Mangoes sprouting in the tundra. The new face of Latin soul thriving in a hamlet a day’s drive north of Vancouver, British Columbia. This is the story of guitarist, singer, and songwriter Alex Cuba, who came into his musical own in the Canadian north and whose Cuban soul rock power trio flies in the face of conventional notions of what Latin music can be: gentle, hip, wry, and uplifting, with a twist of funk where Marvin Gaye meets Jaco Pastorius.
Ann Vriend (born Vancouver) is a Canadian singer-songwriter/pianist based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has sold thousands of albums and played festivals and venues around the world. Ann Vriend released a popular demo in 2000, which garnered immediate radio play on stations across western Canada and earned her a spot at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. A year later she won a songwriting contest which took her to Nashville, and helped fund her debut album, Soul Unravelling (2003), which was well received by critics and sold well for an independent release.
Holy Fuck is a lo-fi improvisational experimental band based in Toronto, Canada. Called "Toronto's evil supergroup", Holy Fuck includes, at various times, members of other notable bands King Cobb Steelie, By Divine Right, Wintersleep, Enon, and Blue Rodeo. Holy Fuck mimics modern electronic music without using modern fail-safes like laptops and programmed backing tracks.
There is more than one group called Swan Lake. One is house music, the other is an indie rock supergroup comprised of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, The New Pornographers), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes) and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Republic of Freedom Fighters, Breakwater, Blackout Beach). They released their debut album, Beast Moans, in both the CD and LP formats on Jagjaguwar on November 21, 2006.
Toronto’s BELIEFS began in November 2010 when singer-guitarists and songwriting pair Josh Korody and Jesse Crowe met at bassist Pat McCormack’s birthday party and bonded over their love of The Jesus and Marychain, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine. Their self-titled debut album is due March 2013 through No Pain In Pop (EU), Manimal (US) and Hand Drawn Dracula (CA).
Read more about Beliefs on Last.fm.
Drawing on influences from old-time jazz standards, folk balladry and traditional country, Halifax Nova Scotia’s Jill Barber has become one of Canada’s most distinctive young voices. Jill is gaining acclaim and radio play for her new 2008 album " Chances" and her status as a 2008 double-Juno nominee and multiple East Coast Music Award winner for previous releases "For all Time" (2006) and "Oh Heart" (2004).
Bruce Cockburn, (pronounced "CO-burn"), has had a long and distinguished career with much success in his native Canada. His first albums were fairly straight ahead folk music spotlighting his brilliant guitar playing. In fact, there were a good number of instrumental guitar numbers on those early recordings. A Christian element came into his music around the time of the album Salt, Sun And Time, and over time his writing has taken on a stronger and stronger political orientation.
There are four artists with this name. Tumult can be:
-Canadian Old School Death/Grindcore band from Canada with Necroholocaust, Blasphemy, Morbosidad, Necrosleezer and Sik Fuk members.
- A Danish folk rock group, fronted by singer and multi-instrumentalist Jørgen Dickmeiss.
- one of the artists that participate on Cave Story Remix Project;
- a Finnish Metal Band.
- a powerviolence/fastcore band from Bonn, Germany
The Vanity Project is a side-project of Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page, writing with his old partner Stephen Duffy, who (as of Everything For Everyone) no longer writes songs for the Ladies.
John Wort Hannam is a Canadian Folk Music musician, from Fort Macleod, Alberta. He was born on the Isle of Jersey of the British Channel Islands.. John Wort Hannam is known for his story telling through music. Themes which are central to his music include life in Western Canada, and the human experience as seen through the eyes of simple working folk.[John was a full-time public school teacher until 2000.