From: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org (canadian-music-digest) To: canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Subject: canadian-music-digest V3 #51 Reply-To: canadian-music@smoe.org Sender: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk canadian-music-digest Friday, June 2 2000 Volume 03 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OAC/BST: Canadian indie sites... ["Tabassum Siddiqui" Subject: OAC/BST: Canadian indie sites... Hey, folks... Was surfing the web aimlessly this evening and came upon some excellent Canadian indie music sites... IndieVoice.com has some nice interviews with various Canadian indie artists such as Kurt Swinghammer, Mia Sheard, Erin Smith and others, plus CD reviews and a bunch of other resources. Even better is umbrellamusic.com, which has a ton of full-length MP3s, videos, and webcasts from some of the best Canuck indie artists around, including the aforementioned Kurt and Mia, plus Hawksley Workman, Danny Michel, Plumtree, Feist, and lots more. Interesting but strange connections abound - on the IndieVoice site, there's an interview with Erin Smith, who I just saw last weekend at Ted's Wrecking Yard and quite enjoyed... Also playing that show were the band Darlin', who can be found over at the Umbrella site - now, in that band are two women which I swore I recognized... I figured out who the bass player was - she's Julie Stewart, the actress from the CTV show "Cold Squad" (!), and, as it turns out, she's a bit of a journalist as well, handling all the interviews/profiles for the Umbrella website! Neat... But I never did figure out who the lead singer of Darlin was... until I stumbled across one of Julie's profiles on the page of a gal named Liane de Lotbiniere, who's been in tons of Toronto bands, but is the one and the same lead singer in Darlin now, with Julie on BGs and bass... Whew! ;-) And if that weren't enough, local guitar noise band Mellonova, who I saw at Ted's the week *before* (yes, I plan on spending most of my summer there ;)), but had never heard of at all, also have a presence on the Umbrella site... Looks like those folks at Umbrella are darn well-connected in that ridiculously incestuous Toronto indie musician kinda way... ;-) - - Tab :) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of canadian-music-digest V3 #51 ***********************************