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tonight!

Doors at 9 PM, show begins around 10 PM ... see you tonight!

i was just doing my rounds to pimp this show:

Ember Swift with special guests Vanderpark! This Thursday, February 9 at Elixir Nightclub (14 Garrett Street). Tickets on sale now at Destinations, Brian's Record Option, Chumleighs, Renaissance Music, Zap Records, Elixir and online at www.rockcrew.ca

Toronto's Ember Swift is both an individual singer-songwriter and a dynamic trio. Alongside of Ember's elastic jazz vocals and lush acoustic guitar are layers of electric violin, bass guitar, drums, percussion and vocal harmonies. Most notably, Lyndell Montgomery, with infectious charisma and musicianship akin to wizardy, has been performing with Ember Swift for over seven years. On drums and percussion, the tours rotate between two talented players: Adam Bowman and Cheryl Reid. Together, they combine folk, jazz, funk, punk, world (ranging from Middle Eastern to Spanish to Eastern European), pop, classical and reggae. They travel fluidly between genres and easily shrug off any attempts to cloak their music in a style category. Their "style" cannot be contained.

Ember Swift and her band speak their minds and their truths boldly and without fear from stages across Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Their songs shed light on issues such as globalization, consumer awareness, food politics, disengaging from capitalist greed, feminism, queer politics, racism and environmentalism. All seven of their independently released albums on their independent record label "Few'll Ignite Sound" weave politics and poetics in and out of daring musical arrangements. They are proud independent artists, by identity not default.

Among recent honours, Ember Swift was nominated for Outstanding Songwriter of the year at the 2003 OUTMusic Awards in New York City and performed at the awards ceremony to uproarious and sustained applause. Her newest album "Stiltwalking" was also [listener] voted #1 in August of 2003 on Outvoice.net, her first ever experience of being number one on a top 40 chart! In recent years, Ember was voted Toronto's Vocalist of the year in 2001 by NOW MAGAZINE and was also one of ten well-known Canadian artists asked to perform at a Joni Mitchell tribute concert for the International World Leaders Conference in late 2001. For this performance, she was awarded high praise from the Joni Mitchell official website.

Her ardent and loyal fan following continues to grow internationally with every performance. And now that Fleming & Associates (the same agency that books Ani DiFranco, Melissa Ferrick, Eric Bogle and Xavier Rudd, among others) is on the case, the momentum of Ember Swift's music career is fuelled with even more belief.

Their label's motto reads: "May the few who ignite sound fuel a change in the night. May the few who fuel change ignite sound into light." It embodies their philosophy that art combined with activism is truly a recipe for hope.

A heady brew of rock, funk, and pop that's hard to deny. When the six members of Toronto-based Vanderpark combine these elements, it results in an exciting, energetic original sound, found both on their new CD All Your Hands, and on stage at one of their many live shows. These sentiments are echoed by the McGill Tribune:

"The great, powerful voices and mastery of the instruments are but two aspects that make these guys pack venues and have such a solid following."- The McGill Tribune, Montreal, QC

Vanderpark is always hard at work, their drive is relentless. They have maintained a loyal following despite band members being previously located in Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal for the past four years. Maintaining their loyal following has been a result of a vigorous and intense touring schedule that has taken the band through Central Canada and The Maritimes. As word continues to spread, Vanderpark has been stirring up a scene everywhere they play which hasn’t gone unnoticed. Vanderpark has recently opened for the legendary touring band Little Feat on the Canadian leg of their 2005 Summer Tour. Vanderpark has also shared the stage with triple platinum selling artists The Spin Doctors, as well as Truths and Rights featuring long-time members of both highly acclaimed acts Big Sugar, and Toots and the Maytals.

The future holds much for this young band. The buzz surrounding the release of their debut album, All Your Hands, is spreading fast and hot, as their active word-of-mouth fan base continues to grow. All Your Hands highlights Vanderpark’s uncanny songwriting sensibilities, tight harmony, and serious musicianship.

"All Your Hands is a melodic marvel; thematically mature, gloriously choreographed and rambunctiously funky." - The View Magazine

When listening to All Your Hands, it’s apparent that these boys have an inexorable appetite for progress. Vanderpark’s latest release is constantly in high demand, with the album available in stores nationwide and online at distributors such as iTunes, MSN music service, Napster, Pure Tracks, and Starbucks.

If you haven't heard of Vanderpark, trust me you soon will. This is a band that can’t, and won't, be ignored.

www.emberswift.com

www.vanderpark.com

www.elixirnightclub.com

www.rockcrew.ca

OTHER ROCK CREW SHOWS COMING SOON:

Tomi Swick & onlyforward - Feb 16 at Elixir

Fred Eaglesmith - Feb 23 at Elixir

Metric w/ Islands & Holy Fuck - Feb 28 at Elixir

From Fiction & Sylvie - Mar 2 at Elixir

Cuff The Duke w/ The Hylozoists & Greg MacPherson - Mar 9 at Elixir

Craig Cardiff - Mar 16 at Elixir

Hawksley Workman - Mar 23 at Sydenham Street United Church

The Old Soul & Lederhosen Lucil - Mar 23 at Elixir

Hootenanny! Luther Wright/Oh Susanna/Carolyn Mark/Hank & Lilly/Jenny Whitely/more - Mar 30 at Elixir

as if that guy didn't have some stealth recording gear

they played a show for me here in kingston back in october ... CRAZY CRAZY band ... definitely worth seeing live. highly recommended!

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

for them to get back together so soon would be lame. i give em five years

This show is part of CFRC 101.9 FM's fundraising drive continuing this week!

from www.cfrc.ca

Now we have a request for you...

CFRC 101.9FM Funding Drive 2006

Friday January 27 - Sunday February 5

For the first time in 84 years, CFRC is having a telethon to raise money for operating expenses. Our goal is $5000.

Why should I donate to campus radio?

* We are your only alternative radio station in Kingston offering you local coverage of issues and events that affect you through our spoken word broadcasts and public service announcements

* We play everything - jazz, indie, funk, classical, blues, reggae, country, hip hop, folk, progressive rock, world beats and bluegrass and much more.

* We offer the opportunity for Kingstonians and Queen's students to receive training in order to develop broadcast skills and continue with a career in media.

How do I make a donation?

* Call 613 533-CFRC (2372) during the Funding Drive if you would like to receive a gift.

* Click here to make an online pledge:

o You must type "CFRC" in the clubs field in order for CFRC to receive your donation.

o Online donations are only eligible for tax receipts, not gifts or the draw.

* Attend one of CFRC's co-sponsored events and check out the pledge table

* Visit us at our studios in the Basement of Carruthers Hall on Queen's Campus

What do I get for my donation?

* satisfaction of knowing you've contributed to keeping CFRC on the air

* tax receipts OR gifts including CDs, t-shirts and Via Rail money. Click here for a full list of gifts available while supplies last

* potential to win a domestic trip for two, courtesy of Odyssey Travel and WestJet

* If $5000 is raised, the opportunity to see Eric Duncan, our Programming Manager, have CFRC's logo tattoed on himself on February 10th

CFRC's Co-sponsored Events Listing

Mon Jan 30 Spoken Word Open Mic @ CommonGround Coffeehouse

Thurs Feb 2 Kardinal Offishall @ The Elixir with Rock Crew Productions

Sat Feb 4 Controller.Controller with OK Go @ The Grad Club (2 shows: early-all ages, late-19+)

If you have any inquiries please contact Sayyida Jaffer, Business Manager:

Phone: (613) 533-2121

Fax: (613) 533-6049

Email: cfrcbusiness@ams.queensu.ca

This show is gonna be sick!

Kardinal Offishall with special guest Rochester AKA Juice, presented by Rock Crew Productions, CFRC 101.9 FM and Elixir Nightclub (14 Garrett Street).

Advance tickets on sale now at Destinations, Brian's Record Option, Zap Records, Renaissance Music, Chumleighs, Elixir and online at www.rockcrew.ca

Long before Rasta-flavoured red, green and gold wristbands became a principal fashion accessory, Toronto’s most celebrated emcee Kardinal Offishall has been incorporating authentic Jamaican vibes into his sonic mix to create his own unique rap-dancehall hybrid sound since the mid-90’s.

Canada’s renowned pure rap export, Kardinal Offishall has built a portfolio of international production and recording credits comprised of a virtual Who’s Who of urban music talent. Before multi-platinum reggae crooner Sean Paul became the toast of the pop charts, Toronto’s Offishall rap ambassador was already penning gold-selling Juno Award winning singles with him (“Money Janeâ€). To date, Kardinal is the only Canadian urban act to appear on BET’s Rap City show (even freestyling in the booth with Big Tigger), and on MTV’s Advance Warning (which introduces the world to artists on the verge of breaking big, like former guest Kanye West). When you couple that with recent collaboration work alongside the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams (“Grinding†remix, “Bellydancerâ€), on recent records by Pete Rock (“We Goodâ€), Method Man (“Baby Come Onâ€), Akon (“Kill The Danceâ€) and on the blockbuster movie soundtrack 2 Fast 2 Furious with Disturbing The Peace’s Shawnna (“Block Reincarnatedâ€), it’s really not open to debate—Kardinal is “the people’s champ like Lennox Lewisâ€, as he raps on the title track.

While Kardinal has no visions of becoming a global reggae artist, fans that enjoyed ‘Maxine’ from Firestarter will lap up ‘Neva New.’ As per usual, Canada’s Hip Hop Mayor has always been about recording music with a message, and he comes with some heavy subject matter on ‘Sunday.’ “This song is like my hip hop sermon, you know I went to church as a shorty, so instilled in me is a love for my family, friends, the laws of nature.†While some acts of Kardinal’s stature tend to go Hollyhood and ignore the streets which helped raise them to be the pop stars that they are today, Kardinal flips some very gripping, intensely personal verses for them too. He raps: “God lives in you…the streets gone crazy, but He loves them (thugs) too,†paying respect to locales in various neighborhoods in Toronto, including his own Vaughan/Oakwood area, that show him love unconditionally. Profound.

In the end, Fire and Glory will further secure Kardinal’s position as an immensely talented Canadian artist and the voice of the “people.†“What I’m trying to lead is the same movement that you see happening with Atlanta, setting flames under the city, encourage people to have pride in their country.†He adds: “It’s a relief to be back out there because the streets are hungry for more fire.â€

A new wave of Toronto-based rap talent is positioning itself to make a dent on Canadian music charts. Rochester aka Juice has emerged as one of the leaders of this new school. Don't believe the hype? You don't need to. Prominent press outlets, commercial radio and TV stations have already stepped in to cement the hoopla, and the stage is set.

Born Jason Rochester, the tall and noticeably handsome emcee grew up in the Islington/Finch corridor of Toronto and demonstrated a unique artistic gift as a young teen - that of a comic book illustrator. Influenced by the likes of Marvin Gaye, Dennis Brown and Jay-Z, Juice casually dabbled in the art of rhyme slinging in his old neighborhood, at one time joining rap collective The STC (Street Terrorist Clique). Years later, when Canada's first urban radio station (FLOW 93.5 fm) held their inaugural Soul Search talent contest (in 2002), he graduated with honours from occasional 'hood cipher contributor to centre-stage entertainer. A charismatic performance coupled with an ability to paint candid pictures through his rhymes crowned Juice the Soul Search's inaugural first prizewinner for his original composition "Young Luv" - an animated ode to early childhood romance - Juice's career kicked into overdrive.

Rochester aka Juice's full-length debut, A New Day (released in Spring 2005 on MapleMusic Recordings) marks a Canadian urban music revolution. Not only is Juice the first hip hop act to be released by MapleMusic Recordings, he is also the first artist to emerge from the much-fêted Foundation Creative Group; a loose Toronto-based collective of renowned producers (Tone Mason), commercial graphic designers/conceptualists (Street Level Imaging), emcee's (Mhedikc, Drex) and artist managers (Public Management). Simply put, when you have producers in your camp whose credits include Talib Kweli and AZ, you're well on your way to urban music glory.

While the challenge for most world class Canadian rap talents has been to stylistically set themselves apart from their American rap neighbors, Juice, like Kardinal Offishall before him, is a unique first-generation Canadian emcee. His lyrics speak to distinctly local concerns while carrying universal themes. "Some cats feel because they sell a couple of dime bags that they're hustlers, gangsters and thug rappers like they see on BET," relates Juice. "The situation in Canada is different. Sure some people are living that kind of life, but why rap about busting guns when you're not? I come from a proud Dominican and Jamaican household, grew up with my two parents, and I didn't live that kind of life.so why am I going to rap about something that I don't live?" He adds: "Music is expression of self. If that's not you, don't express it."

Folks who've witnessed Juice's charismatic live show already know that Juice's musical mission is to deliver straight lyrical goods - whether opening up for Eminem protegé Obie Trice on his cross-Canada tour, or as part of the wildly popular Nike Battlegrounds street ball basketball tournament. "I'm not trying to blend in, I'm trying to change the rap game right now," he says point blank. "Change is gonna come."

www.maplemusic.com/artists/kao/default.asp

www.rochesterakajuice.com

www.cfrc.ca

www.elixirnightclub.com

www.rockcrew.ca

OTHER SHOWS COMING SOON:

Ember Swift w/ Vanderpark - Feb 9 at Elixir

Mark Wilson/Tomi Swick/one more TBA - Feb 16 at Elixir

Fred Eaglesmith - Feb 23 at Elixir

Metric w/ Island & Holy Fuck - Feb 28 at Grant Hall

From Fiction & Sylvie - Mar 2 at Elixir

Cuff The Duke w/ The Hylozoists - Mar 9 at Elixir

Craig Cardiff - Mar 16 at Elixir

Hawksley Workman - Mar 23 at Sydenham Street United Church

The Old Soul & Lederhosen Lucil - Mar 23 at Elixir

Hootenanny Revue - Mar 30 at Elixir

tonight!

Don't forget, it's open to the public for those 19+, and all-ages if you're a Queen's student.

Doors at 9 PM, music to start around 9:30.

Advance tix still available at Zap, Brian's, Destinations, Renaissance, and Clark Hall Pub.

See you there!

i usually get the roasted chicken on whole wheat with lettuce tomato onion swiss cheese and honey mustard. never toasted

tasty

WAX MANNEQUIN TRIO

web: www.waxmannequin.com

music: www.myspace.com/waxmannequin

Wax Mannequin was bred in the Hamilton rock scene. Driven to preach his elaborate internal imaginings, Wax honed his style; melding curious electronic twitterings, spidery, finger-picked classical guitar airs and careful, impassioned vocals. Like a lost collaboration between Nick Drake and Edward Gorey, or the ghost of Freddie Mercury channeled by Crispin Glover, Wax's music soon grew in scope to combine grandiose, pop-melodic sensibilities with things abstract and experimental. For the past two years, Wax Mannequin has had little rest, hardening himself on the Canadian and Australian rock circuits. Now, backed by a full band, or as a solo performer [with programmed beats, automated bass and angry electric guitar], Wax showcases his evolving brand of performance art-punk; steeped in suffering and reveling in epic absurdity. In the tradition of Zappa, Tom Waits, Arthur Lee, and other such road-wizened outsiders, Wax Mannequin pushes forward - restless - preparing for some elusive future trial.

THE REMAINS OF BRIAN BORCHERDT

music: http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=12566

web: www.brianborcherdt.com

Upon releasing an anonymously packaged CD, unofficially titled the Moth EP, audiences began to sense something more from the newest and otherwise unknown member of By Divine Right. Recorded as a tribute to a fallen comrade, this brief collection of songs was intended only for its personal reward. Despite its meager presentation, music fans and critics alike embraced the humble offering, praising it’s honesty and “raw emotionâ€. NOW magazine voted it a top ten local release of 2002, and later celebrated his North by Northeast performance as a festival highlight. With the introduction of The Remains, Brian Borcherdt showcases a wider range of emotion and sonic exploration. In the past year Borcherdt has shared the stage with fitting acts such as Damien Jurardo, Lou Barlow, Jim Guthrie, Wintersleep, and The Unintended. Relentless touring perhaps paid off for him and his new band, formed with fellow By Divine Right-ers. After rocking the stage in China, Australia, and the US they checked into the House of Miracles (Two Minute Miracles, Constantines, Royal City) to lay down some of their heaviest energy on Brian’s first full length record.

This Friday, January 27

Clark Hall Pub - Queen's Campus

$6 advance (Brian's Record Option, Destinations, Zap Records, Chumleighs, Renaissance, Clark Hall Pub, and www.rockcrew.ca)

$8 door

All ages with Queen's ID

19+ for general public

Opening the show is marvellously fantastic Nich Worby of Tomate Potate

'more adventurous' is one of my favourite albums of all time, without doubt. I wish I could make it for this ...

Tom Green is a rapper. This is very true. It's not just 'Check The O.R.' either ... he's got a whole new rap album called Prepare For Impact that was produced by DJ EZ Mike aka Mike Simpson of the legendary Dust Brothers (producers of Paul's Boutique, Odelay, Guero, Fight Club Soundtrack, etc...).

Tom is taking his show on the road ... it's Tom Green & The Keepin' It Real Crew and they have matching jackets and a tour bus. EZ Mike is on the 1s and 2s all night, and Birdhouse Skateboarder Jeremy Klein is making eggs for everyone.

The show is being filmed for another DVD (Kingston was very prominently featured in the footage from the June tour).

It's this coming Tuesday, January 24 at Elixir Nightclub. You can buy tickets now at Zap Records, Chumleighs, Destinations, Brian's Record Option, Renaissance Music, Elixir, or online at www.rockcrew.ca

The opening act is The Electric Presidents. It's Tom, Mike, and Jeremy wearing U.S. President masks and doing a techno set.

A live Tom Green rap show is really really weird, but entertaining as all gitout ... you really shouldn't miss it.

And yes, he will perform Check The O.R.

www.tomgreen.com

www.elixirnightclub.com

Other Rock Crew shows coming soon:

Brian Borcherdt & Wax Mannequin w/ Nich Worby - Jan 27 at Clark Hall Pub

Kardinal Offishall w/ Rochester AKA Juice - Feb 2 at Elixir

Ember Swift w/ Vanderpark - Feb 9 at Elixir

Fred Eaglesmith - Feb 23 at Elixir

Metric w/ Islands & Holy Fuck - Feb 28 at Grant Hall

From Fiction & Sylvie - Mar 2 at Elixir *NEW*

Cuff The Duke w/ The Hylozoists - Mar 9 at Elixir

Craig Cardiff - Mar 16 at Elixir *NEW*

This Thursday, January 19 at Elixir (14 Garrett Street) - Pocket Dwellers with special guests Slaves of Spanky! Tickets $10 available now at Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, Destinations, Chumleighs, Renaissance, Elixir and online at www.rockcrew.ca

And don't let anyone tell you differently, Pocket Dwellers are a fuckin SICK live band, as are Slaves of Spanky, so missing this show would be tomfoolery.

If there is one item to avoid asking the Pocket Dwellers about, it's their biography. The band are frankly, tired of looking at it and done talking about it. Draft after draft is passed around seven strong collective. The calmly mannered, evenly dispositioned crew search for words they feel accurately reflect the intentions of the band and not just try to fill a page with empty semantics. The Pocket Dwellers always have something on their minds, always have something new to say. They move too fast to be trapped by the words of the past.

In anticipation of the release of latest installment in the Pocket Dwellers journey, ‘PD-ATRICS.’ a joint label venture between Blue Note/EMI Music Canada, Dennis 'DEkNOW' Passley Jr, offered; "The band is comprised of seven equal parts, we all contribute to the writing and the running of the band. This past year was all spent writing and recording ‘PD-ATRICS’ with the notion that we had to make a record that nobody thought we were capable of making." When the group, comprised of NiGel (MC/vocals), Sheldon Moore (DJ), Dennis Passley Jr. (tenor sax), Christian Mckibbon (guitar), Johnny Griffith (alto/soprano sax), Gordon Shields (bass), and Marco Raposo (drums) - started working on ‘PD-ATRICS’ in 2002, the guys had a game plan to "refine the music" so more people could get into it. "It was a goal of ours to make sure that we could appeal to the common denominator," says Dennis. "In the past, what we basically focused on was making sure our live show as tight and then we just took that and translated it to our record," adds NiGel. Self-produced by the Pocket Dwellers at their own studio, and engineered by Sheldon, who also came up with the album title, the clever play-on-words, ‘PD-ATRICS’. "Coming from one place and going somewhere else and the idea that there was a rebirth in the band of how we conceived and how we put our game plan together," says Marco. "The tie with ‘PD-ATRICS’ allows us to bring people up with our new sound," expands NiGel, "so we're nurturing people on the new Pocket Dwellers."

In early 2000 the band began shaping their second album, Digitally Organic and recruited multi-Juno award winning Michael Phillip Wojewoda (Barenaked Ladies, Rheostatics) on production detail. It was a cohesive meld of the bands varied influences and was infused with at times opposite yet easily co-existing musical approaches. It has become the norm for the band to consistently test and push beyond any set musical boundaries. With hundreds of performances across Canada under their belt, these guys know they can entertain any audience. The Pocket Dwellers have opened for a very wide range of different musical acts, including such notable performers as Maceo Parker, Kardinal Offishall, The Roots, Fishbone and jazz great Charlie Hunter. They have also performed at a broad range of festivals around the world, including The Montreux Jazz Festival. Pocket Dwellers will continue to tour extensively in the coming year to support their new record. The lead single and video, from ‘PD-ATRICS’, "Trust Us," is strongly anti-establishment, and socially aware, both visually and in lyrical content. "We're all in this together," NiGel explains further. "If we blow up the world, then we all get blown up. If some people are enslaved in the world, then we're all slightly enslaved. And whenever we're pointing the finger, we're still pointing the finger at us."

Marco takes the last word on the new album, "We didn't have to change what we were, to make PD-ATRICS, we just had to focus it. We went for a specific sound. For the most part it's more hip hop sounding then our other albums, but it still has that Pocket Dwellers way of including all styles. It represents our objective to continually blur the lines of music."

Slaves of Spanky are Kingston’s velcro shoe-wearing, shit-hot RAP jam superstars. MCs Chuck Badminton and Cap't Footbags wear fresh helmets and bust forth with lightnin' hot RAPS while the funk is brought by Suganutz (Rhodes, synth, Alphabet desk), Speedgrease (electric upright bass) and Marf (drums). The beats and grooves from the band keep the rumps shaking vigorously, but it's the MCs in the spotlight with a high-energy and goddamn hilarious performance that never ceases to be anything short of incomparably fun. Check out the pork-chop bling action and the rockin’ synchronized leg lifts in mid rap.

Chuck and Footbags started the SOS Crew as two rappers and a drum machine in the small but sexy town of Tamworth, Ontario in 1996. Realizing that digital gadgets (especially watches and computers) were on the way out, SOS became a live band, bringing in a local jazz/funk trio (Suganutz, Speedgrease, Marf) to supply the hot RAP rhythms. Now, it’s two MCs and a backing band of schooled funkateers fuelled on cheeseburgers and donuts, and Slaves of Spanky have become fresher than TV's McGyver at the peak of his short and lucrative career. DAMN.

www.pocketdwellers.com

www.slavesofspanky.com

www.elixirnightclub.com

www.cfrc.ca

www.rockcrew.ca

lots of tickets left in kingston too

Funkafize - Tower of Power

Graham Central Station is also required.

i love how he turned that into a sales pitch.

tonight!

Doors at 9 PM, music at 10.

Gretna Green is a very small cul-de-sac in the neighbourhood in kingston where i grew up. it's right next to Hampstead Heath

it's on there in the 'press room' section

This Thursday (Jan 12) at Elixir - Rock Crew, Elixir and CFRC present Great Lake Swimmers with Stephanie Leah Gora.

Great Lake Swimmers return with a warm second album, Bodies and Minds, filled with songs of heartbreak, rural nostalgia, and the search for spiritual transcendence.

The album picks up where Great Lake Swimmers' critically-acclaimed 2003 debut left off, featuring gentle, thoughtful compositions and understated instrumentation, while also moving fluidly into alt-country pop territory with sweet harmonies, light orchestration, and even a few up-tempo numbers. (Think Mark Kozelek playing Neil Young, or the delicate Nick Drake delivered with the heart of Gram Parsons.)

The record includes songs about manic depression ("Various Stages"), the sense of a higher power ("Song for the Angels") and finding spirituality in nature ("I Saw You in the Wild"). It is a bold step forward for the Toronto-based band.

Bodies and Minds was recorded in a lakeside church in rural southern Ontario, continuing the emphasis on atmosphere from the debut album (which was recorded in an abandoned grain silo). Engineered by Andy Magoffin (Constantines, Royal City) and mixed at his celebrated House of Miracles, the record has a sparkle and shimmer that is due in part to the cavernous surroundings in which it was captured.

This fresh group of songs also accurately captures the sound of the band that brings stories written by singer/guitarist Tony Dekker to life. Featuring Sandro Perri (of Polmo Polpo) on lap steel, Erik Arneson on banjo, Almog Ben-David on Wurlitzer piano, and Colin Huebert on drums, the new band tastefully accompanies Dekker's graceful songs on the record and in live shows.

Great Lake Swimmers were awarded the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Galaxie Rising Star Award in March 2005 and previously were voted Favourite Folk/Roots Artist at the 2004 Canadian Independent Music Awards.

Stephanie Leah Gora is a singer-songwriter from Hamilton currently living in Kingston studying at Queen's University. She has been learning music for most of her 22 years and has been performing for the past 5.

In 2003 she and guitarist James Young formed an acoustic rock band, Go Lightly, along with bass player Matt Tremblay and drummer Vic DaSilva. Go Lightly played a number of gigs in Kingston and Montreal, opening for the likes of Throwback and the Fembots.

For the past year, Stephanie has been on something of a hiatus due to an overwhelming school schedule. However, 2005-2006 promises to be a more creative year and she will be recording a new demo in November and touring whenever her studies allow.

http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com

http://www.myspace.com/stephanieleahgora

http://www.cfrc.ca

http://www.elixirnightclub.com

http://www.rockcrew.ca

COMING SOON:

Pocket Dwellers at Elixir - Jan 19

Tom Green at Elixir - Jan 24

Brian Borcherdt & Wax Mannequin w/ Nich Worby at Clark Hall Pub - Jan 27

Kardinal Offishall w/ Rochester AKA Juice at Elixir - Feb 2

Ember Swift w/ Vanderpark - Feb 9

Fred Eaglesmith at Elixir - Feb 23

Metric w/ Islands at Grant Hall - Feb 28

Cuff The Duke at Elixir - Mar 9

our lady peace is even less successful in the states than the hip ...

That is not true at all... unfortunately. Our Lady Peace has sold millions of albums in the States. By comparison' date=' The Hip haven't even come close to gold status south of the border.[/quote']

the last stats that i saw had only gravity going gold in the US, but I can't seem to find them or otherwise back them up ... i'm not trying to be a dink about it or anything, i just thought they had gone the way of most canadian rock bands.

anyone able to dig up some stats to end our bitter feud?

back on topic: jon stewart = funny as all gitout

holy shit what a double bill ....

There's one fact that will always be a black mark for me regarding Stewart: The Jon Stewart Show was responsible for breaking Our Lady Peace in the US. Stewart played Naveed all the time when he threw to break, then he eventually had the band on the show.

our lady peace is even less successful in the states than the hip ...

this is pretty awesome... thanks!