Ox is a

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band based in

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"Ox American Lo Fi"
''The Coast'', By Mike Landry December 06, 2007 and later

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. The core of the band consists of Mark Browning on lead vocals and

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Ryan Bishops Ryan Bishops is a Canadian rock and country guitarist and songwriter from Sudbury, Ontario, who plays as a supporting musician in Ox and in singer-songwriter Kate Maki's backing band. In 2005, Bishops was also a headlining artist along with Mak ...

on guitar and piano, Shawn Dicey on

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and Max Myth on

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s."Musician now strumming from Sudbury base"
'' Northern Life'', October 4, 2007.

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, Nathan Lawr, Kevin Kane and the members of

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are among the band's frequent guest collaborators.

History

Ox was formed in Vancouver in 2003 after Browning and Bishops moved there from Sudbury. The band released its debut album, ''Dust Bowl Revival'', in 2003. The album was popular on Canadian

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where it reached No. 1 across Canada (#56 in the USA CMJ Chart), and the band toured across Canada, the

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and

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to support the album. In 2005 the band released a joint album with American band Kid Lightning. They released their second album, ''American Lo-Fi'', in October 2006. The album reached No. 6 across Canada in ''

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''. The band subsequently moved its home base back to Browning's hometown of Sudbury. Their third album, ''Burnout'', was released in November 2009, and reached No. 5 in ''!earshot''. Subsequently, Ox filmed music videos for the tracks "Unknown Legend" and "Prom Queen" with director John Alden Milne, who also directed a video for their independently released 2011 album ''tUCo''. This album was intended as the sound track for a film project which didn't happen. It appeared on the !earshot Campus and Community National Top 50 Albums chart in January, 2012, along with another of their releases, ''Silent Night & Other Cowboy Songs''."The National Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, January 3, 2012"
''!earshot''.

Discography

* ''

Dust Bowl Revival ''Dust Bowl Revival'' is the debut album by Canadian band Ox, released in 2003. The album was released independently with distribution by Scratch. The record was subsequently released in the United States by Second Nature Recordings, in the Unite ...

'' (2003) * ''IPX No. 6'' (2004,

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with Kid Lightning) * ''

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 C ...

'' (2006) * '' Burnout'' (2009) * '' tUCo'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2012)

References

External links

Ox
official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Ox Musical groups established in 2003 Musical groups from Vancouver Canadian alternative country groups Musical groups from Greater Sudbury 2003 establishments in British Columbia