THE CONSTANTINES - Toronto
The mighty Constantines return to Canada's east coast with songs of desire, northern latitudes, work, weather and loving. Ever gentlemen, this is not the telling after the kissing. These are the secret manifestos, heavy with the knowledge that the only truths worth telling are those truths told by lovers, fleeting and disordered.
subpop
myspace
THEY SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY - Vancouver
This 7 piece band have won listeners and dancers throughout North America with their startling energetic live shows. Their desperate songs of betrayal and hardship are brought to life by the distinctive oompa sound of their horn section and overly joyful jittery music.
theyshoothorses.org
myspace
THE STANCE - Halifax
a wild group of fresh-faced young men play beat music, mercilessly turning upstanding youngsters into hysterical kids with their high-octane wedding of Motown rhythm & blues, British freakbeat, and ’60s garage punk. Frenetic, loose, loud, sweaty and reckless.
thestance.ca
myspace
THE GOT TO GET GOT - Halifax/Vancouver
Displaced, and bicoastal North of Americans,TGTGG take the teachings of incisor rock and elminate orange strats with blue pickguards from the equation. Whether or not you agree with their politics, TGTGG are the Marion Barry's of today's popular music.
myspace
HELICOPTER DOORS - Halifax
Mitchell Wiebe fronts this trainwreck of Haligonian pirates concocted to shake the sparkles from heaven.
CALVIN JOHNSON - Olympia, Washington
Calvin's has been working in underground culture since he was a teenager. He established K, a locally oriented media outlet, in 1982 and In 1993 he founded Dub Narcotic, a recording studio, in which he has documented the work of artists such as Mirah, the Blow, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Make-Up and Little Wings. It has also been the incubator of many Calvin experiments in collaboration and self-expression, such as Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System.
The decade of the double zeroes has seen Calvin Johnson set out into the world, acoustic guitar in hand, as a solo artist of musical platitudes.
krecs
myspace
SNAILHOUSE - Montreal
Snailhouse is an ongoing collection of songs by Mike Feuerstack. yes.
snailhousemusic.com
myspace
JULIE DOIRON - Sackville
is a Juno winning songbird, wings lifted by warmth and aching heart. She is also the founder of our dear Sappy Records.
jagjaguwar
myspace
BABY EAGLE - Toronto
Born Steve Lambke, raised under Constantine, reborn a baby eagle cooing ragged folk songs from secret cities and desolate farms.
myspace
SHOTGUN JIMMIE - Sackville
A Sackville prince, silkscreener and first gentleman of indie rock.
myspace
JUST BARELYS - Halifax
Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King make up the quirky folk pop duo known as the Just Barelys. Banjo, drums, keyboards, guitar, homemade amp + two tender voices singing in comfortable harmony.
thejustbarelys.ca
myspace
CHAD VAN GAALEN - Calgary
Mr. Van Gaalen returns to Sackville to wow the maritimes with his one-man-bandness, frisbee tips, half pipe skillz and all around badness.
flemisheye.com
myspace
OHBIJOU - Toronto
Soft and loud. Sweet and sour. Boys and girls. Together and broken... Laying in bed, in a fit of unbridled happiness, hitting me like an unexpected sneeze, I looked at you and said....ohbijou.
ohbijou.com
myspace
RICK WHITE - Orangeville
Psychedelic folk from the darker corners of solitude.
myspace
PETER & THE WOLF - Austin
A texan nomad with a penchant for naturalism and a soft spot for alternative performing spaces.
myspace
CASTLEMUSIC - Toronto
A most beautiful blues,
haunting, saddening but absolutely gorgeous.
myspace
jennifercastlemusic.com
MT. EERIE - Anacortes
Phil Elverum dug deep under Mt. Eerie with some trustworthy friends. They carried in sacks of instruments, cables, the microphones and a recording device and somehow emerged atop a tree singing songs for the ocean.
pwelverumandsun.com
myspace
THE PARAMEDICS - Montreal
Bry Webb of the Cons teams up with Michael Feuerstack and friends to construct a simpler place to dwell and cross hearts.
100 DOLLARS - Toronto
Lovely old tyme country folk tunes, bitter sweet.
myspace
SUPERFANTASTICS - Halifax
The Superfantastics are the Alex P. Keaton of the Halifax indie-pop scene. Small in size, big in heart and adorable in a sweater-vest. Guitar/Drums, Boy/Girl, little flowers grown from the remnants of the explosion.
myspace
CAT PONTOON - Australia via Montreal
Straight from Australia through a deep and cavernous under water passage filled with the decaying bodies of celebrity interviewers and the most remarkably beautiful phosphorescent butterflies comes the divine genius of Cat Pontoon.
THE SINGING SAW SHADOW SHOW + POISSON D'AVRIL - Toronto/Montreal
Seven singing saws singing songs with shadows slightly slanted. sweeping melodies of sing-songs for the Trapeze to balance the dance of sound and light.
myspace
FOREST CITY LOVERS - Toronto
Several friends share love letters, make music to soundtrack the ensuing conversation.
myspace
playthetriangle.com
SARAH HALLMAN - Ottawa
Sarah sings beautiful songs, sad and lovely. Warmth against the May snowfall.
myspace
sarahhallman.com
LEZLIE LOW - Halifax
Lezlie Lowe is a freelance writer living in Halifax who's mad as hell and not gonna take it any more!
writers.ns.ca
myspace
ANITA LAHEY - Ottawa
Anita Lahey's poems have appeared in the Malahat Review, the Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, This Magazine, in Ottawa buses as part of the Transpoetry competition, and in The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. She has won the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest, Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, and first prize for poetry in Pagitica's annual literary competition. Lahey is the editor of Arc: Canada's Poetry Magazine and lives in Ottawa.
vehiculepress.com
MATT HOLMES - Sackville
Matthew Holmes is the author of Hitch as well as the Chief Inspector of the bad repoesy Mfg. Co. and publisher of the zine Modomnoc. His poetry and articles have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. He lives in Sackville, New Brunswick.
nightwoodeditions.com
IAN ROY
Ian Roy is the author of three books: The Longest Winter, People Leaving, and most recently, a poetry collection entitled, Red Bird. Ian is currently working on a series of online videos based on his written work.
ianroy.ca
DAWN-AERON WASON
Dawn-Aeron Wason is a writer/poet & with a book of poems and photos,
My Own Stars They Burn, & another out soon. She has an
art/craft/publishing company called Sublime Creatures.
sublimecreatures myspace
blogspot
dawn-aeron's myspace.com
BAIRD BROS
Pidgeon + Pietin don't make say feist around here.
MAYNARDS - Halifax
In the garage they built space ship light fixtures for makeout parties.
myspace
themaynards.ca
THE CRIMSON TIDES - Halifax
A KICK IN THE TEETH.
myspace
THE CHORUS LEAVES - Sackville
New sackville indie rock, thick like the fog, hits like the marsh wind. Teeth smash as he leans in for falls first kiss.
myspace
ERIC'S TRIP - Moncton
New Brunswick's legendary underground heros reunite again for the second edition of our little festival. Sappy pop songs buried under thick distortion. Indeed and then some.
subpop
wikipedia
myspace
THE MONOXIDES - Moncton
The Monoxides are rock monsters from the underbelly of Moncton New Brunswick who will never fade away. These dirty little kittens have been scratching at the screen door of hell since 1988 and just want to be let out to party in the Galaxy of Stooges.
myspace has a long factual bio
DOGDAY - Halifax
We too are convinced of itself, along with millions of fans in all the planet, that two guitars sufficed, low, battery, good voices and ideas to shake fossilized structures. And they comply with all and each one of the requirements, so by force they shake. (rough translation).
myspace
dogdaymusic.com
MEMORIES ATTACK - Halifax/Fredericton
Chris of Eric's Trip and Ron of Orange Glass got a new game in town and its AWESOME! Plug in the fuzz pop.
myspace
CHIN STRAPS - Halifax
"SAWDUST IS STILL GOOD WOOD!"
chinstraps
JOHN TIELLI'S METAL KITES - Toronto
I certainly hope it doesn't rain this weekend. The latest incarnation of Clark the band.
myspace
THE ADAM MOWERY ORGANIZATION WORLDWIDE - Saint John
This former Port City All Star is coming back to Sackville with a bad ax drummer. The same pop charm tossed through your dad's Cuisinart.
myspace
B.A. JOHNSTON - Hamilton
The tired chud returns, The tired chud returns.
justfriends.ca
myspace
NATHAN COLES OUTFIT - Guelph
This outfit is a worn brown boot.
nathancolesoutfit.com
myspace
CONSTRUCTION + DESTRUCTION - Port Greville
You should have stopped building when the sunset. Power tools after dark, this is a fragile, haunted birdhouse.
myspace
SINGING SAWS - Toronto
Seven singing saws singing songs with shadows slightly slanted. Sweeping melodies and sing-songs.
myspace
WOOLLY LEAVES - Toronto
The mammals built nocturnal homes in your headphones.
myspace
EVENING HYMNS - Peterborough
Jonas Bonnetta wraps himself in a new blanket, shuffling feet to evening hymns.
myspace
shufflingfeet.com
ALIGHT - Toronto
Members of Ohbijou and Forest City Lovers unite to build delicate paper constructions of birds and floating houses.
BLUE HEELER- Sackville
Dick Morello + Julie Doiron team up to manage your direct rock thoughts.
WINTERMITTS - Vancouver
Fun loving, off kilter pop from the west coast. Diverse instrumentation shared between members. Gumboots for puddle jumps. You are the best raincoat!
myspace
wintermitts.com
MR. & MS. POPULARITY - Halifax
Iris Porter + Sue Johnson = tasty lofi crunk pop
myspace
LAURA PEEK - Laura Peek
Melancholy piano pop for your literate cats.
myspace
justfriends.ca
WE'VE GONE FERAL- Sackville
Our local purveyor of personally political rock and one hell of a guitar player.
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