Heat & Lights

  Lexington, KY Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, Matt Mason and Rick Nielsen, better known as the Corduroy Mavericks, are quickly smashing the stereotype that the Bluegrass State and surrounding areas are lacking in prolific house music producers. With their quirky range of jazzy, soulful, techy, deep and funky house, New York, Chicago, the West Coast…

  St. John’s, NL Idlers are full tilt-energy. Part dance, part world music and truly indie, Idlers have defined their presence on stage and in the studio through overflowing energy and social-consciousness. Idlers show is a genre-bending musical carnival, moving from town to town, bringing joy to crowds’ feet. Keep Out is Idlers’ second studio…

The Root Sellers rock the crowd with a stunning blend of hip-hop lyrics, DJing, gymnastics, live instruments, and much more. They have a gift for moving the dance floor and the minds of their audiences with innovative performances composed of bass heavy ghetto funk, dubstep, glitch-hop and breakbeats. The Root Sellers sound is created by…

  Fredericton, NB The Shorty Tubbs are pie-eyed pioneers of Mumblecore, a movement usually associated with micro-budget independent modern cinema, where old timey narratives and lurid confessions are assembled from the wreckage of the last century, packed tight into soaring harmonies, and driven to deep fried distraction.  Each song is a low-to-no-fi crunchy pop nugget existing in its own universe…

Halifax, Nova Scotia With Byrd’s House Music roots originating in Ottawa in the late 90’s, DJ Balu and Jamez had a profound effect on him when he heard their sound. Not long after that he began to study the craft of the DJ and develop his own unique sound. Upon his return to Halifax he…

Hali/Fred, New Brunswick Gordon Gets Lost is a collection of 4 musicians, who are joined on stage by visual artists The Big 3 and followed around the maritimes by a funky circus of colourful friends, fans and freaks. Formed in the jam friendly town of St. Andrews many moons ago, GGL has been reincarnated and…