Performers
Bertha Cool
Hailing from Abbotsford, Bertha Cool is a garage lo-fi rock and roll outfit with keys, guitars and a quirky hip attitude. Check out their tracks Sex Witch and Rat King by clicking here!
Oh No! Yoko
Oh No! Yoko
From CBC Radio Three: “Oh No! Yoko is made up of Everett Morris, Liam Hamilton & Nic Denis. 4 years ago, they assembled in Liam’s small bedroom with their keyboards,guitars and drums and started writing music for fun. They brought their sound to local venues and soon enough the crowds began to grow. Now, they are still writing music and plying more and more shows all over the place. In 2011 they will start recording a debut album for a summer release.”
Petroleum By-Product
Petroleum By-Product
From CBC Radio Three: “Formed in Vancouver in 2007 by Sally Jorgensen and Vanessa Turner, Petroleum By-Product took the name from the concept of the “Plastic Generation.” This refers to the idea that mankind is living in an entirely plastic world, dramatically altered since their invention. PBP’s music and attire reflect an artificial, superficial, excessive and decadent society and they visualize this development through black garbage bag clothing, extensive packaging, CD sunglasses and shoe design.”
The Progressive Thinker
The Progressive Thinker
From Facebook: “Our manifesto is reborn:
Avoid followed paths … to the end
To everything ever known, inside you by accident, being the reason to discover it…
To use anything existing as your tool for change…
And by observation of yourself and now..
Not from the outside of your head.. but to it and because of it.
The spur of the moment cliche, destroying new minds,
Leading to what’s next, and yet what’s now.
But what happens to a future and past that doesn’t exist?
When the re-connecting present has what we offer.
And we are re-connecting with those needing what is offered
Of rhythm destroying the time lines of time, needles with knives, headless with spine
Always to enjoy recording the past, then forgetting what’s possible, and getting what’s not”
The Split-Up’s
The Split-Up's
From facebook: “One part Newtown, three parts Mcwilliams. Playing Punk Rock Hits from your Future.”
Teen Daze
Teen Daze
From Pitchfork: “A year on from the summer of chillwave, and we’ve nailed down what makes this stripe of music “beachy”: smeary synths, a danceable pace, hints of memory-dulled nostalgia, invitingly vague lyrics about vaguer feelings, stuff about being a young, stuff about weed. It’s not a formula, per se, but in some hands it occasionally feels like one. Bedroom producer Teen Daze has been floating tracks onto the Internet for the last year, matching up squiggly keyboard lines to mild thumps and all the requisite haze. He’s got a track called “Shine on You Crazy White Cap” and another called “Gone for the Summer”. There’s a band Tumblr with a picture of a lake as its background. They are called Teen Daze. But unlike a lot of these bedroom blurmongers, Teen Daze seems in total control; his synths bleed into more brilliant colors, his languid pace more purposeful, his memory bank FDIC-insured, his vagueness earned by the quality of his output.”
The Tranzmitors
The Tranzmitors
From CBC Radio Three: “Featuring members of such Vancouver stalwarts as the New Town Animals, the Parallels and the Smugglers, the Tranzmitors came together to fill a void in the Vancouver rock n roll scene, injecting it with a razor-edged, twin guitar attack.”
Women of Britain
Women of Britain
From facebook: “The band formerly known as Annthronein`s reincarnate, basterd son. Spitting crazy rhythms you cant help but shake yo` head to! And then fall down on the floor and have a seizure.”
