
THETORONTO
INDIE SCENE#42 - download (right click and save link)
Kicking
of our North by North East coverage, ladies and gentlemen,
from London Ontario, The Toronto Independent Music Awards
Live Band of the Year, THE JOYS. Live at IndieCan at The
Pocket Studios we hear from one of NXNE's feature bands.
We
also hear from True North's Sue McCallum who is NXNE's head
of media and publicity. Many other great NXNE bands are
featured this week so listen
now! Other great artists include
Late Night Access, Danielle Duval, Peter Katz and other
NXNE feature acts, Hunter Valentine, The St. Alvia Cartel
and from California, Thomas Lunch. More Pictures of the
Joys!
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Montreal, Psychotic 4 come to Redline
Recorders to Glam, Slam and Rock IndieCan.
Weewerk's Phil Klygo talks about running
an indie label/management co and the task
of CMW Festival director |
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IndieCan's
all new life begins at Episode 40. Listen in and tell
us what you think. We're listening!
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Cliks "Snakehouse" comes out April 24th.
Hear about it first at IndieCan
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her first release in 1996 Ember Swift
has nine CDs to her credit. Peaking at
200 tour stops in a single year, Ember
still found time to appear in "WHAT
IS INDIE?" and coin the phrase, "Indie
by Identity, not by default." Hear
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CMW and SXSW shows, Jen, Nina, Lucas and Morgan stop
by IndieCan for a much anticipated set,
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Clicking
on all cylinders, THE
CLIKS could be on
the cusp of something remarkable. Snakehouse, produced
by Moe Berg and Mixed by Laurence Currie contains
music that has already found it's way to The "L"
Word and awaits a major distribution push starting
April 24th. The Cliks will be touring Western Canada,
The U.S.A., and The UK before coming back to The
Molson Amphitheatre in June. The Cliks perform three
songs from Snakehouse and chat with IndieCan about
how they're coming together as a band. Other world
class Canuck artists on this show include Down
With The Butterfly,
Ember
Swift, The
Ride Theory, Lye,
Galore,
Hurricane Cletus and from the UK, The
Buck Brothers.
For
those of you saw the documentary "WHAT IS INDIE?"
you couldn't help but take note that for Ember Swift,
indie isn't a concept, a philosophy or style of
music - it's how she has successfully managed her
life, her career and her music. Having experimented
with Management Cos, D.I.Y. and running her own
label, Ember Swift is a case-study in Indie done
right. IndieCan was happy to catch up with The Ember
Swift Band for a performance at Hugh's Room in Toronto
March 11th and our interview with Ms. Swift is this
week's Industry Insider segment.
More
on The Ember
Swift Band and
Ember pics
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from Elias, Whitfield and other great
Vancity Bands |
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The
Georgia Straight and Music BC, Broght a fie showcase
to CMW Saturday March 10th
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Putting
a new slant on "taking a trip with out leaving
the farm" it was a rare opportunity to devote
some more time getting to know B.C. acts without
flying to Vancouver. Saturday of CMW, Jeff Healey's
Roadhouse opened it's doors ot a showcase of left-coast
talent and IndieCan was there to do our part to
preserve the moment. This week, we get reaquainted
with Elias,
get to know the award-winning Whitfield
and include the music of Shane
Philip, Yuca,
The Pointed Sticks, D.O.A.,
Symphony in Demeanor and this years Indie Hall of
Fame inductee, Carole
Pope.
CMW
2007 Co-chair, Brad Schwartz or
MTV Canada spoke with
Joe Chisholm and excerpts from that interview will
make up our Industry Insider segment.
For
more on Brad Schwartz hear his full interview on
our
School of Rock page
For
more on the Vancouver Indie Scene download Episodes
20 and 21
CMW
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37 is THE MONTREAL INDIE SCENE with Dave Martel "live
at IndieCan"
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Dave
Martel Jams for us at Production DNA with Nic and
Jean. Producer Dave Sturton talks to Joe
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Prior
to their CMW Lee's Palce gig, Staylefish are at IndieCan
with Mista D
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Staylfish
finished Lee's Palace for CMW Friday night. Joe interviews
Maxi and Curt on Radio xXx
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This
Ska/Dubb/Reggae show was a while in the making.
The Salads Mista D and Joe have been talking about
this (on Jamaica time) since The Salads were live
at IndieCan on Episode
13 and here it is,
featuring London Ontario's Staylefish.
Other great artists include The
Cheap Suits, Ill
Scarlet, who were
nominated for an Indie this year, The
Salads, New
World Son. The
Next Best Thing and
Anti-Hero
(sorry Rose, Jesse, Nic and Todd - technical glitch
and the show ends abruptly)
A
lot can be accomplished when your heart is in the
right place. Curt Evans, program director at www.Radio3x.com
was doing things for the right reasons when he took
the reigns at Radio
Triple X. Internet
Radio is on the verge and IndieCan was pleased to
talk to Curt and Maxime about music, the fans and
how they have been able to truely create programming
for fans as they MSN listeners while they spin tunes
they love.
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Lower
Back Tatti rock the Elmocombo after their IndieCan
set
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Andrew
and Eoin of Lower
Back Tatti came into
IndieCan from Durham, enroute to The Elmo for a
benefit concert with Staylefish and others. They
perform a rare accoustic set for us to open the
show + a bonus track at the end of the show.
Diane
Foy from Skylar
Entertainment takes
the co-host seat for the rest of show as Joe and
Diane get listeners ready for this years Canadian
Music Week, March
7 - 10th. Diane outlines her survival guide for
fans and bands. We highlight songs from CMW feature
bands from the UK, Santa
Dogs and The
Buck Brothers, from
Belgium, Needle
and The Pain Reaction,
from Finland, 22-Pistepirkko,
from Australia, Wednesday
Society and Future
Native, plus from
Berlin Ontario, Gen Melitia and a few words from
Rob of Dearly Beloved
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RED LIGHT RIOT Rawks You + Carole Pope and the Indie
Hall of Fame
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Dave,
Kevin, Donna and Francine of RLR and we hear from
multi-Juno winner, Carole Pope
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This
week, The
Red Light Riot will
Rawk You, live at IndieCan Studio. We hear from
Carole
Pope, who along with
Kevan Staples of Rough
Trade will be honoured
at this years Canadian
Music Week, by being
inducted into the Indie Hall of Fame, March 7th.
We
hear from The Goldon Dogs, also nominated for an
award at the Indie's, Halifax's Aide-De-Camp, Bukake
Katholik, and from The "What Is Indie?"
sound track, Blood Shot Bill and Ember Swift (who
will be at Hugh's Room in Toronto March 11th.
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Indie Band wins American Song Contest - Hear
it on Show 33
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Kevin
Nick and Pete of All The Brightness, live at
IndieCan Studio
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This
week, we hear from The Morning Stars, The
Joys, Bellevue, D.O.A., Tin Bangs, Shirley
Levi and Spiral Beach as well as All
the Brightness,
live at IndieCan studio.
IndieCan's
1st year Birthday
Bash was devoted
to recognizing AthletesCAN
and all they do for Canadian amature athletes.
Thank you for all who came out to see Tin
Bangs, Anti-Hero, Tacoma Redd and our screening
of "What is Indie?" and share in
the celebration. Thanks to our sponsors, Long
& McQuade,
EYE
Weekly, Exclaim,
Indie
Bible, Sunrise
Records, AthletesCAN
and especially Trevino Betty who is our guest
on Episdoe 33, talking about the challenges
and outlooks for our great elite Canadian
athletes.
Enjoy
this weeks Radio show and keep your comments
coming. We love hearig from our listeners.
Photos and comentary on our Birthday Bash
(coming soon)
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sample of some of T.Dot's great singer-songwriters
on Episode 32
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The
first ever Folk 'n' eh! Festival at IndieCan features
a class act of singer-songwriters including Jeremy
Guther from Trinity Road,
Ory
No'man with stand-up
bass man, Jason Skiendzeil + IndieCan veterans Shawn
Sage and Colleen
Costello of Lucy.
It's something a little bit different and if you
dig it, we'll do some more. We had a riot at Redline
Recorders. We introduce The Buck Brothers to IndieCan
listeners and we hear from Anti-Hero, on the bill
for the IndieCan
birthday bash February 16th.
R.J.
Guha is the industry interview so nice, we have
him on twice. R.J. was so generous with his time
and knowledge that we are able to bring you part
2 of my visit with him. In this interview R.J. talks
about what makes an artist - manager relationship
work. We expect that you'll find his insights really
facinating.
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Episode
31 features the long awaited Ride Theory of
Hamilton. The
Ride Theory
share three unreleased tunes recorded in Anchaster
and Aaron, Kyle, Noah and John sit down at
The Legendary Horseshoe to talk with us about
their cross-Canada tour and what's next for
TRT.
From
the offices of Kindling
Music and The
Management Trust,
RJ Guha shares some of his 15 years of experience
in artist Management. In this first of a two
part series, RJ recaps this years MIDEM conference
and talks about some of the new talent he's
working with. RJ is well know in the Toronto
music community for his leadership, passion
and knowledge for artist management. In breaking
news, investigative IndieCan photo-journalist
Gayle Hurmuses has uncovered the secret past
life of RJ as front man of the band CINEMA
- which reunited as part of RJ's noteworthy,
yet undisclosed birthday in the fall of 2006.
Other great Canadian indie artsits include
Whatever, The Brown Hornets, All the Brightness,
Bobnoxious, The Cliks, Montreal's Coloured
Lights and returning to the Toronto Indie
Scene, The Steady Rollers.
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Little
Sunday being interviewed at Redline
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Little
Sunday has a
big sound and you’re about to hear some brand
new songs from them. Other great artists include,
from Toronto, The Creep Show, Jen Militia,
Infighter and introducing The Red Light Riot.
From
Vancouver we explore a couple from Superbeing
and introduce listeners to Alan Michael Wong.
Janette
Luu of SUN
TV/CanoeLIVE.ca
is our Industry Insider. Here how this company
is taking the lead in interactive news and
entertainment. If you’re an indie band with
a video or show footage, Janette wants to
share it with the masses. Listen in for details.
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Episode
29 of The Toronto Indie Scene features the
sweet sounds of Reily, live at IndieCan Studio.
Our industry insider is Jeff Long of Long
& McQuade, sharing his perspectives on
the music scene.
Other great artists from coast-to-coast include
Real Gone, The Chris Graham Band, Tin Bangs,
Down With The Butterfly, The Alchemists, Lotus
Child, Hello Operator, Fidget and TV Heart
Attack.
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Episode
28’s The Montreal Indie Scene features The
Voodoo Monx
live from DNA
Productions Studio
as well as Lo & The Mechanics, East Coast
Wendy, Sidharta, Ember Swift, Jon Cohen Experimental,
The Outfit, Kamikaze Baby and One Night Band.
Liz
from McGill’s CKUT
FM 90.3 hosts
The Monday Morning After and as gives IndieCan
listeners her insights on what’s great about
the Montreal indie scene.
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Hours of IndieCan's 2006 Year in Review! |
With
IndieCan's first year of operation in the
bag we have decided to put together a couple
of year in review shows showcasing some of
the best live performances of the year. 2006
saw the likes of Rayna, Anti Hero, Shawn Sage,
Ryan Luchuck, Galore, Crash Kelly, Tin Bangs
The Salads and many many more.
THE
INDIE SCENE 2006 Review #1 -
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THE
INDIE SCENE 2006 Review #1 - download
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Also
this week we have distilled the tower of "in-box"
CDs into an audible healing hour of Canadian indie...
Show
# 106 celebrates Halifax
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this week we talk with Rob Rapiti of 
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