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Hand Drawn Dracula (HDD) is a Toronto-based independent record label. Artists who have released music on the label include Beliefs, Breeze, Brian Borcherdt, Bruce Peninsula, By Divine Right, Chastity, Dusted, Julie Fader, No Joy, Postdata, Tallies, Vallens and Wintersleep. HDD Projects includes music by Black Moth Super Rainbow, Holy Fuck, Sebastien Grainger and Shugo Tokumaru. Artists *Beliefs *Bishop Morocco * Black Moth Super Rainbow (Vicious Circles Project) *Brian Borcherdt *Breeze * Bruce Peninsula *By Divine Right *Chastity *Ora Cogan *Kyle Edward Connolly *Contrived *Cousins *Deliluh *Deserts (formerly Bad Tits) feat. Josh Reichmann & Sebastien Grainger *Doomsquad *Dopes (aka Josh Reichmann) * Dusted (feat. Brian Borcherdt) *Etiquette *Julie Fader"Julie Fader: Outside In"
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Outside Music
Outside Music is a Canadian record label and distributor founded by Lloyd Nishimura in 2001. In 2007, it expanded to include an artist management division which includes Jill Barber, Matthew Barber, Aidan Knight, Justin Rutledge as management clients. The Outside Music Label released The Sadies's ''Tremendous Efforts'' and albums by Billy Bragg, Tinariwen, The Super Friendz, and the soundtrack to the indie film ''The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico''. In 2010, The Sadies's '' Darker Circles'' and The Besnard Lakes's ''The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night'' appeared on the Polaris Music Prize shortlist while in 2011, Little Scream's ''The Golden Record'', Sloan's ''The Double Cross'', Black Mountain's ''Wilderness Heart'' and One Hundred Dollars's ''Songs of Man'' all garnered Polaris long list nominations. Matthew Barber, Jill Barber, Oh Susanna, The Sadies, and The Hylozoists have all received Juno Award nominations for albums released on the Outside Music Label. O ...
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Sebastien Grainger
Sebastien Alexandre Grainger (born 11 April 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the alternative rock duo Death from Above and the singer and guitarist for his band Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains. He is part owner of Giant Studios in Toronto, Ontario with Jimmy Shaw of Metric. Solo career Sebastien signed with Saddle Creek Records in the USA, Outside Music in Canada and JVC in Japan to release his debut solo album, entitled ''"Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains"'', which was released on 21 October 2008. It was recorded between Giant Studio in Toronto and Mountain City Studio in Montreal. Grainger wrote and performed nearly all the parts on the record with the exception of a few songs that were recorded as a full band. He is currently playing shows across North America. When performing live, Grainger is joined by bassist Nick Sewell, drummer Leon Taheny and synthesiser and guitar player Andrew Scott. Together they have toured with B ...
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Alternative Rock Record Labels
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Indie Rock Record Labels
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Canadian Independent Record Labels
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Shugo Tokumaru
is a Japanese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who debuted in May 2004 in America with his album ''Night Piece''. He creates every aspect of his music, including the lyrics, music, arrangements, recording and mixing. He is known for the variety of instruments he uses in his music, using over 100 different traditional and non-traditional instruments in his recordings. Tokumaru is also a member of the Japanese rock band Gellers. Tokumaru's 2010 album '' Port Entropy'' was his most commercially successful album in Japan, breaking into the top 40. Biography Early years Shugo Tokumaru was born and raised in Tokyo. His first instrument was the piano, which he started between 5–6 years old after seeing a friend playing it. Much later on in junior high school, Tokumaru started playing the electric guitar, originally playing songs only by The Clash. He joined a band called Gellers, made up of people he had known throughout his childhood. The band formed around 1994 and ...
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Tasseomancy (band)
Tasseomancy is a Canadian experimental band from Toronto formed by twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman. Biography Born in c. 1985 and raised in Toronto, the Lightman twins moved to Halifax to attend university. There the sisters began performing under the moniker Ghost Bees that they described as "experimental acoustic folk". The duo released their debut EP ''Tasseomancy'' on April 8, 2008, via Youth Club Records as Ghost Bees. The pair toured around North America in support of the record. As the Ghost Bees project developed, new sounds and influences not heard on the original EP began to be incorporated, prompting the change to Tasseomancy in 2010.Ghost Bees Change Name to Tasseomancy, Release Timber Timbre-produced Single
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Little Girls (band)
Little Girls is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2008 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band emerged from Toronto's post-punk scene as a solo recording project of multi-instrumentalist Josh McIntyre. With a focus on Minimalist Electronic, Little Girls released CULTS EP (September 6, 2011) on Hand Drawn Dracula and are currently working on their second full-length record. In the wake of a series of high-profile blog mentions and singles released on Brooklyn labels Mexican Summer and Captured Tracks, Little Girls released their debut album ''Concepts'' on Paper Bag Records on October 13, 2009. Prior to ''Concepts''. The band also released ''Tambourine'' with Paper Bag Digital on June 2, 2009. The songs combine lo-fi distorted surf rock with layers of haunting, and melodic walls of sound. Little Girls quickly embarked on a North American tour, performing with some of the most talked about bands of the year, as well, has performed at several major International Music Festival ...
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Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ...
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Dusted (Canadian Band)
Dusted is a Canadian indie rock band, whose core members are Brian Borcherdt and Leon Taheny."Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt forms Dusted"
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Their music features Borchert's songs and vocals."Live Review: A Place To Bury Strangers, This Will Destroy You and Dusted at The Crocodile"
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Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront, Toronto, Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarenc ...
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Cousins (band)
Cousins is a Canadian garage rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia.Ben Rayner"Cousins album captures essence of a road gig" ''Toronto Star'', May 23, 2014. They have released three albums and toured in Canada and the United States. History First formed in 2006,"Cousins’ duo tone"
'' The Coast'', June 6, 2013.
the band has had a variety of lineups. Its constant members have been singer/songwriter and guitarist Aaron Mangle, and drummer Leigh Dotey, who are not cousins. They released their debut album, ''Out on Town'', independently in 2009, and toured around Canada in support of the album in 2010, including at Pop Montreal. They signed to Saved by Vinyl for their 2012 album ''The Palm ...
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