April 2010
12 posts
Wyrd Alberta Weekend Preview!
Sled Island Warm-Up Party at the No. 1 Legion in Calgary is tonight! to kick-off the Wyrd Alberta Traveling Music Festival. This massive 3-day event will feature 14 totally rad bands such as Calgary’s own Women, Topless Mongos and guests Nü Sensae, Oman Ra II, Cosmetics with shows in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge. We’ll also be announcing our full festival lineup tonight, so...
KICK-START YOUR ROCK STAR DREAMS!
Calling all young buds! The Homestretch on CBC Radio One is searching for the best teenage rock band in Southern Alberta.
To enter the contest you’ll need to create an Artist Profile for you band on CBC Radio 3, upload your most awesome ‘original’ song and a fun photo. Once you’re finished all that, send an email to homestretch@cbc.ca and don’t forget to read the...
Local Heros #1 Women
Women formed in late 2007 by Chris Reimer, Mike Wallace and brothers Pat Flegel and Matt Flegel in Calgary. Their debut full-length was produced by fellow local hero Chad VanGaalen (in his basement studio) and was released July 8th 2008 on Flemish Eye Records. In July 2008 they signed with record label Jagjaguwar and their S/T debut album was released worldwide on October 7th 2008 on Jagjaguwar...
Last of the big leaks!
None other than Dinosaur Jr. !! Thanks in-large part to festival co-curator Damian “Pink Eye” Abraham from Fucked Up. Stay tuned for the full festival lineup announcement on May 1st!
Dinosaur Jr. formed as Dinosaur in 1983 in Amherst, Massachusetts by J Mascis (guitar and vocals) and his high school classmate Lou Barlow (bass guitar), following the break-up of their hardcore...
Band Profile #2 Deerhoof
Like all the best pop music, Deerhoof has always been strikingly new and yet strangely familiar. Melodic beauty, as if out of a half-remembered dream, is set against flashes of brilliant innovation that seem to be as much of a surprise to the band as to the listener. With Deerhoof every song is an adventure. Classic rock, J-pop, jazz, classical, and noise suddenly become inseparable, as if no...
Rest in Peace Devon Clifford
As many of us learned this weekend You Say Party! We Say Die! Drummer Devon Clifford passed away the morning of Sunday April 18th.
Sled Island wants to express our sympathies and support for the members of YSP! WSD! and to Devon’s family and friends. You are in our thoughts.
Here is a link to a Toronto Sun story on Devon’s passing:
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Band Profile #1 The Thermals
The Thermals are an indie/alternative/post-pop-punk rock band from Portland, Oregon, USA. The group formed in the summer of 2002.
Their debut LP, More Parts Per Million, was conceived and recorded in the kitchenette of singer Hutch Harris’s house, known as The Moss Motel, in southeast Portland, Oregon. The album was recorded on a 4-track cassette machine, with total tracking costs...
Infotastic
Hi. How are you?
We are just finishing up the band bookings and planning all the nice details for Sled Island 2010. We are also working on getting more info up for you. If you click on the ‘aboot’ section you will see our first guest curator profile for King Khan. We’ll post more curator info in there during the week so check back.
And thanks to everyone for buying your...
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Sled Island is excited to support WordFest presenting Chuck Palahniuk on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at the Central Library, John Dutton Theatre (616 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, AB) at 7pm. This will be the only Canadian stop on his North American tour to promote his latest novel, Tell-All (Doubleday Canada).
Tell-All is “a sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and...
Buy tickets!
Hey everyone. We have tickets for sale on this very same website.
I’m just making the line ups now and it is pretty crazy. Every night there will be a lot going on. Once again people will be mad because they won’t be able to see everything- but you know what, I like that. I think it’s good that you have to make hard choices about which shows you want to catch.
Plus lots of...
Line up Phase 1!!! (woooooop!)
PRESS RELEASE : April 1, 2010 (Calgary, AB)
Sled Island Releases First-Wave Lineup Announcement
Sled Island is pleased to announce the initial musical lineup for the Sled Island Music and Arts Festival at multiple venues throughout Calgary, Alberta. The full Sled Island 2010 festival lineup will be announced May 1st and will include more than 200 bands, films, visual art and other...