Upcoming Bands

The Internet is the biggest promotional market in the entire world because it can reach the vast majority in the shortest time possible. Promotion is how musicians are discovered and catapulted to fame. For the not so computer savvy, here are some tips on how to use one of the biggest social networks on the World Wide Web:

1. Signup – on your Web browser go to www.myspace.com and click on music on the navigation bar. Click on the artist signup and fill out the required fields.
2. Upload photos – upload photos where each member of your band can be clearly identified.
3. Invite friends – MySpace will give you the option to invite your friends and their friends. The more the better.
4. Songs – upload some of your songs to give users a taste of your music.
5. Enter your band profile and you are ready to perform to an international audience.

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Lovely Victoria, British Columbia, a charming city on the water visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists each year — perhaps not the place you’d expect to find one of the weirder and smarter punk bands around today. Or perhaps exactly the sort of place you’d expect to find such a band. In any case, it’s the place No Means No calls home. Possibly Canada’s preeminent power trio, No Means No have been abrading delicate ears with their complex rhythm-heavy funk-punk and promulgating leftist social commentary across North America since 1981. That was the year a couple of nice Canadian boys, brothers John and Rob Wright, formally began their strange sonic experiments that fused punk with blues, jazz, funk, metal, and pure noise.

Rhythms and declamatory lyrics dominated their sound, a situation that remains true today after two decades of developing their sound. The Wright brothers added a guitarist — first Andrew Kerr and later Tom Holliston — but the slashing, sometimes bluesy guitar parts have always seemed to work at the service of the band’s complicated rhythms, not the other way around. Rob’s deep chugging bass is usually the biggest sound in the mix and John’s jarring, polyrhythmic drumming is a lot more sophisticated than most of the percussion you hear in rock music. The brothers share vocals, which range from forceful spoken word speak-sing to Jello Biafra-style demented rants, only occasionally approaching anything like melody. Tricky, confrontational music, but if you appreciate it, consistently rewarding.

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