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Sweatshop Union is a Canadian hip hop collective based in Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting of four politically-minded rap acts — Dirty Circus, Pigeon Hole (aka "Creative Minds"), Kyprios and Innocent Bystanders. Known for their socially conscious lyrics, Sweatshop Union's music comments on issues ranging from the war in Iraq, the plight of the poor and working-class, to the negativity and misogyny of mainstream hip-hop. History In 2000, the members of Dirty Circus, Pigeon Hole, Kyprios and Innocent Bystanders came together to produce an album. The result, titled '' Wildlife Canada'', was released in 2000. In 2001, they collaborated again, this time forming Sweatshop Union as their group name where they produced and then independently published their first album "local.604" in 2002 through Metty the Dert Merchant's company "Dert Merchant Undertakings". The title of the album refers to the fact that they represent the local district members of a "Sweatshop Union" (Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Circus
Dirty Circus is a Canadian hip hop group, initially consisting of Metty the DertMerchant, Mos Eisley, and DJ Itchy Ron of the music collective Sweatshop Union. History Metty, Eisley, and DJ Itchy Ron began performing on the local hip hop scene in their hometown of Vancouver in the year 2000. They collaborated with Pigeon Hole (then known as "Creative Minds"), among others, to self-publish their first album "Wildlife Canada". In 2005 they released their second album "Over Easy" featuring more local hip-hop artists. A year later they would also end up re-issuing their "Over Easy" album as "Over Easy V.2". They later formed Sweatshop Union with Pigeon Hole and other local Vancouver hip-hop artists that they had collaborated with in the past. Dirty Circus released their first album as a duo (without DJ Itchy Ron), ''Alive and Well'', in 2010 on URBNET Records. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Circus
Dirty Circus is a Canadian hip hop group, initially consisting of Metty the DertMerchant, Mos Eisley, and DJ Itchy Ron of the music collective Sweatshop Union. History Metty, Eisley, and DJ Itchy Ron began performing on the local hip hop scene in their hometown of Vancouver in the year 2000. They collaborated with Pigeon Hole (then known as "Creative Minds"), among others, to self-publish their first album "Wildlife Canada". In 2005 they released their second album "Over Easy" featuring more local hip-hop artists. A year later they would also end up re-issuing their "Over Easy" album as "Over Easy V.2". They later formed Sweatshop Union with Pigeon Hole and other local Vancouver hip-hop artists that they had collaborated with in the past. Dirty Circus released their first album as a duo (without DJ Itchy Ron), ''Alive and Well'', in 2010 on URBNET Records. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigeon Hole (band)
Pigeon Hole is a Canadian hip hop group from Vancouver. They were previously known as "Creative Minds". The duo consists of Colin "Dusty Melo" McCue and Lee "Marmalade" Napthine, who are also members of the band Sweatshop Union. History McCue and Nepthine began jamming together in 1993 while still in school in their hometown of Nanaimo. They began performing on the Vancouver hip hop scene as "Creative Minds" and collaborated with Dirty Circus to release both of their first album "Wildlife Canada". Later on Dirty Circus and Pigeon Hole joined the collective Sweatshop Union with some other local Vancouver hip-hop artists. The pair released their first album as a duo, ''Age Like Astronauts'', in 2010 on URBNET Records."Sweatshop Union to Release Three New A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver, Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley Regional District, Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies. The Juno Awards are often referred to as the Canadian equivalent of the Brit Awards in the United Kingdom or the Grammy Awards given in the United States. Members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), or a panel of experts, depending on the award, choose the award winners. However, sales figures are the sole basis for determining the winners of nine of the forty-two categories like Album of the Year or Artist of the Year. CARAS members determine the nominees for Single of the Year, Artist and Group of the Year. A judge vote by experts in the relevant genre, determines the nominees for the remaining categories. The names of the judges remain confidential. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swollen Members
Swollen Members is a Canadian hip hop group from Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting mainly of Madchild and Prevail. Frequent collaborators include vocalist Moka Only (who was actually a member of the group for a short period of time in the mid-1990s when the group was formed, and then again from 2002 to 2005) along with the other former members Easy Roc & Zodak who were only in the group for a few years and producer Rob the Viking, an official group member since 2002. Swollen Members has released nine studio albums, one greatest hits album and 2 compilations, as well as numerous other singles. From 1996 to 2016, Swollen Members were the second best-selling Canadian hip hop artist in Canada (behind Drake) and were the best-selling Canadian hip hop group in Canada. History Foundation and single releases Swollen Members was founded in 1990 by Vancouverites Madchild (Shane Bunting), Prevail (Kiley Hendriks), and Moka Only (Daniel Denton). Having begun a solo career while livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maple Music
Cadence Recordings, formerly MapleMusic, is a Canadian independent record label founded by Andy Maize, Jeff Maize, Mike Alkier, Evan Hu, Lorique Mindel and Grant Dexter in 1999 and based in Toronto, Ontario. Other investors include Gary Slaight, Michael Burke and Universal Music. In 2016, its parent Company Maple Core changed its name to Cadence Music Group, and as a result, MapleMusic was renamed as Cadence Recordings. History The MapleMusic Recordings label is a project of Andy Maize from Canadian roots rock band Skydiggers and Maple CEO Grant Dexter. Other artists who have released albums on MapleMusic include David Usher, Colin James, Boy, The Dears, Jason Bajada, Martha Wainwright, Pilot Speed (formerly known as Pilate), Gordon Downie, Joel Plaskett, Spirit of the West, Ridley Bent, Kinnie Starr, Cookie Duster and the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir. MapleMusic released three Radiohead albums ''In Rainbows'', ''The King of Limbs'' and ''TKOL RMX 1234567'' in Canada, a ... [...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] |
Natural Progression
''Natural Progression'' is a 2004 album by the Canadian hip hop The Canadian hip hop scene was established in the 1980s. Through a variety of factors, it developed much slower than Canada's popular rock music scene, and apart from a short-lived burst of mainstream popularity from 1989 to 1991, it remained l ... group Sweatshop Union. Natural Progression established Sweatshop Union as a player in the conscious underground rap scene. Track listing # "The Answer" – 2:39 # "Radio Edit" – 3:16 # "Newsflash" – 0:21 # "I Got News" – 4:03 # "Don't Be Afraid" – 3:59 # "Better Days" – 3:15 # "Today" – 3:33 # "US" – 3:04 # "Truman Show" – 3:06 # "Baho Ang Titi Mo" – 1:31 # "On the Sly" – 3:41 # "P.O.T.B." – 3:50 # "Garbage Love Songs & Cheesy Jingles" – 3:35 # "The Way" – 4:12 # "Stolen Memories" – 4:20 # "Any Reason" – 3:04 # "The Thing About It" – 4:24 # "The Question (Outro)" – 6:58 References 2004 albums Sweatshop Union albums {{20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Radio
CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which (regardless of language) are outlined below. English CBC Radio operates three English language networks. *CBC Radio One - Primarily news and information, Radio One broadcasts to most communities across Canada. Until 1997, it was known as "CBC Radio". * CBC Music - Broadcasts an adult music format with a variety of genres, with the classical genre generally restricted to midday hours. From 2007 to 2018, it was known as "CBC Radio 2". *CBC Radio 3 - Broadcasts a youth-oriented indie rock format on Internet radio and Sirius XM Radio. Some content from Radio 3 was also broadcast as weekend programming on Radio Two until March 2007. The inconsistency of branding between the word "One" and the numerals "2" and "3" was a deliberate design choice on CBC's part and is not an error, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Canadian Music Award
The ''Western Canadian Music Awards'' (WCMAs) are an annual awards event for music in the western portion of Canada. The awards are provided by the Western Canada Music Alliance, which consists of six member music industry organizations from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, and The Northwest Territories. The Western Canadian Music Awards presentation gala takes place on the final evening of the ''Breakout West'' music conference & festival, which takes place in a different Western Canadian city each year. History The Western Canadian Music Awards originated in its current form in 2003. Prior to that the Prairie Music Alliance (formed in May 1999) hosted award events at the "Prairie Music Week", while BC and Yukon held their own music awards known as the "West Coast Music Awards". The earliest incarnation of the Awards was the "All Indie Weekend" festivals held in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba from 1995 through 1999. The Western Canadian Music Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local 604
''local.604'' is a 2002 album by Canadian hip hop group Sweatshop Union Sweatshop Union is a Canadian hip hop collective based in Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting of four politically-minded rap acts — Dirty Circus, Pigeon Hole (aka "Creative Minds"), Kyprios and Innocent Bystanders. Known for their social .... It is a re-issue of the band's first independent release with some changes. The track titled "Audio Cassette Therapy" was cut from the album. Two tracks, "The Human's Race" and "President's Choice", were added in this re-issue. A bunch of different tracks were re-recorded, including different vocal takes, and changes in instruments. Track listing All tracks were written by Sweatshop Union, except where noted. # "Nothing Makes Sense" (DertMerchant) – 2:32 # "Union Dues" – 3:09 # "Feelin' Alright" (Kyprios) – 3:15 # "The Humans' Race" – 4:14 # "President's Choice" (Creative Minds) – 3:32 # "Don't Mind Us" (Innocent Bystanders) – 3:34 # "Blue Collar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
