“I enjoy being called weird, because why not? Morgan doesn’t think we’re weird because our songs are pretty poppy and you’re able to dance to them and you can recognize hooks and choruses. We kind of purposefully made them as non-band-sounding as possible, but at the same time, we’re a band!” – said Jasmyn, singer of the Canadian band Weaves. Debut EP in full:

Out on April 1 by Buzz Records

„Allegedly the styles return 20 years after. So – if you didn’t recognize it – the 90s are came back.  By the way, we continuously repeat ourselves from the creation. Just our instruments are altered. ” Some years ago I wrote this in connection with previous Odonis Odonis records. It was a mix of 90s style music. The chaos keeps growing. Er industrial grunge experimental cold gaze “punk or whatever i feel.” Another fantastic Canadian band

„Hard Boiled Soft Boiled” album on Buzz Records in mid-April

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All is vice versa. Freethinkers of nightclubs pour melancholy slogans on the dance floor. Swiss psych kraut pop by Klaus Johann Grobe. By the way, this is a duo

7″ + debut album on Trouble In Mind Records

The singer of Canadian band Weaves, Jasmyn said: „I enjoy being called weird, because why not? Morgan doesn’t think we’re weird because our songs are pretty poppy and you’re able to dance to them and you can recognize hooks and choruses. We kind of purposefully made them as non-band-sounding as possible, but at the same time, we’re a band!” Light schizophrenic situation, but really hard to categorize their weird pop music. Buttercup

from self titled debut EP on Buzz Records in April

Do you remember the early Therapy? It was like these Canadians. But White Lung has a little more metallic sound than the mentioned Irish punk rock band. Drown With The Monster

7″ single in April by Domino Recordings. Third album is coming in Spring.

Hysterics are an American female hardcore-punk band. Classic sound

‘Can’t I Live?’ 7″ by M’lady’s

Euro tour: May-June. Budapest May 21

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Melancholic chamber music. Folk’n’Doom. Canada. Picastro

‘You’ LP by Function Records

Literature Thieves are a Manchester based female folk trio, their name refers to destiny of the lent books. Free digital single on Red Deer Club.

 You can download these from here.

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Last item of the 4 x 7″ singles series of Ketamines. The Canadian band’s music is a very special mix of garage beat, bedroom blues, kitchen rock, living room country, bathroom surf, basement pop and homeless glam. I broke into a smile when I pressed the button.

You can buy it here > Mint Recs

The 1st, 2nd & 3rd singles

LA-TI-DA RECORDS is a Canadian independent label in Vancouver. There’re mainly garage rock and punk bands as Ape City R&B, Needles/Pins, Fist City, but you can also find 60s garage: The React, 70s glam rock: Paralel, soul: The Jay Vons, and one man band: Skip Jensen. My favourite is a garage soul band, The Ballantynes. You can listen to these on the label’s Bandcamp site.

What was the cause of starting of the label?

While hung over on vacation in Las Vegas in 2004, my good friend and I (Dale Davies, who is the graphic designer for everything we do) decided it would be a good idea to start a label. A lesson was learned that day: don’t make decisions while dehydrated in midday desert heat! Against our better judgement, we haven’t stopped yet.

What’s the main profile?

In terms of a goal? Our reason for doing it? To help get our favourite bands from home out into the world and help bring some of our favourite bands in the world back home with us! The fun part is when the two parts meet.

What was the greatest success?

In terms of releases, probably The Tranzmitors and The Ballantynes, as we have worked with those two bands every step of the way and it’s been really gratifying that both have found an audience. That said, our new Steve Adamyk Band single has been very well received and our strongest pre-seller ever. In terms of putting on shows, I’d have to say our annual festival, The Fall Down/Get Down!

What was the greatest surprise in the course of your story?

The greatest surprise is that after nearly ten years, we’re still standing! Somehow, we’ve managed to maintain this thing and continue to grow slowly and steadily. By maintaing our friends and relationships with bands and labels around the world, by continuing to adapt and change with the times, and by bridging our love for bands old and new, we’ve kept our enthusiasm and drive.
Again, with the Fall Down/Get Down festival, there’s been some tremendous surprises, but only upon reflection. At the time, we are so busy running the festival to stop and think how weird it is to bring in artists like Death and Roky Erickson, but after it’s over, it’s hard not to pause and say, wow, we just flew in Death and Roky Erickson!

What will be the next release?

The next release will be a brand new band called The Flintettes, featuring Mike Flintoff of the Tranzmitors. The Flintettes are a three piece from Vancouver who play in a style similar to early Stiff Records releases. Great stuff!

The garage rock superstar Black Lips‘ southern rocker album is coming soon in March. The boys asked Phil Spector to produce the album, but the incarcerated 74 years old producer didn’t answer. In 2009 he was sentemnced to 19 to life for murder of an actress. So it is produced by Patrick Carney from Black Keys. And stars everywhere. It is mixed by a Grammy winner, who has worked with Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Björk. The album photos shot by legendary British rock’n’roll photographer Mick Rock

Underneath The Rainbow LP by Vice Records

Euro tour in May-June: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussles, London, Athens

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Solids. Canadian psych garage grunge in the manner of 90s

Blame Confusion – debut LP by Fat Possum (US) and Dine Alone Records (Can)

The Hosehead Records is a little independent garage rock/punk/power pop record label in Canada.

What was the cause of starting of the label? 

– Hosehead Records is just two guys from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Myself (Patrick) and Mike. Mike plays in a band here called First Base, and in May 2011 they needed a label to release a new cassette tape EP, so we just thought of the name Hosehead and that was pretty much it! We’re lucky that people liked what we were doing, because we could have just as easily stopped and vanished right there.

What’s the main profile?

– What do you mean by this?

– Sorry but I’m stupid, that the question shows it.

What was the greatest success?

Technically speaking, we’ve sold more Steve Adamyk Band 7″s than anything else, so that’s the biggest success. in 2014 we’re putting out our first LP, which is a huge success since we started out by putting out cassettes. We’ve saved up money from anywhere possible to put out records, so it feels like it’s been a long time coming.

What was the greatest surprise in the course of your story?

The biggest surprise is that anyone cares about what we do at all! We only put out music that both of us love, so when we find other people that are into what we like, it’s a great feeling. We’re both big record collectors, so we know what it’s like to find a record we never knew existed but suddenly can’t live without.

What will be the next release?

Our next release is a split release with P. Trash Records from Germany. It’s the debut LP by Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s Average Times. They sound like a mix between Mean Jeans, Ramones and Marked Men. From the first time I heard the song „She Knows”, I knew we had to put out their LP. That is out March 4th, 2014.

My favourite Hoseheads Ketamines and Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs

“Soupcans are back with a vengeance.” Fast-furious-raw & distorted punk from Canada. Parasite Brain

from their latest EP by Telephone Explosion (Can) and Jack Shack Records (US)

I think the best phrase to the Canadian PyPy‘s music is: progressive mad house. It’s a mix of fashionable proto-metal, hardcore-punk, noisy garage rock, joy divison-like post punk and acid sounds. The members are from such great bands as CPC Gangbangs (raw garage punk), Red Mass (a global rock‘n’roll”community of musicians, writers and artists – free thinking and liberation through art) and Duchess Says (synth-punk).

Pagan Day LP by Slovenly Records

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Lunch is like a harder Buzzcocks. Garage punk/power pop with a little psychedelia.

7″ by Resurrection Records

The Ballantynes are a seven piece Canadian garage soul funk band. United by the common goals of dancing, drinking, and reveling in each other’s company. No Love

from Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church EP by La-Ti-Da Records

While I was watching the video it occurred to me that one of my favourite countries from the point of view of music is Canada.