11 Picks From Breakout West

A million musical artists in Western Canada, almost all of them played in Winnipeg this weekend for BreakOut West. Here's a few that have caught Scruffy's ears.

 Yes We Mystic - Flashlight Crooked Brothers - Kennedy Astral Swans - You Carry a Sickness Boreal Sons - Sparks Federal Lights - I See Love Indicator Indicator - Swarm Dan Mangan - Road Regrets Powder Blue - Hot Fire The Provincial Archive - Son of Sam Scenic Route to Alaska - Paris shredkelly - New Black

Canada Day Performers at the Forks - Del Barber, Les Jupes, The Perms, Federal Lights, Yes We Mystic and more

Truckloads of fine artists at the Forks for Canada Day. Maybe the best thing about Winnipeg and Manitoba is the quality of music emanating from here.

 Big Smoke by Del Barber
Flashlight by Yes We Mystic
I See Love by Federal Lights
The Parent Thing by The Perms

 Hold Me Down by Les Jupes

Swarm by Indicator Indicator

Chair And A Rope Eagle by Lake Owls

SCHEDULE SCOTIABANK STAGE
4:00 PM Yes We Mystic
4:40 PM Dignitaries/ O Canada
5:00 PM The Perms
6:00 PM Indicator Indicator
7:00 PM Oh My Darling
8:00 PM Federal Lights
9:00 PM Del Barber
10:00 PM Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
10:40 PM WSO and Del Barber
11:00 PM Fireworks ...plus Mama Cutsworth spinning between acts

 UNDER THE CANOPY
3:30 PM Drum Cafe
5:30 PM Kasm
6:30 PM Marco Castillo
7:30 PM Hana Lu Lu
8:30 PM Les Jupes
9:30 PM BB-Gun

 RAILBRIDGE STAGE   Stage moved inside The Forks Market to centre court
 3:00 PM Kevin Roy
4:00 PM Eagle Lake Owls
5:00 PM Jess Reimer

Indicator Indicator's New Video This Place is a Factory

Indicator Indicator have just released a video for This Place is a Factory. Blood, wine, rips, a balaclava, an excellent mustache,and above all a beautiful ballad, understated, elegant and non-cheesy.





Here's a bonus curling video we have not shared with you yet, featuring a cameo from JP Hoe!

Indicator Indicator - EP

Indicator Indicator. Is that the sound your indicator makes when you signal you are about to make a turn or change lanes? Maybe Sandy Taronno, who is Indicator Indicator, is making changes and changing lanes from his work with Quinzy, the pop/rockmeisters he has toiled with for quite a while. I say toiled becuse Quinzy has always seemed to be a hard-working band, whether playing countless shows or finding ways to promote the music.

Where Quinzy crafted anthemic pop, Indicator Indicator's debut ep (entitled Indicator Indicator - I would have called it Indicator Indicator Indicator Indicator!) melds electronic sounds with accessible smooth rock stylings. Taronno employs loops and a funky beat to back his scathing lyrics on Your Cocoon, and he piles on multiple instrumental tracks and harmonies like an elaborate layer cake baking into a pretty pop anthem on January First.




My Love Don't Belong

I REALLY dig this live version of My Love Don't Belong.

January First