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The Belle Game
The Belle Game, aka Belle Game, was an indie pop band originating from Vancouver, British Columbia and active from 2009 to 2020. Its members were Adam Nanji (guitar), Andrea Lo (lead vocals), and Katrina Jones (keyboards, vocals). Drummer Rob Chursinoff left in 2014; drummer and guitarist Alex Andrew left in 2018. For a short time, bassist Ian Cook and trumpeter Andrew Lee were also part of the band. The name is a play on the literal translation, from German, of Glockenspiel. History In the summer of 2009, Adam Nanji, Alex Andrew, and Andrea Lo got together to play a single performance at Vancouver's Railway Club performing Nanji's own solo songs as a trio. Andrew and Nanji had grown up and played music together since elementary school; Nanji and Lo had met in rock band class in high school. As a trio, they saw their potential, creating the ''Inventing Letters'' EP, released in late 2009. The EP was well received. It got regular airplay on CBC radio, the song "Tiny Fires" was cho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahamas (musician)
Afie Jurvanen (born April 28, 1981), known by his stage name Bahamas, is a Canadian musician. Early life Jurvanen was born in Toronto and raised in Barrie, Ontario. His mother was winner of the Miss Finland contest in 1973. He speaks Finnish fluently, and he also has a Finnish passport. Career Jurvanen taught himself guitar. He worked with a variety of musicians including The Lumineers, City and Colour, Feist, Howie Beck, Jason Collett, Jack Johnson, The Weather Station, and Zeus. Downtown Music Publishing represents Bahamas' songs. Jurvanen recorded his debut album — '' Pink Strat'', in a cabin in rural Ontario in 2008. He released the album under the name Bahamas in 2009 and was subsequently nominated for a 2010 Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo. Bahamas' second album – '' Barchords, was released'' on February 7, 2012. The album received nomination at the 2013 Juno Awards for the Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Jurvanen received a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedge (Canadian TV Series)
''The Wedge'' is a defunct Canadian television series devoted to indie and alternative music, which aired on Canadian music TV station MuchMusic from 1992 to 2014. The program, which debuted in 1992 as a Monday to Friday half-hour series, was originally hosted by Simon Evans. In 1995, Sook-Yin Lee became the host, and remained with the program until her departure from MuchMusic in 2001. At this time, with alternative rock having undergone a commercial decline, the program was reduced to a weekly airing on Friday evenings. The program had no permanent host for the next decade, serving primarily as a continuous "videoflow", although musicians occasionally appeared as guest hosts of a special episode. By 2010, it had been relegated to airing only at 3 a.m."Fans rejoice as serious music returns to Much: RapCity and The Wedge return with respected hosts at the helm". ''Toronto Star'', January 20, 2011. On January 26, 2011, ''The Wedge'' was re-launched at a new 10 p.m. timeslot. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CKPK-FM
CKPK-FM (102.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. Owned by Pattison Media, it broadcasts a modern rock format. Its studios are on West 8th Avenue in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, while its transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour. The station first signed on with an experimental license in 1923 as CFXC, and was renamed CJOR in 1926. It moved to its long-time home of 600 AM in 1930. CJOR operated as the Vancouver affiliate of the CBC's Dominion Network from 1944 through the network's closure in 1962. It was later acquired by Jim Pattison after the death of its previous owner George Clarke Chandler. In November 2008, after over 80 years as an AM station, the station, adult standards CKBD, moved to FM as adult album alternative (AAA) ''100.5 The Peak''. In 2012, the station moved once again to 102.7 FM. History Early years In 1923, the station was originally launched by the electrical store Hume and Rumble as experimental station CFX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritual Tradition Habit
''Ritual Tradition Habit'' is the debut studio album by Canadian band The Belle Game, produced by John Raham (Frazey Ford, The Be Good Tanyas) and the members of The Belle Game. It was released in Canada on April 16, 2013, and in the United States on May 21, 2013. Track listing Reception ''Ritual Tradition Habit'' earned The Belle Game positive reviews from many blogs upon its release in April 2013. The first single from the album was “Wait Up For You,” and it was put into rotation on the Vancouver station the Peak 100.5 FM as well as other radio stations across the country, particularly college stations and CBC Radio 3. In April 2013, when The Belle Game released the album in Canada, Rolling Stone chose the track “Blame Fiction” as the track of the day and offered as a free mp3 on its website. The second single, “River,” was reviewed by Pitchfork Media in July 2013 and posted as a "Best New Track." Just over a week later, Pitchfork reviewed the entirety of ''Ritual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via Rail
Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service in Canada. As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight Canadian provinces and of track, 97 percent of which is owned and maintained by other railway companies, mostly by Canadian National Railway (CN). Via Rail carried approximately 4.1 million passengers in 2023, 96 percent of which were along the '' Corridor'' routes connecting the major cities of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, and had an on-time performance of 85.4 per cent. Attracting international tourism forms an important part of Via Rail's long distance trans-continental services. History Background Yearly passenger levels on Canada's passenger trains peaked at 60 million during World War II. Following the war, the growth of air travel and the personal automobile caused significant loss of mode share for Canada's pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rifflandia Music Festival
Rifflandia Music Festival is a four-day multi-venue music festival held at the Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, British Columbia. With no fixed date, the festival has occurred in the month-long span between the last weekend of August and the last weekend of September. Rifflandia was first launched on August 29, 2008. In 2019 it was canceled due to "economic instability in the festival market," with the hope of returning in 2020 which did not happen either due to coronavirus. Rifflandia also includes Artlandia, the War Child Lounge, and publishes an annual magazine. Local brewery and sponsor Phillips Brewery also produces a Rifflandia beer, Rifflandabrau, sold around the festival's time. The festival is staged by a local production company, Atomique Productions, and is sponsored by local businesses and various members of the media. History 2016 Line-up = Thursday, September 15 = Night Stages: * Illvis Freshly * The Good Guys * The Beatnuts * De La Soul * Andrew Judah * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squamish Valley Music Festival
The Squamish Valley Music Festival (pronounced ), previously LIVE at Squamish, was an annual music festival co-produced by Vancouver-based BRANDLIVE Management and Live Nation Canada, held in Squamish, British Columbia, over the second weekend in August. In 2015, its last year, it had an attendance of over 120,000 people. The festival was cancelled in 2016. History The festival, originally called LIVE at Squamish, began in 2010 and had an attendance of about 13,000 people. Squamish attracted headlining artists such as Bad Religion, Metric, the Tragically Hip, Childish Gambino, Weezer, Matthew Good, City and Colour, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, Eminem, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Gogol Bordello, and Jurassic 5 Jurassic 5 (stylized JuraSsic 5) is an American alternative hip hop group formed by rappers Charles Stewart (Chali 2na), Dante Givens (Akil), Courtenay Henderson (Soup (Jurassic 5), Soup, Zaakir), and Marc Stuart (Marc 7); and disc jockeys Mar .... In its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Said The Whale
Said the Whale is a Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band was founded in 2007 by the group's primary songwriters, guitarists and lead vocalists, Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft. Their current lineup consists of Worcester, Bancroft, keyboardist and vocalist Jaycelyn Brown, bassist Lincoln Hotche and drummer Spencer Schoening. To date, they have released seven studio albums, '' Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia'' (2008), '' Islands Disappear'' (2009), '' Little Mountain'' (2012), '' hawaiii ''(2013), '' As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide'' (2017), ''Cascadia'' (2019) and their most recent, ''Dandelion'' (2021). At the 2011 Juno Awards, Said the Whale were awarded New Group of the Year. History Their debut EP '' Taking Abalonia'' was released in 2007. It was re-released with seven new songs on June 3, 2008, in Canada as a full-length LP under the name '' Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia''. On July 1, 2009, Said the Whale released the EP ''The Magician'' to drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karkwa
Karkwa is an indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formed in 1998. History Formed in 1998, the group consists of vocalist and guitarist Louis-Jean Cormier, keyboardist François Lafontaine, bass guitarist Martin Lamontagne, percussionist Julien Sagot, and drummer Stéphane Bergeron. The band's name is a phonetic rendering of ''carquois'' (French for a quiver of arrows). After reaching the final stages of the Francouvertes contest in 2001, the band released its debut album, ''Le Pensionnat des établis'', in 2003. The album's single "Poisson cru" reached the top of Quebec's campus radio charts, and was named the best album of the year by two critics for Montreal's alternative weekly ''Voir''. The band's second album, ''Les Tremblements s’immobilisent'', won three Félix Awards in 2006. In 2007, they were featured, along with The Stills, The Besnard Lakes and Mahjor Bidet, on the bill of Quebec Scene, a concert in Ottawa sponsored by CBC Radio 3. On the third album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotye
Wouter André De Backer (; born 21 May 1980), known professionally as Gotye ( , , ), is a Belgian-born Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, as well as several international charts, and became the best-selling song of 2012. He has won five ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards and received a nomination for an 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, the song won Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, while its parent album — ''Making Mirrors'' (2012) — won Best Alternative Music Album. Gotye has released three studio albums Independent record label, independently and one album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums. He is a founding member of the Melbourne indie-pop trio The Basics (band), the Basics, who have independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peak Performance Project
The Peak Performance Project was a seven-year, $5.2 million music initiative funded by the Jim Pattison Group, to provide financial support to emerging Canadian artists in the British Columbia and Alberta markets. The $100,000 prize for the winner was one of the largest prize packages for a music competition in Canadian music history.Sandra Sperounes, "Falling stars, bruised egos". ''Edmonton Journal'', November 30, 2009. History The Peak Performance Project launched in 2009 by Vancouver's 102.7 The PEAK. The project wrapped up in 2015, and in the past featured over 100 artists from throughout British Columbia. The seven year Alberta PEAK Performance Project was launched in April 2014 on 95.3 The PEAK Calgary. In BC, the project is administered by the Music BC Industry Association. In Alberta, the Alberta Music Industry Association handles administration. In 2016 the Alberta format switched over to a country format, aligning itself with new station Wild 95.3 New Country. Several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
