The Niagara Wine Festival conducted an online poll to find the People's Choice from artists that recently performed at this year's SCENE Music Festival. Thanks to the folks that voted for Bronx Cheerleader, who won in a squeaker over great St. Catharines band The Bends. Bronx Cheerleader are slated to play the WestJet Stage at Montebello Park on Parade Day September 25th! Other artists performing at this year's WestJet Stage include Great Lake Swimmers, The Black Spurs, A Sea of Gold and Burgundy and many more.
BRONX CHEERLEADER will be performing Sunday June 27th at the Merchant Ale House at 12:30 as part of the 15th annual SCENE Music Festival. SCENE will also feature ARKELLS, SHAD, CANCER BATS, ELK, THE BLACK FLIES, THE BALCONIES, HURON, HUNTERS & ANGLERS, and many more!
Kitchener/Waterloo-basedelectronic juggernauts Bocce bring their high-energy live show to St. Catharines June 10th at The Mansion House with support from Bronx Cheerleader, Old World Vulture and The Lovely Killbots. Both Bocce and Old World Vulture have just released excellent albums, check out the great reviews below from Exclaim Magazine:
BocceDisambiguation
By Vish Khanna
Years in the making, Disambiguation is a mesmerizing dance pop affair, furthering the notion that Waterloo, ON's Bocce are one of the most multi-dimensional electronic bands in Canada. Sometimes, in the frenzy of their fevered live performances, it's easy to miss how much attention Bocce pay to songwriting dynamics and building songs up beyond cheap thrills. They're a witty quartet with a sly sense of humour that comes across on the spirited uplift of "Highlighter (Reverse Video)" and the jingle-y "Wheel of Fortune Cookie (Before and After)." But there's a sombre aspect to the Depeche Mode tone of "Confident Confidant (Forget Everything)" or even the murky malaise evident on "Transmission (Telecommunications)." It's all pulsing, head-nodding stuff, but with Disambiguation, Bocce measure the physical bombast of the dance floor by stimulating our other senses too. (Dad Mobile)
Old World VultureOld World Vulture
By Travis Persaud
This Toronto, ON instrumental four-piece take their cues from the likes of Mogwai and Holy Fuck on their debut EP, infusing contagious synth melodies with fuzzed-out guitars and frenetic rhythms, to near perfection. As opening track "Destroyer" transitions to "Bastard Engine," any notion that they're merely creating carbon copies of their influences is erased. Devin Hughes controls the end of "Bastard Engine," using a repeated synth line to wash an indelible euphoric feeling over the listener. It beautifully balances the power and aggression earlier in the track. Old World Vulture change moods with each song, but without fracturing the EP's feel. The pounding drums at the end of "How The West Was Lost" effortlessly flow into "Benny," which begins with a hypnotic melody to challenge the previous track's hard-hitting effort. "Too Much Eye Makeup" ends the 24-minute disc on its strongest note, combining quickening drum beats and tinkering guitar lines with fervour. Old World Vulture's debut is an immense success. (Independent)
WHO: BOCCE w/ BRONX CHEERLEADER, OLD WORLD VULTURE and THE LOVELY KILLBOTS WHAT: A KILLER NIGHT OF ELECTRONIC GROOVES AND INDIE ROCK WHERE: THE MANSION HOUSE, ST. CATHARINES, ON WHEN: JUNE 10th WHY: BECAUSE THE END IS VERY NEAR... LET'S DANCE!
It's been a while but some new Bronx Cheerleader music is finally here. Although the new album won't be out until September 7th, the video for the album's first single, "Camelot", is online now and can be viewed below. The track is also available as a FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD for a limited time right here at www.bronxcheerleader.com as well as the Bronx Cheerleader myspace page. "Camelot", a pulsating romp about greed and malfeasance, is chock full of blazing guitars and airy vocals and sounds akin to The MC5's "Sister Anne" crossed with Return To Cookie Mountain-era TV On The Radio. Ladies and Gentlemen, start your ipods...
SAVE THE CINEFORUM: A Celebration of Reg Hartt's Cineforum
The city of Toronto recently closed down Reg Hartt's legendary Cineforum theatre, a unique landmark on the city's arts landscape which has been serving up programs not offered anywhere else in Toronto from his 463 Bathurst Street location since 1992. On Sunday May 9th Bronx Cheerleader, along with Weewerk Records recording artists Canteen Knockout and Proof of Ghosts, will be taking the stage at Sneaky Dee's providing the soundtrack for an evening of film projections honouring the legacy of the Cineforum. Come out and show your support to the cause of keeping the Cineforum's doors open.
If you've never checked out the well-written Quick Before It Melts music blog there's no time like the present. While Bronx Cheerleader are entrenched in finishing up recording their next album they did take time to cover the Pavement classic "In The Mouth A Desert". The track was recorded quickly and loosely, in keeping with the spirit of the early-Pavement recordings. This is the first in a series of free downloads that will be popping up over the next few months leading up the release of the next Bronx Cheerleader album Real Punks Don't Sing About Girls in September. Click the link below to read the revealing Q&A with Sauder at Quick Before It Melts. Listen or download Bronx Cheerleader's cover of Pavement's "In The Mouth A Desert" by clicking the MP3 link below. http://www.quickbeforeitmelts.com/2010/01/qbim-qa-with-bronx-cheerleader/
Upon its November 2005 release Bronx Cheerleader's debut album Tough Guy Clichés was a surprise hit on Canadian college radio, reaching the #30 spot on Earshot's National Top 50 Campus Radio chart for the month of January 2006 without the aid of any advertising, promotion or live shows. Amanda Putz, host of CBC Radio One's Bandwidth program included the album among her list of Best Bets of 2005 and Sirius Satellite Radio's indie rock channels Left Of Center (now Sirius XM U) and CBC Radio 3 also played selected cuts. In April 2006 Tough Guy Clichés was selected as Album Of The Week by CBC Radio One's national daily lifestyle program Freestyle. One music critic dubbed the band "Canada's version of The Shins" while the album's single "The Art of Dancing" (video directed by Diego Maclean) was featured on MyNetwork television's Fashion House and Desire, both produced by Fox Television. The band's performance at In The Soil (Tuesday April 21st at The Mansion House) will mark Bronx Cheerleader's first live show in over two years as the band are hard at work on their sophomore album, The Jesus Peter Paul & Mary Chain, due this fall.
