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UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF MONTREAL, JON-RAE FLETCHER,
OR THE BURNING HELL!
click here: http://www.exclaim.ca/contests/ContestEntry.aspx?fid2=449

It's easy - simply go to this link www.thevergexm52.com/musicawards/ and check the box beside their name. It takes just seconds to vote and you don't have to sign up or anything.

After a full and successful summer of festivals in Ontario and the Maritimes, The Burning Hell is blazing West again, supporting the re-release of their back-by-popular-demand 2006 album 'Tick-Tock' as well as a brand new limited edition 7-inch split with fellow (weewerk) artist Jenny Omnichord. 

Before leaving for a European tour in October, The Burning Hell is packing a lot of music into a few short weeks in Canada - be sure to check them out when they roll through your town:

The Burning Hell www.myspace.com/mathiaskom

Aug 27 - Apollo, Thunder Bay ON
Aug 28 - Times Change(d), Winnipeg MB
Sept 1 - The Club, Regina SK
Sept 2 - Ottoman Lounge, Medicine Hat AB
Sept 3 - The Slice, Lethbridge AB
Sept 4 - Tubby Dog, Calgary AB
Sept 5 - Little Mountain Studio, Vancouver BC
Sept 6 - Hermann's, Victoria BC
Sept 9 - Deux Soleils, Vancouver BC
Sept 10 - Meow Records, Prince George BC
Sept 11 - Likwid Lounge, Edmonton AB
Sept 12 - Amigos, Saskatoon SK
Sept 13 - Crescent Fort Rouge United Church, Winnipeg MB
Sept 14 - Apollo, Thunder Bay ON
Sept 18 - The Montreal House, Peterborough ON
Sept 19 - Steamwhistle Brewery, Toronto ON

Phil Klygo (weewerk) www.weewerk.com

New Signees!
FemBots www.fembots.com
The Travelling Band www.myspace.com/thetravellingband
Canteen Knockout www.canteenknockout.com
Don Brownrigg www.donbrownrigg.com
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The Barmitzvah Brothers www.thebarmitzvahbrothers.com
Barzin www.barzinh.com
The Burning Hell www.myspace.com/mathiaskom
Elliott Brood www.elliottbrood.ca
Great Lake Swimmers www.greatlakeswimmers.com
Harmonica www.harmonica.no
Jenny Omnichord www.myspace.com/jennyomnichord
Ox www.oxmusic.ws
Proof Of Ghosts www.myspace.com/proofofghosts
Two-Minute Miracles www.twominutemiracles.com
United Steel Workers of Montreal www.uswm.ca

FemBots

Announce The September 16 Release Of

"Calling Out"

MP3 for "Good Days" + One Sheet /Photo/Album Cover and More Info @ http://www.killbeatmusic.com/fembots.html or listen @ www.myspace.com/fembots

About to release their fourth album, Calling Out (2008) on (weewerk), FemBots have set off in yet another new direction while in many ways returning to their beginnings.

FemBots began as a home recording project of Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier and their debut, Mucho Cuidado (2000), featured songs written and performed on power tools, toys and broken down thrift store instruments. The duo quickly carved a unique space in the Toronto music scene bringing their post-industrial folk songs to the stage using tape loops and reel-to-reel machines mixed with often frantic live performances.

Their critically acclaimed second release, Small Town Murder Scene (2003), adopted a more atmospheric approach with traditional instrumentation and soulful laments.   

The third FemBots record, The City (2005), built on this earlier work but taking it up several notches with banging piano chords, catchy choruses, soulful vocals, swinging guitars, woven strings and horns.  The City – that landed on several top ten lists for 2005 – pushed the stark black and white vision of their earlier albums into full technicolor.

FemBots originally envisioned their fourth album Calling Out (2008), as an entire album using an assortment of junkstruments, musical instruments created from garbage by artist Iner Souster.  Eight months into the project it became clear that the junkstruments simply were too unpredictable and too difficult to work with to sustain an entire album. Rather than scraping the project entirely, the FemBots used the junkstrument instrumentals they had recorded as rhythm tracks, the rock and roll chassis that the rest of the songs are built on. 

Calling Out also marks another departure for FemBots. This is the first time Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier have collaborated with other musicians during every stage of the writing and recording process. In the past MacKinnon and Poirier wrote the songs, then brought in other musicians to fill out the arrangements. With Calling Out the songs were built up from improvisations with Iner Souster and drummer Nathan Lawr.

The result is a collection of pop and rock songs built on a foundation of odd sounding home made instruments, producing in the end their most straightforward and strangest record to date. With each new album the FemBots transform in ways unforeseen, yet strangely familiar, honing a new style from the old.  

FemBots "Calling Out" Tour Dates

Sept 26 - Toronto @ The Music Gallery  
Oct 03 – Montreal @ Pop MTL 
Oct 04 – Ottawa @ Zaphod's
Oct 07 - Charlottetown @ Baba's 
Oct 08 - Sackville @ Strutt's Gallery (all ages) 
Oct 09 - Fredericton @ The Capitol
Oct 10 - Halifax @ Gus's Pub
Oct 21 -Thunder Bay @ TBA
Oct 22 - Winnipeg @ The Lo Pub
Oct 23 - Saskatoon @ Lydia's
Oct 24 - Lethbridge @ TBA
Oct 25 - Edmonton @ TBA
Oct 26 - Kelowna @ Habitat 
Oct 29 - Victoria @ Logan's
Oct 30 - Vancouver @ The Railway Club
Nov 01 - Calgary @ The Marquee Room 
Nov 04 - Sault Ste Marie @ Loplops
Nov 05 - Sudbury @ The Townhouse
Nov 06 - Hamilton @ Casbah

www.weewerk.com 

print/radio/digital media – killbeat music - www.killbeatmusic.com / 604 683 2124 

 

Li'l Andy and Karaoke Cowboy 9:10
www.myspace.com/lilandyandkaraokecowboy

The Unionist Ministers 10:00
www.myspace.com/theunionistministers

Canteen Knockout 10:50
www.myspace.com/canteenknockout

The Schomberg Fair 11:40
www.myspace.com/theschombergfair
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Phil (weewerk)  www.weewerk.com

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