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FemBots
FemBots are a Canadian indie rock band from Toronto formed in 1998. FemBots are known for their unique sound of combining instrumental everyday items, junk instruments, and traditional instruments in their music. Background The band's core members, Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier, were members of the early 1990s alternative rock band Dig Circus alongside Mark Hansen, James Julien and Dave Dreveny. That band released three albums independently, but broke up in the mid-1990s before achieving any mainstream success. They subsequently joined with Ron Hawkins of The Lowest of the Low to form the band Hummer for a one-album project in 1997 before launching Fembots. History The Fembots were performing in Toronto by 1998. Their live show included analogue tape loops and prerecorded sound clips. Fembots' first album, ''Mucho Cuidado'' introduced their distinctive style of music with toys and power tools as instruments in their songs. ''Small Town Murder Scene'', released in 2003, sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Town Gay Bar
''Small Town Gay Bar'' is a 2006 documentary film directed by Malcolm Ingram that focuses on two gay bars in the rural deep Southeast United States, one in Shannon, Mississippi, and one in Meridian, Mississippi. The documentary was produced by View Askew Productions with Kevin Smith serving as executive producer. Synopsis The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression, Malcolm Ingram's ''Small Town Gay Bar'' visits two Mississippi communities and bases those visits around two small gay bars, Rumors in Shannon, Mississippi, and Different Seasons/Crossroads in Meridian, Mississippi. Additionally the film visits Bay Minette, Alabama, to look at the brutal hate crime murder of Scotty Joe Weaver. The film focuses on a group of folks who are less concerned with the national debate over gay marriage than they are with the life risks they take being openly gay in small Southern towns. Cast *Jim Bishop as Himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paper Bag Records
Paper Bag Records is a Canadian independent record label, artist-management company, and music publisher founded in 2002 and based in Toronto. History The label was created to focus on the Toronto-area indie rock music scene. Initial signings were Broken Social Scene and Stars (Canadian band), Stars with their breakthrough albums. ''You Forgot It in People'' and Heart (Stars album), ''Heart'', respectively. The label helped launch the careers of Controller.controller, controller. controller, Tokyo Police Club, and Austra (band), Austra, amongst many others. For two years in a row, Paper Bag Records had been given the title of 'Best Label' from Toronto's ''Now (newspaper), Now Magazine'' in each of NOW's 2008 and 2009 issues. Another highlight, in the August 2007 issue of US publication ''XLR8R'', Paper Bag Records was voted #14 "Best Indie Label".' In 2011, four releases were long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize; Austra's ''Feel It Break, PS I Love You (band), PS I Love You' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calling Out
''Calling Out'' is the fourth album by Canadian indie rock band FemBots, released on September 16, 2008, with Weewerk. The album was originally intended to use only junk instruments created out of garbage by guest musician Iner Souster. However, the band reportedly found the instruments were not sufficiently reliable to form the basis of the entire album, and instead added some conventional instrumentation while retaining the junk instruments on the songs' rhythm tracks. punknews.org In addition to Souster and the FemBots, the album also features Nathan Lawr and Christine Fellows
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The City (FemBots Album)
''The City'' is the third album by Canadian indie rock group FemBots, released in 2005 on Paper Bag Records. Guest musicians on the album include Jason Tait, Greg Smith, Julie Penner, Nathan Lawr, Lawrence Nichols and Krista Muir Krista Muir is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter and keyboardist based in Montreal, Quebec. She initially used the stage name and persona of Lederhosen Lucil, but in 2007, she also began recording and performing under her own name. She plays .... Track listing # "So Long" # "Count Down Our Days" # "Up from the Ditches" # "Demolition Waltz" # "Demolition Waltz, Part II" # "My Life in the Funeral Service" # "The City" # "Gilded Age" # "Hell" # "History Remade" 2005 albums Fembots (band) albums Paper Bag Records albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Town Murder Scene
''Small Town Murder Scene'' is the second album by Canadian indie rock group FemBots FemBots are a Canadian indie rock band from Toronto formed in 1998. FemBots are known for their unique sound of combining instrumental everyday items, junk instruments, and traditional instruments in their music. Background The band's core membe ..., released in 2003 on Paper Bag Records. Track listing # "Intro" # "Broken and Blue" # "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist" # "The Transit Song" # "A Million Dead End Jobs" # "What Comes After One" # "Small Town Murder Scene" # "Mom's Ether Blues" # "Theme from a Radio Play" # "Tombstone Blues" # "Outro" 2003 albums Fembots (band) albums Paper Bag Records albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weewerk
Weewerk, stylized as (weewerk), is an independent folk, roots, bluegrass, country record label and artist-management company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 2002 as an art-and-music salon series in the apartment of Teenage USA Recordings partner Phil Klygo and artist-curator Germaine Koh. Klygo was Festival Director of Canadian Music Week from 2001 to 2007.Wilson, Carl. "Landscape in crimson and clover", ''The Globe and Mail'', 2004-03-04, p. R5. Weewerk has released albums from Great Lake Swimmers, Elliott Brood, United Steel Workers of Montreal, The Barmitzvah Brothers, Barzin, Ox, Two-Minute Miracles, The Burning Hell, Filly & The Flops, Proof of Ghosts, Jenny Omnichord, Don Brownrigg, FemBots, Canteen Knockout, Art Bergmann and The Travelling Band. The label's name is a play on the name of fellow Canadian record label Nettwerk, and was named for the small apartment space in which the company was founded. Discography # Great Lake Swimmers, ''Great Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans are an award-winning and Juno-nominated Canadian indie rock band from Winnipeg. The band, led by John K. Samson, has released four studio albums and is currently inactive. History The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined bassist John P. Sutton and drummer Jason Tait of Red Fisher, another band from Winnipeg's punk scene, and created The Weakerthans as a vehicle for a more melodic and introspective brand of songwriting than their previous projects. The origin of the band's name was explained, in 2004 by Samson, as having come from "a few places." The first was a line from the 1992 film '' The Lover'': "Go ahead, I'm weaker than you can possibly imagine." A second (he gave only two) was a line from Ralph Chaplin's union anthem "Solidarity Forever": "What force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?" The band includes this line in the song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Beautiful City
''This Beautiful City'' is a 2007 Canadian drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Ed Gass-Donnelly. It premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and had a general theatrical release in 2008. The film depicts the lives of five disparate characters in Downtown Toronto. Johnny (Aaron Poole) is a recovering crack cocaine addict trying to convince his prostitute girlfriend Pretty (Kristin Booth) to move with him to a new city so they can make a clean break from their old lives, while Harry (Noam Jenkins) and Carol (Caroline Cave) are a wealthy couple. Events are set in motion when Carol falls from the balcony of her condo in an apparent suicide attempt, landing just metres away from Johnny and Pretty in the alleyway below. She survives, but Peter ( Stuart Hughes), a police detective, finds her and the group's lives begin to intertwine. Cast * Aaron Poole as Johnny * Kristin Booth as Pretty * Caroline Cave as Carol * Noam Jenkins as Harry * Stua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene is a Canadians, Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Alongside Drew and Canning, the other core members of the band are Justin Peroff (drums), Andrew Whiteman (guitar) and Charles Spearin (guitar). Most of its members play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly in the city of Toronto. These associated acts include Metric (band), Metric, Feist (singer), Feist, Stars (Canadian band), Stars, Apostle of Hustle, Do Make Say Think, KC Accidental, Emily Haines, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Amy Millan, and Jason Collett. The group's sound combines elements of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. It includes grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Gass-Donnelly
Ed Gass-Donnelly (born August 17, 1977) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His first full-length film, ''This Beautiful City'', was released in 2008 and nominated for four Genies at the 29th Genie Awards. In January 2011 Gass-Donnelly was selected as one of the top ten film makers to watch by ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...''. Filmography References External links * 1977 births Canadian male screenwriters Film directors from Toronto Living people Writers from Toronto {{Canada-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wavelength Music Arts Projects
Wavelength is a music series and annual festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The project was founded in 2000 by Jonny Dovercourt, Duncan MacDonell (Doc Pickles), and Derek Westerholm. It was founded on the basis that many others would share their enthusiasm for independent music from Toronto. The concept evolved from an open-table meeting of musicians and enthusiasts on September 11, 1999, this then developed into a weekly Sunday showcase and annual festival. The first instalment of the music series took place February 13, 2000 at Ted's Wrecking Yard, featuring Toronto legends Mean Red Spiders and Neck. Wavelength became well known as a hotbed for Toronto's creative music community and featured breakout shows by such notable Canadian bands Broken Social Scene and The Constantines. During Wavelength's second month Canadian artist Michael Snow personally screened his legendary 1967 piece "Wavelength" before his performance at Ted's Wrecking Yard. Wavelength moved to Sneaky Dee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos, while also conducting talent scouting and development of new artists, and maintaining contracts with recording artists and their managers. The term "record label", derives from the circular label in the center of a vinyl record which prominently displays the manufacturer's name, along with other information. Within the mainstream music industry, recording artists have traditionally been reliant upon record labels to broaden their consumer base, market their albums, and promote their singles on streaming services, radio, and television. Record labels also provide publicists, who assist performers in gaining positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |