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 “Knife” from their cover singles Grizzly Bear. The “Hummingbird” was then released in 2007. Together with Candence Weapon, the Canadian band is on tour right now. Beforehand, they already have toured with the following: The Hidden Cameras, Hot Chip, Peter Bjorn & John and Caribou.

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 currently signed to Paper Bag Records but what’s more, they have some releases from Kelp Records. Most of their songs have been on the charts in Canadian campuses and in CBC Radio 3 and The Verge. Their discographies are: The Pink Ghosts (2004), Blankets EP (2005), Tin Fists EP (2006) and Glory Hope Mountain (2007).

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 Shawn Neary (on bass; 2003-2006) and Karl Schweitz (on drums; 2003-2005). Tapes ‘n Tapes became well-known quickly after a succession of write-ups on music blogs. Because of this, they became one of the most identifiable models of the “blog band” trend. The indie band were popular for their works like The Futureheads, The Streets, Metric, Calvin Johnson and I Am the World Trade Center.

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 along with a song that worships the power of love in the most intimidating, inconsolable terms. The Paper Cranes are composed of the following members: Ryan McCullagh (guitar and vocals), Miranda Roach-McCullagh (keyboards), Braeden Peterson (guitar), Mark Lavoie (bass) and Dale Peltier (percussion).

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 on bass guitar and Andriu Strasser on the art. Their masterpieces that have been released are New Violence EP on Septemer 2007 and Smoke on November 2007. The art cover for Smoke was inspired from a girl from Cincinatti who was in tears over a relationship with a guy, who smoked marijuana water pipe because of their situation.

This indie band has sure gone a long way! A real long way back, since 1990 with a compilation of Happy or Sad Wearing Your Anorak. This indie group has made it strong because until today, they are an active band. They have made a lot of compilations, flexi EP’s, Mini LP’s and Cd’s. The band consisted of Jen, Stew, Ara and sometimes during their tours, joined by Matt and Ged. They have had been all over the globe (mostly Europian countries), touring different countries such as: Sweden, France, Denmark, Germany, Holland, US, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc. They have been a truly successful and well-known indie band!

Read on to have an idea on the indie band named, The Faintest Idea. This indie group has four members who sure has an idea what’s going on around here. On the drums, the group has Martin Cannert, both Christopher Larkner and Daniel Svanhog for vocals and guitars and Joel Gorsch also on vocals and bass. They have recent releases such as There’s No Captain on This Cruise and We Don’t Serve Orange Juice, Boyracer Split, Your Imaginary Bullets Really Hurt and What Goes Up Must Calm Down. They also have releases during the Javelin years like Terrific Times and Unrehearsed Crimes, We Paid A Lot for Our Style, Pale Average Crooks, The Introvertical, For A Few Yards More and Seven Shirts of Steve McQueen.

They sure had a lot of patience with their band for a sure success. This indie pop band was formed by Ray Proudfoot (vocals and guitar) and Keenan Dowers (Rhodes and electric organ and vocals) in Seattle, Washington. They both went to the same high school together so this made the bands foundation strong. Keenan played bass for their high school band which also gave way to the early beginnings of the band. Later on they have decided they needed more members and a name. Jordan Michelman came to the picture and became their drummer after hours of working on Ray’s songs in their garage.