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HHead
hHead were a Canadian alternative rock band, formed in 1991 in Ajax. The band was originally formed by Noah Mintz and Brendan Canning as an acoustic duo,"hHead music simple, melancholy; Disc reminiscent of 'Seattle sound'". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 20, 1994. with a rotating succession of drummers rounding out the trio after they evolved into a harder rock band. They were originally known as ''Head'', but added the second ''h'' after discovering that another band was already recording as Head, although both hHead and the Vancouver band Rymes with Orange regularly joked in promotional interviews that the extra h had been traded between the bands by either donation or theft."Band gets the 'H' out, hits the road". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 20, 1994. The band's first album, ''Fireman'', was released independently in 1992, and became popular on Canadian campus radio. It received wider distribution in 1993,"T.O. trio making hHeadway". ''Toronto Star'', May 27, 1993. and the band t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Mintz
Noah Mintz (born September 12, 1969) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and mastering engineer. Mintz founded the band hHead with Brendan Canning in the 1990s. He released solo material under the name Noah's Arkweld following the breakup of hHead. Leslie Feist was the original bass player of Noah's Arkweld. He works as a mastering engineer at the Toronto studio Lacquer Channel, where he has worked on albums by The Constantines, Sarah Harmer, Arkells, Broken Social Scene, Billy Talent, Death from Above 1979, Dual, The Marble Index, Danko Jones, Rheostatics, The Dears, Len, Hayden, This Rigid Empire, Uncle Seth and Stars A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth ma ....Lacquer Channel – Album Credits', Retrieved from LacquerChannel.com on 11 December 2015 Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More Of Our Stupid Noise
''More of Our Stupid Noise'' was a Canadian compilation album, originally released on Squirtgun Records. It was subsequently rereleased in 1998 on Nettwerk with the title ''More of Our Stupid Noise '98'', with an altered track order and a few different songs. One of the album's most noted characteristics was that in addition to a song by Eric's Trip, it also included a song by each individual Eric's Trip member's own side project. A sequel album, ''Return of Our Stupid Noise'', was released in 2015 to mark Squirtgun's 20th anniversary. ''Exclaim!'', March 26, 2015. 1996 track listing # Shortfall, "Drive" ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rymes With Orange
Rymes with Orange is a Canadian alternative rock band which formed in 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This independent band have released four albums: ''Peel'' (1992), ''Trapped in the Machine'' (1994), ''Crash'' (1999) and ''One More Mile'' (2003). They have had three Top 10 singles on Canadian Rock Radio, with sales of over 70,000 units worldwide, and have toured Canada, New Zealand, the U.S. and the U.K., all while maintaining independent status."Get fax machine, see the world". ''Toronto Star'', July 8, 1993. History The band that would become Rymes With Orange originated in the late 1980s in Prince George, British Columbia under the name Statue Park. Statue Park included future RWO guitarist Rob Lulic and drummer Alex Dias, along with Sam Moorhouse (bass), and Neil VanderWerf (lead vocals). Statue Park independently released a cassette only six song EP, ''A Coming of Age'' in 1988. The song “Salvation”, taken from the EP, was put into regular rotation at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IRS Records
I.R.S. Records was an American record label founded by Miles Copeland III, Jay Boberg, and Carl Grasso in 1979. I.R.S. produced some of the most popular bands of the 1980s, and was particularly known for issuing records by college rock, new wave and alternative rock artists, including R.E.M., The Go-Go's, Wall of Voodoo and Fine Young Cannibals. Currently the label is distributed by parent company Universal Music Group. History Miles Copeland III, the son of CIA agent Miles Copeland Jr., played many roles in the U.K. punk rock and new wave music industry of the middle to late 1970s: agent, manager, producer, magazine publisher, record company and label owner. His brother Ian was the head of a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (F.B.I.), while his brother Stewart played drums for The Police, a band that Copeland managed. The Police's first album was released on A&M Records in 1978 with a hit single, " Roxanne", that Copeland called a turning point in his life. Build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handsome Boy Records
Handsome Boy Records was a Canadian independent record label founded in 1994 in Toronto."Handsome Boy President Juggling Hit Acts" '''', September 2, 1995. It was distributed by in Canada, and by other labels internationally including |
Squirtgun Records
Squirtgun Records was an independent record label founded by Lee Maslin in 1994 specializing largely in releases by Canadian rock bands. Artists who have worked with the label include Shortfall, hHead, Scratching Post (band), Scratching Post, Treble Charger, Radioblaster, Versus (band), Versus, Speedbuggy, Poledo, Lou Barlow, Elevator To Hell, Noah's Arkweld, Chris Thompson (Canadian musician), Moon Socket, The New Grand, Chris Thompson (Canadian musician), Orange Glass, Thee Suddens, Purple Knight, Hip Club Groove, Eric's Trip, Len (band), Len, Squirrel, Julie Doiron, Hayden (musician), Hayden, Public Animal, José Contreras and By Divine Right. References ''Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance'' 1985–1995 By Michael Barclay, Ian A. D. Jack, Jason Schneider, ECW Press; Second Edition, Second edition (June 1, 2011), * * * * http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=198816 Canadian independent record labels {{Canada-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgefest
Edgefest was an annual outdoor rock festival in Canada. It was founded by staff members of Toronto radio station CFNY-FM. From 1987 to 2015, the festival was held every year in the summer (except for 2007). The festival was most frequently held on Canada Day at Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario or a venue in Toronto. The festival featured predominantly Canadian rock bands. During its 29-year operation, the festival featured more than 300 performers. As of 2015, it was the longest running rock festival in Canada. History Creation, early years (1987–1989) The festival was created in 1987 by CFNY-FM staffers Scot Turner, Kneale Mann, Alan Cross, Earl Veale, and Phil Evans to celebrate the station’s tenth anniversary and the 120th Canada Day. A lineup, including Blue Rodeo, The Pursuit of Happiness, Teenage Head, and the first foreign act, The Saints, was soon arranged, but finding an appropriate location proved to be difficult. A farmer's field in Oakville, Ontario was conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajax, Ontario
Ajax (; 2021 Canadian census, 2021 population: 126,666) is a town in Regional Municipality of Durham, Durham Region in Southern Ontario, Canada, located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area. The town is named for , a Royal Navy cruiser that served in the Second World War. It is approximately east of Toronto on the shores of Lake Ontario and is bordered by the City of Pickering, Ontario, Pickering to the west and north, and the Town of Whitby, Ontario, Whitby to the east. History The indigenous peoples in Canada, indigenous peoples were active in the watersheds of the Duffins Creek and the Carruthers Creek (Canada), Carruthers Creek since the Archaic period (North America), Archaic period (7000-1000 BCE), although they did not build any major settlements in the area, presumably because of the poor navigability of these streams. In 1760, French Canadians, French Sulpician missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon reached Duffins Creek area, but did not settle there. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moist (Canadian Band)
Moist is a Canadian rock band that formed in 1992. It consists of David Usher as lead vocalist, Mark Makoway on lead guitars, Jonathan Gallivan on guitars, Kevin Young on keyboards, Francis Fillion on drums, and Jeff Pearce on bass. Drummer Paul Wilcox left the band just before its hiatus in 2000. Moist was signed by EMI Music in 1994 and released three studio albums in the 1990s, becoming a staple of Canadian rock music. Shortly after releasing a compilation album in 2001, the band underwent an unplanned hiatus for over a decade, and then became officially re-established in June 2013. Shortly after reuniting, the band began work on their fourth studio album, entitled '' Glory Under Dangerous Skies'', which was released in 2014. Their fifth album, '' End of the Ocean'', is scheduled to be released in January 2022. The band has been nominated for ten Juno Awards, winning two. Between 1996 and 2016, Moist was among the top 50 best-selling Canadian artists in Canada and among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's " newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and the ''Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Songs Of Bob Snider
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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