On Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at the Lion’s Park in Brantford, Ontario their will be numerous amounts of live bands performing for the Brantford Hockeyfest Music Festival in conjunction with 4th Annual Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament. The bands are Our Lady Peace, The Trews, Marianas Trench, illScarlet, Street Pharmacy and more. This is something you do not want to miss, it is supposed to be one crazy event in Ontario all year!
BAND INFO
OUR LADY PEACE
Our Lady Peace is an alternative rock band that was formed in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Raine Maida(Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar), Jeremy Taggart (Drums/Percussion), Duncan Coutts(Bass/Backing Vocals) and Steve Mazur(Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals.) The band has sold millions of albums worldwide, won four Juno Awards and has won ten MuchMusic Video Awards which is the most ever awarded to any group – releasing a total of seven studio albums and one live album.
THE TREWS
The Trews are a Canadian rock band from Antigonish, Nova Scotia that was formed in 1997. The band consists of Colin MacDonald(Vocals), John-Angus MacDonald(Guitar), Jack Syperek(Bassist) and Sean Dalton(Drums.) They have won four Juno Awards for New Group of the Year, Single of the Year, Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year.
ill Scarlet
ill Scarlet is defined as a pop, infused, rock and reggae band that is from Mississauga, Ontario in 2001. The band consists of Alex Norman(Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar), Will Marr(Lead Guitar), Swavek Piorkowski(Drums) and John Doherty(Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals.) They were recognized at the 2004 Vans Warped Tour when Kevin Lyman, the Warped Tour organizer realized they were performing for the fans of other musicians waiting in line.
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A new American recording artist, Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) that was born March 28th, 1986 is coming to Toronto. Lady Gaga will be performing at the Air Canada Centre for the Virgin Mobile Monster Ball Tour on Sunday July 11, 2010 at 8PM. Lady Gaga enrolled in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for music, but then left to perform the rock music scene of New York City’s Lower East Side and she signed with Streamline Records. During her time at Interscope she became a songwriter and captured the attention of Akon who realized her vocabulary abilities eventually making her sign with his own record company; Kon Live Distribution. In 2008 her debut album, ‘The Fame’ was released to the public making #1 in Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland that topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums charts. The album earned a total of 6 Grammy Awards and Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. Lady Gaga is inspired by David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Madonna and Michael Jackson; she also states that fashion is a big part for her performances. As of 2010 she has sold 11.5 million albums and over 40 million singles worldwide and Time Magazine included Lady Gaga in the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Earlier Days
Stefani being the eldest out of Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta from New York City; Gaga learned to play piano when she was four years old, went on to play her first ballad when she was thirteen and began to perform at open mic nights when she was fourteen. By the age 11 she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school. By 2007 she had been writing lyrics for Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls; that is when Akon recognized her. In 2008 she relocated to Los Angeles to finalize her album, ‘The Fame’ that averaged 71/100 and topped the charts in six different countries making her win nine awards 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, winning the award for “Best New Artist.”
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An American rock trio band that was formed in 1987 is coming to Toronto. Yeah! Green Day will be at the Molson Amphitheatre on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 8PM. I was able to score three concert tickets for my friends and I, I have never seen them in concert so I am pretty pumped. The band consists of Billie Joe Armstrong(Vocals/Guitarist), Mike Dirnt(Bass/Back Up Vocals) and Tré Cool(Drummer). Green Day is known for one of the two bands that put the “punk revival” into process and were part of the “punk scene” at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California.
HISTORY
In 1987 Billie and Mike at the age 15 formed a band called ‘Sweet Children’ where they played their first show in October that year at Billie’s mom’s work. In 1988 Billi and Mike began to work with former drummer John Kiffmeyer where he was also known as the bands business manager; booking shows and also getting fans. Lookout! Records saw the band performing where they signed them to their label and in 1989 they changed the name of the band to ‘Green Day” making them release their first EP, 1,000 Hours. ‘Green Day’ was established by the band because of their fondness in ‘marijuana.’ In early 1990 Lookout! released Green Day’s first LP, 39/Smooth and in 1991 they released their second LP, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Before the second release Kiffmeyer left the band and they introduced Tré Cool’s making the bands official second release ‘ Kerplunk’ sell over 50,000 copies in the U.S.Eventually Green Day became so popular that they eventually left Lookout! Records and signed with ‘Reprise Records.’ In 1994 they released their album that was done in less than three weeks, ‘Dookie’ that became a commercial success and in 1995 they won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and was also nominated for 9 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year. In 1995 they released the album ‘Insomniac’ that earned 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone, sold two million copies in the U.S and won award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist, and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards.
In 1997 they released ‘Nimrod’ which entered the charts at # 10 and later in 2000 they released ‘Warning’ which only was certified gold. At the 2010 California Music Awards they won many awards such as; Outstanding Album, Outstanding Punk Rock/Ska Album, Outstanding Group, Outstanding Male Vocalist, Outstanding Bassist, Outstanding Drummer, Outstanding Songwriter and Outstanding Artist. The album ‘International Supervideos!’ sold fairly well and went platinum in the U.S and in 2004 they released ‘American Idiot’ which became #1 on Billboard Charts, won 2005 Grammy for ‘Best Rock Album’ and at the 2005 MTV music awards they won seven out of eight awards including the Viewer’s Choice Award. In 2009 the album ’21st Century Breakdown’ was released which got an average rating of 4 & 5 stars and hit number one in fourteen different countries hitting gold or platinum in each. As of now they are writing new material and is said they will be releasing a new studio album with in the next year or so.
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American rock band from Irvine, California that was formed in 1998 will be in Toronto. Hellz yeah! Thrice will be at the The Phoenix Concert Theatre on June 15th. The band consists of founder Dustin Kensrue(Lead Vocals/Guitar), founder Teppei Teranishi(Guitar/Keyboards/Backing Vocals), Eddie Breckenridge(Bass/Backing Vocals) and Riley Breckenridge(Drums/Percussion.) Early in their career Thrice was known for fast and hard music because of their distortion in guitars, lead guitarist lines and changes in their complex time signatures which was established in their second album ‘The Illusion of Safety‘ and third album ‘The Artist in the Ambulance.’ Thrice’s forth album ‘Vheissu‘ made a huge change by adding more of a electric beat with keyboards and more ‘mature’ lyrics.
History
Dustin Kensrue and Teppei Teranishi met each other in high school where they formed a band which is unknown; later Teppei introduced Eddie Breckenridge as the bass player that brought Riley Breckenridge as the drummer. In 1998 it was said the group came up with the name ‘Thrice’ from a joke said from Dustin’s friend that he had beaten the Play Station game; Frogger twice where Dustin said he beat it ‘Thrice.‘ In 2003 Thrice released their studio album The Artist in the Ambulance with Island Records which was meant for reflecting the band as doing more than just music and contribute to the society through their collections of charitable donations such as; a breast cancer organization for patients. In 2005 with the album ‘Vheissu‘ they made donations for underprivileged children on Dave Eggers’s charity 826 ‘Valencia‘ making the band tour unstoppably. In 2007 Thrice left Island Records and went joined with Vagrant Records making them release ‘The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II‘ which sold 28,000 copies in its first week and was #24 on the Billboard 200 chart; in April the second half of the project was released, ‘ The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV – Earth & Air.‘ In 2009 they released ‘Beggars.’
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An American Hip-Hop group that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1995 is coming to Toronto. You heard right! Black Eyed Peas will be at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario on July 27th & 28th. I was able to grab a few concert tickets for my friends and I, they said I was pretty lucky seeing how the tickets are selling fast. The band consists of Will.I.Am(multi-instrumentalist), Apl.De.Ap, Taboo, and Fergie(Vocalists) and since the bands 3rd album that came out in 2003; Elephunk they have sold over 35 million albums worldwide and 41 million singles. Their first worldwide hit ‘Where Is the Love?‘ became over 10 on top charts and their next album ‘Monkey Business‘ was certified 3x Platinum in the US. In 2009 Black Eyed Peas was 1 of only 11 other artists to ever be held the #1 & #2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100.
HISTORY
In 1988 Will Adams a.k.a Will.I.Am and Allen Pineda a.k.a Apl.De.Ap met each other and began rapping together in Los Angeles. Eventually they signed with Ruthless Records which was run by Eazy-E; when Eazy-E passed away from AIDS in 1995 Will & Allen and their friend Atban Klann reformed with each other and changed the name to Black Eyed Peas; later replacing Atban with Jaime Gomez a.k.a Taboo. In 2001 the album ‘Elephunk’ began development and was released in 2003; which was the groups first vocals of Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson. It was stated that since they introduced Fergie into the band that they would have a lot more success and which they did; their next album ‘Monkey Business” the first single ‘Don’t Phunk with My Heart‘ became # 3 on the U.S. Hot 100. ‘Boom Boom Pow’ later broke the first single and peaked top spot of the Billboard Hot 100 making them earn a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group where the album became number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart which sold over 295,000 copies in its first week and later was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. Black Eyed Peas fifth studio album ‘The E.N.D.‘ spent 38 weeks at the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and was the 7th best-selling album of 2009 in the U.S. In July the same year Billboard announced that Black Eyed Peas set a record for the longest successive #1 chart by the Billboard Hot 100′s history. In January 2010 they performed at the Grammy’s and won 3 out of 6 awards where they were nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Video.
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HISTORY
Luke Boyd known as ‘Classified‘ was born on December 13th, 1977 from Enfield, Nova Scotia. He attended Hants East Rural High School in Milford, Nova Scotia where he started up his own production label, ‘Half Life Records‘ and released his first full length LP in 1995 which was named ‘Time’s Up, Kid.’ After years of Classified perfecting his acts through label contracts he produced, recorded and also released his ninth album, ‘Trial & Error‘ where he signed off with URBNET Records which is based in Toronto, Ontario. It was stated in 2004 that his ninth album was the highest selling independent rap albums in Canada. 2003 and 2004 was one of the most busiest times for Classified with his continuous support with VideoFACT where he released two music videos and continued to master his perfection as a rapper where he joined forces with Choclair, Maestro Fresh Wes and Royce Da 5’9″; making him open for popular rap artists Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, The Game, Nelly, MC Grizzly, Captain Capota, Nas, and Black Moon. With Classified’s tenth album, ‘Boy-Cott-In the Industry‘, it became his highest rap point in his career where rappers Choclair, Royce Da 5’9″, Jay Bizzy, J-Bru, A-Wall, Spesh K, and Mic Boyd appeared on the album making # 46 on SoundScan‘s Canadian R&B/Hip-Hop albums charts. That same year the hit singles “The Maritimes“, “5th Element“, “No Mistakes“, and “Find Out” all became the Top 20 Hit’s on Much Music and MTV Canada. The music video “No Mistakes” won Classified a MMVA for MuchVibe Best Rap Video and the ninth album “Boy-Cott-In the Industry” won him a Juno Award nomination for Rap Recording of 2006. When releasing his eleventh album, “Hitch Hikin’ Music” it was stated that it was Classified’s finest work and he was given another Juno Award nomination for Rap Recording of 2007. Early last year Classified’s hit single, “Anybody Listening” brought him to #52 on the Canadian Hot 100 on Much Music and his thirteenth studio album had great success where it was debuted Canadian Albums Chart at #25. In May of last year Classified won the MuchVibe “Best Hip-Hop Video of the Year” at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards. His hit single in 2010 “Oh…Canada” peaked at #14 Canadian Hot 100 and was certified platinum in digital downloads by the CRIA.
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I have not seen Coheed & Cambria since Warped Tour over 5 years ago; I cannot wait to see them for the second time. That’s right…American Rock band from New York City will be performing at the Sound Academy on Wednesday May 19th, 2010. In 1995 Coheed & Cambria was originally named “Shabütie” until the drummer Nate Kelley left the group; now a days the band consists of Claudio Sanchez(Lead Vocals/Lead & Rhythm Guitar/Keyboards/Synthesizer,) Travis Stever(Lead and Rhythm Guitar/Lap Steel Guitar/Backing Vocals/Synthesizer), Michael Todd(Bass/Backing Vocals) and Chris Pennie(Drums/Percussion.)
COHEED & CAMBRIA HISTORY
In March 1995 the band ‘Toxic Parents‘ with Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever’s, Nate Kelley and Jon Carleo split up and Shawna Wirkus joined the group which started a new band ‘Beautiful Loser,’ that lasted until June 1995 when Stever left the band; making the band name change too ‘Shabütie.’ The band spent a year trying out different music types such as; Punk Rock/Indie Rock/Acoustic Rock/Funk/Heavy Metal and when Carleo left the band in 1996 Kelley recruited Michael Todd to take over bass. As the band ‘Shabütie‘ wrote many songs and released their studio demo record Stever joined back to the band in 1999 and later Kelley left the band. Saying that Coheed & Cambria came out to be the new band name and in 2002 the band released its first studio album ‘The Second Stage Turbine Blade‘ after they signed with ‘Equal Vision Records.‘ Eventually Coheed & Cambria played several tours in the US and Japan which they also participated in the 2002 Vans Warped Tour; shortly after started to work with Blaze James who helped with larger stages and fans. In October 2003 after having excessive touring with Breaking Pangaea, Linkin Park, The Used, and Slipknot they released their second studio album making them tour with Thursday, Thrice, AFI, and Rainer Maria. That album peaked up to #52 on the Billboard Charts which was certified gold by the RIAA. In 2005 they signed off to Columbia Records making their third studio album take #7 on the Billboard Charts and touring with The Blood Brothers, Circa Survive, Dredg, Head Automatica, and Avenged Sevenfold. In 2007 Coheed & Cambria’s forth studio album with Columbia Records the second time taking #6 on the Billboard Charts making them tour for almost all of 2009 and just recently of this year they released their fifth studio album.
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