Take the best elements of Fishbone, the Mars Volta, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John Zorn, Jim O’Rourke, Fond of Tigers, then inject the essence of summer with its brighness, warmth and energy and you’ll have the blueprint for something very close to NATSUMEN’S brilliant and unique musical style.

This is a unique opportunity to enjoy the best bands in the underground scene of Tokyo at the Biltmore Tuesday October 18.
Tokyo has the largest music scene of any city in the world and the music exemplifies its city’s bizarre, exotic and innovative qualities.
By Steven Tanaka.
Next Music From Tokyo featuring NATSUMEN / Akai Ko-en / Hyacca / chiina / the SSRIs.
Doors at 7:00pm, Free Japanese Food to the first 50 people.
Tickets $8.00 advance available online
Tuesday October 18th, 2011
@ Biltmore Cabaret
Japanese culture is ubiquitous in major cities across Canada with …

The SSRIs, hands down the SSRIs is one of the most talented bands in Vancouver are playing at the Biltmore on October 18th with 4 amazing Japanese bands. The show is going to be full of post rock, jazz, punk, funk, noise, and other surprises that our friends from japan are bringing to Vancouver. The SSRIs will be representing Vancouver and hosting our Asian visitors.

PrOphecy Sun is an installation and performance maven. The Vancouver artist keeps busy with all her musical projects. Here is a look at some of them and their release parties.

What is this? Am I on drugs, because the sound wasn’t sounding like it was supposed to be for a metal band, so I realized this was no metal band. How can I explain? It was like listening to Black Sabbath to the 10th potency of noise but in slow motion, do you know what I mean? like listening to Black Mountain backwards, like a melodic Sunn O, yes like Trans Am meets Sabbath. It is doom metal, dense music. “Progressive, Psychedelic DOOM!” told me Jay. Three guitars, a bass and drums conform the band that sounded like an electric storm that fell into the Pats Pub. Imagine the sound of a thunder that roars for two minutes, then when you stop being afraid of the mega thunder, a tsunami of noise comes to sweep you away while a guitar plays a Sabbbathish solo to comfort you in your agonizing last moments. The early metal broke the shell escaping the genre transcending into the realms of noize. These guys are into something good. Knowing Jay the lyrics will be teeth grinding as well and probably direct to the skull.

SignalFest Vancouver is a festival of contemporary music without borders presented by The Signal on CBC Radio 2 in partnership with Drip Audio and Capilano Performing Arts Theatre. March 4th,5th,and 6th. That pretty much sums the description of this great festival. The best contemporary creative musicians of Vancouver are going to be playing during the weekend and this show is not to be missed, its epic, legendary and the audience will talk about it for a long time. The line up of artists is impressive and each of them could headline an avant garde festival anywhere in the world. So, Vancouver’s best talent is going to be playing together this weekend. The music is going to be a mix of experimentation and improvisation, it will be a real treat for your ears.

Nothofagus is a genus of 35 species of tress and shrubs that grow in the southern hemisphere, but that is as far as the band relates with the tree, “Because I am from Chile and the tree grows in Chile” told me Javier one day shortly after departing from the defunct mariachi punk band Los Malos, he also said he liked the tree and the name so they baptized the project Nothofagus. The name does carry something mysterious and I think they like that sense of mystery in their music. This experimental duo is comprised of Javier and his wife JP, he is from Santiago de Chile and she is from Bretagne, France. The music is described by them as PsychoNoir Art Folk Acousmatic / Tape music / Folk / Minimalist. Definetely is one of the most interesting musical experiments in Vancouver.

The best 20 bands of Vancouver Independent Music scene Part 2
The best of the best in Vancouver
Thats right folks, the post we all been waiting for is finally here. In the previous post we saw some of the bands that you have to watch for but that haven’t really go to the next level, these ones are on the next level. Time for us to unveil the best Vancover indie established bands. It this post we examine some of the best Vancouver acts that have achieved international success, that …

This post of the BEST indie bands in Vancouver will be divided in two, in this first one we are going to explore the indie of the indie, bands that are emerging, new, fresh, experimental, not so well known, not established, they play in clubs and pubs but that we and our readers like and see and even befriend some of them. Some are not that new either but all of them have achieved success and buzz this last year so we include them here in our humble lists of our favourites. May this list serve as a recommendation for our overseas readers, may it serve as a reference, but also as an aid for these struggling artists. At the end, the ultimate objective is to entertain our visitors, the music fans of Vancouver and the world

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.

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

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They define themselves as a large collective of artists from different bands, genres and species. Always growing and picking up artists from other amazing bands who want to try something new, The Heard’s live show is ever evolving. they are opening for Kid Koala a couple of nights on December 20 and 21st at the Biltmore cabaret.

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After 7 years or so, Gaspar Noe, an Argentinean/French director comes back with a mesmerizing production that deals with the after life and the electronic circuits of Tokyo. The night life of the dead. After his controversial film Irreversible, Gaspar is bound to surpass the frontiers of art. Labeled by Noé as a “psychedelic melodrama”. This day-glo nocturne is told through the eyes of an American dope-dealer, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), tripping on a powerful hallucinogen. That is, until Oscar is shot in a nightclub, when the film takes on the aspect of an out of body experience.