The Born Ruffians consist of Luke Lalonde on guitar and vocals, Mitch Derosier on bass and Steven Hamelin on drums. The band is a Canadian indie rock band presently signed to Warp Records. Their debut singles have had widespread airplay on CBC Radio 3, such as, This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your Life and the single [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Be Good to the Ears
Be Good to the Ears To reach a wider audience without even being there, recording your songs is a must. This allows you to get more people to listen to how great your music really is. But recording the perfect song is not always easy. This requires patience and long hours at the studio going [...]
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The Acorn
Formed in 2003, this Canadian indie folk band is from Ottawa, Ontario. The group is composed of Rolf Klausener (songwriter, vocalist, guitarist), Howie Tsui (guitarist, visual artist), Jeff Debute (bassist), Jeffrey Malecki (drummer) and Montreal’s Keiko Devaux (keyboardist). Devaux is the most recent member of the band, for he joined around 2006. The group is [...]
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Delivering a Bombshell Performance
So you now have your own style, written your songs and perfected your lyrics. What’s next? Rocking your audience’s brains out, of course! To deliver a memorable performance, this entails practice. And practice. And have I mentioned practice? This does not mean that you should force yourself to memorize everything that you will do on [...]
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Tapes ‘N Tapes
This indie rock/neo-psychedelia/experimental rock band started at Carleton College, winter of 2003. They have already released three albums: Tapes ‘n Tapes (2004), The Loon (2005-2006) and Walk It Off (2008). The group has four members: Josh Grier (Tapes 1), Jeremy Hanson (Tapes 2) Matt Kretzman (‘n) and Erik Appelwick (‘n). They also had former members [...]
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Love Your Lyrics
Your songs’ lyrics are vital to the response you get from your audience. Be relevant when you’re writing, so that you will be able to connect with the people you are singing for. Do not waste your efforts on something which you would not be proud of when you hear it replayed. The best songs [...]
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Ruthlessness Pays
Okay, this does not mean being cutthroat and mean and going around torturing people and stuff. This means, be ruthless when it comes to your material and your standards. Experiment and see what genre you are most effective and sound best at, and when you find it, drive yourself to master it and to continually [...]
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The Paper Cranes
Not too familiar? Maybe because they are not your common indie band. Most indie bands would go for rock music, alternative, punk, etc. But the Paper Cranes are more of a seaside music-hall melancholy (think bouncing-ball piano lines, sock-hop clap-along beat and a scarcely there set chorus of “oooh ooohs”) particularly blissfully inapt to go [...]
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AVANT GARDE
To be indie is to be different. To be indie is to deviate from the mainstream. To be indie is to stand out. So, in this age of youtube fanatics and countless Multiply and Facebook accounts which numerous bands have used to get their bands exposed to a wider audience, it pays to find other [...]
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White Williams
Although this indie electronic band’s career started in 1999, they seem to be more active in the year 2006 until the present. The group consist of Joseph Williams where the band name came from) who plays as the vocals, and utilizes melodica, synth and a laptop; Hayes Shanesy on vocals as well and guitars, Tyler [...]
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