Darryl Hurs is the founder of two pretty important Toronto events. One is Indie Week, the other is Real Independent Film Festival or RIFF. Darryl came to Toronto in the early 90’s to seek fame with his band from Edmonton. He soon realized that his ambition wasn’t exactly the bands main concern. Darryl taught himself […]
The Dearly Bereft are a band based out of Toronto Ontario. A family tragedy began the writing process that eventually turned into “Funeral Music”, their first LP. TDB play allot in the GTA and will hopefully find a town close to you in the near future. This band is the rare mix of great musical […]
Lee McCormack is a fellow podcaster and a musician based in Pickering Ontario. He writes and performs music around the southern Ontario area and teaches in his spare time. Lee started his podcast out of the love of Bruce Springsteen’s music. He’s been using this common thread to meet people with the same passion for Bruce. […]
Welcome to episode 90!!. Steve Beauchesne started Beaus all Natural Brewing with his dad almost ten years ago and grew the business to one of the larger craft brewing company in Ontario if not Canada. Steve used his punk rock ethics and upbringing to create a company with a strong sense of community and family. […]
Connor Lovat-Fraser is the lead singer and lyricist for “Boys Night Out”. Boys Night Out is a band from the surrounding areas of Burlington and Hamilton. The band formed in the early 2000’s, a time when the record industry was fractured. The music industry then was dealing with how to repair the damage from illegal […]
Tim Oxford is the drummer in the band “Arkells” though originally from Newmarket Ontario, Tim joined the Hamilton based band ten years ago. “Arkells” won a Juno award in 2010 for new group of the year and won their second Juno last year for rock album of the year. Both critically acclaimed and adored by fans everywhere, […]
Will McGuirk is a writer and journalist. Will has been the man that is responsible for documenting punk rock and indy music history in Oshawa for over 25 years through fanzines and now professional mediums like magazines and news print. In this episode we drove around Oshawa starting with his first home in the south end […]
Brock Pytel is the original member of Canadian power-pop rockers “the Doughboys”. Brian Minato is known to play with several bands and artists like Sarah McLachlan and Luke Doucet. Shockk is from the band Tiger Prawn and Shane Wilson played drums in Jack Tripper. Together they started “SLIP~ons”, a pop power band with Husker Du and Replacements under-tones. In […]
Ben Rispin is a musician, artist, promoter and a pillar to the Hamilton Ontario independent music scene. Ben is the lead singer in a new project called “Rules” with Chuck Coles, Adam Michael and Alex Standen. Everyone in the band is from other bands that have touring schedules and record deals. Ben always is up to something and […]
A different kind of podcast this week. This week is a double episode wrapped into one. Darryl Fine is the co-founder and owner of Toronto’s own “Bovine Sex Club” and Kj Jansen is the founder, guitarist and lead singer of Calgary’s “Chixdiggit”. Both of them are celebrating a 25th year anniversary. In the podcast we […]
