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The Evaporators
The Evaporators are a Canadian garage rock band formed in 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vocalist/keyboardist Nardwuar, its founding member, is also known for interviewing musicians and celebrities. History As well as recording and performing as a separate group, The Evaporators often collaborate with other musicians, including Rodney Graham and Andrew W.K. John Collins is a member of the band The New Pornographers and David Carswell is in The Smugglers. The band members also perform as Thee Goblins and sometimes under other names. Lisa Marr, formerly of Cub, was also formerly a member of The Evaporators. By 2008, the band had released four albums. The Evaporators were featured on a compilation album, ''Busy Doing Nothing'', in 2013, and in 2016 the band released an album ''Ogopogo Punk''. Most of their releases have been available on compact disc, vinyl, and 8-track. Members Lineups Adapted from release credits and credits on the Evaporators website. Discogra ...
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South By Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in both years there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW EDU and the SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural South by Southwest London, SXSW London will also take place. ...
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The Smugglers (band)
The Smugglers are a Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band consists of vocalist Grant Lawrence, guitarists Nick Thomas and David Carswell, bassist Kevin "Beez" Beesley and drummer Graham Watson."Kings of the Party"
''Soulshine'', May 20, 2004.
Past members include Paul Preminger (drums, 1988-1991), Adam Woodall (harmonica and guitar, 1988-1990), Bryce Dunn (drums, 1991-1998), Danny Fazio (drums, 1997) and John Collins (bass, 1997).


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The Smugglers formed in 1988 when Lawrence, Carswell, Thomas, Woodall and Preminger were students at Vancouver's Hillside Secondary School."The Smugglers"
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List Of Canadian Musicians
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ...
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Canadian Rock
Rock music of Canada is a wide and diverse part of the general music of Canada, beginning with American and British style rock and roll in the mid-20th century. Since then Canada has had a considerable impact on the development of the modern popular music called rock music, rock. Canada has produced many of the genre's most significant groups and performers, while contributing substantively to the development of the most popular Canadian music genres, subgenres, which include pop rock, progressive rock, country rock, folk rock, hard rock, punk rock, heavy metal music, heavy metal and indie rock.Requires running a searches for Artist or year Background Since before Canada's Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914), emergence as a nation in 1867, the country has produced its own List of Canadian composers, composers, List of Canadian musicians, musicians and List of bands from Canada, ensembles. From the 17th century onward, Canada has developed a music infrastructure that inclu ...
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Music Of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia, is one of Canada's largest cities and foremost cultural centers. History Music has been an integral part of Vancouver's First Nations for thousands of years however it is not clearly documented when it flourished. European arrivals in the nineteenth century established numerous amateur orchestras, ensembles, churches, and ethnocentric choirs. By the 1920s there existed local choral societies and orchestras that regularly presented the major works of European composers to Vancouverites. The first known musical entertainments (other than those provided by First Nations residents, and informally by mill workers, sailors, loggers, and tavern keepers), in what would later become Vancouver, were Methodist church services led by a Mrs. Sullivan in Gastown, who was of West Indian origin. Her son Arthur became popular with Vancouver impresarios as a Master of Ceremonies and his career as a singer, actor and host bridged the pre-railway Gastown era with the ...
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Music Of Canada
The music of Canada reflects the diverse influences that have History of Canada, shaped the country. Indigenous Peoples, the Irish-Canadians, Irish, British, and the French have all made unique contributions to the musical Culture of Canada, heritage of Canada. The music has also subsequently been influenced by Culture of the United States, American culture because of the proximity between the two countries. Since French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived in 1605 and established the first permanent French settlements at Port-Royal (Acadia), Port Royal and Quebec City, Québec in 1608, the country has produced its own List of Canadian composers, composers, List of Canadian musicians, musicians and List of bands from Canada, ensembles. Canadian music reflects a Music of Canadian cultures, variety of regional scenes. Government support programs, such as the Canada Music Fund, assist a wide range of musicians and entrepreneurs who create, produce and market original and diverse Canad ...
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Busy Doing Nothing (album)
Busy Doing Nothing may refer to: *"Busy Doing Nothing", a song by Bing Crosby on the soundtrack of the film ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' 1949 *"Busy Doing Nothing", a song by Japanese singer Crystal Kay is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories" (1999), Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, ''Almost Seventeen'' (2002), which debuted at number 2 on the Japanese O ..., her US debut *" Busy Doin' Nothin'", a song by the Beach Boys * "Busy Doin' Nothin'" (Ace Wilder song), a song by Swedish singer Ace Wilder {{disambig ...
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Gassy Jack & Other Tales
Gassy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Konstancin-Jeziorna, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Konstancin-Jeziorna, east of Piaseczno, and south-east of Warsaw. In 2014 ferry to Karczew Karczew (; ''Kartshev'') is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of the urban-rural administrative district of Gmina Karczew, with 10,271 inhabitants (2010). Karczew is a part of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Wars ... started service. According to people working on this project the main problem was official "no-entry" car, despite road there. Without cars it was not economically reasonable, and after this problem was solved by removing the rule, the ferry started. References Villages in Piaseczno County {{Piaseczno-geo-stub ...
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A Wild Pear
"A Wild Pear" is a split EP from the Canadian garage rock band the Evaporators and American rock artist Andrew W.K. It was released on June 23, 2009, and features one original song and one cover by The Evaporators on side 1 and two covers by Andrew W.K. and an interview by Nardwuar the Human Serviette (lead singer and keyboardist of The Evaporators) with Andrew W.K. on side 2. The EP features cover art by cartoonist Mitch Clem. The album title and cover art are a parody of the album " A Wild Pair", a promotional album released in 1968 by Coca-Cola and featuring The Guess Who and The Staccotos. Track listing Side Nard (side 1) #"The Bomb's In My Pants!" – 1:34 #"Oh Non" – 2:33 ( Les Hou-Lops cover) Side WK (side 2) #"Oh Canaduh" – 2:22 ( The Subhumans cover) #"Nardwuar vs. Andrew W.K." – 1:02 (Interview) #"Don't Sell Hot Dogs Tonight" – 0:52 ( Leather Uppers cover) Personnel The Evaporators *David Carswell – guitar, vocals *Hamm  ...
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Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. , Facebook ranked as the List of most-visited websites, third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivit ...
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8-track Cartridge
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. The format was commonly used in cars and was most popular in the United States and Canada and, to a lesser extent, in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Japan. One advantage of the 8-track tape cartridge was that it could play continuously in an endless loop, and did not have to be ejected, turned around and reinserted to play the entire tape. After about 80 minutes of playing time, the tape would start again at the beginning. Because of the loop, there is no rewind. The only options the user has are play, fast forward, record, and program (track) change.
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