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Winning Hearts
''Winning Hearts'' is the fourth and final studio album from Canadian alternative band The Inbreds, released on Murderecords in 1998. The album was noted for paring back from the expanded "full band" sound the band explored on ''It's Sydney or the Bush'', and returning to their more traditional bass guitar and drums configuration. The album was mixed and recorded at The Gas Station, and mastered at Umbrella Sound in Toronto, Ontario. It held the number one spot on '' Chart Magazine''s survey of Canadian campus radio for two consecutive months. However, after completing their tour to support the album, the duo decided to break up and pursue other projects. The album was reissued on vinyl in 2016 by Label Obscura, alongside both ''It's Sydney or the Bush'' and '' Kombinator''. Critical response Jennifer Jones of AllMusic called it the band's best album, writing that "The songwriting has really reached its pinnacle, in that Halifaxian 'sic''artist kind of way, and the polished m ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax Daily News
''The Daily News'' was a tabloid newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that was published from 1974 until ceasing operations in February 2008. History ''The Daily News'' owed its existence to David Bentley, who, along with his wife Diana and Patrick and Joyce Sims, founded The Great Eastern News Company Ltd. in 1974 and started publishing a weekly broadsheet named ''The Bedford-Sackville News''. This paper focused on the suburban communities of Bedford and Lower Sackville within the Halifax-Dartmouth metropolitan area. The Great Eastern News Company Ltd. was initially published out of Bentley's home but a press was acquired in 1978 and the company moved into a new building. A year later the format changed to a tabloid and began publishing six days a week as ''The Bedford-Sackville Daily News''. The paper gained a reputation for printing stories not covered by its competition, ''The Chronicle Herald'', some of which were considered sensational. In 1981, Bentley's company moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Albums
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The '' Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Ullrich
Dave Ullrich (born ) is a Canadians, Canadian musician and entrepreneur. Early life Ullrich attended O'Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Oshawa, Ontario and Queen's University at Kingston, Queens University. Career Ullrich performed as drummer and vocalist with bassist Mike O'Neill in the alternative rock duo The Inbreds in the 1990s. The pair released a number of EPs, and singles, as well as seven albums,"‘I’ll always be writing music’" . ''Queens University Journal'', July 30, 2012. Mark Louie and were nominated for an East Coast Award and a Juno Award before disbanding in 1998. Following the band's breakup, Ullrich formed the independent record label Zunior Records, Canada's first online-only music label. "Zunior" is Ul ... [...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" '''', December 1, 2011. actor, and screenwriter. Originally from , 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 embarki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crossingham
John Crossingham is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario. He performs with the bands Raising the Fawn and Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band and musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Alongside Drew and Canning, the .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian rock singers Singers from Toronto Canadian indie rock musicians Broken Social Scene members 20th-century Canadian male singers 21st-century Canadian male singers Canadian male singer-songwriters 20th-century Canadian singer-songwriters 21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters {{Canada-singer-songwriter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. In addition to music, the magazine also covers film and comedy. 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. The magazine had no official name for its first year of operations, with only th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kombinator
''Kombinator'' is an independently released studio album by Canadian alternative rock duo The Inbreds in 1994, produced by Dave Clark of Rheostatics. ''Kombinator'' reached number one on the Canadian national campus radio charts and was nominated for a Juno Award in 1996 for Best Alternative Album. The single "Any Sense of Time" received a MuchMusic Video Award nomination for Best Alternative Video. ''Kombinator'' received a 1997 re-release on Sloan's ''Murderecords''. It was reissued on vinyl in 2016 by Label Obscura, alongside both of the band's later albums ''It's Sydney or the Bush'' and ''Winning Hearts''. '' |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campus Radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced by students, or may include program contributions from the local community in which the radio station is based. Sometimes campus radio stations are operated for the purpose of training professional radio personnel, sometimes with the aim of broadcasting educational programming, while other radio stations exist to provide alternative to commercial broadcasting or government broadcasters. Campus radio stations are generally licensed and regulated by national governments, and have very different characteristics from one country to the next. One commonality between many radio stations regardless of their physical location is a willingness—or, in some countries, even a licensing requirement—to broadcast musical selections that are not categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chart (magazine)
''Chart Attack'' (stylized as ''CHARTattack'') was a Canadian online music publication. Formerly a monthly print magazine, it was called ''Chart'' and published from 1991 to 2009. Online content ceased to be updated sometime between mid 2017 to 2019, after which owner Channel Zero laid off the site's staff. The site's content is no longer available live online, the domain has been taken over by a usurping commercial website unrelated to music. Much of the old content is still available as web archives at the Wayback Machine. History and profile Launched in 1991 as ''National Chart'', the magazine was started by York University students Edward Skira and Nada Laskovski as a tipsheet and airplay chart for campus radio stations in Canada. The magazine soon grew to include interviews, CD reviews and other features. ''National Chart'' was considered an internal publication for the National Campus and Community Radio Association, Canada's association of campus radio stations, and was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5% of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area of all the Canadian provinces and territories. It is home to the nation's capital, Ottawa, and its list of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast. To the south, it is bordered by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York (state), New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States follows riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
