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The Flashing Lights
The Flashing Lights were a Canadian alternative rock band, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. History The Flashing Lights was founded by Matt Murphy, as a side project, performing around Halifax when Murphy was not performing and recording with the band The Super Friendz."Flashing Lights are go!" . '''', February 17, 2000. The band primarily played as a . The Flashing Lights became Murphy's primary band following the Super Friendz' breakup in 1997. Murphy and bassist Henri Sangalang moved to Toronto, where they recru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The High Dials
The High Dials are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band started out playing a brand of pop music strongly influenced by 1960s British mod styles, but their sound has broadened to incorporate power pop, psychedelic music, shoegaze and folk rock. History The High Dials evolved out of an earlier three-piece band known as The Datsons. The Datsons released music on Union Label Group affiliate Tyrant Records in 2000 and Off the Hip Records in 2002 as "The Datson Four". Confusion with New Zealand band The Datsuns and a new sound and line-up resulted in a name change following SXSW 2003. The High Dials' debut album, ''A New Devotion'', was released July 29, 2003 through Rainbow Quartz Records. Described as a concept album about "a boy named Silas attempting to escape from a nightmarish city of the future", it reached the top ten of the !earshot National Top 50 Chart. E Street Band guitarist and radio personality Little Steven Van Zandt played the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Violet Archers
The Violet Archers is a Canadian indie pop band from Toronto. Led by former Rheostatics bassist Tim Vesely, the band consists of Vesely on vocals, Yawd Sylvester on guitar, drummer Camille Giroux, bassist Scott Remila, Ida Nilsen on piano. History The Violet Archers were founded by Vesely as a side project while he was performing with the Rheostatics; he gave the band its name after hearing one of Canadian composer Violet Archer's compositions played on CBC Radio. The Violet Archers released their debut album, ''The End of Part One'', in 2005 on Northern Electric Records. and as a digital download through Zunior Records. Musicians contributing to the album included Aaron MacPherson and Steve Pitkin. By Divine Right's José Miguel Contreras also appears as a guest musician on several tracks. The band's second album, ''Sunshine at Night'', was released in 2008 following Vesely's departure from Rheostatics. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spinner (website)
Spinner was an online music and entertainment service. An AOL Music property, it was acquired by AOL on June 1, 1999, along with Nullsoft for $400 million. Based in San Francisco, California, the website was the first Internet music service and was the largest by 2001, while offering promotional features from high-profile recording artists. In 2002, AOL combined Spinner with the former's Netscape portal to form Netscape Radio. Spinner broadcast over 100 radio stations, including Radio CMJ. In 2008, Spinner was revamped by AOL as a music website aimed at the "music aficionado". The website offers exclusive interviews of recording artists, streams of albums and live performances, and a free music download daily. Spinner, along with all AOL music sites, was abruptly shut down in April 2013. The URLs to all former AOL music sites, including Spinner, were re-directed to aolradio.slacker.com starting in August 2013. Several AOL Music blogs, along with Comics Alliance, were sold to Town ... [...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] |
Tuns (band)
TUNS is a Canadian indie rock supergroup, consisting of Mike O'Neill of The Inbreds, Chris Murphy of Sloan and Matt Murphy of The Super Friendz."Chris Murphy, Matt Murphy and Mike O'Neill Team Up as TUNS, Premiere First Single" '' Exclaim!'', September 10, 2015. The band's name is a reference to the . History Formed in 2015, the group released its debut single "Throw It All Away" that year,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloan (band)
Sloan is a Canadian rock music, rock band based in Toronto and originally from Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sloan have released thirteen full-length albums and have received nine Juno Award nominations, winning one. Between 1996 and 2016, Sloan was among the top 75 best-selling Canadian artists in Canada and among the top 25 best-selling Canadian bands in Canada. The band is known for their sharing of songwriting and lead vocals from each member of the group and their unaltered line-up throughout their career. History Formation (1986-1991) Chris Murphy (Canadian musician), Chris Murphy was introduced to Jay Ferguson (Canadian musician), Jay Ferguson through Matt Murphy (Canadian musician), Matt Murphy in 1986. The three played together in a band called "The Deluxe Boys". The band disbanded in 1987 and Ferguson and Murphy formed the band "Kearney Lake Rd." with Henri Sangalang in October of that year. In 1989, Murphy met and befriended Andrew Scott (drumm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Murphy (Canadian Musician)
Chris Murphy (born November 7, 1968) is a member of the Canadian rock band Sloan. Early life Murphy was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. His family later moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where his father obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He later moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he attended Halifax West High School and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Musical career Murphy originally formed Sloan with Jay Ferguson. Murphy is the band's primary bassist, occasionally switching to drums or guitar, and is one of the band's two main singers; he sings lead on about 40 percent of the band's songs and backup harmony vocals on most of the others. Murphy has written several Sloan songs that have been released as singles, including "Underwhelmed" (from the album ''Smeared''), "Coax Me" (from ''Twice Removed''), "G Turns to D" (from '' One Chord to Another''), "She Says What She Means" (from '' Navy Blues''), " The Other Man" (from ''Pretty T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inbreds
The Inbreds were a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1992. Originally from Kingston, Ontario,"Kingston's Inbreds don't need guitars". ''Toronto Star'', July 8, 1993. the band relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1996 and remained based there until breaking up in 1998. The band was a duo, consisting of vocalist/bassist Mike O'Neill and drummer Dave Ullrich. Three of the four albums released during the band's existence reached number one on the Canadian national campus radio charts, and the band received two Juno nominations. The band was prominent in Canadian indie rock circles throughout the 1990s and were known for their unique, minimalist bass and drums approach,"The Inbreds didn't expect to find success: But innovative Juno-nominated duo is making some big waves". ''Calgary Herald'', March 7, 1996. and melodies and harmonies which drew on classic pop music influences such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys. History The Inbreds consisted of singer/songwriter/bassist Mike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike O'Neill (musician)
Mike O'Neill is a Canadian singer-songwriter,"Mike O'Neill Announces New Solo Album" '' Exclaim!'', December 1, 2011. actor, and screenwriter. Originally from Oshawa, Ontario, he has been based in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 1996. O'Neill was a member of indie-rock band in the 1990s before disbanding the group and embarking on a solo career. He was involved as both sound engineer and actor on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie, My Name Is Evil
''Leslie, My Name Is Evil'' is a 2009 Canadian film written and directed by Reginald Harkema. It was renamed ''Manson, My Name Is Evil'' after its initial release. Plot Leslie is a troubled 1960s teenager who eventually becomes a follower of Charles Manson and is charged, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1969 for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. The story revolves around how a young juror, Perry, becomes infatuated with Leslie during her trial. Cast *Kristen Hager as Leslie Van Houten * Gregory Smith as Perry *Ryan Robbins as Charlie Manson *Kristin Adams as Dorothy * Peter Keleghan as Walter *Kaniehtiio Horn as Patricia Krenwinkel *Anjelica Scannura as Susan Atkins * Travis Milne as Bobby Beausoleil *Sarah Gadon as Laura *Tom Barnett as Bob Ronka Release After the film was renamed, Twitch Film criticized the film's marketing as deceptive, as it emphasized Manson instead of Van Houten. Reception Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator website, reports tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defendor
''Defendor'' is a 2009 Canadian-American vigilante comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Stebbings in his directorial debut. It stars Woody Harrelson as Arthur Poppington, a regular man who adopts a superhero persona named Defendor, with Elias Koteas, Michael Kelly, Sandra Oh and Kat Dennings in supporting roles. Plot Dr. Park (Sandra Oh), a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a vigilante known as "Defendor", about his assault of a dry cleaning business owner. The story flashes back to Arthur's encounter with Dooney (Elias Koteas) a corrupt detective that Arthur believes is in the employ of his nemesis, "Captain Industry", who Arthur blames for his mother leaving him as a child and later dying from a drug overdose. Arthur is arrested for assaulting Dooney, but Fairbanks (Clark Johnson), the police captain in charge, sees Arthur as harmless and connects with him because their grandfathers both served in World War II. After Arthur is rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
