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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] |
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] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...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] |
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] |
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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Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Tait
Jason Tait is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. Tait has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots. Career Tait played drums for the Painted Thin 1995 album '' Small Acts of Love and Rebellion''; Stephen Carroll, guitarist for The Weakerthans, was also a member of Painted Thin. Tait moved to Toronto in about 2003, and lived there for ten years."Whose House? Jason’s House" ''The Uniter'',19 January 2017. Thomas Pashko He played drums on 's 2006 album, '' Cold as the Clay''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Smith (Canadian Musician)
Greg Smith is a Canadian musician and painter based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known as the bassist of indie rock band The Weakerthans, which he joined in August 2004, replacing founding bassist John P. Sutton. As a member of The Weakerthans, he contributed to their latest studio album, '' Reunion Tour'', and is featured on their live release '' Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre'', to which he also contributed the album cover. Since 2018, Greg has been the bassist for the indie rock band The Lowest of the Low. Music Smith has released three solo albums as Greg Smith Sounds: ''Hot as a Lemon'' (2003), ''The Northern Elation'' (2009), and ''Songs About Love'' (2022). Aside from his work with The Weakerthans and as Greg Smith Sounds, Smith plays electric guitar in the bands The Bad Dreamers, The Tres Bien Ensemble (which he also contributes vocals for) and The Keep On Keepin Ons. He has also played bass for: * The Michael Parks * Martin Tielli (formerly of The Rheostatics) * I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Penner
Julie Penner (born 1976) is a Canadian violinist who has played with The FemBots, Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think, Hylozoists, The Lowest of the Low and The Weakerthans. She also worked as the music producer for Stuart McLean's ''The Vinyl Cafe'' on CBC Radio until it went on hiatus in 2015. History Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Penner began classical violin lessons as a preschool A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary sch ...er. She quickly showed an aptitude for the instrument and continued improving her skills. At the age of 15, she quit playing the violin for a couple of years, but then took it up again to start a band with her friends. Since then, she estimates she has recorded or performed live with more than 40 different groups. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Nichols (musician)
Lawrence T. Nichols (born December 21, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois) is a professor of sociology in the Division of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Nichols is renowned for his scholarly research. He is the editor of '' The American Sociologist'', a peer-reviewed journal that examines the history, current status and future prospects of the discipline of sociology. His teaching method makes extensive use of categorization of concepts. He is credited with establishing criminology concentration at West Virginia University. He received an AB (1969) and MA (1973) from Saint Louis University and a Ph.D. from Boston College in 1985. One of his particular claims to fame is the postulation, with Anthony F. Buono, of the Stockholder–stakeholder Stakeholder may refer to: *Stakeholder (corporate), a group, corporate, organization, member, or system that affects or can be affected by an organization's actions *Project stakeholder, a per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 two vintage Yamaha keyboards, and sometimes a ukulele, to accompany her singing. Early life Muir was born in Kingston, Ontario, and went to University in Montreal, Quebec. As a child she took piano lessons and listened to The Ramones, The Clash and The Pet Shop Boys. She also loved television shows ''Pee Wee's Playhouse'', with Pee Wee Herman, Read All About It, Seeing Things, Sol and Dr. Who. A classically trained violinist and pianist, she started writing songs in high school in all-girl trio Wild Girl Soup (self taught bassist/singer). She also played bass in a ska surf band Polka Kola - having met members from various departments at McGill University. It wasn't until she was gifted a Yamaha PSR-180 in 1998 that she began journaling h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
