In 2002, Tegan and Sara released their third album, If It Was You . Their fourth album, So Jealous , was released in 2004 and led to wider success and attention, both locally and internationally. This album was released through both Vapor and Sanctuary . The band’s 2007 album, The…
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Brad and Dan Roberts and Ellen Reid returned as Crash Test Dummies at the end of 2002 with Jingle All the Way , a long-rumoured Christmas album.
Dorge’s surprise debut album, As Trees Walking , was released in early 2002. He played almost all of the instruments, took some of the photos for the liner notes, and won a Prairie Music Award for Best Instrumental Recording.
In 2002, the band met with record executives, and ended up signing a co-venture agreement with Atlantic Records and Warner Music Canada . In the fall of 2003, the band released their full-length self-titled album, Billy Talent . The album found considerable sales success. ” Try Honesty ” was a…
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In 2000, Dunn, Clark, and Paige founded a Peterborough -based group called “SWISH”, while Biro sang lead vocals for a four-piece group called the “Cheese Monkeys from Planet Nine” from Barrie, Ontario . In 2000, SWISH released their first independent album, Riding Around the Park on Mime Radio, an independent…
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Forty Foot Echo’s origin’s trace back to the breakup of lead singer Murray Yates’s prior band, Templar , which broke up in November 2001. Despite being without a band or a record label , Yates continued to write material by himself. Upon writing enough material, he began work with Canadian…
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Big Wreck released their second album, The Pleasure and the Greed , in June 2001. Three singles were released, all of which failed to chart in the U.S.
Reid gave A&R Joshua Sarubin the responsibility of overseeing Lavigne’s development and the recording of her debut album. They spent several months in New York working with different co-writers, trying to forge an individual sound for her. Sarubin told HitQuarters that they initially struggled; although early collaborations with songwriter-producers including…
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Win Butler and Josh Deu founded Arcade Fire in Montreal around 2001, having first met at Phillips Exeter Academy as high school students.
IME came off the road and in 2001 the band members settled into their own Toronto studio, the Mother’s Hip. This period was plagued with problems. Brian Byrne had ruptured his vocal cords and required surgery. Christian Tanna broke his forearm and was unable to play drums. After those injuries…
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