Sunny Pompeii is a Vancouver psychedelic pop band. Their music is like the weather – it’s hard to explain how it all works but it makes you feel good.

Influenced by their own music-minded families and the sounds of rock pioneers like Black Sabbath, Nirvana, The Sex Pistols and Nine Inch Nails, three high school students joined forces in 2002 and were inspired to create a raw rock ‘n’ roll sound – ripe with analog flavour, shredding guitar solos, mindful lyrics, constant energy flow, and unwavering musical honesty.

A decade later, Corey Allan Hawkins, Arlen Chudley, Rory Chudley – and newcomer Andy Laissue – are Azimyth, a band that bleeds rock ‘n’ roll and has worked alongside industry vets Steve Albini and Tom Baker, and played to sold-out Vancouver audiences. Azimyth’s self-titled debut album is the realization of its niche sound and validation of its self-directed philosophy.

As with Snailhouse’s last record “Lies on the Prize,” Jeremy Gara (of Arcade Fire) takes a mixing and co-production role!
Snailhouse is the brainchild of Montreal based artist Mike Feuerstack. Gently knocking on the door of success for over 15 years now, Feuerstacks’ songs are timeless; instantly true and recognizable before they’ve even hit the chorus. The kind of artist that is always subtlety complex and beautifully memorable. Clever wit matched with an honest delivery.
Over the course of 5 albums …

Georgia had her original song, “We’ll Never Know” stolen by a Korean pop star by the name of Hyori Lee. Hyori released the song (under the title of “Swing”) as the first single off her come back album H.Logic and it went #1 in several Asian markets

Leave the Lion is a blues rock group formed in Vancouver, BC after the release of Adam Rosenthal’s first solo album Perhaps We’re All To Blame. The solo album is a collection of songs Adam’s written and worked on over five years.

Leave the Lion is in the studio working hard recording their newest album and establishing their new name . Lots of questions have been asked as to why they have changed their name. What does it mean for the solo album? And why?

Places With Faces ride with the currents, molding an adventurous path of discovery for the greater good. Their free-spirited music is inspired by Vancouver and the ocean, touching on ideas of truth, freedom and the vulnerability of life and love. Brought together by a string of fate, what was once an idea has now transformed into a full movement that portrays elements of beauty in their purest form.

Vancouver based singer-songwriter, Hún
Hún (pronounced [huːn], as in hoon) is a singer-songwriter, composer, producer and multimedia artist of South Korean origin, born 1986 in Seoul. Currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Having spent childhood immersed in musical influences ranging from french impressionists, scandinavian and irish scenes, he became serious about music composition by the time he reached high school. Hún is very open in terms of medium and genre, constantly evolving as a musician and very passionate about putting together abstract emotive elements consisting of unique melodies, harmonies, structure and sonorities in order to create an experience that has both sublime and real-life, aesthetic and sensual value. He believes in a genuine kind of positive energy and powerful emotional communication via music.

Olenka Krakus is Polish but has Vancouver ties, having lived and played here for a long time she left a lot of friends here. She was born in Poland but grew up in Canada. Now she resides in London Ontario but she played the Biltmore on a visit to Vancouver with a stellar line up that included members of Aunts and Uncles and Like Animals Again who also played the show. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers formed in early 2008. has a sound that mingles a strong Eastern European influence with elements of North American country and folk music. The band’s diverse instruments (cello, violin, accordion, trumpet, saxophone, lap steel, mandolin and glockenspiel) provide a unique musical backdrop to Olenka’s sophisticated, often narrative, form of songwriting. Influenced by her memories of Communist Poland and by the country’s folklore, Olenka investigates themes of social injustice and personal responsibility, populating her songs with melancholy outcasts from both Polish and Canadian landscapes.

Craig Smith possesses a warmth and honesty that permeates everything he touches, everyone he meets, every song he sings.

Your future favourite song is here in this show, so be part of the movement. Every Tuesday at 11:30 AM PT on CiTR 101.9 FM or www.citr.ca I always play local musicians, like John Pippus, The Wizerdz, Henry and the Nightcrawlers, Bradley, The SSRIS, really cool bands.I also played some heavier stuff from this point and local heavier stuff like The Executives, Sinister Black and more music from different parts of the world

This is where you expect to find a bunch of bullshit about who we are, how we formed, what our influences are, right?

I respect you too much to tell you about that sort of minutiae. It’s a not-so-interesting tale involving craigslist and late-night dollar burritos. Besides, it wouldn’t really tell you anything about us. When’s the last time you really got to know somebody by reading about them on a website? If that’s the case, then Omar Khadr’s a war criminal and Woody Allen’s a pedophile, …

I met Jimmy Hayes from Harlan Pepper at 88.1 FM CKLN in Toronto just last week. He was fresh off a bus from a show.

Montreal-based modern rock trio Glo
Since our earliest days, humans have desperately struggled to prove themselves as refined, proper and advanced. Yet not one of us can deny that carnal knowledge—one of our most basic instincts—is that which truly compels us. Regardless of money, etiquette or power, it defines us; keeps us as animals writhing in the darkness, absorbing one another’s energy, sensations and passion. We long for primal essence and the liberating purge of succumbing to pleasures of the flesh.
Such is the modus behind Montreal-based modern …

Hailing from the suburbs of Vancouver, BC – Matt, Katie, Sol and John have shared the same unabated passion for music since coming together in early 2006. Reminiscent of that classic 90′s sound, Painted Cities’ songs bear an uncommon feel and energy while retaining a consistency through memorable and dynamic song structures. The foursome recorded their debut EP ‘First Coat’ over the summer of 2007 with good friend and recording artist Tom Prilesky (Wind Whistles, Definition). With the release of the band’s first full-length album this summer, Painted Cities are taking their act on the road and are finding themselves a rising bright light on the horizon well beyond 2010.

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