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Strange Prison
''Strange Prison'' is an album by Astral Swans, released in May 2018, described by Exclaim Magazine as "Swann's most sonically exploratory and emotionally resonant release to date," and by BeatRoute Magazine as "brimming with life, full of texture and character while maintaining a laid-back, atmospheric quality". Track listing # "Blow Away" # "Controls" # "What Are You Gonna Do with Yourself" # "Prison Builder" # "General Rule" # "The Kids Came By and Burned Down the Scene" # "Strange Prison" # "Free Yourself from All Harm" # "I Belong" # "Excess" # "Sew Their Mouths" # "I Wanna See Something Burn" # "End Song" Personnel All vocals and instrumentation by Matthew Swann, except: * Dillon Whitfield (Jane Vain and the Dark Matter) – backing vocals (tracks 1, 2); drums (track 6); bass, guitar (track 10) *Paul Chirka – organ (tracks 1, 7, 9, 11); backing vocals (track 1); strings (track 7) * Chris Vail – guitar (tracks 1, 11) *Rena Kozak – vocals (tracks 3, 12) *Sarah Groo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Swann (musician)
Matthew Swann, performing under the name Astral Swans, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary, Alberta, signed to Dan Mangan's Madic Records, an imprint of Arts & Crafts Productions. His music style has been described as "introspective late 60s folk à la Nick Drake filtered through an avant-garde 90s lens." His 2015 album, ''All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson'', was described by VICE as "a stark, beautiful project ..steeped in 60s psych-folk mythology and loner punk iconography." His latest album, ''Strange Prison'', was released in May 2018. Previously Matthew Swann was a member of Hot Little Rocket and Extra Happy Ghost!!! Discography Studio albums *2015: ''All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson'' (Madic Records / Arts & Crafts Productions) *2018: ''Strange Prison'' (Saved By Vinyl / Tiny Room Records) Singles *2014: ''You Carry A Sickness / Park Street'' (Madic Records / Arts & Crafts Productions) *2018: ''Controls (song)'' (Saved By Vinyl / Tiny Room Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preoccupations
Preoccupations is a Canadian post-punk band from Calgary, Alberta, formed in 2012 under the name Viet Cong. The band consists of Matt Flegel (vocals, bass), Scott Munro (guitar, synth), Daniel Christiansen (guitar) and Mike Wallace (drums). Flegel and Wallace had previously been members of the band Women, which broke up in 2010. The group's musical style has been described as "labyrinthine post-punk". History Formation and ''Viet Cong'' (2012–2015) In 2010, the band Women entered an indefinite hiatus after an onstage fight. That band's guitarist, Christopher Reimer, died in 2012. Following Reimer's death and the disbanding of Women, ex-Women bassist Flegel decided to form a new band with guitarist Munro (formerly of Lab Coast); the two had recently toured together as live musicians for Chad VanGaalen. They recruited ex-Women drummer Wallace and guitarist Christiansen (the latter previously performed in a Black Sabbath cover band alongside Flegel and Wallace). The band's debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Mangan
Daniel Mangan (born April 28, 1983) is a Canadian musician. He has won two Juno awards and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Australia, having released 5 studio LPs and numerous EPs and singles. He has scored for feature film, as well as television for Netflix and AMC. He is also a co-founder of Side Door, a marketplace platform connecting artists with alternative venue spaces for in-person & online shows. Career Early work In 2003, at 20 years old, Mangan completed his first set of recordings: an EP of simply recorded acoustic songs called ''All At Once''. Five hundred copies were pressed and sold or given away throughout the Vancouver area. With a bank loan and a small community of musicians who would offer cheap or free sessions, Mangan recorded ''Postcards & Daydreaming'' in the summer of 2005 with producer Daniel Elmes and good friend Simon Kelly. Mangan released the album independently at first, selling the album online and at live shows. In July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson
''All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson'' is an album by Astral Swans, released in 2015 by Dan Mangan's Madic Records, an imprint of Arts & Crafts Productions. ''All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson'', was described by ''VICE'' as "a stark, beautiful project ..steeped in 60s psych-folk mythology and loner punk iconography." Track listing # "There Are Ways To Get What You Want" # "Beginning Of The End" # "Let Their Faces All Blur Out' # "Please Don’t Leave Me Strange" # "What Calms You Down, Freaks Me Out" # "You Carry A Sickness" # "Park Street" # "September" # "Holly" # "My Conscience Don’t Work In The New World" # "Attention" # "Grass Girl" Personnel *Matthew Swann – all instruments and vocals except * Chris Reimer – track 7 sample taken from: Truck Middle from 'The Chad Tape', 2012 *Distance Bullock – drums on tracks 2,4,6,8,11, BG vocals on track 1,2. cello throughout *Kaelen Ohm – drums on track 5 *Kevin Stebner – drums on track 9 *Paul Chirka � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Music
CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards a new " adult music" format with a variety of genres, with the classical genre generally restricted to midday hours. In 2009, Radio 2 averaged 2.1 million listeners weekly, and it was the second-largest radio network in Canada. History The CBC's FM network was launched in 1946, but was strictly a simulcast of the AM radio network until 1960. In that year, distinct programming on the FM network began. It was briefly discontinued in 1962, but resumed again in 1964. In November 1971, the CBC filed license applications for new FM stations in English in St. John's, Halifax, and Calgary, and in French in Quebec City, Ottawa, and Chicoutimi, telling the CRTC that it intended to start a second "more extended and more leisurely" program serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Compan ... [...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] |
BeatRoute Magazine
''BeatRoute'' is a monthly print and online magazine published in Western Canada. The magazine is distributed across Alberta and British Columbia, with offices in Calgary and Vancouver. BeatRoute is a primarily music-oriented publication, with a circulation of more than 10,000. History BeatRoute was founded by Brad Simm and Glenn Alderson in 2004. Simm also works in the journalism program at Mount Royal University. In 2009, BeatRoute began producing a West Coast edition, with an additional 10,000 copies distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute's British Columbia office has presented and sponsored a multitude of events in Vancouver, including celebrations surrounding the 2018 Juno Awards. Content BeatRoute's initial target readership began as a younger age group, but has since expanded. Although primarily focused on music, ''BeatRoute'' also publishes articles on art, culture, and film reviews. On occasion, BeatRoute articles have been picked up by larger pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Vain And The Dark Matter
Jane Vain and the Dark Matter is an indie rock band formed in 2005 from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The band is fronted by Calgary native Jamie Fooks, and signed to Edmonton’s Rectangle Records. They describe their sound as indie electro-pop. The ''Montreal Mirror'' called their music "melancholy" and "macabre," and Fooks has been compared to Emily Haines, Cat Power, and Fiona Apple.Rectangle Records website They released their first full-length album, ''Love Is Where the Smoke Is'', in January 2008. History 5’2 Jamie Fooks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) was born and raised in Calgary. She attended Crescent Heights High School[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Vail
Chris Vail is a Canadian musician from Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ..., Alberta. Discography With Key To The City *2009: ''Owls Of Getchü'' (self-released/Saved By Radio) With Vailhalen *2005: ''Pop Violence'' (Saved By Radio) *2004: ''Becs d'Oiseaux'' (Saved By Radio) With XL Birdsuit *2003: ''Kisses'' (self-released/Saved By Radio) *2002: ''In Minotaur City'' (Flood Records) With Shecky Formé *2001: ''11 Objects Lost And Found (compilation)'' (Catch And Release) *2000: ''002'' (Boonbox) References 1977 births Living people Canadian indie rock musicians {{Canada-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fond Of Tigers
Fond of Tigers is a Canadian seven-piece post-rock instrumental band from Vancouver. An article in ''Exclaim!'' describes the band's sound: "with cacophonous explosions of percussion and guitar underlying wild strains of trumpet and violin, only to drop out for unexpected, ambient glimmers of a once-roaring piece." History The group began in 2000 as a solo project of guitarist Stephen Lyons. After Lyons' indie rock group Beauventure disbanded, Lyons performed solo, and soon began playing along with tape loops and recorded sounds. In 2003 the project expanded to become a full band. Band members include Stephen Lyons on guitar, JP Carter on trumpet, Morgan McDonald on piano, Jesse Zubot on violin, Shanto Acharia on bass, and Skye Brooks and Dan Gaucher on drums. In June 2006, they released the debut album, ''a thing to live with''. Their second album, ''Release the Saviours'', was released on November 27, 2007. Fond of Tigers' third album, ''Continent & Western'' was released on S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
