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From the Sound Pollution Team
Who are you?
I’m Juls Generic. I’m 26 and I live in St. John’s, Newfoundland but I am from the Vancouver/Fraser Valley (British Columbia) area. If people know who I am, it’s usually because I sang in a band called MARGARET THRASHER but also maybe from doing vocals in TOTALLY STOKED or RUMOURS.
Demian Seale
Photos used with permission from Gross Misconduct
Since the 2007 release of ‘The Process of Indoctrination’, the buzz around Nanaimo ex-pats Gross Misconduct has been growing, and as the band prepares the finishing touches on their much-anticipated follow-up, I was lucky enough to connect with drummer John Kurucz to discuss the band’s past and future prospects. In 2003 the band crossed the pond to Vancouver, an auspicious move that saw them quickly move up the ladder of local acts, and land them gigs alongside renowned metal bands such as Forbidden, Amon Amarth, the Haunted, Thine Eyes Bleed, and Unexpect. What establishes Gross Misconduct on equal footing with these luminaries is the uniqueness of their sound.
Ottawa emcees Infiltrate The Toronto Punk Scene with Wildcore
posted by admin @ 12:36 PMMichael Rancic
Emcees Smoke Doubt Jace and Hex are by no means new to the Canadian Hip hop scene. Coming up in Ottawa, the two joined forces and quickly became frustrated with what the city had to offer. Despite expanding their roles to also encompass DJ, producer, and promoter, Ottawa proved disinterested in opening its mind to their music and unique style.
Trouble In The Wrestling Club: Emily Kendy of Absolute Underground magazine
posted by admin @ 4:00 PMThis month, Sound Pollution launchs its new series ‘Trouble In The Wrestling Club’, as weekly interviews with women in the Canadian punk community. Our first is Emily Kendy, an editor and writer for the Vancouver-based and nationally distributed Absolute Underground magazine.
Who are you?
My name is Emily Kendy.
What do you do?
I write, mostly. I’ve self-published a book about a girl in the underground music scene of Vancouver. Completely fictional (wink, wink). I also have been lending a hand throughout the years to Absolute Underground magazine, writing and editing… I’m currently maintaining the website. I was also recently the production assistant on the 3 Inches of Blood music video for “Battles and Brotherhood”. Brilliant east van [East Vancouver] director Rick Podd was the great creator behind the project.
Sound Pollution is launching two new content series’ this week. The first is the video reality blog of Toronto hip-hop artist The Show Doctor, on a mission to write 210 new and original songs in the year 2010. Can he do it? Stay up to date on the highs and lows of this absolutly insane deadline with our diy reality series: The Project 210 Vlog
For the ones that haven’t tuned in yet, we’re now podcasting our Indie Love Radio show, The Sound Pollution Roundtable, online here every week. This podcast: B’MO Crazy vs School Jerks. Toronto punk band School Jerks somehow got lost on their way to the station, but we’ve already scheduled for them to come back next month.
Sound Pollution Media, in collaboration with Brainmatter Entertainment and Empress Entertainment Group, is bringing the rap battle where it belongs, back to downtown Toronto to host 2010’s best series of Battles. Spit It Out features carefully selected Hip Hop and freestyle artists from the independent Canadian Urban Music scene. The series Launches on Thursday March 11th, 2010 at Empire Night Club in Yorkville, as an unofficial Canadian Music Week Event. Spit It Out will be a monthly battle series that continues throughout the summer, until our panel of industry judges has crowned a winner.
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TRISH – Innovator in Canadian Urban Music
Melissa Bessey
Born into a musical family and in the music industry from a very young age, Toronto’s very own urban sensation Trish has all the right ingredients to make it to the top. She’s relentlessly stylish, versed in many genres of music including R&B, Hip Hop and Reggae and with Luther Brown as a mentor; she’s quickly making waves for her choreography and unique song writing. Trish always gets her fashion right, Toronto may be home but her style is international.
Trish has performed across Canada with many other home grown acts like J Diggz and opened for Flo-Rida on his latest Canadian tour. This past summer she teamed up with the Monsters of Hip Hop for an international competition where dancers from around the globe uploaded videos of them dancing to a Trish tune and fought for their chance to perform alongside Trish at the Monsters of Hip Hop finale in Florida. Sound Pollution caught up with her on a break between studio sessions and travel destinations, for a quick update on the Canadian Urban music scene’s ‘next big thing’
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Unleash The Archers Appeal to The Imagination with ‘Behold The Devastation’
posted by admin @ 11:15 PMDemian Seale
Photos Courtesy of Unleash The Archers
Headbangers seem to pay little attention to aesthetics: tattered jeans, oversized shirt gored in ghastly images, raggedy hair – all a striking statement screaming “substance over style!” Indeed, often metalheads do purposefully slum it to advertise this irony: what you get is more than what you see.
But this belies a hypocrisy – ripened heshers can testify to a time when purchasers could only check cover art, and band logo, and…hope. Hence, there’s a visceral connection to metal imagery, evolved from an era without downloads; and, extreme metal was never heard on radio; magazines such as Metal Forces were difficult to find, and expensive. You went on gut instinct, and bands won or lost with fans as much on an aesthetic connection as musical.
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