Top 5 Contenders
Sundown Sundown Since Sundown began competing in all-age Battle-of-the-Band events just one year ago, they have been consistently winning almost every major event. A very few of their more memorable victories are: - The Best of the Best – FIRST PLACE; Randy River Final Cut – City of Toronto Finals – FIRST PLACE; Genz Benz Summer Warfare 2008 – Canadian National Finals – FIRST PLACE. At one point this past Winter, Sundown actually had four of their original songs, in the top four positions, on the Supernova.com North American Top Ten List. Sundown has just released their first ever album entitled "My Own Path". To celebrate this release, they held a CD Release party and it was a huge success! Blindsided Poets Blindsided Poets Fronted by 15 y.o. Kitty Lee, our members are an eclectic group of talented musicians, from varied backgrounds and experiences, who have been working on a collaborative effort of original songs since around 2000. Sticking together, mainly because we love to play this music with one another. It all started with Jane and Nigel sitting around a campfire playing the blues back on a warm summer night. After about six months of practicing together Jane had an idea. She talked Nigel into jamming with her good friend, Tony. Nigel was very skeptical about adding a drummer at first, but after hearing the master player, he was convinced and they became a trio. Slim joined them initially when Nigel and Jane first started to jam in 2000. He left shortly after to pursue other possibilities, came back briefly after Janes illness for a few gigs and now is contributing his talents to a project with Tony, along with Frank who now joins the Blindsided Poets on bass. In 2008 Nigel's daughter, Kitty was folded in as a keyboard player. Shortly after for personal reasons, took over singing full time from Jane. We are still able to enjoy Jane's fantastic song writing skills, and love playing what we can. http://www.youtube.com/blindsidedpoets . . .. Running Red Lights Running Red Lights Running Red Lights is currently recovering from the shock of WINNING this years Indiscover summer series. A win that has yet to truly sink in to our wounded heads. Our luck has NEVER had a way of changing for the better and like every other undertaking, we fully expected to fail. SO with considerable gratitude we would like to say THANK YOU to the Indiscover judges and crew, FANS, friends and family. We accept this honor with the respect and recognition it deserves and only hope that we can live up to the winning title. The competition was absolutely fierce and when we got the win, we couldn't help but feel like we cheated a GREAT band out of the title. DRIVE FASTER, WORDpeople, PEOPLE YOU KNOW and INFRACT are all equally deserving bands and we can't imagine the torment the judges had to face to pick a final winner. ALL the bands were not only CRAZY talented artists but also wonderful people, which is generally rare in this very competitive, cut-throat business. PLEASE if you have a moment check them out and show them some much deserved love. The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter and so we must pay a bit of homage to the failures that have brought us to this moment. 'The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work' and we promise to seize this opportunity and work as hard as needed to make not only our dreams come true but also honor the people who have given us love and support from day one. Much love from Scarlett, Josh, Dave, Kevin and Jeff xo BIO. Formed in early 2006 as a pop band inspired by the resurgence of 80's pop, Running Red Lights is a group of six independent musicians/songwriters inspired mutually by Rhythm and Blues, 80's pop, Euro and Indiepop. Throughout the span of 4 years, Running Red Lights has secured placements in feature films, opened for Grammy nominated artists 'Counting Crows' at Bayfest 2009, performed at Juno Festival in Halifax, has been featured on etalk as well as various publications and radio stations in Ontario. While playing the performance circuit around the GTA, RRL's live act attracted some regional interest and subsequently Juno winning producer, Gavin 'Golden' Brown (Three Days Grace, Metric, Billy Talent, Stereos, Midway State) offered the band an opportunity to develop under his tutelage. Upon the successful self-titled release of a 4 song EP in 2009, Running Red Lights secured agent representation with Vice President, Colin Lewis of The Agency Group. The band is currently working on a second EP, anticipating a release by summer, followed by a Canadian tour. people you know people you know As unpretentious as they are pleasing-to-the-ears, this three-piece band is easy to listen to, easy to look at and even easier to love. But don’t think that the members of PYK assume that success will come easy. Working their way up the ranks of Toronto’s music scene since April of 2008, this band of close friends has picked up new instruments, forged a new sound together, and put a few miles on some rental cars. With shows at Canadian Music Week, Toronto Pride and a recent win as Extra Magazine’s ‘Best Band’ of 2008 and 2009, People You Know don’t show any signs of slowing down, or letting their snowballing success go to their heads. PYK is a band that works hard, attributing their rise to the people they know who keep coming out to show their support. Catch PYK as they continue to debut new tunes that are melodic, thick, hot and slick without ever looking like they have to try – PYK is infectious, like a plague you don’t mind catching. Comfortable in their own skin, this trio is true to where they’ve come from. If you don’t know PYK yet, you’ll want to. But hurry, because they’re taking off and as their track “Stay Golden” proclaims, if you don’t move fast “all that you’ll get is goodbye.” However, with a parting glance like this… it’s a goodbye you’ll look forward to again and again.
The "A" Finalists (by score)
Amber Reigns Amber Reigns Based out of Fort Erie Ontario, Amber Reigns came on the scene fairly recently. In the Fall of 2009 these 4 guys Nick McGuigan, Enzo Herrera, Chris Rowlands and Josh Humphrey joined up to form Amber Reigns. Nick and Chris came from Artificial Reality and were in the middle of Recording their debut album. During the process it became evident changes needed to be made and along came Josh and Enzo. Things were starting to finally move along with the recordings and a fresh start was born with a change in name to Amber Reigns. Before the CD was even completed their music was being sought after. The song ‘’Calm Me Down’’ officially released on their debut album an May 12, 2010 has been leased out to USA 1st in Jacksonville Florida. USA 1st leased the song for a year using it as the theme song to the Seminar “Reality” across high schools in the USA to bring awareness to teen related problems. The song brought attention from Elevated TV Productions out of Toronto who specifically asked if they can shoot the Calm Me Down Video which will be aired on Much Music and should be completed by June 2010. Amber Reigns will also be on satellite radio 89.5 in early June, the station has 8 million listeners and will be doing a interview via phone with the band. The song was also sent to Giant FM 91.7in Welland Ontario in hopes to get some air play. Peter Morena the stations manager quickly responded with a request for Amber Reigns to come into the station for an interview and to perform the song live on the air. On May 12 2010 Amber Reigns made their Radio premier to over 100,000 listeners and 15,000 on line guest. This is not the only song the band has that got some notice. On soundclick.com the song ’’You’’ shot right to #1 within 4 days on the Alternative charts. The song has a melodic rhythm and utilizes a talk box to bring the funk out. It also was used in a commercial on 97.7 HTZ FM as background music. It also got them a nomination to the Niagara Music Awards 2008 when the band was known as Artificial Reality. With popular songs that are catching peoples interest there was high expectation for the album release and the group did not let people down. Songs like “I Am” caught the attention of there Producer Chris Curry who said it has all 3 elements to a hit song. The write song, sung by the write person with the right production equals a hit. This song was a natural fit for us all he said. Their music is very diverse, from strong lyrics and great harmonies that Nick McGuigan seems to come up with so naturally. Songs like ’’Something’s Are Better Than the Truth’’ sure to be a hit pop song to songs that grind it out like ‘’Open Up Your Eyes’’ that at any one moment you’re sure to get chills down to the bottom of your spine to that feeling of power from in your face rock that makes you want to scream. Amber Reigns is fronted with two very accomplished guitar players, Nick McGuigan who is also the lead vocalist and Enzo Herrera. Nick has played in Artificial Reality until there demise along with Chris Rowlands the bass player, who also came to Amber Reigns. Josh Humphrey on drums and Enzo have been playing together for 8 years coming from accomplished bands such as After The Fall, Social Imbalance and probably the most recognizable Zombie Inc, the chemistry was there right from the start. At all Amber Reign shows including the sold out CD Release show they collect food for the local food bank. The band is currently setting up a charity where $1.00 from every CD sale will go towards The Amber Alert foundation. The community is who supports us and Amber Reigns feels strongly even at this point in there carrier to give back. You can contact them by the following Web Sites www.amberreigns.ca www.myspace.com/amberreigns Email info@amberreigns.ca Phone 905 351 9758 Mail 6161 Dawlish Ave. Niagara Falls, Ont. L2G 4J5
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