Hooded Fang Toronto, ON Hooded Fang is an eight-piece pop orchestra. In the two years since their first concert on the tiny stage of a friend’s bar in Toronto, Hooded Fang has released a critically acclaimed EP and played shows that include Pop Montreal and Canadian Music Week showcases, an appearance on CBC Radio’s Q,…
Isaac and Blewett w/ Joel Leblanc Alma, New Brunswick From their rural perch on the Fundy shore near Alma, New Brunswick, Isaac & Blewett have been winning audiences nation-wide with their innovative music, eclectic performances, and honest songwriting. Originally known as an acoustic blues act, they have broadened their sound, spinning out into new exciting…
Jenn Grant Halifax, NS From her debut record, Orchestra for the Moon, Jenn Grant’s name has surfaced in four star reviews from Harp and The Globe and Mail, earned her several East Coast Music Awards nominations, and landed her on tours with the Great Lake Swimmers, Hayden, Justin Rutledge, Martin Tielli, Danny Michel, and The…
Johnny Sleep Dep Antigonish, Nova Scotia You know when you’re out dancing to a really great set, and you completely lose track of time, of your sense of self even? You suddenly come to the realization that you’ve been dancing for an hour straight without thinking at all, like a marionette, animated by some greater…
Jon McKiel Halifax, NS Jon Mckiel is a songwriter from Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. “The Nature of Things” was recorded at the old Fort Apache in Boston (home of the Pixies’ “Come on Pilgrim,” Radiohead’s “The Bends,” and Dinosaur Jr.’s “Green Mind” Currently Jon is putting the final touches on another full album set for…
Jules Halifax, NS A fiend for all things EDM, when Jules found herself behind a set of turntables for the first time, one thing happened – one big ass, dirty, bass love affair. And that is exactly what you can expect when you hear her live, broken beat, bass heavy choonage sure to make anyone…
Ganga Giri Melbourne, Australia Ganga Giri mixes red natural elements with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience. Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, the music is a pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound. Ganga himself is…
Gobble Gobble Edmonton, AB Gobble Gobble is a vulture of the spirit, tearing away at the carrion of the soul. Gobble Gobble lives on the faultline between suits and destitutes, and it is from this isolated perch, impelled by the terror of a dayjob and utterly prostrate beneath the looming monolith of abstracted death, that…
English Words Charlottetown, PEI On January 15, 2010, surrounded by a typically packed hometown crowd, Charlottetown, PEI band Smothered In Hugs made a liberating on-stage announcement: they were changing their name to English Words. Accompanying this proclamation was a brand new four-song EP, which the band personally handed out for free to each fan in…
Farbsie Toronto, ON DJ Farbsie, founder of the Make It Funky Collective got deep into funk at Mo’ Gravy in london in 1996 prior to that his musical influences were formed in the jam band scene traveling to over 400 shows across North America. Having collected thousands of records over the years in 2000 He…