http://www.myspace.com/skavenjahmusic

During their 15 years together, many bands have come and gone, but with the release of their new album – El Ritmo de la Vida – Skavenjah remains one of the constants in the world of SKA music. Skavenjah has worked very hard to become one of North Americas premiere SKA and Reggae bands, and the strong songwriting on their new album, together with their incredible live show is proof of that. From their home base on the Canadian prairies the band tours relentlessly, continually expanding on its already dedicated worldwide following as they consistently sell out shows with their trademark mix of SKA, Reggae and Dub music. In addition to over 20 International compilation appearances, Skavenjah has released 5 full-length albums: Put Some Skank In Your Tank (1993), All Dressed Up (1996), Little Monsters (1999), Light It Up (2003) and El Ritmo de la Vida (2006).

http://www.myspace.com/skavenjahmusic

During their 15 years together, many bands have come and gone, but with the release of their new album – El Ritmo de la Vida – Skavenjah remains one of the constants in the world of SKA music. Skavenjah has worked very hard to become one of North Americas premiere SKA and Reggae bands, and the strong songwriting on their new album, together with their incredible live show is proof of that. From their home base on the Canadian prairies the band tours relentlessly, continually expanding on its already dedicated worldwide following as they consistently sell out shows with their trademark mix of SKA, Reggae and Dub music. In addition to over 20 International compilation appearances, Skavenjah has released 5 full-length albums: Put Some Skank In Your Tank (1993), All Dressed Up (1996), Little Monsters (1999), Light It Up (2003) and El Ritmo de la Vida (2006).

August Long weekend, Aug 3-5 2007. Kelowna BC.

Music. Visual Art. Madness. Booze. Rad People. Videos. Live Art.

Tickets only $15 / nite
Festival Pass $30/ all weekend

FRI AUG 3:
WOODHANDS Toronto’s 2 piece, sexed up electro damagers could have you naked by the end of their set. Woodhands has been praised by the press for delivering an off-the-hook live gig. Equal parts Revenge of the Nerds and Prince, Wood Hands are the quintessential live electro rock duo.

KIDS & EXPLOSIONS Guns n’ Roses, meets Radiohead meets Biggie Smalls. This T-Dot Dj mashes up all the kids favorites.

MISS EMILY BROWN Incredible vocals, strings & Rainbows.

I MET THE WALRUS New award winning indie film starring John Lennon of the Beatles. Director Josh Raskin will be on hand for the premiere.
http://www.imetthewalrus.com/trailer.html

SAT AUG 4:
Five Alarm Funk Vancouver-based 12 piece rhythm machine that delivers a delirium-inducing live show fuelled by original funk and afro-beat grooves. The band has headlined the Commodore Ballroom, sold out Richards in Vancouver and opening for the Herbalizer at the Plaza of Nations. Five Alarm puts on an truly an incredible live show not to be missed.

ARBUTUS TRIO Vic-Towns’s Dub / Reggae kingpins bring the up the island vibe to the land of Hummers and Boob jobs. The Trio has toured extensively cross Canada and has opened for NYC’s The Toasters & Jamaca’s The Itolls. Big UPS!

DJ JOSEPH MARTIN Joseph Martin returns to his home town to drop some of the funkiest, dirtiest shit you ever heard. Classic matrial, mixed with Martin’s trademark of unbelievable precision.

SUN AUG 5:
Aklimatize Producer. International Dj. Dance party destroyer. Member of the Red Bull Music Academy. We are honoured to have Aklimitize tear up the decks at Duotone 07.

KOO AKA VIOLENCE Jesse Blunderfield’s production credits are as varied as his taste in music. From composing award winning film scores to delivering filthy techno live sets from his laptop in sweaty eastside warehouses, Jesse has run the gamut. His live shows have mesmerized audiences, and after his short music hiatus Jesse is chomping at the bit to deliver a set of all new material for Duotone.

TODD ROCKWELL Hot Toddy is a legend in Kelowna for partying, beer bongs and being a wicked Dj. Pop the Champagne, cuz we all wana party.

J GIRL & THE FLYGIRLS Local all girl Dj Crew based will be dropin dope beats for 07 Duotoners! BOOM! Rad!

www.duotonearts.com
Duotone on Myspace

Kelowna Community Theatre, Kelowna, BC
Sun, Sep 23, 2007 07:30 PM

tickets: $24.50

Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Fri, 07/13/07 10:00 AM PDT

I think the last time they played here was about 3 years ago at the Well. Should be a good show, and will sell out quick.

from pitchfork:
Quin twins Tegan and Sara will release their latest full-length, The Con, via Vapor/Sire on July 24. The follow-up to 2004’s So Jealous features production from Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, while Death Cab’s Jason McGerr played drums on the record. Other guests include the Rentals’ Matt Sharp and AFI’s Hunter Burgan, both on bass.

The Canadian duo also has a ton of tour dates stretching into December, the next of which is July 14 in Victoria, British Columbia. What’s more, they’ll perform “Back in Your Head”, The Con’s first single, July 31 on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”.

These guys are getting great buzz, and a lot of media attention in the Georgia Straight, Gasoline magazine, The Province and Exclaim. At least those are the articles I’ve been reading about them.

pridetiger.com

Pride Tiger is East Vancouver boogie-rock that can only be accurately described as the sonic version of you and a few hundred of your closest comrades sitting around a Texas truck stop on a lackluster Saturday night in the summer of ’76. Suddenly twelve kegs, eight stacks, one Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, and Black Sabbath materialize out of the not-so-thin air and uninterrupted good-times abound all night long. Head back to current-day East Vancouver, put the aforementioned scene into CD format and, miracle of miracles, you have Pride Tiger’s new album Wood, Dhak, Froese, Payette.

Simply listing off the last name of each member, the title of Pride Tiger’s debut release pretty much says it all. Featuring Bob Froese, Sunny Dhak (founding members of 3 Inches of Blood), Matt Wood (3 Inches of Blood, Goatsblood), and Mike Payette (S.T.R.E.E.T.S), the P.T. line-up reads much like a role-call of who’s who in righteous Canadian jams. That said, it’s their music and not their credentials that makes them a force to be reckoned with.

Chances are, if you’re listening to P.T. you’re far too busy being instantaneously rocketed into party and/ or boogie-mode to notice the most brilliant thing about this band. If you can stop dancing for long enough you’ll notice that underneath the catchy riffs, feel good rhythms, anthem-worthy melodies, and beards lies a veritable gold-mine of technical chops, incredibly tight playing, and plain old-fashioned good song-writing that never misses a back-beat. Perhaps this is why they sold-out the first show they ever played, and have sold out every show since based purely on word of mouth.

Long story short, P.T. (party time. Pride Tiger. Same difference) will provide the masses with more good times and great jams than you can shake a Pacific Pilsner at.

Music Funding – Songwriting – Music Marketing

July 10th, 6-9PM , Mary Irwin Theatre, Kelowna BC

John Mann, Spirit of the West
Heather Ostertag, FACTOR (Toronto)
Bob D’Eith, Music BC

Email info@musicbc.org to register
Workshop is FREE – please register now.
View the event poster here

For all those people not taking part in the Wakefestivities this weekend, check out this band from Edmonton.

http://www.myspace.com/fandmtheband

About F&M
Sharing your name with a long-standing funeral home can have its advantages; F&M just never discovered any of them.

Once the charm of adopting the grisly namesake “Fosters & McGarvey” had worn out, the band swiftly employed a name change to diffuse the confusion and lighten the verbose title all at once.

“Let Every Light Shine” is a return, a re-birth, or a re-start even. Following the release of “We Don’t Talk To Robots…” (shr 2002) the group eventually encountered an identity crisis. The original plan of using a rotating cast of musicians under a darkly humorous moniker dissipated under the stresses of time, studies, and gigging. Something had to give.

Five years later F&M has emerged with a renewed identity and charm. Firmly planted as a duo, the songwriting team of Ryan & Becky Anderson have assembled a stunning album of diverse and profound songs. The self-proclaimed “lo-fi apostles” have cleaned up enough for you to bring home to your parents, but don’t have to get changed before going out with your friends later. Charming, serious, and very, very cool.

“Let Every Light Shine” navigates through a blend of genres and volumes – an F&M trademark. Delicately delivered folk have haunting moments (‘Miracle’, ‘I Pray For Fog’, ‘Jonathan Is Lonely’). Raw indie-rock tracks (Amsterdam, Marquee, Macronomics) trade off with accessible, straight-ahead roots-rock selections (Dial “H” For Help, Leaving A Small Town). And somewhere in the middle are Russian homages and piano ballads.

For F&M, the release of “Let Every Light Shine” may have completed the ironic journey of death to life.

Aporia Recording Artists From Toronto

The Coast

Make Their Kelowna Debut

July 18 @ Habitat w/ The Ghost Is Dancing

“The Coast are yet another example of the increasingly talented and seemingly unstoppable Canadian indie music scene.” – Rob Bolton, Exclaim! Magazine

“What makes the six tracks on their self-titled EP work is the balance of blissful melodies and strong hooks with shimmering layers of Joshua Tree-era U2 guitars and often unconventional song structures.” CMJ (New York)

Named for the Paul Simon song from Rhythm of The Saints, Toronto quartet The Coast aims to make music that is similarly timeless and unique. Comprised of two sets of friends (and a set of brothers), the four boys from Toronto joined forces in high school and began writing and playing without any formal musical training.

Having developed a devoted fan base following only a few years of playing the local club circuit, the band has also charted on Ontario campus radio and have begun to tour across Canada, opening for numerous prominent Canadian indie bands and international acts, such as: Elbow, Islands, The Ladies and Gentlemen. With their chiming guitars, soaring vocals, and bittersweet lyrics, there’s something incredibly familiar about The Coast’s sound that evokes the expansive, memorable quality of their musical heroes.

“The spacey, Verve-like quality of their delicate tunes wouldn’t sound out of place on the Lost in Translation soundtrack…” –Andrea Miller, Eye Weekly, Toronto

“With their urban epics that manage to find light even in the bleakest darkness, The Coast are only getting started.” – by Tabassum Siddiqui

http://www.aporia-records.com

http://www.thecoastmusic.com / http://www.myspace.com/thecoastmusic

press/publicity/radio – killbeat music

http://www.killbeatmusic.com / http://www.myspace.com/killbeatmusic

http://www.myspace.com/thewhitehousenightgallery
http://thewhitehousenightgallery.com/

Has anyone been to a show there? What’s the acoustics like? I’m looking forward to going to a show there very soon. They seem to be bringing in some cool indie acts.

July 1, 2007:
National Frost (Sask.)
Fury & the Mouse (Victoria)
The Nymphets (Montreal)
$7
doors at 7pm

July 4, 2007
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (Vancouver)
Shapes and Sizes (Montreal)
Miracle Fortress (Montreal)
$12
doors at 7pm

Sept 2, 07
People For Audio (Montreal)
Small Fame (Vancouver)

Sept 21, 07
Better Friends Than Lovers (Vanvouver)
People Verses (Vancouver)

Sept 28-29 2007
28+ bands!
5 venues!
1 wristband for $25 to attend all the shows!
8pm – midnite

Ryan Abougoush is organizing the event and modelling it after CMW in Toronto & Vancouver’s New Music West event, this should be an amazing weekend and hopefully the first of many events.

Friday – Sept. 28^th
Fintry Queen
Terza rima (indie)
Jury (wild west saloon, rock)
Haut chachis (surf)

The Grateful Fed
Phoera (hard rock)
The Rights (Vancouver – rock)
Lefty (hard rock)

Sturgeon Hall
Kim McMechan (folk)
Closing iris (rock)
Crystal Leigh (singer-songwriter)

Doc Willoughby’s
Numina (rock)
Gorgeous Priceless (rock)
Helcion (Summerland – metal)

O’ Flanigan’s
Break the pattern (rock)
Inkblot (rock)
Half Way There (Rock)

Saturday – Sept. 29^th

Fintry Queen
Grooveyard (grateful dead cover band)
Sazacha Red Sky (Vernon – electric pop and blues)
Haymaker (rockabilly)

The Grateful Fed
T Riley (Vancouver – rock)
Faking David (Penticton – funk)
Zen Media (funk, world)

Sturgeon Hall
Jesse Revist (Calgary – folk)
Leanne Baily (rock)
Devon and Kevin (rock)

Doc Willoughby’s
The Mess (Rock)
Alpha baby (alternative)
Joey Only Outlaw Band (Vancouver – punk country)

O’ Flanigan’s
Hub (Vernon – hard rock)
Sausage Party (Punk Rock)
Lipstick Bulletkiss (Glam Rock)

Line up changes

Drunk and pretending (rock) is not playing O’Flanigan’s on Sat. Sept. 29^th
Danny Echo (rock) and La Clase Obrera (world) are not playing O’Flanigan’s on Fri. Sept. 28^th

See you there! I’ll be blogging about it!