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Rat Silo is a Canadian Alternative rock group based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada founded by James Newton, the former lead vocalist and guitarist of Canadian alternative rock band Sons of Freedom."Freedom's Newton gravitates to new band". '' The Province'', February 4, 2008. History Originally formed in November 2007, Jim Newton organized the recording of the band's first album 'November 2007:What the Butler Saw' at North Vancouver's Crew Studios (formally Baker Street Studios) over a three-day session. Newton recruited Vancouver musicians Don Binns on bass ( Sons of Freedom, Trailerhawk, Econoline Crush, Art Bergmann), Sean Stubbs on drums ( Numb, SNFU, Jakalope, Bif Naked), Finn Manniche (Jazzmanian Devils, Van Django) on guitar, and Dave "Oz" Osbourne (54-40) on keyboards. Mark Henning produced and engineered the sessions."Rat Silo swaggers to life". '' The Georgia Straight'', April 16, 2008. In April 2009, Rat Silo's second album, 'Doubleplusungood' was rel ...
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Sean Stubbs
Sean R. Stubbs is a Canadians, Canadian musician. He has served as the drummer in the industrial rock bands Numb (band), Numb and Jakalope, and the punk rock band SNFU. He has also been a member of alternative rock singer-songwriter Bif Naked's band. Career After playing in high school punk bands No Ambition and Inoxia at West Vancouver's Hillside Secondary School,Chris Walter (author), Chris Walter. ''...What No One Else Wanted to Say''. Vancouver: GFY Press, 2012, pp. 194 Stubbs became involved with Numb around the time of its formation in 1986, when he served as the band's lead singer under the pseudonym Sean St. Hubbs. He was involved intermittently with the group, often serving as its live drummer, until its dissolution in 2000. Stubbs played with Bif Naked beginning in 1996, and frequently acted as her live drummer as well. Around this time, he also had a brief tenure with the Canadian punk band SNFU from 1998 to 1999. Stubbs co-founded Jakalope in 2003. Since then, h ...
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North Vancouver (city)
The City of North Vancouver is a city on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. It is the smallest in area and the most urbanized of the North Shore (Greater Vancouver), North Shore municipalities. Although it has significant industry of its ownincluding shipping, Chemical industry, chemical production, and Film industry, film productionthe city is considered to be a suburb of Vancouver. The city is served by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, British Columbia Ambulance Service, and the North Vancouver City Fire Department. History In the 1880s, Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale and a relation James Pemberton Fell, made substantial investments through their company, Lonsdale Estates, and in 1882 he financed the Moodyville investments. Several locations in the North Vancouver area are named after Lonsdale and his family. Not long after the District was formed, an early land developer and second reeve of the new council, James Cooper Keith, personally underwrote a loan ...
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Canadian Alternative Rock Groups
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ...
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Hipposonic Studios
Hipposonic Studios is a music recording studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1989 by Robert Darch. The studio houses one mixing, recording and overdubbing room with a Solid State Logic 4000G+ Series. Over the years Hipposonic has had a wide variety of clients, Canadian and international, including Tom Cochrane, Bif Naked, James Brown, Delerium, Prism, Selena Gomez, Jenna Andrews, Econoline Crush, Mother Mother, Skinny Puppy, K-Os, Kinnie Starr, Lamb of God, Swollen Members, Wu-Tang Clan, KISS, Gob, Strapping Young Lad, Colin Linden, Bobby Curtola, Colin James, Sarah Harmer, Hannah Georgas, Boom Desjardins, Marianas Trench, Macy Gray, Daniel Wesley, Rammstein, One Bad Son, Moist, Incura, Tegan and Sara, Hey Ocean Hedley, Louise Burns, 5440, Jakalope, Front Line Assembly, Black Mountain, The Mars Volta, The Be Good Tanyas, and Serena Ryder Serena most commonly refers to: * Serena Williams (born 1981), professional tennis player Serena may also ...
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Julien-K
Julien-K is an American electronic rock band based in Long Beach, California, that began as a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy, alongside Anthony 'Fu' Valcic. The band's name comes from the movie '' American Gigolo'', where Richard Gere's character was named Julian Kaye. History After the release of Orgy's third album, ''Punk Statik Paranoia'', internal conflicts within the band caused Shuck and Derakh to find themselves writing songs that lead vocalist Jay Gordon had no interest in working on. The pair opted to continue writing and recording material, with Shuck stepping in on vocals, before deciding to launch their own side project with the addition of drummer Elias 'Bones' Rodriguez and keyboardist Brandon Belsky. Julien-K's webpage was launched in the summer of 2003 with initial demo versions of songs "Look at You", "Kick the Bass", "Someday Soon", "Everyone Knows", and "Technical Difficulties", the latter of which was late ...
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Mushroom Studios
Mushroom Studios was a music recording facility located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with a long history in Canadian music. It has now been relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The studio hosted the recording of many classic albums, by such artists as Incredible Bongo Band, Heart, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Loverboy, Queensrÿche, Chilliwack, Doucette, Skinny Puppy, 54-40, Raffi, Spirit of the West, Jane Siberry, Sarah McLachlan, SNFU, Tegan and Sara, Mutators, and Rymes With Orange. History In 1946, aided by Al Reusch, a musician, big band leader, and one of the first DJs in Vancouver, opened one of the first recording studios in the country in Vancouver and christened Aragon Recording Studios. By 1954, Reusch had acquired sole ownership of the company and subsequently built Mushroom Studios in 1966 at 1234 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver. Built from the ground up as a first class audio recording studio, the facility was originally an orchestral recording room for ...
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Dave "Rave" Ogilvie
Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer, mixer, songwriter and musician. The former member of bands Skinny Puppy and Jakalope started his recording career in Vancouver working as an engineer at Mushroom Studios. He has been described by '' SPIN'' as the "engineer" of Marilyn Manson's ''Antichrist Superstar'' (1996) album. Dave has worked with many artists over his extensive career including Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, 54-40, Queen, David Bowie, Skinny Puppy, Spineshank, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Doughboys, The Birthday Massacre, Jakalope, Queensrÿche, Men Without Hats, Left Spine Down, Xavier Rudd, Sloan, All Systems Go!, Coal Chamber, Treble Charger, Stereos, Ministry, SNFU, The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck ...
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The Georgia Straight
''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average , is 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership is 804,000 . Its website traffic ranked 92,215 globally and 5,395 within Canada, from Alexa. ''The Straight'' has a long history of independent, unconventional editorials and content, and is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell. In January 2020, the newspaper's acquisition by Media Central Corporation was announced, a few weeks after the same company announced a deal to acquire the similar Toronto publication ''Now''. In September 2022, after Media Central Corporation filed for bankruptcy, the ''Straight'' was acqui ...
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Pure (Canadian Band)
Pure was a Canadian alternative rock band, formed in Vancouver in 1991. Signed to the Reprise label, the band reached a greater audience once their song "Greedy" was featured on the soundtrack album '' Songs from the Cool World'', and the single "Blast" reached No. 22 on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock chart in 1993. History The band's original members were singer Jordy Birch, guitarist Todd Simko, bass guitarist Dave Hadley and drummer Leigh Grant. Grant was replaced in 1996 by Jim Hobbs. Mark R. Henning played keyboards, but left in 1994. Birch, Simko, and Grant had been members of the band After All, which had released one album, 1988's ''How High the Moon''. After All disbanded after vocalist Scott Acomba left the band in 1989, and the remaining members continued as Pure. The band's original name was "The Grin Factory". The band was discovered at Vancouver's Music West Conference in 1991, when they went there to showcase their demo, impressing amongst others, an executive ...
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Bif Naked
Beth Torbert is a Canadian singer best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1996 and 2016, she was among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada. Early life and education Bif Naked was born in New Delhi, India, to teenage parents attending private school. She was subsequently adopted by American missionaries. She spent part of her childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, where her father was a professor at the University of Kentucky. She went to Kelsey Elementary School in The Pas, Manitoba, for a couple of years. After living for a time in Dauphin, Manitoba, her family eventually settled in Winnipeg. She graduated from John Taylor Collegiate and studied theatre at the University of Winnipeg. After University, she began pursuing a career as a stand-up comic. The name "Bif" started as a nickname based on the mispronunciation of her real name, Beth. Career After spending several years singing with several underground bands, Bif Naked independently released a self-titled ...
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Art Bergmann
Arthur Frank Bergmann (born February 8, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . Bergmann was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2021. Punk bands Bergmann began his musical career with an Abbotsford band called the Mount Lehman Grease Band. After Mount Lehman folded, he founded his own band, called the Notorious Smorg Brothers, which he stocked with a myriad of different support artists. Bergmann was later the lead singer and songwriter for Vancouver punk stalwarts Young Canadians (formerly The K-Tels). Although the Young Canadians only recorded two independent EPs and a single before breaking up, their song "Hawaii" (co-written with Ross Carpenter) is one of the classic Canadian punk anthems. Although long out of print, the EPs, along with s ...
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Econoline Crush
Econoline Crush is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 1992. They have released five studio albums and are known for their charting singles such as "You Don't Know What It's Like", "Home", "Surefire (Never Enough)", "All That You Are (X3)", "Make It Right", and "Dirty". They achieved platinum status with the 1997 album '' The Devil You Know'' and also received two Juno nominations, in 1995 and 1998. Band history Early years, ''Purge'', and ''Affliction'' (1992–1996) Econoline Crush was formed in 1992 when singer Trevor Hurst moved to Vancouver from Seattle after he answered an ad seeking a vocalist in the local Seattle newspaper, '' The Rocket'', placed by Chris Meyers. Tom Ferris (previously known for the band Moev) and Meyers had been advertising and searching for a vocalist before Hurst contacted Meyers from Seattle. The trio began writing demos alongside guitarist Robbie Morfitt and bassist Dan Yarmeko. The band released a demo EP in 1993. At the ...
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