Category: alternative
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Flashback :: Stone Roses
Check out The Stone Roses on [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/music-video/fools-gold/id325818392?uo=4″ title=”Stone Roses on iTunes”] The Stone Roses self-titled debut album was released in the Spring of 1989 and although the track featured in the video above was not on it, there were quite a number other of notable tracks including, but not limited to, “I Wanna Be Adored” and “She Bangs the…
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Creative Catalysts
artist: Race You There | genre: indie-pop, alt-rock | label: unsigned listen now: White Flag Casualties It’s no secret. Music is everywhere. One could travel to the far reaches of this our beloved planet Earth and could easily find people from the remotest locales expressing themselves through some sort of musical medium. As has been said/written about many…
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Flashback :: Joy Division
Check out Joy Division on [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love-will-tear-us-apart/id278672609?i=278672963&uo=4″ title=”Joy Division on iTunes”] One of the originators of the “Manchester Sound”, Joy Division formed in 1976 with more of a punk sound but, overtime, as their sound evolved they truly set the stage for the post-punk movement in alternative music. While “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” featured above,…
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It's Official…Rude City Riot signs with Stomp Records
Congratulations are most certainly in order for Rude City Riot who will be celebrating the release of their newest CD on June 6th at The Media Club in Vancouver, BC…but wait there’s more! Nothing But Time is not only RCR’s first full-length disc it is also the first of 2-record with Stomp Records! Yup. No…
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Gumshen :: What You Make It
artist: Gumshen genre: alternative, indie-pop, rock label: unsigned listen now: Not Every One Of Us I Know You Girl I first heard of Gumshen while working with “another network,” as they say, and was so impressed that I felt compelled to include select tracks from their previous album, Super Buffet, as part of our global broadcast here…
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Flashback :: The Grapes of Wrath
I can’t prove it but I’m pretty sure it’s the same dude playing all three instruments…check that…it’s just the same hair. Regardless, The Grapes of Wrath were one of Canada’s most successful indie/folk/rock bands from the time they formed in British Columbia in 1983 until they broke up in 1992. This particular track, “O Lucky…
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Flashback: Modern English
Like it? Get it on [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/modern-english/id755615?uo=4″ title=”Modern English on iTunes”] Ok, is it just me or did lead singer Robbie Gray of Modern English bare a striking resemblance to Sid from the Disney movie Ice Age back in the day? Originally known as The Lepers, the band formed in the Essex region of England back in…
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I Heart Hiroshima
artist: I Heart Hiroshima | genre: alternative, power pop | label: Valve Records | [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shakeytown/id333415444?uo=4″ title=”The Rip on iTunes” text=”[object Selection] Last month yours truly wrote a little snippet about the Sounds Like Brisbane project which is, in essence, a compilation website that promotes indie music from artists Down Under. It was there that we were introduced to a…
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Flashback :: Video Clash
[itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-clash/id522000?uo=4″ title=”The_Clash” text=”[object Selection] The year was 1980. The first rock festival was held in Russia, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States of America, Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington State…and The Clash released “Bankrobber.We certainly could debate the relative importance of these events to each other, to the time…
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Australia's Abbe May
artist: Abbe May | genre: alternative, rock | label: unsigned Some may consider Aussie siren Abbe May’s musical style to be somewhat of an acquired taste. Okay. I’ll grant you that but, personally, I dig her. There’s just something very PJ Harvey/Jemina Pearl about her that I find to be quite alluring. To quote Garth…