Blog: Raised on Indie

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Emmas Ringer is an alt/rock band from Ottawa, heavily influenced by the 902s seattle grunge movement. Their style focuses on composing music on a darker spectrum with an emphasis on aggressive vocals, distorted keyboards and electronic drums.

I had the pleasure of listening to Shades for the first time this afternoon. Shades is an electronic shoegaze quartet from Boise, Idaho. The band released their album Clear Motions earlier this week on Synthemesc Recordings. You can have a listen to this excellent track from their album, titled Ghostlike below. The track mixes dreamy ethereal [...]

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The four-piece band from Boise, Idaho known to the universe as Shades bring an eclectic mix of woozy melodic synths, crunched drums, smooth vocals and sweet vibes. "Clear Motions" will be released in January 2012. We're very excited to share a fantastic collection of songs that flow brilliantly into each other as warm waves grab [...]

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New Wild Everywhere is the follow-up to Great Lake Swimmers' critically acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize shortlisted and Juno nominated 2009 album Lost Channels. Their fifth album in just under a decade, this new collection of 12 tracks reveals a depth and maturity previously only hinted at by lead singer and songwriter Tony Dekker. Featuring the [...]

Live on Brighton… A band that could very easily be sponsored by eHarmony. And not just because none of the guys can keep a girl friend, but for the fact that all three of these guys met online…. That's right….. Back in 2009 front man Jeff Fero decided to escape the audio engineering field, and [...]

The Ottawa, Ontario hard rock band Animal Confession plans to invade your ears and penetrate your brains in 2012 with their debut album. Comprised of Andrew Gharib (vocals, guitar) and Patrick Quesnel (bass), Animal Confession's music combines the gritty toughness of Deftones, with the moodiness of Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure. Properly targeted music may [...]

Glenn Chatten: musician, environmentalist, inspirational speaker Biography At the age of thirteen folk singer Glenn Chatten had three ambitions in life play guitar, write songs, and perform. Then in 1976, he won a Nashville Song writing competition and toured the US Mid West and Canada. In 1985 he recorded his first album, Running Away From [...]

Robert Hubele is the oldest of eight children, raised in the prairies of southern Alberta, Canada. At 14, he laboured at a steel mill and then became a heavy equipment operator. At 21, he wrote his first song. Robert's world view is that love and harmony are all. Writing songs and giving concerts are Robert's [...]

While there has often been a pressure and desire for a place of security for him and his loved ones, Chris Ronald has always received a lot of encouragement from fans to make his mark in music. This support, along with an innate feeling that his music is meant for more, has made his career [...]

Good King Friday, named after the character from the show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, formed after members of the avant-garde classical group the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble played a show at Spaceland in Silverlake, CA, met up with some long-lost friends, and got down to writing some serious symphonic rock. Some of the members of [...]

Cole Petrone is an accomplished singer-songwriter who has been entertaining audiences all over the world. Combining a smooth tenor voice with an artistic finger-picking style, Cole has crafted a unique indie sound that has often been compared to that of modern James Taylor and Paul Simon. Widely acclaimed throughout the music industry, his original and [...]

"From the start, there was no question for Tru Fam; they'd make a great team. As identical twins, Young Sha and Just I found motivation in their chemistry as brothers, best friends and their closest critics. "It's pretty much a given. We know what one another might want on a record without saying a word." [...]