Tag Archives: Canada
Spiralfire
Spiralfire is an alternative rock outfit from Carrboro, NC that rose from the ashes of a breakup suffered by lead singer Sinclair Vernon. Enlisting guitarist Riley Miller, bassist Keith Lewis, guitarist Dom Ciampa, and drummer Manny Parial, Vernon formed Spiralfire, a sonically sophisticated alt-rock band with influences like Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and Soundgarden. The band has recently finished their first full length recording and is poised for big things in 2013. Check out their video for “Road Rising.”
Alice Sweet Alice
Alice Sweet Alice is a band from Kansas City that fuses innovative hard rock with electro and elements of post punk to create their own uniquely contemporary rock sound. This eclectic assemblage of musicians is co-fronted by female vocalist/keyboardist Ali Kat, and bassist/vocalist Scott Martinez. Also in the lineup are drummer/vocalist Billy Brown, and lead guitarist Ron Bales. The band has been around since 2007 and are in the process of… Read More
NeverWake
Pittsburgh, PA hard rockers NeverWake have a bombastic metal sound fueled by churning guitars, complex riffs, and emotive vocals. The band released their debut full length album Vitality on iTunes in 2011 and the unsigned band are currently looking for their first label deal. Check out NeverWake’s darkly inventive approach to hard rock in this video for “Pulse.”
Artist Showcase Winner: James Buddy Rogers
GSTV’s announces James Buddy Rogers as our March Artist Showcase winner
By the time he was just 10 years old, Canadian blues guitarist James “Buddy” Rogers had already begun lifting riffs off his father’s blues records. By the tender age of 11, he’d formed his first band and started playing gigs. By the age of 15, his band Texas Storm was being booked by… Read More
40 Sons
Formed in the spring of 2004, 40 Sons are a contemporary hard rock outfit with a sound that’s both heavy and melodic. Having won numerous awards in their native Hamilton, Ontario, the band has toured extensively across Canada and even filled an opening slot on the 2006 Ozzfest tour. The band has also shared stages with the likes of Black Label Society, Disturbed and Atreyu. 40 Sons’ hard-hitting sound is well represented in this video for “Hurricane.”
NYC Venues: Madison Square Garden – Arcade Fire Performs “Wake Up” (Unstaged)
Performing at the one and only Madison Square Garden, Win Butler brings an army of Canadian musicians on stage with him whenever Arcade Fire plays a show. They scream, they chant, they rock, and now that they’re playing to large venues, “epic” is an accurate word to describe their performances.
Take this version of “Wake Up” from their enormously successful sophomore record Funeral, for instance. Arcade Fire captivates a large audience better than most. Bruce Springsteen used to be the only man who played in… Read More
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