I may be too busy this week to update on Tuesday or Wednesday. So consider this an early present, similar to Christmas. I am going to continue sharing and offering music I love from Toronto ( Canada).
Today’s Feature will focus on:
Ancestors, Bush League and Creeping Nobodies.
Ancestors
Website:
www.myspace.com/ancestors
http://www.ancestors.tv/
Contact: info@ancestors.tv.
Who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR0oI8slAN8
Not much is known about this band. They are kind of like an enigma of Toronto bands. I once bought illicit drugs from the drummer at a Creeping Nobodies show during New Years of 2006. Here is a local zine’s description and I have also linked an interview with the band.
If you like the following bands you will like Ancestors:
Drive Like Jehu, Dinosaur Jr, Blue Cheer, Shotmaker, The Telescopes ( Taste LP), Pitchfork, and Hot Snakes.
Media:
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/?q=node/2438
Albums:
NIGHTFALL 7" (February 2009) 7 songs // 13 minutes // 300 press on black vinyl
ANCESTORS
Five song CD (2007)Recorded by Alex Chavel // Designed and screened by Deadweight
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0f73709e673242740c814df2efeadc509ee430bebdb21cf15be6ba49b5870170
Bush League:
If you like the following artists you will like Bush League:
The Cramps, The Scientists, Mudhoney, The Seeds, The Wailers, Flipper, Anagram, Muddy Waters, and The Birthday Party
Do Not Believe Me, Watch these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_V5x32yM98
Pre-Bush League ?
Thus Spoke Bush League:
In their as-yet brief existence, Bush League have managed to piss off just about everybody with their admittedly annoying stage antics. Darren Pelcz (vocals, nudity), Zak Hanna (guitar, ex-Pecola/Shut-IN), Daniel Vila (guitar, Trucker mag) and Mark Jarrett (drums, ex-Teen Crud Combo) kick out a bluesy garage stomp with art-school skronk (and pretensions). Julia Muth is the voice of righteous indignation: Who the fuck do you think you are?Daniel: We are Bush League, a band with the scrotal gusto to have a complete and utter ambivalence towards the audience response we produce. The more vast the plurality of response, the better. When we go into a performance, we provide the audience with a set amount of stimuli, but the ultimate reply that we elicit remains entirely in their hands. This is precisely why I find the “please dance to us” plea delivered by many bands to be so frustrating, and above all, dull. This attitude posits that a performance is little more than a dance/don’t dance referendum, rather than something textual, which every good performance should be. I, for one, would be much more interested in one of our shows resulting in a riot or spontaneous group fuck than a room full of frothy-mouthed toe-tappers. For example, when we played Cinecycle back in February, Darren came out naked, prompting the audience to part, thus creating a corridor down the middle. It was funny, because in their attempt to flee, they only amplified Darren’s access. This meant that he was able to rub his balls on more people than even he previously imagined possible, including those at the back of the room. Seeing a show of ours turn into a social Darwinist playground, to me, was hilarious. I enjoy seeing the audience perform.Why should we give a shit?I’m not in the business of begging people to care about whatever it is my deal happens to be, so I won’t bother. I will note, however, that if you think about things in terms of nostalgia projected into your future past, we likely offer an exponentially greater level of nostalgic capital when compared to the next stupid band.What the hell kinda noise are you trying to pass off as music?There are certainly many bands these days that are causing a racket that provides little in the way of content. Do many of these bands deserve to exist? Likely not. All these wailing troglodytes are all the more hilarious to me, because the greatest performer since the dawn of recorded music is doubtlessly Texan gospel bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, who nearly conveyed the thematic totality of existence in his 30-odd-track songbook. And he was dead by the late-’40s! Basically, no one should have bothered recording music after him. Which brings us back to the original question. To respond, we’re not trying to pass off shit. We are inherently superfluous due to our mere existence as a musical group. We’ve added insult to injury by being a bunch of pale-skinned urbanites peforming a pejorative cultural/racial co-option, seeing as how we’re greatly informed by Delta blues, a genre we couldn’t possibly understand. Just as Sisyphus accepted his fate of eternally pushing a boulder up a mountain, we’ve come to accept our own fate as part of the problem.Why is your singer such an asshole? (If he’s naked and gets in my space, I’ll castrate him, swear to God.)Darren is probably one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Even if this weren’t the case, our shows aren’t about the maintenance of personal space, they’re about its obliteration. Levels of controlled comfort give way to a battle of wills, a temporary autonomous zone of sorts. This of course demands an open-ended reply from any audience member unwillingly graced with Darren’s often overbearing prescence. So, in response to your threat, while we welcome attempted castration, we do not welcome self-righteousness
Bush League
Ten Inch Ep 2007
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0f73709e673242740c814df2efeadc509ee430bebdb21cf15be6ba49b5870170
The Creeping Nobodies
In continuation to my last update, if you really liked the Anagram split with the creeping nobodies then here is an entire album by the Creeping Nobodies.
Website:
http://www.thecreepingnobodies.com/
http://www.blocksblocksblocks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thecreepingnobodies
If you like the following artists you will like The Creeping Nobodies:
Silver Apples, Anagram, Sonic Youth, 13 Floor Elevators, Swell Maps, Wire, and The Fall
Bio:
The Creeping Nobodies
Origin
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)
Post-punk, Experimental
Years active
2001 - present
Label(s)
Blocks Recording Club ([][][][][][]), Kosher Rock Records, Bloodworks.
Associated acts
Parts Unknown, The Sick Lipstick, Memories Forever, C.I.T.U.S, The Sharp Tongues, All Under Heaven, Ghostlight, The Singing Saw Shadow Show, Lenin I Shumov.
Website
http://www.thecreepingnobodies.com/
Members
Dennis Amos, Matthew McDonough, Sarah Richardson, Valerie Uher
Former members
Derek Westerholm, James Anderson, Julia Muth, Eric Abboud, Marco Landini, George Westerholm, Jaime Carrasco
The Creeping Nobodies are a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2001. Currently the band is composed of Dennis Amos, Sarah Richardson, Matthew McDonough, and Valerie Uher.
The Creeping Nobodies began as a one-off performance for a tribute night to the UK band The Fall. The tribute night was held on September 21, 2001 at the El Mocambo club in Toronto. Soon afterwards, the band became its own entity, investigating a wider range of musical influences.
Currently the band releases their records on Blocks Recording Club (sometimes referred to simply as [][][][][][] Recording) - a workers co-operative which also releases records by Final Fantasy, Ninja High School, Bob Wiseman, Lenin I Shumov, The Hank Collective, and The Phonemes, among others.
Other CD and vinyl releases have appeared on labels such as Deleted Art, from SCRATCH, Bloodworks Music and Kosher Rock Records, as well as a number of compilation appearances.
Discography
Albums
Augurs & Auspices (Deleted Art, 2007)
Sound of Joy (Blocks, 2006)
Stop Movement Stop Loss (Blocks, 2004)
EPs and mini-albums
Split cdep w/ Miranda (fromSCRATCH, 2007)
Split 12" LP w/ Anagram (Blocks/Dead Astronaut, 2006)
Half-Saboteur LP (Bloodworks, 2005)
I-X-U (Kosher Rock, 2002)
Splits
Cockles 7" w/ These Are Powers (2008) Army of Bad Luck
Other appearances
Suoni Il Per Popolo Festival Compilation (2006) (Song "Hollow Stems, A Hunter's Will")
Perverted By Mark E. - A Tribute to The Fall Zick Zack Compilation (2004) (Song "Wings")
Toronto is Great! Blocks Compilation (2004) (Song "Heatseek")
In The Film They Made Us A Little More Articulate Escape Goat Records Compilation (2003) (Song "Cold Hands")
Rosco Re-define Rosco Magazine Sampler (2002) (Song "State")
Media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXB89HFKknQ
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/domzig-172/creeping-nobodies-at-the-old-blue-last-582/
Download:
Stop Movement Stop Loss (Blocks, 2004)
Listen to these tunes; support these bands by buying these records. Seek them out! PLAY IT FUCKING LOUD!
Today’s Feature will focus on:
Ancestors, Bush League and Creeping Nobodies.
Ancestors
Website:
www.myspace.com/ancestors
http://www.ancestors.tv/
Contact: info@ancestors.tv.
Who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR0oI8slAN8
Not much is known about this band. They are kind of like an enigma of Toronto bands. I once bought illicit drugs from the drummer at a Creeping Nobodies show during New Years of 2006. Here is a local zine’s description and I have also linked an interview with the band.
If you like the following bands you will like Ancestors:
Drive Like Jehu, Dinosaur Jr, Blue Cheer, Shotmaker, The Telescopes ( Taste LP), Pitchfork, and Hot Snakes.
Media:
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/?q=node/2438
Albums:
NIGHTFALL 7" (February 2009) 7 songs // 13 minutes // 300 press on black vinyl
ANCESTORS
Five song CD (2007)Recorded by Alex Chavel // Designed and screened by Deadweight
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0f73709e673242740c814df2efeadc509ee430bebdb21cf15be6ba49b5870170
Bush League:
If you like the following artists you will like Bush League:
The Cramps, The Scientists, Mudhoney, The Seeds, The Wailers, Flipper, Anagram, Muddy Waters, and The Birthday Party
Do Not Believe Me, Watch these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_V5x32yM98
Pre-Bush League ?
Thus Spoke Bush League:
In their as-yet brief existence, Bush League have managed to piss off just about everybody with their admittedly annoying stage antics. Darren Pelcz (vocals, nudity), Zak Hanna (guitar, ex-Pecola/Shut-IN), Daniel Vila (guitar, Trucker mag) and Mark Jarrett (drums, ex-Teen Crud Combo) kick out a bluesy garage stomp with art-school skronk (and pretensions). Julia Muth is the voice of righteous indignation: Who the fuck do you think you are?Daniel: We are Bush League, a band with the scrotal gusto to have a complete and utter ambivalence towards the audience response we produce. The more vast the plurality of response, the better. When we go into a performance, we provide the audience with a set amount of stimuli, but the ultimate reply that we elicit remains entirely in their hands. This is precisely why I find the “please dance to us” plea delivered by many bands to be so frustrating, and above all, dull. This attitude posits that a performance is little more than a dance/don’t dance referendum, rather than something textual, which every good performance should be. I, for one, would be much more interested in one of our shows resulting in a riot or spontaneous group fuck than a room full of frothy-mouthed toe-tappers. For example, when we played Cinecycle back in February, Darren came out naked, prompting the audience to part, thus creating a corridor down the middle. It was funny, because in their attempt to flee, they only amplified Darren’s access. This meant that he was able to rub his balls on more people than even he previously imagined possible, including those at the back of the room. Seeing a show of ours turn into a social Darwinist playground, to me, was hilarious. I enjoy seeing the audience perform.Why should we give a shit?I’m not in the business of begging people to care about whatever it is my deal happens to be, so I won’t bother. I will note, however, that if you think about things in terms of nostalgia projected into your future past, we likely offer an exponentially greater level of nostalgic capital when compared to the next stupid band.What the hell kinda noise are you trying to pass off as music?There are certainly many bands these days that are causing a racket that provides little in the way of content. Do many of these bands deserve to exist? Likely not. All these wailing troglodytes are all the more hilarious to me, because the greatest performer since the dawn of recorded music is doubtlessly Texan gospel bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, who nearly conveyed the thematic totality of existence in his 30-odd-track songbook. And he was dead by the late-’40s! Basically, no one should have bothered recording music after him. Which brings us back to the original question. To respond, we’re not trying to pass off shit. We are inherently superfluous due to our mere existence as a musical group. We’ve added insult to injury by being a bunch of pale-skinned urbanites peforming a pejorative cultural/racial co-option, seeing as how we’re greatly informed by Delta blues, a genre we couldn’t possibly understand. Just as Sisyphus accepted his fate of eternally pushing a boulder up a mountain, we’ve come to accept our own fate as part of the problem.Why is your singer such an asshole? (If he’s naked and gets in my space, I’ll castrate him, swear to God.)Darren is probably one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Even if this weren’t the case, our shows aren’t about the maintenance of personal space, they’re about its obliteration. Levels of controlled comfort give way to a battle of wills, a temporary autonomous zone of sorts. This of course demands an open-ended reply from any audience member unwillingly graced with Darren’s often overbearing prescence. So, in response to your threat, while we welcome attempted castration, we do not welcome self-righteousness
Bush League
Ten Inch Ep 2007
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0f73709e673242740c814df2efeadc509ee430bebdb21cf15be6ba49b5870170
The Creeping Nobodies
In continuation to my last update, if you really liked the Anagram split with the creeping nobodies then here is an entire album by the Creeping Nobodies.
Website:
http://www.thecreepingnobodies.com/
http://www.blocksblocksblocks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thecreepingnobodies
If you like the following artists you will like The Creeping Nobodies:
Silver Apples, Anagram, Sonic Youth, 13 Floor Elevators, Swell Maps, Wire, and The Fall
Bio:
The Creeping Nobodies
Origin
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)
Post-punk, Experimental
Years active
2001 - present
Label(s)
Blocks Recording Club ([][][][][][]), Kosher Rock Records, Bloodworks.
Associated acts
Parts Unknown, The Sick Lipstick, Memories Forever, C.I.T.U.S, The Sharp Tongues, All Under Heaven, Ghostlight, The Singing Saw Shadow Show, Lenin I Shumov.
Website
http://www.thecreepingnobodies.com/
Members
Dennis Amos, Matthew McDonough, Sarah Richardson, Valerie Uher
Former members
Derek Westerholm, James Anderson, Julia Muth, Eric Abboud, Marco Landini, George Westerholm, Jaime Carrasco
The Creeping Nobodies are a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2001. Currently the band is composed of Dennis Amos, Sarah Richardson, Matthew McDonough, and Valerie Uher.
The Creeping Nobodies began as a one-off performance for a tribute night to the UK band The Fall. The tribute night was held on September 21, 2001 at the El Mocambo club in Toronto. Soon afterwards, the band became its own entity, investigating a wider range of musical influences.
Currently the band releases their records on Blocks Recording Club (sometimes referred to simply as [][][][][][] Recording) - a workers co-operative which also releases records by Final Fantasy, Ninja High School, Bob Wiseman, Lenin I Shumov, The Hank Collective, and The Phonemes, among others.
Other CD and vinyl releases have appeared on labels such as Deleted Art, from SCRATCH, Bloodworks Music and Kosher Rock Records, as well as a number of compilation appearances.
Discography
Albums
Augurs & Auspices (Deleted Art, 2007)
Sound of Joy (Blocks, 2006)
Stop Movement Stop Loss (Blocks, 2004)
EPs and mini-albums
Split cdep w/ Miranda (fromSCRATCH, 2007)
Split 12" LP w/ Anagram (Blocks/Dead Astronaut, 2006)
Half-Saboteur LP (Bloodworks, 2005)
I-X-U (Kosher Rock, 2002)
Splits
Cockles 7" w/ These Are Powers (2008) Army of Bad Luck
Other appearances
Suoni Il Per Popolo Festival Compilation (2006) (Song "Hollow Stems, A Hunter's Will")
Perverted By Mark E. - A Tribute to The Fall Zick Zack Compilation (2004) (Song "Wings")
Toronto is Great! Blocks Compilation (2004) (Song "Heatseek")
In The Film They Made Us A Little More Articulate Escape Goat Records Compilation (2003) (Song "Cold Hands")
Rosco Re-define Rosco Magazine Sampler (2002) (Song "State")
Media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXB89HFKknQ
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/domzig-172/creeping-nobodies-at-the-old-blue-last-582/
Download:
Stop Movement Stop Loss (Blocks, 2004)
Listen to these tunes; support these bands by buying these records. Seek them out! PLAY IT FUCKING LOUD!
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