Artist: Mardeen

Check out Kids by Mardeen (can be downloaded on Indie Music Filter Volume 4 , grab it here ). This is Mardeen , a three-piece power-pop group from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I hear pieces of Built To Spill and Weezer , with remnants of the Canadian East Coast Pop Explosion in the mid 90's. Their debut album ( Read Less Minds ) was recorded by Halifax rock veteran Charles Austin ( The Super Friendz, Buck 65 ) and is available at Zunior . [...]

• Mardeen - Kids

It's a weird time to be hanging around the music scene on the East Coast. Over the years great bands have come and gone, but not since the whole "new Seattle" days has so much quality music been made here. I come from a scene where "slap bass" and "drop D" were very much accepctable terms, so this all still kind of freaks me out. Lately, I have been listening to two bands from PEI a lot. There is a bizarre scene going on there. Groups like Mardeen and Smothered In Hugs are turning out a brand of [...]

• Mardeen - City Lights
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