Indie Inside
Featuring music videos from Canadian Independent bands.
Make sure to tune in every other week for a new featured Canadian artist. Don't forget to also check out rabble's music audio podcast The Ruckus.Indie Inside: The Caravan
The Caravan knows how to keep you guessing. Approaching hip hop from the left field, the Halifax-based band has explored influences on all ends of the sonic spectrum. But while a single genre may be elusive for this three-piece, there's nothing vague about its presence. With rhymes pulsing through him from a young age, wise wordsmith Kyle McKenna is a dominant force on stage—both lyrically and physically. Combine his honest and unpredictable flow with the musical chops of genre-bending composer/engineer Mike Ritchie (guitar, keys) and effervescent drummer Mark Bachynski (Classified, Bend the River) and the result is nothing short of dynamic.
Indie Inside: Gmanwolf
This month’s Indie Inside has recently signed to non-profit record label Revolution Harmony.
Indie Inside: Maria In The Shower
Take a trip out West this month for our newest installment of Indie Inside:
You may not find a woman or a shower next time you see Maria in the Shower, Vancouver's favourite vaudevillian quartet. But then again, they are a band that embraces contradiction wholeheartedly. The quartet revels in the fun and challenge of making old music feel new, writing and performing material that is as fresh as it is traditional.
Simultaneously humorous and apocalyptic, human and otherworldly, these four young men have the entertaining power of a traveling circus with the musical depth to back it up.
Indie Inside - Three Little Birds
Three Little Birds is a fusion of three distinct women who candidly sing their minds on social and political issues. Drawing upon a variety of musical influences; their songs combine everything from Balkan styled harmonies within reggae beats to country-flavoured melodies amidst Tin-Pan Era arrangements. Erin Saoirse Adair is an Ottawa-based singer-songwriter and folk musician, Amelia Leclair is a singer/percussionist who studied Latin music styles while in Brazil and Angela Schleihauf is currently studying oboe performance at the University of Ottawa. Three Little Birds are defined by the eclectic mélange of their diverse interests.
Indie Inside: Michael Holt
Currently based in Toronto, Native New Yorker and member of internationally acclaimed band The Mommyheads, self-proclaimed "cultural activist" Michael Holt spends much of his time on projects aimed at getting folks away from their computers and home entertainment systems, and back into intimate engagement with each other, culture, and what's really happening on the planet. He has released seven solo albums and toured extensively in Europe, the U.S., and Canada. His emotional, diverse, melodic music has been compared artists like Rufus Wainwright, Elvis Costello, and The Beatles.
Video: Casseroles--Montreal May 24
For more than 100 days, Quebec students have been protesting a rise in tuition fees. With the imposition of Loi 78, limiting the rights to protest, Quebecers en masse have been joining them in the streets -- with pots and pans.
Every evening at 8:00 p.m. people meet in the street with their pots and pans and make all the noise they can in protest. Music thanks to the band Avec pas d'casque and their record label Grosse Boîte
Musique/music:
INTUITION #1 -- Avec pas d'casque
© Grosse Boîte
Bandcamp: avecpasdcasque.bandcamp.com/album/astronomie
Video: Casseroles -- Montreal May 24
For more than 100 days, Quebec students have been protesting a rise in tuition fees. With the imposition of Loi 78, limiting the rights to protest, Quebecers en masse have been joining them in the streets -- with pots and pans.
Every evening at 8:00 p.m. people meet in the street with their pots and pans and make all the noise they can in protest. Music thanks to the band Avec pas d'casque and their record label Grosse Boîte
Musique/music:
INTUITION #1 -- Avec pas d'casque
© Grosse Boîte
Bandcamp: avecpasdcasque.bandcamp.com/album/astronomie
New Lal single: Live Your Light
New Lal video and single: Live Your Light.
Indie Inside: Amai Kuda
Amai Kuda is a Toronto based singer/songwriter, community activist and the mother of a young child. The name Amai Kuda means "mother to the will of the creator" in the southern African language Shona.
A popular singer within progressive political circles and the diverse women's cultural scene in Toronto, Amai Kuda is releasing her first CD on October 7, 2011, the self-produced album called "Sand from the Sea."
Indie Inside: The Rebel Spell
The Rebel Spell's songs are motivated by opposition to war, capitalism, police brutality, mindless consumerism and environmental destruction. The message is far from negative, however; each song aims to provide solace and push for solutions. Evidence from the crowd's reaction at shows suggests they are capable of bringing together the fractured punk community, creating an inclusive and positive scene. This featured song is titled 'It Can't Be Just Me', from their new album It's a Beautiful Future. According to lead singer Todd Serious, "The song focuses on the surveillance culture we're coming into, the big push to have a lot of cameras installed for the Olympics (Vancouver) for example.