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The Mohawk Lodge

"You make me wanna fight. I’m gonna sing my little heart out tonight.”
- “Wildfires” With Wildfires, The Mohawk Lodge sheds their dirty folk leanings in favour of blue collar indie soul. Whereas debut disc Rare Birds catered in campfire songs, the band’s sophomore record is a musical forest fire. Since their inception, The Mohawk Lodge have left concertgoers sated and stages sweat-stained as they entrench their reputation as a live band to be reckoned with. Bringing their working man’s ethic to the

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The Fugitives

There are multiple artists named The Fugitives: 1. Garage band who released their sole LP The Fugitives at Dave's Hideout in the summer of 1964. 2. The Fugitives, a combination of multi-talented Vancouver artists Mark Berube, Barbara Adler, and Brendan McLeod, have been classified under many guises: slam folk, folk hop, spoken word cabaret. Yet a common throughline is always their remarkable storytelling abilities.

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Octoberman

“Won’t you come back home? Well, I don’t think so.” This telling exchange from Octoberman's “Run From Safety" (release date: Aug 21, 2007) epitomizes the ethos of Octoberman’s Marc Morrissette. In 2003, the itinerant songwriter abandoned his Vancouver home for travels through Asia and Europe. When Morrissette returned to North American shores, he arrived bearing a travel journal blackened with observations and reflections. These insights would soon become the basis of Octoberman’s outstanding 2005 debut, These Trails Are Old and New.

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The Russian Futurists

The Russian Futurists are a Canadian indie pop band based in Toronto. Their music can be described as lo-fi, indie-electronica fused with a twee-pop temperament. Although they initially had only one member, Matthew Adam Hart (born 1978), the band was later enlarged for live performances. Brief, exhilarating songs about love

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thanks but i prefer suicide

epic bedroom synth pop

music that sounds like bland ez-listening from far away but is awesome up close

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sxsw 2009

Upper Class Recordings

i want to live in canada

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swaying index fingers

interesting electronic

poetry in names

the boiiizzz

Keyboardy

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Driving late at night

Dance Porkatron Dance

please see him jeffrey hes a good man and thorough

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glittering raspberry dancefloors

musical research center: artists that i should listen to

not shite like the automatic and all that crap

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Maclean

Maclean is a band. They are based out of Langley, BC, Canada, and play an ambient, melodious rock, with hints of electronica and progressive rock. Stop what you are doing and check them out right now. They are, in alphabetical order by last name:
Maclean Carlson - Drums/Glockenspiel
Denver Harris - Vocals/Guitar
Andrew McTaggart - Vocals/Guitar
Scott Neufeld - Guitar/Bass
Steve Sawatzky - Bass/Piano/Good looks

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