After two years of touring The Big Picture on the Warped tour , campus shows, and festivals, the members of The Salads decided to sever ties from their label and management. In August 2012, The Salads released a self-produced album entitled Music Every Day which features guest appearances by Angelo…
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The band began writing more songs and performing them, getting ready for the next round of recording. They played at EdgeFest in 2004,(including EdgeFest), and they spent two weeks playing Australia in late 2005 with The Presidents of the United States of America .
In 2003, The Salads released their first album Fold A to B . It won several awards: a 2003 CASBY , a Canadian Radio Music Award, and Favourite Band at the Canadian Indie Awards.
After high school, the band moved to Toronto with Darren Dumas joining as lead singer in 1997 as his original band was teetering on a breakup.
On their return, they began pre-production with Dan Brodbeck , and in January, a new record of 10 songs, The Big Picture , was completed. It included “Growing Up” (about life’s changes as you get older), “Individual” (memories of 1980s thrash metal), “Circles” (watching the most intelligent person you know…
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