Young Rival isn’t going to just sit around waiting for that elusive record deal to happen, though. After a coast-to-coast tour (the young men came west with the Sadies last year), the band is going to head back into the studio to finish off another record its been working on in Ontario. One of the tracks, a cover of Beach House’s “Master of None,” already garnered a positive Pitchfork review.

Young Rival’s brand of ‘60s garage-influenced rock doesn’t seriously break any moulds, but it does beautifully evoke those good times when parents shook their heads at hair so long it brushed the collar, and the guys have fun doing it.

Treelight Room: treelight room began making music together in the fall of 2007… to this day nobody really knows how it happened– it just did. How fortunate that by chance they all seem to balance each other out fairly well; where one may be weaker, the other excels. In addition, as they started creating together, they found that their individual styles were different, but had enough similarity to blend and produce a pretty unique and fun sound! Since discovering that there are actually people out there who want to hear their music, Treelight Room has spent their time writing tunes and playing shows at local venues around the Okanagan and in November 2008 they professionally recorded their first EP ‘The Children Win’ which was released at the end of January 2009. In the spring of 2009 Treelight Room headed out on their first tour, hitting up BC, AB, SK, and MA, with the hopes to share their music with some more music-lovin’ Canadians! It went AWESOMELY! It has been said that Treelight Room is “Catchy as frick!” So… watch out! [Keep an eye out for upcoming shows/events/details and other fun fun fun on Treelight Room’s Facebook site as well. yippeeee!] realeditorbest profile toolsrealeditorbest profile tools

The Cartographers:
Born of island fun and indie grit, The Cartographers follow in the tradition on Colourbook, Cobras Cobras Cobras and similiar Old Life Records artists’. Always a bit noisy, and always fun.

BOHEMIAN CAFE
524 Bernard Avenue
Kelowna, BC
(250) 862-3517
presents

The Trevor Salloum Jazz Trio 7-10pm
featuring LA vocalist Kelly Salloum 7-8pm
August 14th
$10 Cover

Throughout her tenure in Los Angeles, Kelly Salloum has worked with an illustrious list of jazz and pop luminaries including performances and recording sessions with: bassists “Senator” Eugene J. Wright (Dave Brubeck, Count Basis, Charlie Parker), Trey Henry (Anita O’Day, Jack Sheldon, Gerald Wilson), Johnny Kirkwood (Carmen McCrae, Ella Fitzgerald), and Sherman Ferguson (Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver); guitarists Al Viola (Frank Sinatra, Julie London), Brian Mulroney (Gloria Estafan, Tom Jones), and Brad Rabuchin (Ray Charles).

“Kelly Salloum is onto something . . . She braids together disparate stylistic strands, waving elements of classic band thrush tradition, cool-jazz chick-singer bite and the detached moderne verve of Sade into a solid, gleaming whole . . . Poised, elegant, lovely, Salloum
also imparts a smoldering air of mystery and the exotic.”
– J. Whiteside, Los Angeles Weekly

I’m writing this post from Stephenville, Newfoundland. I’ll be back in Kelowna the end of next week and I’ll have more regular updates to my blog.

Tuesday, Aug. 11th – Wax Mannequin, Kettle Black and Guests
The Grateful Fed

Wednesday, Aug. 12th – from England, Oysterband
at the Minstrel Cafe

August 10th at the Blue Gator

This is going to be a great show (sorry I’m going to miss it).

New Romantic recording artist, Lioness came together, almost in secret, in Toronto in the winter of 2007, when Jeff Scheven and Ronnie Morris, the rhythm section behind the dark, stomping disco pulses of controller.controller, hooked up with Vanessa Fischer of soul-punk quartet No Dynamics. Honing their craft by playing low-key after-hours sets in sweaty, off-the-radar locales throughout the city, the band nonetheless generated a remarkable undercurrent of buzz in the following months, leading to support slots with the likes of !!!, Hercules and the Love Affair, You Say Party! We Say Die! and K-OS.

Their sans-guitar sound is like a head-on collision of old and new, as Fischer draws upon jazz, old soul and blues, roaring and moaning over layers of electronic squall and elastic rhythms like a witch in heat. It’s a clash of organic and synthetic, the sound of disco and house music filtered and distorted through the instrumental apparatus of live rock and roll. On stage, they are a synthesis of electronic rock band and performance art project, a drum and bass wall of sound bathed in red light.

Check out their video now being played on Much, Much More Music and MTV Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdQk1oiUmmQ

Grand Analog is fronted by Odario Williams. Members include Ofield Williams (DJ), Alister Johnson (keys), Warren Bray (bass) and Damon Mitchell (guitar). Grand Analog is a raw collective of seasoned record collectors, musicians and self described beat junkies. Odario describes the Grand Analog sound as a beautiful mess of rap’n’roll, dub and soul. “Grand Analog is unbalanced and dirty; never clean. Grand Analog is fuzzy with three coats of dust and reads like an old manual no longer in use”. Catch them before they head to Shambhala

$10 advance, $12 door
Tickets available at Leo’s Video and Habitat

Sub Pop recording artists are doing a warmup show at Sturgeon Hall on August 15 before embarking on a 37 date Canadian/US tour in support of their third album “The Ruminant Band.”

Advance tickets are available at Sturgeon Hall, and there are only 80 tickets total so you definitely want to pick one up before they are all gone. There may or may not be tickets available on the night of the show.

Show starts at 9:30 pm, but please be advised to arrive early to get the best seats. There are only 40-45 seats in the main room where the band is playing, and if you arrive late you may have to sit in the bar or the patio where the sight lines may not be great.

Sub Pop recording artists are doing a warmup show at Sturgeon Hall on August 15 before embarking on a 37 date Canadian/US tour in support of their third album “The Ruminant Band.”

Advance tickets are available at Sturgeon Hall, and there are only 80 tickets total so you definitely want to pick one up before they are all gone. There may or may not be tickets available on the night of the show.

Show starts at 9:30 pm, but please be advised to arrive early to get the best seats. There are only 40-45 seats in the main room where the band is playing, and if you arrive late you may have to sit in the bar or the patio where the sight lines may not be great.

with Poor Little Rich Girl (from Vernon)
Tickets $8 at the door
Dinner at 6pm, show starts at 9pm

The Lovely Feathers started out, as most of many do, as a band in a bedroom in an old apartment in Montreal. It was one of those bedrooms which were a double room, having been perhaps at one time a dining room or a large salon. No matter. In this bedroom resided Mark Kupfert and it was his idea to play a few informal or impromptu shows on the campus of McGill University. These ideas gained some small sort of popularity and support, and started to become things like shows at local venues and competitions around the city. And these things seemed to be going well and nicely.

@ The Habitat – $8 at the door

Jeff Bryant and Zach Stevenson. Together they represent 100% of a folk-funk duo and precisely one half of The Human Statues, a funk-pop-rock quartet based in Toronto, Canada. Originally from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, these young men are on a mission to spread “jubilation” across the nation. Whether it’s playing high-energy band shows – complete with choreography – at venues such as the Horseshoe Tavern and the Rivoli in Toronto, or intimate acoustic performances in theatres across the country, Jeff and Zach are committed to connecting with people through humour, authenticity and a love of music and live performance. Often described as a cross-breed between the Flight of the Conchords and Simon and Garfunkel, Jeff and Zach blend an energetic pop sensibility with lyrical depth and love of vocal harmony.