Category: News

It’s beautiful summertime and the “Best Music Festival in Canada” is happening imminently. The Evolve Festival is an incredible three-day experience based on the celebration of music, community, art and the planet on which it all happens. Evolve is getting more attention than ever this year, after CBC Radio3 listeners voted the event as [...]

The Mahatma Gandhi quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” most definitely applies to the upcoming “Malahat Revue” tour. The tour will include artists Aidan Knight, Hannah Georgas, Jeremy Fisher, and Said the Whale performing as a collective on a 10-day long tour around British Columbia. The collective will be changing [...]

There are very few jurors for the Polaris Music Prize who work in mainstream radio. Adam Thompson is one of those few. He is the Program Director and Assistant Music Director for Sonic 102.9, a modern rock station in Edmonton. Adam was kind enough to sit back and have a candid chat with me about [...]

Read Pt. 1 of: Recreating a Landmark Album Live (Requires a Daft Amount of Homework)

Step 5: Take it on the Road
The first show was at Hunter’s Ale House in Charlottetown, a small venue with a tiny stage and small sound system – somewhere between the cramped home studio and the professional venue we [...]

In fall of 2009, I said on a whim to my band-mate, “Hey, we should do a Daft Punk show with our band, Scientists of Sound. We could do their album ‘Homework’ live – nobody has done that before.” “Great!” my band-mate replied, and that was that. About a week later, it started to set [...]

Junkyard Poets are a talent-loaded six piece band who play a distinctive mix of rock, pop, jazz, blues, rapcore, and piano ballads. Fronted by award winning songwriter Jared Salte, their percussive and industrial beats with pop piano stylings create a sound that can jump from Rage Against the Machine or Nine Inch Nails, to Coldplay [...]

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I’d like to begin this article by telling you how much I enjoy the East Coast Music Awards. The four-day music and industry conference is a joy for a musician and music lover like myself. I’m surrounded by all of my friends who play music in Atlantic Canada, there’s plenty to drink, [...]

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Last week Canadian Invader had a little recording session and interview with an up-and-coming acoustic performer from Edmonton, AB. named Blake Paul. For our pilot recording session, it went really well. We will be releasing the recording as a podcast some time next week. In the meantime, here are some photos from [...]

Due to very fast growth, we are currently doing some restructuring. We will be back next week with a healthy dose of indie news.

Here are a few tidbits of news from Jan 20th to the 27th.

Abbotsford group You Say Party! We Say Die! have their new video for “Dark Days” available on Vimeo for your viewing pleasure.

It’s been a busy week for Paul Murphy as his side project POSTDATA released their album yesterday and he is [...]