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Here's what's coming up for Rock Crew over the next couple of months. Check out www.rockcrew.ca for artist links and ticket info
The Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir
Thursday, May 5 - Elixir
Listen & win with K-Rock 105.7! Listen for Hugh Dillon's new single, "Microscope" off his latest CD "The High Cost of Low Living" weekdays between 8 and 8...when you hear it, be caller five at 613-545-1057, and instantly score V-I-P access for you and a friend.
10 PM show time. Jimmy Swift Band immediately after.
Tickets: Only available through K-Rock contest.
The Jimmy Swift Band
Thursday, May 5 - Elixir
Doors at 10:30 PM (immediately following Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir)
Tickets: $8
The Wilkinsons
Presented by KIX 102.7
Monday, May 9 - The Grand Theatre
(Moved from May 11)
Tickets: $35
Grand Theft Bus
With Dr. Jelly and Super Cell
Thursday, May 12 - Elixir
Proceeds to The Justin Schwieg Foundation (supporting youth athletics in Kingston)
Tickets: $10
The Golden Dogs
With Chris Koster
Thursday, May 19 - Elixir
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $6
The Vorcza Trio
Friday, May 20 - Stages
Tickets: $TBA
Tanglefoot
Thursday, May 26 & Friday, May 27 - Memorial Hall, Kingston City Hall
Fundraiser for St. Paul The Apostle World Youth Day Trip
Tickets: $18 or $15 for seniors/students
Something To Prove Tour
Inspectah Deck/Afu Ra/Planet Asia
Thursday, June 2 - Elixir
Tickets: $8
Craig Cardiff & Jeremy Fisher
Special guest Lesley Pike
Tuesday, June 7 - Elixir
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $8
Great Lake Swimmers
Friday, June 10 - Grad Club
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $6
The Sadies & Heavy Trash (feat. Jon Spencer)
Monday, June 13 - Elixir
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $10
Pocket Dwellers & Sweatshop Union
Thursday, June 16 - Elixir
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $8
John K. Samson & Christine Fellows
Friday, June 24 - Grad Club
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $10
Julie Doiron
Saturday, June 25 - Grad Club
A CFRC Presentation
With Snailhouse
Tickets: $8
Final Fantasy & Dandi Wind
Thursday, July 7 - Elixir
A CFRC Presentation
Tickets: $6 Check for Tickets
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Rock Crew presents The Jimmy Swift Band this Thursday, May 5 at Elixir.
Tickets are $8 at Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, Renaissance Music, UBS Exchange, Elixir and on-line at www.rockcrew.ca
JSB's performance will immediately follow Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir, who are playing a win-to-get-in show in conjunction with K-Rock 105.7. HDRC will take the stage at 10 PM, JSB at 11:30
In the four years since their inception, The Jimmy Swift Band has gained a reputation as one of the hardest working bands in Canada. After years of touring, two studio albums, and their most recent live effort The Rebirth of Hooch, The JSB have built and extremely loyal fan base from coast to coast and beyond.
Half of The JSB’s repertoire consists of organic instrumental material with influences ranging from Daft Punk to Pink Floyd, while the other half displays mature songwriting, powerful vocals, and memorable melodies within the framework of concise arrangements. Although both elements of the band’s sound are starkly different, they combine the two effortlessly to bring the audience on an unforgettable journey with each show.
The Jimmy Swift Band have been an integral part of the Canadian independent music scene for the past few years. Their CDs have each sold more than 7000 copies, and fans regularly travel hundreds of kilometers to see the band perform. This has made them a hot commodity in the club circuit - selling out rooms from Halifax to Vancouver. JSB songs have appeared in movies, television commercials, skateboarding videos, and have charted on many Canadian radio stations.
2005 will see The Jimmy Swift Band return to the studio for the highly anticipated follow up to 2003's Onward Through The Fog. With a wealth of new material and experience behind them, the JSB are poised to become a household name in Canadian music.
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Rock Crew Productions and K-Rock 105.7 proudly present Motorhead at Stages Nightclub on Tuesday, April 26. Special guests Priestess and Damn 13.
The immortal Motorhead will hit the road for a Canadian tour in spring 2005.
Motorhead - celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a Grammy win for Best Metal Performance - makes a triumphant return to Canada after a 2004 fall tour was canceled due to an injury suffered by vocalist/bassist Lemmy. At last, Lemmy, guitarist Philip Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee are able to perform in Canada to promote their Metal-Is/Sanctuary Records release Inferno. This remarkable album earned mountains of overwhelmingly positive reviews. In fact, the Associated Press called Inferno the best Motorhead album ever.
Tickets are on sale now at Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, The Brass Pub, The Grizzly Grill, Renaissance Music, Stages Nightclub and online at www.rockcrew.ca
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Oh well - sometimes I LOVE being wrong!
07.12.05 Olympic Island
Toronto, ON On Sale 4/20 @
10:00am MDT
Looks like I can take one day off and see it in Toronto after all!
YIPPEEE!
Where did you see that date? Ticketfucker, Trey, Ben, or Zooma Tour sites still have no dates
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Tomorrow at Elixir in Kingston with special guests From Fiction (not Uncut as originally planned). Tickets are $10 advance at Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, UBS Exchange, Renaissance and Elixir. On-line tickets are sold out.
Tickets have been selling VERY fast, so don't delay!
http://www.deathfromabove1979.com
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I just came back from this show in Kingston ... amazing. Don't miss this show!
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This Thursday at Elixir (April 14), Rock Crew & CFRC present The Hidden Cameras, with special guest Dandi Wind. Tickets are $7 at UBS Exchange, Renaissance Music, Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, Elixir and online at www.rockcrew.ca
The Hidden Cameras had yet to release a note of commercially available music when, in early 2002, they became among the most discussed and celebrated unsigned bands in the history of their native Toronto. At the close of the year, they had been the subject of uncommonly sensational features in The Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) as well as in every daily and weekly in Toronto.
The reasons for the reckless enthusiasm of these usually cautious journals are simple: revelatory live performances that attack and transcend the staid, dispassionate traditions of rock nightclub culture; and the songs of band front-man and mastermind Joel Gibb, a talent of uncommon melodic and poetic gifts. “The Hidden Cameras aren’t famous,” wrote the Toronto Star in July, “but if you believe the buzz, it’s only a matter of time.”
Now, shortly after becoming the first Canadian band to be signed by Rough Trade in the label’s 25-year history, The Hidden Cameras have delivered The Smell of Our Own, surely – and without hyperbolic padding – one of the most enthralling and individual debut albums to come from anywhere in years. The Smell of Our Own is an all-too-rare type of debut – the type that sounds as if it was conceived in its own aesthetic universe, its worldview and core sound already whole. But at the same time, it suggests that The Hidden Cameras are only beginning to evolve.
The Hidden Cameras might fleetingly remind listeners of other great artists, but the heart of the group’s sound is best explained by a flip but accurate descriptor that Gibb created when the Cameras was only the seed of an idea: “gay church folk music.” “’Gay’” meaning ‘happy’,” Gibb says, although his songs have also drawn wide acclaim for their fearlessly explicit but remarkably touching examinations of homosexuality.
‘Church’ refers to the implicit gospel influence in the Camera’s music; the cavernous, cathedral-like air of their recordings (some of the group’s now-legendary early concerts were staged in Toronto churches); and the religious/spiritual imagery that weaves comfortably around the erotic and romantic themes in Gibb’s lyrics.
‘Folk’ addresses not only the central motif of Gibbs strummed acoustic guitar, but the communal, open-door policy that has seen the band swell to as many as 15 on-stage members, including male go-go dancers who strip down to underwear and balaclavas and encourage the audience to sing along to lyrics projected onto a backdrop. “Indie shows, generally in my mind, are associated with people not moving, smoking cigarettes, maybe making little insults to their friends about people who are trying to dance,” Gibb said in a recent newspaper interview. “For us, it’s about engagement. The dancers are there to take away some inhibitions…It’s about enjoying yourself and your body.”
No longer the secret of Toronto and the few Canadian cities lucky enough to have been visited by them, The Hidden Cameras are now poised to belong to the world. Listen to The Smell of Our Own, and know that bands as special as this rarely happen along. And know that one has, just when we needed it.
The following is completely true:
I was conceived in a tent.
My birth name is Dandilion Wind Opaine.
I was born and raised in a cabin without running water, right next to a taxidermy museum housed in a concrete igloo. I lived there for ten years before we drove the 14 hours down to Vancouver. I was impressed by the revolving billboards in the big city because I’d never seen them before.
I met my longtime collaborator Szam Findlay first when we were both 13 at winter camp. I had a crush on him but we didn’t speak or interact for a few years. Then we were cast together in a high school play. Szam introduced me to Alejandro Jodorowsky films and we started our own experimental theatre group in 2000 while I attended Emily Carr art college.
The next year and a half were spent bankrupting ourselves creating a massive solo album/artbook problem for Szam called “Die Hautfabrik” which was licensed in 2002 to Resonant Recordings UK (Acid Mothers Temple / Esmerine etc.) I did some vocals on the mostly instrumental album as well as sculptures for the booklet. The CD sold poorly but garnered favourable press from BBC / The Wire / AMG/ Stylus / and assorted Japanese + Eastern European oddballs… Nonetheless sculpture remains my lifelong passion.
We started the Dandi Wind project in late 2003 as a way to meld our love of theatre/performance with challenging but not inaccessible music. Our songs are about honest incidents that surround us. Since we live in the downtown eastside of Vancouver (the most depressed slum in Canada; the most junkies per capita in North America) our songs are sometimes grim… Currently I live next to the train tracks and the rendering plant where they turn dead pets into glue while pumping cancerous smoke and industrial noise into my mind all day. I’ve escaped to Brazil and Japan on occasion but somehow got stuck in the slums there too.
We make this music because we need to get away from this city and because we have something to offer you don’t find anymore: Charisma and passion. I love to perform and make people FEEL something. We write the lyrics together and Szam does all the music, production and design. We are absolutely independent. This album cost NOTHING to record and was made with a few unpopular decade old synths, a single mic and a monophonic Pentium 2 soundcard. If I can walk offstage unaided then I’ve not delivered a true Dandi Wind performance.
We are currently touring in support of our 6 track EP / CD-ROM “Bait The Traps” (on Bongobeat Records) We called the album this as I used to create small traps to catch rodents and insects in the country and now the tables have turned and I’m caught like one here in city. It is a taster for our forthcoming 12 track cd / full length DVD album “Concrete Igloo” which will be released early in the new year. It will have 7 music videos and other misc. video footage.
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Kingston show is gonna be amazing ...
those interested can buy tickets online at www.rockcrew.ca
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Jack Kerouac Knapsack Band plays their final show this Saturday at The Grad Club!
No openers, just an all night Knapsack throwdown - hot diggity!
Cover is $5 at the door or in advance online at www.rockcrew.ca
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The president of indie rock returns!
Wax Mannequin, with special guest Depravity Brown (aka Kingston's own Aidan Campbell), at Fubar (above the Plaza, Montreal/Queen) this Friday, April 8! Cover is $6 at the door or online at www.rockcrew.ca
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The 19th and the 26th looks awesome ... might have to make a road trip
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Damn!
Life without the pope or florida vegetable chicks will carry on just the same ... but not without neil
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Rock Crew New Music Night - Tuesdays at Elixir - 3 bands for 3 bucks!
Tonight:
10 PM: Bullmoose
11 PM: Holler
12 AM: What The Hell
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Me at my firsh phish show, darien lake 97
me: "what song is this"
dude: "col. forbin's"
me: "ascent or descent"
for some reason i thought it was good idea to have an accurate setlist, considering I really didn't know a few songs (fukny bitch, ya mar, camel walk, etc)
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Coming to Kingston in April:
The Weakerthans & Constantines
Special guests Hylozoists
April 3 - Elixir
SOLD OUT!
Rock Crew New Music Night
Everlea/Keep Yourself Good Company/Les Mods
April 5 - Elixir
$3
Wax Mannequin
Special guest Depravity Brown
April 8 - Fubar
$6
Jack Kerouac Knapsack Band
April 9 - The Grad Club
$5
Jim Byrnes w/ Zubot & Dawson
Special guests Stephen Franke & Noises From The Toolsheed
April 12 - Elixir
$10 (Zap, Brian's, UBS, Renaissance, Elixir, on-line)
The Hidden Cameras
Special guest Dandi Wind
April 14 - Elixir
$7 (Zap, Brian's, UBS, Renaissance, Elixir, on-line)
Death From Above 1979/controller.controller
Special guests From Fiction
April 19 - Elixir
$10 (Zap, Brian's, UBS, Renaissance, Elixir, on-line)
DJ Dopey/DL Incognito
April 21 - Elixir
$8 (Zap, Brian's, UBS, Renaissance, Elixir, on-line)
Caribou (formerly Dan Snaith's Manitoba)
Special guests The Russian Futurists & Junior Boys
April 26 - Elixir
$8 (Zap, Brian's, UBS, Renaissance, Elixir, on-line)
Motorhead
Special guests Damn 13 & Priestess
April 26 - Stages
$35 (Zap, Brian's, Renaissance, The Brass, Stages on-line)
Full details for all shows at www.rockcrew.ca
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Rock Crew and K-Rock 105.7 present A K-Town Tribute To Hip this Thursday, March 31 at Elixir in support of Camp Trillium.
On April 3, Kingston’s The Tragically Hip will be inducted in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. As a band, they’ve not only made a massive contribution to the landscape of Canadian music, but also to the community of Kingston through benefit concerts and seemingly endless contributions to auctions, dinners and other special events. The time is right for Kingston to pay tribute to one of Canada’s greatest talents!
Join us and some of Kingston’s top performers as they perform the music of The Tragically Hip: Betablokka, Everlea, Chris Koster and Stroke Force Nine.
All proceeds to benefit Camp Trillium.
Tickets are $10 and on sale now at Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, Renaissance Music, UBS Exchange, Elixir and www.rockcrew.ca
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the story so far (keep in mind this is completely hearsay) is that some girl threw a piece of ice at her friend and accidentally hit the suspect, who in turn freaked out on her, and was interrupted by the girls boyfriend, who said that it was an accident, she apologized and everyone should move on. That's when he got stabbed.
Rumour also has it the suspect turned himself in today ... AJ's and The Brass, where the victim worked, are still closed as of right now, and most local bars have tightened security ...
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Tickets are sold out at UBS and online, but you can still get them at Zap, Brian's, Renaissance and Elixir.
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The New Deal!
Live-Progressive-Breakbeat-House
Thursday, March 24 at Elixir
Tickets at Zap Records, Brian's Record Option, UBS Exchange, Renaissance Music, Elixir and www.rockcrew.ca - get them soon, they're selling fast!
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I used to ask people for a Doobie Brothers CD
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What better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than with Tha Alkaholiks!
One of the most successful and influential hip hop artists over the last decade, Tha Alkaholiks (consisting of E-Swift, J-Ro and Tash) have been a constant fixture in both the commercial and underground rap scene worldwide.
Singles like like "Make Room", "Daaam!" and "Likwit" are still radio and mix tape staples.
Tha Alkaholiks have released 4 CDs including X.O. Experience featuring Busta Rhymes, Xzibit, Kurupt and The Neptunes, 21 & Over featuring King Tee and Loot Pack; Coast II Coast featuring Q-Tip and Likwidation featuring Nas and Ol’ Dirty Bastard
Tash's solo album Rap Life featured Raekwon and Outkast amongst others.
A true crossover band, Tha Alkaholiks are famed for their headline performances in the alternative and extreme sports world including numerous stints on the Warped Tour and SnoCore Tour as well as their famed tours with Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Notorious BIG and Xzibit.
Their current tour will mark the bands final live performances of their career.
Thursday, March 17 with Tha Alkaholiks and special guests FP Crew at Elixir!
Advance tix $10 at Zap, Brian's Record Option, UBS Exchange, Renaissance, Elixir and online at www.rockcrew.ca
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holy sh!t it worked and it' AWESOME GODDAMN!
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hope my codec works for this ... spent quite sometime today trying to find it online and i could only get video
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http://www.queensjournal.ca/articlephp/point-vol132/issue35/arts/story2 - great article by the wonderful Alison Lang!
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A selection of upcoming Kingston shows
in Soundboard
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yes yes and yes ... Heavy Trash is Jon Spencer's new band, which on this tour will feature members of The Sadies