CD

Fearsome, strident and elemental, Tanya Tagaqs music is a genre unto itself. Tagaqs unique vocal style may be rooted in traditional cultural form, but her expression also aligns with avant-garde improvisation, classical Expressionism and electronica influences, which inform her startling and powerful creative vision....

DEL BARBER - HEADWATERS - CD

A while back, the great local band Harlan Pepper released their new CD, Young and Old. It's definitely an apt title as the sound on the disc mixes modern alt-rock with old fashioned folk/roots. From country (Great Lakes, Sweet Lucy, Royal Variety), blues (No,...

Six Shooter Records' Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse, marrying their talent and chemistry on stage as a smoldering duo. Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa's...

Christine Fellows returns with her fifth full-length record with a remarkable bilingual album, Femmes de chez nous. Set against orchestral piano folk melodies are stories of yesterday's and tomorrow's women, connected by Christine's unique ability to tell a tale.

On Steel City Trawler, Luke approaches his favorite topics - geography, love and the existential labyrinths of human understanding - with a classic rock ethos and a producer, Andrew Scott (Sloan), at the helm. The creative partnership was a gamble for both, but Steel...

2009 release. Melissa McClelland's vocal virtuosity, crystalline and luminescent, transports lyrics of a much darker design. Sometimes bawdy, often bloodied, and always intriguing, Melissa sings of bruised hearts and broken bones, trigger-happy renegades and contrived innocence. In spite of all the impurities of human...

Earthly Days

A rock band without a drummer, a bluegrass band without a fiddler. To the gentlemen of The Dead South, a self-styled 4-piece string band from Regina, Saskatchewan, it's about how, not what, you play. The Dead South's combination of cello, mandolin, guitar and banjo...

Ambassador is the title of the first full length album released by the Canadian alternative country band Elliott Brood. It was released in October 2005 on the independent music label Six Shooter Records. The album is titled for the Ambassador Bridge, which links Windsor,...

Sometimes the best sounds come from broken things -- toys or banjos or cheap electronics -- or everyday noises we tend to take for granted, like traffic and rain and purring cats and the squeak of boots on snow at -30 degrees. After listening...

.

NQ Arbuckle returns with his sophomore release, again produced by fellow Six Shooter Luke Doucet. Perfectly worn-in sentiments fit like pints into palms, and NQ Arbuckle continues to offer low-key late-night anthems in his alt-country fashion. Special guests include Carolyn Mark and Selina Martin,...