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Looks like Canada came through for us again, but this time with a generous supply of alternative rock provided by Toronto natives, Sky Terminal. With a “modern rock song of the year ” GMA award and a 2012 Juno nomination under their sweet...

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Steve and I formed the Marvelous Beauhunks back in 1990. We were big on the radio for about three months in the summer of ’91. After two years of club dates the group fell apart. It was messy. And ugly. That was March of 1992. From there it...

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Airing April 29th to May 3rd, at 8pm. WAXMEN is a hard hitting trio with an amazing live energy that entered the Toronto music landscape in 2008 and changed it immediately; they added more Rock. The band, whose lineup is comprised of James...

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Airing April 22nd to 26th, at 8pm. It’s loud.  It’ll make you dance.  It’ll make you scream.  It’ll make you bang your head, grow your hair long, and call in sick to work because you were up all night listening to sex on six strings.  TimeGiant...

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Airing April 15th to 19th, at 8pm. To stamp a definitive start date on when Toronto-based punk/rock band Organ Thieves formed isn't an easy task. The abridged story goes like this: While the idea of the band had been ruminating for several...

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Airing April 8th to12th, at 8pm. The debut release from Automan.ca titled "Pocket Change" is released as of March 17th 2009 via UD/Megaforce/Sony-Bmg. Backseat Surprise is now released Feb 14th 2012. It is also be available at itunes and...

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Airing April 1st to April 5th Rulers of the Moon' are a Toronto based Post-Punk/Indie band. Their debut EP 'Convolution of Broca' dropped on October 28, 2012 and the boys couldn't be more pleased with the end product. ...

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Airing March 25th to March 29th Hailing from Whitby, ON Canada this 4 piece band rises to showcase their rock and roll anthems. After two years of song writing and development, it was time to put these songs to tape. The Awareness-The Original...

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Airing March 18th to March 22nd Continuing the feel of the solo singers this month, we have an amazing EP from local songwriter TIM WATSON. Tim actually started out playing in bands when he was 14, and competed in our "local and loud" series...

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Airing March 11th to March 15th Craig started playing the piano when he was nine. He picked up the guitar when he was ten, wrote his first song when he was thirteen. He started playing drums at fourteen. As a multi-instrumentalist/songwriter,...

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Airing March 4th to March 8th "I'm a musician. A bio is best written by those who know and understand you; I hope that individual never writes my bio." - Patrick Done [ Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp ]

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Airing February 25th to March 1st When local Ottawa, Ontario rock scouts Neal Johnstone and Scott Terry (Last Drag Records) dug band members Angie “The Barbarian” Neatby (drums/vocals) and Luc Lavigne (Ol’ Sparky, the guitar) out of the dank,...

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Airing February 18th to February 22nd The Reply is a Toronto based soul band consisting of James Bond (keys/vocals), Carl Nanders (bass/vocals), Freek Siezenga (guitar) and Scott Mckean (drums/percussion) who bring you real music about real...

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We've often heard in this business that you can easily be replaced by a monkey,  well how about a Macaque. 94-9 The Rock Toronto is pleased to announce that Darwin the Ikea monkey (well Macaque actually) is our new all night Monkey starting this...

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Airing February 11th to February 15th I, the Mountain is a trio of local musicians based out Peterborough, ON. Our debut album "Land and Sea" is due to be released in 2013. http://www.youtube.com/user/MatthewLamersMusic?feature=watch Band...

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Airing February 4th to February 8th Ottawa’s premiere female fronted alternative punk band recently released their second album, titled “The Ragdoll Diaries”, a hard hitting follow up to the popular debut ‘Inside The Dollhouse’. Doll, a...

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Airing January 28th to February 1st Born and bred in Bowmanville Ontario, Amorak is four friends with a devotion for music who use a mixture of skill, hard work and precision to craft their unique blend of emphatic and emotionally charged ...

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Airing January 21st to 25th Viva Mars is an indie rock band based out of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The band was started in 2007 by Jordan Sheppard and Christopher Russo, but it wasn’t until the arrival of Thomas Helliwell and Jonathan Neal that...

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