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AlAlex
Tintinalli shows us that the kids are allright on # 81
Vesta
Varro NEW IMPROVED MIX + IndieCan looks ahead to Hamilton
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78 - Raine on IndieCan - In a post Our Lady
Peace, post majorlabel life, Raine Maida finds life
as an indie artist, life as a father, life as a "Monday
morning activist" better than ever. Live at IndieCan,
Raine Maida performs from his solo project, "THE
HUNTERS LULLABY," shares his thoughts on War
Child Canada, life as an indie and the Slam Poetry
movement that he finds so captivating.
Pictured (above) Woodstock, Raine Maida, Joe Chisholm
Darryl
Hurs of Indie Week 2008 chats with us and other
great artists this week include Sproll
and Chris
Colepaugh from New Brunswick, Pascale
Picard and Krief
from La Belle Provence, Why
from The Peg, Mother
Mother and Elias
from VanCity.
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Epiosode
77 previews rENO's "Learning to Speak Human"
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Toronto's
rENO is "live at IndieCan" this week with
Reno and Kevin performing some unplugged numbers from
their new record, "Learning To Speak Human."
We also hear from new friends and old as we hear from
The Goodlovelies and The Cliks from Canadian Music
Week. Panelists share their ideas on the new "360
marketing" model and pontificate on what changes
may be afoot in North America for how music is marketed
- provocative to be sure. Other great artist include
Dave Martel, Hue, The Reels,Vesta Varro and more.
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We
are stoked to bring THE
POPULARS from XM
Studio "Live At IndieCan" with
their soon-to-be-released LP "A Pill for
Everyone." The band is joined by Indie
Hall of Fame Inductee
Moe Berg who produced this new record.
Tom
Jackson wowed CMW crowds with his eXtreme
performance makeover clinics and he is our guest
on IndieCan talking about what makes for memorable
live performances. You'll love it, or your money
back!
Also
on our cross-Canada post-CMW indie trip, State
of Shock, The
Left, TV
Heart Attack and The
Daniel Wesley Band from the west coast,
Rebekah
Higgs from the east, Andy
Swan and as a sneak preview to next week,
new music from Reno.
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Welcome
to Episode 75 - The Canadian Music Week Show
This
weeks show is an all-CMW show case with Lotus Child and
The Painted Birds from the west coast, Amanda Rheaume from
Ottawa, The Besnard Lakes from Montreal, Jenn Grant, Down
With The Butterfly, Hey Rosetta and Don Brownrigg from the
east coast and from host town Toronto, Dearly Beloved, Drowning
Girl, Joshua Bartholomew and much, much more. It's a pretty
fun show, if I do say myself. We also have a sneak preview
of some soon-to-be-released music by THE POPULARS.
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A
Tale of Two Jakes is the theme of Episode 74 - Jake Gold
and Big Rude Jake both grace our radio show and generously
share their insights into the Canadian indie scenes over
three decadess.
If
you get your entertainment from Canadian TV, you know Jake
Gold from Canadian
Idol and if you get your entertainment from the streets,
clubs and arenas from Victoria to St. John's then you know
Jake Gold from his work the The Tragically Hip, The Salads,
Sass Jordon, The Cliks and more. This year, Jake Gold of
The
Management Trust and Kindling Music is co-chair of the
2008
Canadian Music Week and on this weeks show Jake gets
us all ready for the one week in March when Canada is the
centre of the music universe.
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No
student of the Canadian music scene can consider
themselves ready for graduation until they have
contemplated the impact of Big
Rude Jake. A gifted songwriter, Jake brings
his engaging story telling skills to Show 74
and takes us on a punk meets jazz trip through
a crucial part of the history of alternative
music in the Windsor to Quebec City corridor.
But
wait - there's more! To get us in the CMW mood
we hear from Chris
Koster, The
Audreys, Kyrie
Kristmanson, The
i Spies, The
Chronicles and 2008 Indies Awards performers
The
Cliks.
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THIS
WEEKS RADIO SHOW REVIEWS INDIECAN YEAR II
As
IndieCan's 2nd anniversary approaches we are feeling
reflective and nostalgic. We are reviewing the IndieCan
year two that was. The goal, this show is to cram
as much "live at IndieCan" into 60 minutes
as we possibly can and here's what we've come up with
for Rock 'n' Roll School reading week:
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From
team "Constant Crush" we have Tin Bangs
and The Outfit, Vancouver's Mother Mother from their
Hillside Summer session this year and Rally Car from
the awesome Canada Day we enjoyed at Downsview Park,
remember when we borrowed The Salads Mista D to yack
with the London Reggae band, Staylefish? How about
Peterborough's The Kiss and Tells and we explore band
manifestos with Hunter Valentine and Dearly Beloved,
both of which IndieCan was in attendance for this
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week.
But wait - there's more. The Cindy Doire Band, The
Cliks and Toronto's The Strip are also packed into
this hour or this part self-indulgence and part one-a-day
vitamin for your soul. I hope we bring back some memories
and tease you with anything you might have missed.
The
biggest thing in reflecting over the year in review
is how, just by having fun and sharing the fun, we
have all made Canadian indie music stronger and better.
IndieCan has grown because those of you who were strangers
before have become friends and those who were friends
have become family. This show is dedicated to the
music fans - thanks for loving music makers.
INDIECAN
YEAR II in REVIEW (stream)
INDIECAN
YEAR II in REVIEW (right click to save as and
keep)
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a double shot of IndieCan by listening Saturday 3
PM EST to the first ever IndieCan on Channel 52 THE
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EPISODE
70 Opens in Quebec City
Our
industry insider is Jeff Leake of
XM Satellite Radio who proudly champions Canadian indie
music through XM's channel
52 THE VERGE. IndieCan caught up with the very busy
Mr. Leake and this week we bring you the first instalment
of this interview where we hear about the growth, the advantages
and appeal of Satellite Radio in Canada and world-wide.
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interviews In Flight Safety for XM Satelitte Radio
at Halifax Pop Explosion - Chris Smith looks on
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Other
great artists featured this week include Quebec City's Pat
the White, Montreal natives now living in Toronto, The
Dress Whites, from Kelowna B.C., Ryan
Donn and from Toronto, The
Outfit and Bebop
Cowboys. But first, we invite you to open your hearts
and minds to Void's
Anatomy as we bring you a live recording from La Ninkasi
in Quebec City and our interview with principal composer,
songwriter Marie Jorge. IndieCan must thank David Gendron
of Midaltern
Studio for engineering the QC portion of the show and
Barry
Mell, IndieCan's Quebec City friend and liaison.
LISTEN
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'007
The year with a License to Thrill
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2007
in Review Part I
the first of two "YEAR IN REVIEW" shows,
crams as much music and indie life into an hour as
is possible, coast-to-coast. We'll hear from Daniel
Victor, The
Stills, Kevan Staples and Carole
Pope from CMW-2007, Mother
Mother from Hillside, Lotus
Child and Wintersleep
in tale of two archaeologists,
Psychotic 4 and Dave
Martel from Montreal, Down
With The Butterfly and Drowning
Girl, The
Cliks, and to kick things off the year in review…
Episode 67 opens up with an offering from Calgary's
Once
Just who we recorded at Life Is Good Studios in
the Gatineau Hills. Listen to this song "Shine
Down." I hope it does for your soul what it does
for me.
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2007
in Review Part II
When
in Halifax, interview a Vancover band, I say - we
bring you the words and music of Pride
Tiger. Also from our East-coast love-in, we have
Hey
Rosetta and The
Superfantastics.
We
check back in with our Quebec City find, Pascale
Picard, from Ottawa, Tim's
Myth and The
Coggs, and then we head back down the 401 to check
in with Sam
Hell, Eden
Ants and Hunter
Valentine (wouldn't that be a weird date?), long
time IndieCan friend, Ember
Swift and end in Windsor with Inoke
Errati.
This
look back at '007 was a true pleasure to produce and
we hope you like it.
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INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#67 - click here to stream
the year in review part 1
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#67 - download and keep it (right
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INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#68 - click here to stream
the year in review part II
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RADIO EPISODE#68 - download and keep it (right
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IndieCan
would like to salute and thank all those who have stepped
up to the plate, the mic, the merch table, the sound board
and computer to help make this year possible.
Niell
Dixon of Canadian Music Week who I interviewed this fall
said to us about networking at music festivals, "No
contact is too small, even if it's just a place to crash
next time your in town…" and in that spirit, no
friend of IndieCan is insignificant – from those who
have hosted, made posters, sent out notices, told a friend
to check us out and those we have slept with (so to speak),
we thank you for your commitment to the indie music of Canada.
In
less than two years we have recorded artists in a dozen
different studios – many of which would welcome us
back - lol. We've been main-stage, side stage, back stage;
in festivals, bars, alleys and offices – where ever
the never-ending tale of Canadian Indie is happening, we
want to be there and in '007 we have been to and done a
lot. It's a time for reflection and the image in the reflection
is smiling ear-to-ear.
GET YOUR HALI-FIX on EPIOSODE 66
This
just in: The
East-Coast Music Awards nominees just hit my inbox and
our feature  artist
this week, Don
Bronwrigg is up for a few of them. So is
Julie Doiron of Sackville, NB. Also on our coast-to-coast
in one hour - which not even Air Canada can do, I might
add - we bring you Vancouver's
The Painted Birds, from Montreal, The
Famous Lovers, The
Craft Economy hail from Guelph, Vancouver, Montreal
and PEI. From Toronto we have Ketch
Harbour Wolves and brand new Dearly
Beloved.
We
also have Vesta
Varro from Ireland as the were winners at this years
Indie Week Toronto. We hear from Darryl Hurs about the
fourth annual event ths October and his plans for 2008.
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#66 - click here to stream the show
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#66 - download and keep it (right click
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Neill
Dixon, President of Canadian
Music Week talks with us about over 20 music festivals
and conferences he attends world wide and how that's
helping Canadian artists.
Episode
64 will be rich in music with many regions well represented.
From
Calgary, The
Dudes and Cort
Delano, the sad sorry-ass folk singer,
from
The Peg, it's Inward
Eye,
from
Ontario Mandippal
Jandu and Square
Root of Margaret,
from
Quebec City, Void's
Anatomy and The
Pascale Picard Band and
from
Halifax, Pamela
Underwater, Don
Brownrigg and Wintersleep.
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INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#64 - click here to stream 
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#64 - download and keep it (right
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(Seen
above: Don Brownrigg on vocals and guitar and Kris
Pope on the lap-steel. Seen at right: Neill Dixon,
CMW)
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Episode
62 Open with a 2007 Toronto Songwriters Festival highlight,
Joshua Bartholomew live at IndieCan and then it's all about
the Halifax POP Explosion
Why
is Halifax such a hot bed of music therse days? It's no
fluke according to Waye Mason, Executive Director of Halifax
POP Explosion. Here what he has to say about HPX and
how the music community of Halifax have created such an
effective and inified voice. Do you love music and care
about the future of it? Then there some lessons to learn
from Professor Mason.
Other
great music will be coming to you from P.E.I.s Jenn
Grant, now on tour with The
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more about the cause behind The 2007 Toronto Songsriters
Festival by Clicking
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Weakerthans
(See
reviews), Halifax's The
Superfantastics and Montreal's The
Besnard Lakes and of course, we open up in Toronto with
a treat to our ears, Joshua
Bartholomew who talks about small town life, what it's
like to open area rock venues for your hero's and his own
process of song writing.
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#62 - stream
INDIECAN RADIO EPISODE#62
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click and save link)
Show
me some HALIFAX
POP EXPLOSION COVERAGE EH?!?
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Your
love is like an H-Bomb baby... Canadian
Radio Star winners, Drowning Girl at IndieCan,
clowning around, chatting it up and laying it
down Live at IndieCan This Week.
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IndieCan
is busy again this week. We're going To COCA
(Canadian Organization of Campus Activities) in Windsor
Ontario.
Drowning Girl will be there as well as Tin
Bangs, Windsor's own Inoke
Errati, Hello
Beautiful and other IndieCan friends (complete
list here) as well as some new best friends we
haven't met yet.
Douglas
and Joe were at Halifax POP Explosion and we look
forward to bringing you more East-Coast Indie than
ever before. Jeff Butler of Ulitimate Indie was at
the Western
Canadian Music Awards and he reports on the Moose
Jaw Saskatchewan goings on as well as previewing the
all new
IndieTV.ca. Barney
Bentall was performing there and up for an award.
He hear from him this week.We caught up with Vancouver's
Mother
Mother and just can't help including another tune
from thier CD Touch Up. From Halifax, we introduce
Myles Deck and The Fuzz. Joe talks to ex-Nova
Scotian Jon
Adams about his new CD The Perfect Flaw...secets
will be revealed.
INDIECAN
RADIO EPISODE#61 - stream
INDIECAN RADIO
EPISODE#61 - download (right click and save link)
Show
me some HALIFAX
POP EXPLOSION COVERAGE EH?!?
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EPISODE
60: Artists supporting causes and previews Halifax
POP Explosion
Winners
of the first ever Toronto Independent MusiAwards BEST
INDIE BAND, Eden
Ants are, at long last LIVE AT INDIECAN. Also, this
week, we hear from the great work of Shawn & Thanou
through The Toronto
Songwriters Festival.
Other
artists include Toronto's Bombay
Doors, finalists from Indie
Week
Toronto, SunLit
Ambush and Kingston's Pelt
who were helping raise money for breast cancer research
this month, Laugh
Out Loud, More and The
Ryde for this year's TIMAs as well as the United
Steel Workers of Montreal and introducing Don
Brownrigg, both of which are gems from our Halifax
POP Explosion trip. Pictures
of Eden Ants and more to watch while you listen
to the showcommentary coming soon. In the mean time,
enjoy the show
LISTEN TO THE TORONTO INDIE SCENE#60 - stream
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TORONTO INDIE SCENE#60 - download (right click
and save link)
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Fidget
at MQ Music Fest, Fidget at IndieLove.ca, Fidget at IndieCan
You
were told, "Don't Fidget Missy!" but someone wasn't
listening. IndieCan is finding fidgeting going on everywhere,
you restless bunch you. EPISODE 59 features Toronto's punk/pop/ADD
quartet, FIDGET,
we review MQ
Music Fest with organizer Metal
Queen Management's Betty Dworatschek (sorry, no pronunciation
key provided), we start our Indie Week Toronto coverage,
we dig up a dusty old fossil, with great fascination and
moderate reverence and we start a run-on-sentence we can't
escape.
LISTEN TO TORONTO INDIE SCENE#59 - stream
LISTEN
TOTHE
TORONTO INDIE SCENE#59 - download (right click and save
link)
Packed
into another hour of the best music you've never heard we
include Stella
Panacci, Automan,
High
Voltage, Little
Sunday, The
Space Ship Blues, Hello
Beautiful, Drowning
Girl, The
Great Lake Swimmers and ladies and gentlemen, Murray
McLauchlin.
Whlie
you're listening fidget to
Fidget pics and check out or Indie
Week coverage. More Metal
Queen Music Fest Pics
IndieCan
Radio Celbrates great indie from B.C. to Nova Scotia - Polaris
is Awarded.
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this week we talk with Rob Rapiti of 
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Sam Baijal talks about 25 years of the Hillside brand
of Summer of Love and the first ever Winter version,
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