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[19 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
Blueprint Events Celebrates 14 Years

To celebrate their growing success, Blueprint Events invites the city’s night-crawlers and music fans to ring in 14 years with internationally acclaimed DJ’s at some of the cities hottest venues.

Canadian Bands, Live Video, Ontario »

[29 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]
Kidstreet

Kidstreet is an electronic trio from Waterloo, Ontario. Keeping it in the family with Karl Snyder on drums, his brother Cliff on synth and guitar and younger sister Edna on piano and vocals, this relatively new band is already making waves.

Acoustic, Alternative, experimental, Indie, pop, Vancouver »

[1 Jan 2011 | One Comment | ]
Hún

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.

Blogs, Interview, News »

[28 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Rebranding the Bard: The Modline Article on Romeo & Juliet

“They embody the star-crossed lovers whose namesake they covet: two overly romantic, hypersexual city kids. However, through some perverse subversion, they transfer their instinctual, animalistic tendencies into sleek electronic dance music. Essentially, it’s Shakespeare in neon tights.” Jamie Cessford, The ModLine

Canadian Bands, Electronic Music, Vancouver »

[6 May 2010 | No Comment | ]
MICHAEL FRASER

Michael burst onto the underground Youtube music scene last year releasing a couple video covers of Daft Punk that each reached over 18,000+ views garnering raves on blogs of artists such as So Me, SebastiAn, Sebastien Leger, Yelle Wolfgang Gartner & Kris Menace. After covering Parisian artist Yelle, Michael was contacted to do a full violin version of “Je Veux Te Voir” which was used on her official myspace and can now be viewed on his Youtube Channel.

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[20 Mar 2010 | One Comment | ]
Women Who Rock..this week’s greats..Babes In Toyland and Peaches

Babes In Toyland

Lori Barbero, Kat Bjelland, Maureen Herman
Must own: Fontanelle
I love Kat’s loud, venomous, dramatic, powerful vocal range and her aggressive lyrics and like Courtney Love (who was/is her sometimes best friend)she dressed in baby doll/kinderwhore dresses. Kat is currently in a band called Wife Katastrophy.
Lori Barbero is legendary drummer and since Babes has been a record label owner, a band manager and continues to play music.
Maureen Herman is a serious bass goddess who played gut-pounding beats over Kat’s howls and screams.
Some history: before Babes there was Sugar Babylon …