Winnipeg and Manitoba Artists To Keep Your Eyes and Ears On

Federal Lights - I See Love



Les Jupes - Hold Me Down


Les Jupes - Love is a Battlefield


Greg McPherson - 1995




Slow Leaves - Life of a Better Man


Pop Crimes - City Head


Ken Pinchin - Why Do You Call Me

Warsaw - Carrion Talker



Sybil - April Showers


Attica Riots - Talking in Your Sleep


Del Barber - Everything is Not Enough


Cannon Bros. Soft View


Cannon Bros. - Out of Here


Scott Nolan - You Rock We Roll


Matt Epp - Learning to Lose Control


KEN Mode - Romeo Must Never Know


KEN Mode - Counter Culture Complex


Royal Canoe - Exodus of the Year


Sights & Sounds - Nothing at All


JD Edwards - Going down to Mexico




JD Edwards Band - Going Down to Mexico from Procter Bros. Industries on Vimeo.


Distances - Tangled Feet

Shotgun Jimmie - Suzie


Shotgun Jimmie - Captain Howdy


Shotgun Jimmie - Mind Crumb


Les Sexy - La La La

Former Winnipeggers you may want to give some attention? Here you go.

Garfield/Odario Williams keeps getting more ambitious and broadening his palette. If he becomes a star in music, film, television or otherwise I will not be surprised.

Grand Analog - Howl (Like Wolves)


Jahmeel Russell has been putting out his own stuff with Red Vienna, working with Fine Times, and is now playing with San Angelus. Quit being so lazy, slacker.

Red Vienna - Lights Out


San Angelus - All Bets on the Slow Kid


Fine Times - And it Happened at Midnight


Luke Doucet is doing pretty well with Whitehorse. It's about time he got the respect and success he deserves.

Whitehorse - Devils's Got a Gun


Upcoming/Due for some new music?
The Mariachi Ghost - Mariachi Ghost


JP Hoe - Nothing's Going to Harm You




Ridley Bent - Crooked and Loaded
Ridley Bent - Nine Inch Nails


John K. Samson - Letter in Icelandic From the Ninette San


Scott Hinkson - All I Need


The Rowdymen - Ode to Possum


The Rowdymen - Rode Hard

Warsaw, Still Lights, and Pop Crimes at Lo Pub - Plus free mp3

Scruffy doesn't get to a lot of shows. I know, I'm bad. However, I really would like to finagle a free evening to catch this show Saturday, August 25, at the Lo Pub. 3 intriguing Winnipeg bands, and I'm not too sure how much longer the Lo Pub will be situated in its current location. What kind of bang
do you get for your buck? Read on. Listen on. Keep on keepin' on.

Still Lights create atmospheric post-punk, replete with menacing basslines, eerie high in the mix keyboards, propulsive percussion, and Edge-y guitars. Heck, the ghost of Joy Division should not be the sole property of Interpol or Editors or Peter Hook or whomever, should it? You can listen to their wicked awesome excellent ep Dead of Night here, and here are some live tracks, the sound is a bit rough, but what the hey.

Warsaw is comprised of gentlemen who crushed heads in bands with monikers like Electro Quarterstaff, Projektor, Meatrack, Burnthe8track and Hide Your Daughters. You know, Darren Achorn, Josh Bedry, Curran Faris, and Ethan Osland (I think that is them above, but the group is somewhat mysterious, maybe due to a bizarre eye ailment). The fellas proclaim to play music that is "some combination of melodic, hooky and heavy". That sounds about right, and maybe we could add hard, loud, dark, and maybe complex...I'm just guessin' here. I haven't been able to hear or see anything from the band except these raw YouTube clips (this will be Warsaw's first show), and it would appear that the guys may have become shadowy figures. Call me Curious George when it comes to Warsaw. If you go to the show, maybe ask what's up with the eye issues and unfortunate finger ailments (see below).

Pop Crimes is a cool name, but everytime I read it, I hear Prince's Pop Life except the purple one sings Crimes instead of Life. Pop Crimes veers from dynamic jangle-twang into not-so-methodical math-rock, some Sonic-ally Youth-ful sneer and world-weary snarl. Sounds grindingly good. Be quick (like today) and you should be able to grab a free mp3 from Pop Crimes at the Manitoba Music website. And if you're quick like that, the band is celebrating the release of it's ep City/Head tonight at Lo Pub with The Gunness and The Mystics. You can get the cd or cassette tonight before the other cool kids.





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