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The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss (album)
''The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss'' is the second album from Whitehorse, a band consisting of Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet. The album was released on August 28, 2012 in Canada by Six Shooter Records. '''', August 28, 2012. The album was shortlisted for the on June 13, 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitehorse (Canadian Band)
Whitehorse is a Canadian folk rock band, composed of husband-and-wife duo Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland.Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland Find Their Sound as Whitehorse '''', August 29, 2011. Based in , , Doucet and McClelland were both established singer-songwriters before opting to put their solo careers on hold to work together as Whitehorse. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Albums
The following is a list of Album, albums, Extended play, EPs, and Mixtape, mixtapes released in 2012. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding Reissue, reissues, Remasters, remasters, and Compilation album, compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) WP:MUS, notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information for deaths of musicians and for links to other music lists, see 2012 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date 2012 albums, 2012-related lists, Albums Lists of albums by release date, 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shout Out Out Out Out
Shout Out Out Out Out was a Canadian dance-punk/ electro group from Edmonton, Alberta. The band's lineup is unusual in that it includes multiple drummers and bassists, as well as vintage synthesizer equipment. History Shout Out Out Out Out was formed in 2004. The band's debut album ''Not Saying/Just Saying'', released in 2006, garnered significant airplay on Canadian campus radio and on CBC Radio 3. The album debuted at No. 11 on Canada's national campus radio chart, '' !earshot'', in August 2006, and moved up to No. 5 in the September chart. In February 2007, ''Not Saying/Just Saying'' was nominated for the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year, but lost to City and Colour's '' Sometimes''."Shout Out Out Out Out returns to the local stage" ''Vue Weekly'', March 9, 2016 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Elliott (musician)
Douglas Robert Elliott (born September 3, 1962) is a Canadian musician best known for his work in the alternative rock group Odds. As a child growing up in the Rocky Mountain town of Jasper, Alberta, he took piano lessons and later played trombone and then bass in the Jasper Jr-Sr High School band. At the age of 14 he was playing professionally in local bands. Upon graduating high school in 1980, Elliott went to Malaspina University-College for two years and then to New York city to live with, and be mentored by his cousin, renowned jazz bassist Rick Kilburn (who was at that time playing with Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck and Mose Allison.). He then moved to Vancouver, B.C. While in his first year at Malaspina College Elliott met drummer Pat Steward. The two struck up a working relationship that saw them perform as the rhythm section for several west coast bands before achieving some notoriety with the colourful Vancouver ska unit "Rubber Biscuit". In 1984, Bryan Adams recruited Stewa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Steward
Pat Steward (born May 4, 1962) is a Canadian drummer and singer who is a member of the band Odds, and has recorded and toured with Bryan Adams and Matthew Good, among many others. Early life Steward was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to British parents who had recently relocated to the west coast of British Columbia. The family moved around the west coast in his youth; he began high school in Thousand Oaks, California and finished in Powell River, British Columbia. In high school, Steward was a keen student of the drums. At fifteen years old, he had a chance meeting with punk drumming pioneer Barry Taylor (K-Tels, the Young Canadians), and decided to hop on a Greyhound to Vancouver and hang out watching and sitting in as Barry and the Young Canadians played and rehearsed. In 1980, Steward enrolled in the jazz program at Malaspina College on Vancouver Island. There he met bass player Doug Elliott and they began a long friendship and musical partnership. Career In the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brennan (Canadian Musician)
Paul Brennan is a Canadian musician. A drummer, Brennan has been a member of Big Electric Cat, the Animal Slaves, Odds (band), Odds and Big Sugar (band), Big Sugar. He has also contributed as a guest musician on albums by Meryn Cadell, Sarah McLachlan, Taste of Joy, Julie Ann Bertram and Mae Moore. He is currently playing with Alannah Myles and Ellis Meek and performing locally in Toronto. Career Brennan was a founding member of the Vancouver band Odds in 1987; the same musicians also performed cover tunes locally under the name Dawn Patrol. Odds recorded their first album, ''Neapolitan'', in 1991; a single from the album, "Love is the Subject", appeared on local radio charts. In 1992 the band toured as the backup band for American rock singer Warren Zevon. By 1994, Brennan had left the odds, although he continued to perform in Dawn Patrol. He contributed percussion to Mae Moore's 1995 album ''Dragonfly''. Brennan moved to Toronto and joined the band Big Sugar in 1996. He was th ... [...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] |
Andrew Scott (drummer)
Andrew Walter Gibson Scott (born November 15, 1967) is a Canadian musician born in Ottawa, Ontario and currently living in Toronto. His first bands include No Damn Fears and Oreo Reversed. Currently, Scott is a drummer with the Toronto-based band Sloan. Scott also plays guitar and occasionally sings lead vocals with the band, usually on songs he has written. Three of his songs, "500 Up" (included on the 1992 album Smeared), "People of the Sky", and "I've Gotta Try" (from the 2006 album Never Hear the End of It), have been released by Sloan as singles. Scott is married to actress and writer Fiona Highet. They have two children—a daughter, Stirling, and a son, Alistair. Once the holder of several provincial track and field records, Scott abandoned his athletic aspirations to become a visual artist. After attending the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University, he joined Chris Murphy Christopher Scott Murphy (born August 3, 1973) is an American lawyer, author, and pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Shooter Records
Six Shooter Records is an independent record label based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that uses an artist-centric business model, focusing on art before commerce combined with extensive touring. Six Shooter Records was founded in 2000 by Shauna de Cartier. The mission statement of the company is, ''Life is Too Short to Listen to Shitty Music.'' In addition to production and sales of music, the company is involved in artist management, festival production, concert promotion and song publishing. The management arm of the company is run by de Cartier and partner Helen Britton. Notable festivals include the Interstellar Rodeo (Edmonton: 2012–2019 and Winnipeg: 2015-2017) and the Sleepwalker Guitar Festival (Toronto). Several releases on Six Shooter Records have received awards and critical acclaim from music critics, including music from Canadian folk rock band Whitehorse, Canadian experimental vocalist Tanya Tagaq, Americana band The Deep Dark Woods, and country artist Whitney Ros ... [...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] |
