Category: rock
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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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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…
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Reminder: Vetoes EP Now Available
artist: Vetoes | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music EP: Ritalin/Ritalout [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sonic-turge/id425160671?uo=4″ title=”Vetoes – Ritalin/Ritalout”] A few weeks ago we wrote a review (read it here) about a new EP coming out from Vetoes called Ritalin/Ritalout. In case you forgot, it hit stores yesterday and is now available to download via iTunes. [itunes…
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This Just In: Treading Lemmings Return to the Studio
DC’s Treading Lemmings are off to a fine start here in 2011. Winners of (2) Froglix Music Awards and nominated for (4) Washington Area Music Awards, Quinn and the crew are riding the wave of good fortune right back into the studio to begin work on their next project. It’s a rather fluid situation at…
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Drago's Morning Drive
Longbeach Shortbus, Talk Talk, Connells, Foo Fighters, Hoodoo Gurus, Sharif, AC/DC, REM, RedRum, Black Knight and Snow Patrol.
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Jump Back: The Week in Review
NUM83R5, the new album by Ledaswan was the subject of Monday’s review complete with (3) new tracks for your listening pleasure. Don’t forget about the video post from the previous week for their single “Faulkner.” Next up was the Vetoes, British alt-rockers now working with SpaceRay Music and Adam Whittaker whom, you may recall, also…
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Ritalin… Ritalout… ¿qué Tejano?
artist: Vetoes | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music EP: Ritalin / Ritalout It’s not often we mention a producer on here, but we would not have heard the band Vetoes if it weren’t for Adam Whittaker. And his hand can be found elsewhere on Froglix too (on a few earlier tracks from Grimus…