With most multi-day passes hovering around $200, festival going definitely isn't cheap. Add in airfare, gear, hotel/camping costs, plus the price of 4-days worth of chicken pita, and attending more than one summer extravaganza seems daunting if not impossible. So North By Northeast 's (NXNE) $50 5-day 'Music' wristbands and $150 early bird 'Priority Pass' seem like a steal, considering the festival boasts 600 international bands performing across 50 venues in beautiful Toronto. Pattered after Austin's South By Southwest, NXNE is comprised of an interactive, film, and music segment, with various workshops, panels, and activities taking place over [...]
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One of the names that I heard over and over last week at NXNE was Cobourg, Ontario's Gentlemen Husbands , whose barroom brawlin' rock sound will be on stage at this weekend's S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival in St. Catharines. They've made a name for themselves with a rambunctious live show, and tight, classic rock infused ditties like "Family Economics". At first, they sounded a bit too classic rock for me but give the song a listen a few times and you'll start to pick up on their hardcore [...]
"Cobourg's pride and joy Gentlemen Husbands will set off on their first east coast tour this May after spending time in the studio this fall/winter recording their second EP Mirror Doll Business, which will be released later this year. The first single `Family Economics` is a true rock and roll anthem and features their captivating balls-to-the-wall songwriting at it's best. With a strong DIY attitude, the new album was recorded in the peaceful countryside of Northumberland and engineered, mixed & mastered by long time friend Adam Newcomb". Gentlemen Husbands still remain one of the [...]
Photo by James Fox Coburg, Ontario is the largest town in Northumberland County. It was founded by United Empire Loyalists in 1798 and is the home of...well...not much actually (I'm sure someone from Coburg will correct me). It is the home of Rick Ballard (vocals, guitar); Ryan Hutcheson (lead guitar); Deaner Farrell (drums, vox), and Jed Atkinson (bass) collectively known as Gentlemen Husbands. The Husbands have been making quite a name for themselves on the Toronto Indie scene having played both the CMW's and NXNE (both gigs I shamefully missed). [...]
Without pulling out the soap box and sounding off with protest and guile (i`ll leave that to the more anarchic music publications and blogs that champion unsigned artists). Everyone on a daily basis is bombarded with high percentages of manufactured, frequently lame sounding releases. Radio, television and Internet all subscribe to that premium temple of doom, allies of mainstream Top 40`s overflowing with Reality rejects and second rate rap stars with industrial axes to grind. This brings me quite neatly to [...]
Introducing Gentlemen Husbands, a blue collar band whose country rock music was made for cutting loose on Friday nights. The Ontario, Canada, four-piece consists of Rick Ballard(vocals & guitar), Ryan Hutcheson(lead guitar), Deaner Farrell(drums & vox), and Jed Atkinson(bass). Their music is rooted in honest telling of stories with a backwoods feel to it, yet it carries an anthemic quality. Their background is familiar: small town band writes music in the basement, usually gigging at the local pub, full of ambition but running-on-empty of possibilities. But hitting the road turns out to be exactly what got them the recognition they [...]
This is gonna be a quick one. A few local(ish) bands, and one Ottawa band (that Toronto loves) are playing the Horseshoe on Saturday night. The headliners are Modernboys Moderngirls , a garage-y pop-rock group. I saw them play nearly two years ago when they were a large ensemble. They've trimmed their size and refined their sound since then, and I've heard only good things about their performances. Also on the bill are Everything All the Time , a band that produces chilled-out, groovy dance tracks that are impossible not to move to. Then there's Ottawa's The [...]
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myspace With a name like Gentleman Husbands , you'd expect the Cobourg band to dress nice, open the door for you and pull out your chair at dinner. Hell, when push comes to shove, you might even think they enjoy hanging out with your parents and will bring you home soup when you're sick. The image you get when you picture a scruffy man that wears a plaid shirt, boots and old jeans like a uniform nervously showering and shaving before heading out ( The Learning ) only helps cement your preconceived notions. [...]
Photo courtesy James Fox Hailing from the edge of the magnificent Lake Ontario, Gentleman Husbands have almost perfectly fused together North America`s staple diet of Rock and Country. The second E.P and interesting vocal mouthful `Something Along The Lines Of..A Lesson In Unprofessionalism` almost smells of hard work and constructive studio time, a seamless crossover record that`s gonna soak up your time and wear out your floorboards. Even my general englishness with it`s minor eccentric tendencies has warmed to the more country based tracks `KC Shuffle` and `19` while `Tapanga` and `Snarred In Philadelphia` leaves you [...]
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