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Tired of the sonic swill of commercial radio?
IndieCan Radio presents THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE - One hour a week of the best music you've never heard. This acclaimed podcast brings you up close and personal with the best emerging talent in Canada. IndieCan is your backstage pass to learn the secrets and realities of indie music life in Canada.
Toronto Indie Rock veterans Nurse visit IndieCan Studios for the first time to be featured on THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE #22. We also have a great interview with Jack Tasse from Canadian Music TV.
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| IndieCan says goodbye to Vancouver (until next time). For a complete review of IndieCan in Van, go to our EVENTS page. For the second of our two part series, Episode 21, THE VANCOUVER INDIE SCENE 2 featuring the brilliant sounds of four Vancouver sons - Lotus Child and from Feldman &
Associates, Josh McNorton. Check out our Podcast page for this show. |
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Canadian independent Radio History is Made! 54-40’s Neil Osborne and Vancouver’s THE SMEARS help kick off the first ever Vancouver Indie Scene. Come listen to an hour of great indie music and interviews, including Neil Osbornes 20+ year retrospective on Canadian Music life. |
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| It's a band, it's insane, it's SUPERBEING! Episode 19 features the music of Vancouver's Superbeing, who are
criss-crossing the country like they were Super
beings. Check out episode 19 on our podcast page. |
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| The Free Press - direct from the Sears Catalogue to IndieCan studio and now with 25% more band members... listen for details. Darryl Hurs is here this week to talk about Indie Week going on in T.Dot so plan to take advantage this Thursday Friday and Saturday. Go to www.indieweek.com and/or listen to Episode 18 on our podcast page for details. |
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| This week check out Modern Boys Modern Girls styling tunes and see what Ian Danzig has to say about his 15 years with Exclaim Magazine. Oh, by the way, prizes, prizes, prizes! Episode 17 is on the podcast page. |
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| This week's visitors to The Toronto Indie Scene, Episode 16 features Toronto's awesome chick group LUCY. They're musical, they're witty, they're just what a cold day needs. You can win $60 of music from Episode 16 so listen up. |
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| What an alt/rockin' way to introduce Durham College listeners to The Toronto Indie Scene. Episode 15 features Toronto's mop-top brit poppers TIN BANGS |
 
Episode 14 includes the best of Ontrio Alt-country. The Toronto Indie Scene features Andre, Alex, Scott and Jake of CANTEEN KNOCKOUT giving INDIECAN a taste of twang to promote their upcoming CD Release Party Friday September 15th 2006 at the Cadillac Lounge. We are honoured to have ParagonOnline.ca with us with an URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT of the September 14 deadline for theier $tage $tar content with includes $5,000 cash, studio time and an opening spot with a head liner. Listen for details. Click here to check out THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE #14.
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| Saturday September 2 , 2006 could be the cruelest Labour Day Saturday���s on record if you���re from Toronto. All day it had rained on the Danforth Music Festival, and the Ex which are traditionally last chance days of summer enjoyment. College Street was still doing it���s best Vancouver impression at 10 PM when the doors opened for the Mod Club for their regular Saturday indie and dance combo. more |
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Thursday, August 25, 12:00AM
ANTI HERO rocks the Horseshoe as Joe's birthday begins |
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Happy Birthday Mr Chisholm |
The Plaque |
Joe Blows |
Thursday August 24th was a fine night for Toronto rock ���n��� roll. IndieCan and Meg-A-Music Toronto presented the ���UnPretty��� CD release party of London Ontario���s pop-punk sensation, Anti-Hero.
Click here for full story��� |
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| Silver Indie Culture Shop at 703 Queen St. W.,
Toronto, is one of a kind in Canada. It is devoted to
all indie art, including music. Carlin Belof,
owner, wants Silver to be THE place in Toronto where
people think of for Indie Music and art -- for them
selves and for gift giving.
Silver celebrates a new mile stone of "25" being the
number of CD titles now available in the store. Indie
fans and Indie artists should know that Carlin has her
sites on 100 titles before years end. Click here for full story��� |
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THE SALADS are unplugged and uncensored at IndieCan Studio
for Episode 13, now available for download |
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TACOMA REDD CD Release Party Review by Joe Chisholm |
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BUKAKKE KATHOLIK at Kathedral Review by Joe Chisholm |
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Episode 11 Harvey, Mike, JD and R.J. of ONE NINE HUNDRED at INDIECAN STUDIO talk with host JOE CHISHOLM, about the fun and frustrating life of being an independent band always on the verge of success. Listen to theinterview and 3 hot tracks recorded especially for EPISODE 11 of THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE.
ONE NINE HUNDRED played July 14
with THREE DAYS GRACE and NICKLEBACK at THE MOLSON AMPITHEATRE and on Saturday July 15th, at THE BOVINE SEX CLUB. |
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CAROLE POPE graces Indie Can for episode 10 taking us from the early days of Rough Trade with Kevin Staples, to what is was like to win three Junos, to what drives her to continue writing great songs today. Hear all this and more on THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE.
For Carole's autobiography "Anti-Diva" or new CD, "Transcend" go to www.carolepope.com
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Midway through their "Shut up and Drive" tour Vancouver's THE FLAIRS rock Indie Can Studio. The Band Van pulled up, unloaded, got some great tracks down for Episode 10, chatted about road life and their new CD then off we went to their gig at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. Hear all about it! |
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| LYE ROCKS THE BOVINE FOR NXNE 2006 |
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IndieCan has been "doing" NXNE with all hands on deck covering the shows. Click Here to view some of our great live NXNE photos featuring bands like The Salads, White Cowbell Oklahoma and more...
For additional NXNE coverage check out the following:Reviews of musical showcases at SPILL MAGAZINEVideo coverage of showcases at CHART ATTACKPodcast commentary from Valerie at DESCRIPTION TORONTO (# 19) Be forewarned that #19 starts off with some obscure rambling about road side stops in Pennsylvania but bear with her. She gets to the good stuff soon with a history of NXNE, a walking tour of some of the event's and even a commentary on the always controversial White Cowbell Oklahoma.
Musical guests recently at Indie Can Studios include Crash Kelly, hot off their tour with Alice Cooper, Sean Sage and London's Anti-Hero.
White Cowbell Oklahoma at NXNE
By Andre Skinner
Photo: Daniel C. Hebert
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