Elliott BROOD perform at Mariposa 2010!

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Elliott BROOD opened the 2010 Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia Ontario.  Mariposa is 50 years old this year!  Here's some snaps by Trevor Weeks.

To buy Tin Type from the (weewerk) website, click "Select An Artist" from the menu above and choose Elliott BROOD.

THE BURNING HELL SCORCH TORONTO - AUG 5TH!

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After touring non-stop in Europe and parts of Canada since the start of 2010, THE BURNING HELL are more then primed to scorch Toronto with their incendiary live show. Come get burned on Thursday August 5th at the GARRISON. Special Guests Include: CRAIG NORRIS and THE JILL STAVELEY PROJECT. This is the official Toronto release show for the Burning Hell's steller album THIS CHARMED LIFE which was released only on 12" vinyl and digitially thru Zunior.

The United Steel Workers of Montreal's All West Festival Tour!

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Canteen Knockout - Heads East!

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June 10th, 2010 (weewerk) press release -

CANTEEN KNOCKOUT HEAD OUT EAST TO SUPPORT THEIR NEW ALBUM
``BROKEN DOWN TOWN`` OUT ON (WEEWERK) NOW!

July 2&3 - St. Andrews, NB @ The Red Herring
July  4 - Halifax, NS @The Company House, w/Jason Haywood
July  5 - Halifax, NS @ Taz Records, In Store 
July  6 - Yarmouth, NS @ Haley's Lounge 
July  7 - Fredericton, NB @ Boom Nightclub
July  8 - Kingston, NB @ Reed's Point Pub 
July  9 - Moncton, NB @ Plan B
July 10 - Montreal, QC @ Grumpy's

Canteen Knockout CD Release Party

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Canteen Knockout perform live at the Cadillac Lounge in Toronto in celebration of their latest release Broken Down Town.  Friday, May 21 2010.

photographs by Trevor Weeks

NEW Great Lake Swimmers Merchandise Mail Order Page!

Please check out the new merchandise mail order page on the band's website www.greatlakeswimmers.com

Now folks can order cds, lps and tee shirts directly. Cheers!

CANTEEN KNOCKOUT - ALBUM RELEASE SHOW!

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To celebrate their release of the new album BROKEN DOWN TOWN on (weewerk), Canteen Knockout is playing 2 kick ass sets of live music at The Cadillac Lounge on Fri May 21st with special guest Arthur Renwick opening.  
                                     

Set Times: 

Arthur Renwick at 10:00PM

Canteen Knockout - 1st set at 11:00PM, 2nd Set at 12:30AM

                       





SAVE THE CINEFORUM!

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The SAVE THE CINEFORUM Concert this Sunday May 9th at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto will feature (weewerk) label mates Canteen Knockout and Proof Of Ghosts, along with St. Catherines based band Bronx Cheerleader. Come on out and help save a Toronto Indie Institution, and help enable film icon Reg Hartt to continue showing his films.

Doors at 8:30pm, entrance is $10

Proof Of Ghosts at 9:30pm
Bronx Cheerleader at 10:30pm
Canteen Knockout at 11:30pm

Great Lake Swimmers Legion Show

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Great Lake Swimmers celebrate their new EP, The Legion Sessions, by performing an intimate and *free show (*with the advance purchase of a CD) at the Canadian Corps Association in Toronto, May 1st 2010

photography by Trevor Weeks

Great Lake Swimmers Receive Their 1st Juno Nomination!

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Wee are thrilled to announce that Great Lake Swimmers have received a JUNO nomination for Best Roots & Traditional Group for their smash album LOST CHANNELS. Great Lake Swimmers will play several times during the JUNOS, taking place in beautiful St. John's Newfoundland during April 16 - 18, including on the televised broadcast on the Sunday.  check the bands website for list of show dates; wwww.greatlakeswimmers.com

New Canteen Knockout Album, "Broken Down Town", Comes Out March 30, 2010

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After a great run with their debut full-length album Navajo Steel (2008), Canteen Knockout returns with their best effort yet. Their new album, "Broken Down Town" is rich with melodic textures and impeccable production that run heavy with emotional songs. The band takes a live off the floor approach in the studio, consciously avoiding overproduction. With this grass roots approach you really feel like you are in the room with the band.

Along with standout tracks "Whiskey Drains the Pain", "Louisiana" and "Bent Out Of Shape", Canteen Knockout put together a gorgeous and equally creepy version of Gordon Lightfoot’s, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, which acts as a nice bridge in the middle of the album.

Well-received performances in Nashville, Tennessee and Berlin, Germany are evidence that the world on a much larger scale is ready to embrace the Canteen Knockout sound.

Early Reviews for New Burning Hell Album, "This Charmed Life"

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Check out these reviews for the new Burning Hell release, This Charmed Life:

The Torontoist - Sound Advice

Hero Hill

(weewerk) & Great Lake Swimmers in China

Thanks to AL D TV!
http://www.aldtv.com/gls1.html

New Release Nov 11th - OX "Burnout" - Early Press & Canadian Tour Dates

OX - Autumn Canadian Dates:
Nov 3 Tue MONTREAL @ Divan Orange, (w/ The Jimmyriggers), 10pm
Nov 4 Wed KINGSTON @ The Mansion/Living Room
Nov 5 Thu WINDSOR @ Phog Lounge (w/ Barzin)
Nov 6 Fri GUELPH @ The Attic (w/ Barzin), 8:30pm-11pm
Nov 7 Sat SAULT STE MARIE @ Lop Lops
Nov 11 Wed TORONTO @ The Cameron House, (w/ Andrew Vincent)

Early Media Love:
TORONTO STAR: Anti-Hit List Feature
#2 OX - "Burnout"
It would be tempting to describe this third-album preview as consummate Americana, except that songwriter Mark Browning and band are based in Sudbury, a technicality that doesn't so much preclude them from that category as make you think twice about what it really is. Judging by this seductively world-weary homage to life on the road, it is communal music that illuminates an idea without glorifying it.

FFWD WEEKLY: Ox - Burnout - Hauntario
On a long enough timeline, every emo kid eventually picks up an acoustic guitar. Now that CBC Radio 2 has pushed its banjo-per-hour quotient to almost laughable levels, it means that, demographics be damned, roots rock is on the rise. Luckily, among the wash of tepid twang merchants, a pair of Canadian acts stands out, albeit with varying success.
Ox, while not nearly as prolific, continues to offer up surprises. Despite healthy doses of psych and reverb, Burnout veers into the realm of slowcore with whisper-soft drums and feedback-inspired strings before cranking its way back to straight-up mid-tempo bang and twang. This album sees the band’s ever-evolving lineup at a studio-cramming high, but the album lives and dies on Mark Browning’s crooked croon and inspired pop culture references. Burnout may only offer six new songs (with a lovely redux of “Miss Idaho”), but with material this good, you don’t need any more.
Published October 15, 2009 by Jason Lewis in CD Reviews

SCENE MAGAZINE: OX • BURNOUT (WEEWERK)
Burnout constitutes the last tunes recorded by this band before leaving their Vancouver stomping grounds and heading out for the bright lights of Sudbury, Ontario. It is a lastingly entertaining
outing, mainly due to the originality the members of Ox manage to squeeze out of the somewhat battered and by now formulaic alt-country musical catechism. Their laconic and occasionally darkly
humourous lyrical take on the often too-serious (but brilliant) musical territory staked out by The Jayhawks (the most obvious infl uence lurking here) puts them a cut above the rest of the pack, and the soulfully idiosyncratic vocal harmonies and smouldering guitar work that breaks through at differing points on the album is a pleasure to listen to and guarantees its longevity in your record collection. – Rod Nicholson Performance: B+/Production: B+


More Online Press Praise for Ox's Burnout Album:
www.hearya.com/2009/09/17/exclusive-download-ox-unknown-legend-new-mp3/

www.thelineofbestfit.com/2009/10/download-oh-canada-5/

www.chartattack.com/news/75051/ox-set-to-release-new-burn-out-album

www.herohill.com/2009/09/reviews-ox-burnout.htm

New Ox Download

New Ox download available at HearYa... also watch the premiere of the video for Unknown Legend.

Ox's Burnout will see a digital release October 10th on Zunior!

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