Jason Tait is a

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musician from

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. He is the drummer for the Canadian

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 mu ...

band

The Weakerthans The Weakerthans are an award-winning and Juno-nominated Canadian indie rock band from Winnipeg. The band, led by John K. Samson, has released four studio albums and is currently inactive. History The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manito ...

. Tait has also been a contributing member of

Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a 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 othe ...

and

The FemBots FemBots are a Canadian indie rock band from Toronto formed in 1998. FemBots are known for their unique sound of combining instrumental everyday items, junk instruments, and traditional instruments in their music. Background The band's core membe ...

Career

Tait played drums for the Painted Thin 1995 album ''

Small Acts of Love and Rebellion ''Small Acts of Love and Rebellion'' is the debut album by Canadian punk rock band Painted Thin.

''; Stephen Carroll, guitarist for The Weakerthans, was also a member of Painted Thin. Tait moved to Toronto in about 2003, and lived there for ten years."Whose House? Jason’s House"
''The Uniter'',19 January 2017. Thomas Pashko He played drums on Greg Graffin's 2006 album, '' Cold as the Clay''. and Bob Egan's album ''The Glorious Decline''. In 2010 Tait set out on a cross-Canada tour with Toronto-based singer/songwriter

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, who uses the stage name

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. Tait returned to Winnipeg in 2013. In 2015, he collaborated with his Weakerthans bandmate

John K. Samson John Kristjan Samson (born 1973) is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a singer-songwriter and best known as the frontman of the Canadian indie folk/rock band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi duri ...

, Christine Fellows and Ashley Au on the music for ''For the Turnstiles'', a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired by

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's 1974 album '' On the Beach''. In 2016, Tait and Fellows coproduced Samson's solo album '' Winter Wheat''. Currently, Tait continues to play drums for

. While on tour, he plays kits made by C&C Drums, a Gladstone, Missouri-based custom drums manufacturer whose products he endorses.

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Career

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