Weewerk, stylized as (weewerk), is an
independent
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folk, roots, bluegrass, country record label and artist-management company based in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada. It was founded in
2002
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as an art-and-music salon series in the apartment of
Teenage USA Recordings partner
Phil Klygo and artist-curator
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh (born 1967) is a Malaysian-born and Canadian conceptual artist based in Vancouver. Her works incorporate the artistic styles of neo-conceptual art, minimalism, and environmental art, and is concerned with the significance of everyda ...
. Klygo was Festival Director of
Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week (or CMW) is an industry conference and music festival held over ten days in Toronto and Ontario, Canada.
History
Canadian Music Week began in 1981 and has grown to become one of Canada's largest and most influential media a ...
from 2001 to 2007.
[Wilson, Carl. "Landscape in crimson and clover", '']The Globe and Mail
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'', 2004-03-04, p. R5.
Weewerk has released albums from
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
,
Elliott Brood
Elliott Brood (often stylized as Elliott BROOD) is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vo ...
,
United Steel Workers of Montreal
United Steel Workers of Montreal (or USWM) were a six-piece alternative country ensemble based in downtown Montreal, Quebec. The band members included Gern F (vocals/acoustic guitar), Felicity Hamer (vocals/accordion), Sean "Gus" Beauchamp (vocals ...
,
The Barmitzvah Brothers
The Barmitzvah Brothers are a Canadian indie pop band from Guelph. Known for their use of fiddle as well as unusual and homemade instruments, and for their quirky and original lyrics focusing on everyday life, the working world and ordinary peo ...
,
Barzin
Barzin is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for his slow and melancholic songs. Barzin has released four albums in his career.
Career
A project that began sometime in 1995, Barzin was a solo endeavor at its inception, the work of Barzin Hossei ...
,
Ox,
Two-Minute Miracles
The Two-Minute Miracles are a Canadian indie rock band from London, Ontario, fronted by songwriter and singer-guitarist Andy Magoffin. The band had a history of fluid membership.
History
The band's name was taken from their early preference for ke ...
,
The Burning Hell,
Filly & The Flops, Proof of Ghosts,
Jenny Omnichord
Jenny Mitchell, better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord, is a Canadian indie rock musician. She has released three solo albums and an EP as a solo artist, and also records and performs with the bands The Barmitzvah Brothers and The Burnin ...
, Don Brownrigg,
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 ...
, Canteen Knockout,
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 ...
and
The Travelling Band.
The label's name is a play on the name of fellow Canadian record label
Nettwerk
Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk Management, and Nettwerk One Publishing.
Established in 1984, the Vancouver-based company was created by Nettwerk principals Terry McBride and Mark Jowett as a record ...
, and was named for the small apartment space in which the company was founded.
Discography
#
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
, ''
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
''
#
The Barmitzvah Brothers
The Barmitzvah Brothers are a Canadian indie pop band from Guelph. Known for their use of fiddle as well as unusual and homemade instruments, and for their quirky and original lyrics focusing on everyday life, the working world and ordinary peo ...
, ''Mr. Bones' Walk-In Closet''
#
Elliott Brood
Elliott Brood (often stylized as Elliott BROOD) is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vo ...
, ''
Tin Type''
#
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
, ''
Bodies and Minds''
#
Barzin
Barzin is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for his slow and melancholic songs. Barzin has released four albums in his career.
Career
A project that began sometime in 1995, Barzin was a solo endeavor at its inception, the work of Barzin Hossei ...
, ''
My Life in Rooms''
#
United Steel Workers of Montreal
United Steel Workers of Montreal (or USWM) were a six-piece alternative country ensemble based in downtown Montreal, Quebec. The band members included Gern F (vocals/acoustic guitar), Felicity Hamer (vocals/accordion), Sean "Gus" Beauchamp (vocals ...
, ''Broken Trucks and Bottles''
#
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
, ''
Hands in Dirty Ground''
#
Ox, ''
American Lo Fi
''American Lo Fi'' is the second album by Canadian alt-country band Ox, released in 2006. The CD was released by Weewerk and vinyl released by Saved By Vinyl, both with distribution by Outside Music. Covers on the album include "Surrender" by ...
''
#
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
, ''
Ongiara
''Ongiara'' is the third studio album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released on March 27, 2007. The album was released on Nettwerk.
The band recorded most of the album in London, Ontario's historic music venue Aeolian Hall wit ...
''
#
United Steel Workers of Montreal
United Steel Workers of Montreal (or USWM) were a six-piece alternative country ensemble based in downtown Montreal, Quebec. The band members included Gern F (vocals/acoustic guitar), Felicity Hamer (vocals/accordion), Sean "Gus" Beauchamp (vocals ...
, ''Kerosene and Coal''
#
The Two-Minute Miracles, ''Volume 3.5: Rats''
#
The Two-Minute Miracles, ''
Volume IV: The Lions of Love''
#
The Barmitzvah Brothers
The Barmitzvah Brothers are a Canadian indie pop band from Guelph. Known for their use of fiddle as well as unusual and homemade instruments, and for their quirky and original lyrics focusing on everyday life, the working world and ordinary peo ...
, ''Let's Express Our Motives''
#
The Burning Hell, ''Happy Birthday''
# Harmonica, ''Miaow, Miaow...BARK!''
# Proof of Ghosts, ''Proof of Ghosts''
#
Jenny Omnichord
Jenny Mitchell, better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord, is a Canadian indie rock musician. She has released three solo albums and an EP as a solo artist, and also records and performs with the bands The Barmitzvah Brothers and The Burnin ...
, ''Cities of Gifts and Ghosts''
#
The Burning Hell, ''Tick, Tock''
# Don Brownrigg, ''Wander Songs''
# Canteen Knockout, ''Navajo Steel''
#
The Two-Minute Miracles, ''Volume I'' (re-release)
#
The Travelling Band, ''The Redemption of Mr. Tom''
# Various Artists, ''(weewerk) is 6!''
#
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 ...
, ''
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 Burning Hell/
Jenny Omnichord
Jenny Mitchell, better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord, is a Canadian indie rock musician. She has released three solo albums and an EP as a solo artist, and also records and performs with the bands The Barmitzvah Brothers and The Burnin ...
, ''Split 7"''
#
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
, ''Song Sung Blue''
#
Jon-Rae Fletcher
Jon-Rae Fletcher is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded both as a solo artist and with a back-up band, The River.
Background
Fletcher grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia, where as the son of a minister, he sang in his church's choir ...
, ''Oh, Maria''
#
United Steel Workers of Montreal
United Steel Workers of Montreal (or USWM) were a six-piece alternative country ensemble based in downtown Montreal, Quebec. The band members included Gern F (vocals/acoustic guitar), Felicity Hamer (vocals/accordion), Sean "Gus" Beauchamp (vocals ...
, ''Three on the Tree''
#
The Burning Hell, ''
Baby
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''
#
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and ...
/
Audiotransparent, ''Split 7"''
#
Ox, ''
Burnout''
# Filly and the Flops, ''Filly and the Flops''
# Canteen Knockout, ''Broken Down Town''
Label compilations
On October 14, 2008 (weewerk) released ''(weewerk) is 6!'', a compilation to celebrate their sixth anniversary.
See also
*
List of record labels
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References
External links
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Canadian independent record labels
Record labels established in 2002
Indie rock record labels
Companies based in Toronto
2002 establishments in Ontario