Artist:Defame the Defamers Release: Defame the Defamers (Self Titled) Year:2018 Home:Chatham-Kent Ontario, Canada Genre: Metal/Rock. Free album downloadhere.
Member: Shawn B. – Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards & percussion.
Tracks 01. When Life Gets Hard Again 02. I’ll Make Mistakes 03. Happily Ever After 04. New Year’s Resolution 05. Best Friend 06. No Give Aways 07. Flying Spaghetti Monster 08. Divided in Unity 09. To Die For 10. Burning Bridges 11. Small Victory 12. Built To Win
Notes: * Since 1991, Shawn has been releasing music and performing in bands including Saint Ends, Demo Kid, Dead Girls Union, The Janet Theory, The Mad & Foster Child. * This is a free share demo and is not available for sale in any form. * Written, performed recorded, produced, mix and mastered by Shawn B., except for drum tracks by noted drummers below.
Dave Grohl – Drums on ‘I’ll Make Mistakes’. Chris Adler – Drums on ‘Flying Spaghetti Monster’. Adam Carson – Drums on ‘Built To Win’. Cybernetics – Drums on ‘No Give Aways’. * Notes: ‘Small Victory’ music written with Chuck Y. and Jesse V. (1997). * Divided in Unity – Partial lyrics borrowed from Rob Johnston (The Mad). “Shoot the moon and let its pain rain down, into the common love train of clowns”.
Links: * Download/preview the free album at Bandcamp here. * Youtube video link here.
Artist: Eric Welton Release: An E.P. Year:2007 Genre:pop/rock/indie Home: Windsor From:Chatham
Tracks: 1. Drunk Man Trilogy 2. Girl of Mine 3. Get It 4. Won’t Stop 5. What it is For 6. I Keep Banging My Head on the Weekend 7. Normal? 8. Dog 9. Another Day
Notes:All Songs Written, Performed, Recorded and Produced by Eric Welton.
Artist: Eric Welton Release: Zig Zag Year:2006 Home:Windsor From: Chatham Genre:Indie, pop, folk
Notes: All songs written, performed, recorded and produced by Eric Welton.
Tracks: 1. Dog 2. And You Are 3. 88 4. Again 5. Bright Lights 6. Whatever I Want 7. Another Day 8. ziGZag 9. A Line Through the Mouth of a Man 10. Tiny Bots 11. Falling 12. Ignore 13. Vedo 14. Stuff 15. Whatever You Want 16. Is It Right?
Links: * Download at bandcamp here. * Youtube link here. * Facebook link here.
Band: Objective Unknown Release: II (EP) Year:2016 Home: (Chatham-Kent) Genre:Classic Rock
Notes:
Objective Unknown formed in march 2009 with Cole Mills on Guitar/Lead Vocals/Drums, Dane Appleton on Guitar/drums, and Daryn Trainor on bass. After a few line up changes Hudson Cattoor joined the group in February 2010, on Drums/Percussion.
Members: Alex Heuston – vox, guitar, piano Keith Heuston – lead guitar, vox, drums, bass, mandolin, keyboard
Tracks: 1. Bring us Better Days 2. Whiskey an’ Rum 3. Summer Days 4. The Kids Are Alright 5. Superhero 6. Turn The Page (Cover) 7. Margaritaville (Cover) 8. The Show 9. California Nights
Notes: * Tracks 1, 5 & 8 featuring Free Beer and Pizza; * Alex Heuston – lead vox, guitar * Stan Reaume – drums, vox * Kyle Bastien – guitar, vox * A.F.T. – bass, vox * Produced by Keith Heuston & Dope Zebra * Engineered by Keith Heuston, Bob Hiltz and John Priolo * Tracks 2, 3, 4, 7 & 9 recorded at Fanshawe College * Tracks 1, 5 & 8 recorded at Eyrespace Studios * Mixed by Keith Heuston * Mastered by John Priolo
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Links: * Album download link here. * Facebook link here.
Band: The Burnouts Release: Pause For The Cause Year: 2015 (April) Genre:Pop Punk
Formed:2006 Home:Chathan-Kent
Line-Up Jonathan Alan Porter Edwards(Johnny Edwards) – Vox, guitar. Garret Keith Renders – Bass T,MC, – Drums
Tracks: 1. Retaliator 2. In This Hell 3. Come And Go Misery 4. For All Of This 5. You Changed Everything 6. Money’s All You Got 7. I’ll Understand 8. Two Wrongs,Two Rights 9. I Don’t Know _ _ * Watch the Burnouts below.
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Links: * Download this release here. * Facebook link here.
Artist: The Universe Featuring Ray Release:Cope (EP) From: Blenheim Ontario Based in:London Ontario. Genre: Acoustic/Alt/Rock. Year:2015 (May)
Notes:
THE UNIVERSE FEATURING RAY, is a solo artist named Ray Stern, (former lead of The Peace Leeches) creating alternative/rock music. Based out of London, Ontario, Canada, his fall. Stay Tuned!
Tracks: 1. Cope 2. Dollars & Cents 3. The River 4. I Is What I Is 5. Fishies 6. Babies of the Sun
Links: * Download the EP here. * Youtube link here. * Ray’s Website here.
Band:Obscure Release:Soul & Blood Year: 2011 (Sept.20th) Genre: Rock
Members: Jordan Sterling– Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Keys. Colin Sinclair– Bass, Vocals, Keys, Percussion. Spencer Cartier – Drums, Percussion, Keys.
Tracks: 1. Surrealist 2. All Is Not Sequential 3. Broken & Fleeting 4. Engine 5. Acid Lust 6. Oh, Me 7. And Hell Followed… 8. Drown 9. Dry-Erase Sunshine 10. Opium Girl
Notes: * Recorded during the summer of 2011 at Eyrespace Studios. * All songs Copyright Obscure 2011 * All songs written and performed by Obscure.
* Additional Percussion on And Hell Followed by Josh Gyssels. * Additional Vocals on And Hell Followed by Angela Speller. * Photography by Angela Speller. * Graphic Design and Artwork by Jordan Sterling. * Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Bob Hiltz at Eyrespace Studios.
Band:Elastic Release:The Disillusioning Year: 2014 (July) Genre: Rock Formed: Circa 2011
Bio:What started as a solo project by Walter in early 2011 has now been resurrected as a brand new 3 piece post-grunge band bringing together 3 of the most prominent youths hailing from the local C-K scene. Burn This River, Conscripted Youth, Letterbomb, The Grotesque, We Sleep At Dawn, Diesel, just to name a few of the bands these members have been or are current members of.
Members: Walter Staley – Guitars/Vocals Thomas Ayres – Bass/Backup Vocals Nick Grande – Drums
Tracks: 1. Jesus Fish 2. Here Without You 3. Anomaly 04:57 4. Staring At The Sun 5. Breaking 6. Fear’s Shadow 7. Forever Alseep 8. Superglue 9. Suisociety 10. Termites 11. Flying 12. Peel Away 13. Purged
Notes: * Album Produced/Mixed & Mastered by: Siegfried Meier
At “Beach Road Studios” * Angela Speller – Album Artwork
Band: The Painted Dogs Release: Vibrator (EP) Genre: Punk Year: 2016 Based:Detroit, U.S.A.
Chatham Connection:Vocal/Guitarist Christ Hart is from Chatham-Kent. Chris began fronting punk rock bands such as L.O.T.D. (Lice of the Dead), Jivaro Fracus & the Matadors. Chris put out several solo records from his new home, London Ontario.
Artists:Honest Palate Demo: Toxic Love Year:2016 (Jan 14) Home: Chatham Ontario Genre:Acoustic Indie (Above picture: Carter & Stacy)
Tracks: 1. Dance With Me 2. Little Did You Know 3. Ruined 4. You Make Me Sing 5. Run Run 6. I Want You
Musicians: Stacy Zuidema – Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar: Carter Kniffen– Lead Guitar/Rhythm. Julie Ross– Back-up Vocals. Josh Hinch– Bass on Ruined, & Little did you know . Bren Dube – Bass on Run Run.
Artist:Demo Kid Release: Home Demos Vol. 6 (I Heard the Drummer Quit) Year: 2014 (Dec) Home:Chatham Ontario Canada Genre:Rock. Free Direct Album download:click here. Email Contact: chatham_music_archive@hotmail.com
Members:Shawn B.(Demo Kid)
Notes: ‘I heard the drummer quit‘ seemed an appropriate title for this project as most of the songs were written completely around drum tracks alone, as a type of song writing experiment. This collection also contains collabs. See inlay pics for full credits.
Shawn (Demo Kid) is also a guitarist and the ‘behind the scenes’ guy in Saint Ends, a new local Indie band from Chatham.
Tracks: 01. Weekends 02. Push Pull Kind Of Love 03. You Make Me Crazy 04. I’ll Make Mistakes 05. Mom & Pop Stores 06. Emo Girlfriend 07. Built To Win 08. Burning Bridges 09. Damaged Shores 10. No Give Aways 11. Round & Round 12. Daisy Daisy 13. Sky Cake.
Links: Free CD direct Download: link. Youtube: link.
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Artist:Bold Equation (AKA Chris Spafford) Release: Momentum Year:2012 Genre: Dubstep Home Town: Chatham Ontario
Note:Free download of this CD while available. click here.
Tracks: 01. Outside World (Intro) 02. Murderer 03. The Abyss 04.Headknocker VIP 05.Mind’s Eye 06.Bone Crushin 07. Impact 08. Set It Off 09.Ahhh Shit! 10.Massacre 11. You Want It 12. Give’m Guns Interlude 13.Empty The Clip 14.Wrath of Math 15.Momentum 16. Final Equation
Notes: *In Dec. 2013, they released Harbour and Ship. A top notch batch of demos. *As their previous band (Anu Beginning) called it a day, Tanner & Aaron started this new band with Ryan Caron (also the drummer for Stephanie McIlroy). Gracie Mae would go on to release a few more songs. * Chemical Blood (Date unknown) *2018 – With Eyes To See And Ears To Hear. *2017 – If You’re A Match. * 2016 – Canvass. * 2015 – Stay. *2014 – Harbour and Ship II: Storms and Stars. *2014 – I’ll Be Home For Christmas. *2014 – (Reggie Mantle’s Revenge On) Riverdale *2013 – Harbour and Ship
Band:Time Release: Time E.P. Year:2009 Genre: Rock Formed:2006
Local connection:Pat Wilken & Ryan Watson are from Erieau. The band was Windsor based until moving to Toronto in 2010.
Time later changed their name to TimeGiant.
Tracks: 1. White Window 2. Candy From A Feather 3.The Pressure 4.Counter Clockwise
Links:
Official Website here.
Itunes link for this EP here.
CBC link here.
Note:All music performed, written, recorded by Shawn B. except where noted.
Tracks: 01 I’ll Make Mistakes 02 Will You Forgive Me.. 03Pieces 04Don’t Stop The Party 05 123 06 With Someone Else Now 07Beautiful Day 08 Camp Fire Songs 09 Kiss Your Halo Good-Bye 10 Occupy Religion 11Tell You Twice 12Sick With Me 13 I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Band: Lesser Known Release: Bring an Open Mind Year: 1994 Genre: Metal Home: Tilbury Ontario Format: CD Demo
Members: Mike Davidson (Spaz) – Vocals Cory Chauvin – Guitars J.P. Caza – Guitar Roger Beaudry – Bass Paul Turgeon – Drums
Notes: Lesser Known was heading into the direction of Metal with strong hints of rap induced play. All bands could learn a thing or two about presentation from them. They were probably the best run indie band in Canada. Do It Yourself motto in full swing with great posters, band fanzines, website and studio blogs, posters, merch, media, great production, you name it. They had all that perfected 10 years before anyone else could spell check their own bio.
Back in the day, Spaz was a leading force with his emotional stage presence, sucking you in to the secret circle that was the Lesser Known Zone. He had mastered this with his previous band D.N.A. which also included some members from the current band.
Tracks: 01. Prestus Recordus 02. Weak Like You 03. Wa Zup 04. My Time 05. Come… In With The Dead 06. Sweat On Command 07. Freestyle Dis 08. Shattered Fantasy 09. Looking In My Brain 10. Getting Into It 11. Bring An Open Mind
Group: Jubilation Release: Second Chance At Love Year: 1998 Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock. Home: Chatham-Kent (Dresden)
Members: Judy Paling Richard Arssenault
This CD includes four original songs and features Amber Ladd (Oshawa) on vocals. Paling’s three daughters can also be heard on the release.
Note: This is their second recording. The first CD was entitled “My Wings For His Glory“.
Tracks: 01. Sink 02. Faster’s Better 03. Basic Earl 04. Sleep In 05. So Hard to Believe 06. Comical Release 07. Mush 08. All Over Again 09. Hide 10. Orange Plug
Band: Shattered Existence Demo Release: Brainstorm Year: 1992 Genre: Rock Home: Tilbury
Members: E.J Chapados– Vocals Chris Hammerton – Lead Guitars Pat O’Donnel – Bass Rodney Beaudry – Drums Ryan Odette – Guitar
The band also played on the Windsor Compilation CD. That line up included: E.J Chapados – Vocals Rodney Beaudry – Drums Mark Thompson – Bass Ryan Odette – Guitars
Band: Gates of Rage Release: The Opening Year: 1995 Home: Tilbury (Chatham-Kent) Genre: Metal
Members Darren Marchand – Vocals Rodney Beaudry – Drums and Backing Vocals, Rich Dupuis – Guitars Ryan Odette – Guitars & Backing Vocals Dave Boulion (R.I.P) – Bass
Tracks:
1 The Opening / All These Dreams
2 Take The Fall
3 Broken Soul
4 Blindman Deadman
5 Blind Misery
6 Unknown Life
7 Sound Of Thunder
8 No Sympathy
9 Out of The Gates
Band: The Golden Eagles Release: The Gold Album Year: 2009 Formed: Early 2008 Home: Windsor/ Chatham-Kent
Members:
Jamie Reaume – Vocals and guitar.
Neil Tupling – Bass (ex-Lost Souls Division)
Geoff Yunker – drums.
Notes: Some of you may know singer songwriter Jamie Reaume from his previous band Foreign Film Star, or saw him play a solo acoustic show in Chatham or Windsor. He used to often play at the Elephant’s Nest and other venues while growing up in Chatham.
Jamie is currently living in the Windsor area and his new band involves musicians from there as well.
This is a great indie CD worth checking out. Their first single “Cell Phone” is a great indication of jamie improving consistently with his song writing and song structures. This track alone shows signs of a band who gets it and has worked hard to drop tracks that simply rock without trying to over play, be too artsy, or too safe.
Track Listing 01 Cell Phone 02 See You Coming 03 Bird Of Prey 04 Go 05 Surfing At The Circus 06 Don’t Wanna Know 07 Twenty Something 08 Dr Shark’s Leather Couch 09 The Duke
The Gold Album was recorded from November 2008 to March 2009 at Sharktank Studios in Windsor, Ontario and was engineered, mixed and mastered by Mark Plancke. The album features guest appearances from Sara Hines as Sally, Mark Plancke as Dr. Shark and Jose Ramirez as El Diablo.
Band: Mike Gorman Release: Twilight Harvest Year: 2006 Genre: Folk and Blues Home: Southern Ontario
Music & Lyrics by Mike Gorman
Musicians:
Mike Gorman – Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Janalynne Rogers, Jennifer Thorpe, Mike Williams – Harmony Vox. Larry Smith – Guitar, banjo, Bass, harmony Vox
Willie P. Bennet – Harmonica, Harmony Vox.
Jerry Fletcher – Pedal Steel, Guitar
Dean Harrison – Piano, Organ, Accordian John Allen – Fiddle, Mandolin, Violin
Claire Ishoy – Cello
Peter Hysen & Joel Gehman – Bass
Jonathon Davis – Drums
Artist: Margaret Wysman Debut Release: Turns of the Century Year: 2000 Born: Chatham Ontario
Songs: 01 Turns Of The Century 02 I Want To Be With You 03 Betrayal
04 I Am On My Way 05 Guardian Angel 06 Modern-Day Woman 07 The Feel Good Song 08 Shades Of Red, Hues Of Blue 09 Wondrous Light: A Wayward Girl Reclaimed 10 Blue Skies And Fields Of Green 11 Meeting
Bio
Margaret Wysman was born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, and she is the youngest of nine siblings.
From 1985 to 1991 Margaret attended The University of Western Ontario, worked in molecular genetics research at UWO for a couple of years, taught laboratory courses, and in 1991, did a short stint as a field ecologist for the Ministry of Natural Resources in Wingham, Ontario. Although she was a science major in Western’s Ecology and Evolution program, Margaret loved variety, and consequently, she enrolled in English Literature and psychology courses and taught herself to play the guitar.From 1987 until 1993 she belonged to a Christian folk group, The 53RD Musicians. Margaret played some key musical roles in this group. In addition to creating many new harmonies and arrangements for the songs in their repertoire, she sang, played guitar, recorder, penny whistle, mandolin, and often provided comic relief.
From August of 1997 to March of 1999 some 25 songs were penned and performed by Margaret at a variety of venues in Bruce, Grey and Kent Counties. She has performed for several events at the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, including anniversaries of the Montreal Massacre, The Women’s International Dinners, political rallies for Ontario Teachers’ Federations, and CAW Cultural Nights. She has been a regular performer at The Songbird Cafe in Durham, at The Storybook Cafe in Southampton and for the Candlelight Music Series in Southampton. Also, she has opened for Keating-Jones at the annual Sing Out Cafe at Glencolton Farms and has played for the students at Saugeen District Secondary several times.
Artist: Demo Kid Release: Home Demos Volume 2 Release Date: July 2009 Home: Chatham Kent Ontario Canada
Track List 1. Another Stupid Love Song 2. I Give It All 3. Be In Love 4. Our Little Secret 5. Will You Forgive Me.. 6.Last Day Of Summer 7. With Every Broken Promise 8. Never Let You Go
Members:
Shawn B. – Drums, percussion, vocals, programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, harmonica and piano, except where noted by a special guest. Jesse V. – Lead Vocal on # 3,4,5,7.
Special Guests Andy T. – Electric Jazz Guitar #3 Sarah H. – B. Vocal #5. Larry . – Jazz Organ #5.
Notes: This is the follow up to the 24-song debut Home Demos Volume obe CD in 2007. This collection of home recordings includes influences from dance, pop, metal and rock.
These songs are not intended to be polished releases, they are simply home recordings to share with friends.
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Demo Kid – 80’s Radio . A home demo song/video co-written with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. The song did make it onto Weezer’s 2010 album ‘Death To False Metal. Below is the demo version Demo Kid did & below that is the final album version.
Demo Kid released a 24-song demo in 2007 and hasn’t slowed down a bit. 2008 saw as many as 30 new original songs posted online. Above are a few fun songs/videos from this year.
Artist: The MATADORS Release: Matadors (Demo) Style: Rockabilly Date: 1999
Chatham Connection: Singer Chris Hart is from Chatham.During his high school years he fronted the punk rock band L.O.T.D. (Lice Of The Dead). After moving to London, he joined Jivaro Fracus, and later the Matadors. In 2000, Chris began a venture into solo records.
At the time, the band did a mix of covers and original music.
The Matadors are: Joel Parkins – Guitar Steve Crew – Drums Linda McCartney – Organ Jefry Sheppard – Dog House Bass Chris Hart – Vocals
Tracks:
01. Ride
02. Other Man
03. Hangin’ Round
04. London Dungeon (Misfits cover)
These songs were recorded at dB studios in London, Ontario in 1998-ish.
I was lucky enough to catch Chris perform in local punk & rockabilly bands before he moved on to London. Chris’s voice is amazing. He may not like that I think he has an early Danzig/Misfits sound, but he does, and he turned it into his own. Go listen.
Note from chrwradio : Chris Hart went on to record his own record entitled Lonesome Blood. Linda McCartney sadly died that year of cancer related illnesses. Jef and Joel, however, transformed the Matadors into what the original intention of the band was….a youth oriented Satanic outreach and musical revue. The new Matadors also put out a record, aptly named ‘Heartless’, in 2002.
Additional Musicians – Matt Drew – Percussion, Jay Moskaluk – Guitar on ‘Inspire Me’.
The Scoop: This is the bands 2nd demo. Just like the first one, Shawn & Jesse spit the vocal duties, but by the next release, they recall Mat Drew to the front.
The song “She Said” caught the attention of the local radio station “The Rock” who put it into regular rotation, from there it spun off to other stations.
The Mellow track ‘Deny Me’ was accepted well in the California area.
Recording credits Produced by Steve Eyres & The Janet Theory. Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Steve Eyres. Recorded at Eyres Space Studio. Chatham Ontario (Franks Music Center) Jan-July ’98.
1. Waving Good-Bye 2. She Said 3. Everything & Anything 4. Deny Me 5. Waiting 6. Suffer Well 7. Wishful Thinking 8. Battle Of Head & Heart 9. One White Dove 10. Shoot Me Down 11. Losing The Angle 12. Inspire Me
Sarah Hiltz:
listen @ Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sarahhiltz Sarah was kind enough to come over & record backing vocals on “Will You Forgive Me In The end”, a new song I wrote with Jesse V. We did this in April. She did backing vocals on ‘Just’ by FL3P (First line Third Planet) that stood out and made me take notice.
FL3P was a short lived band, (around 2004) but a great band. The drummer (Chuck Young) has been a good friend & long time band mate beginning with me in ‘Foster Child’ in 1991 to The Janet Theory & Dead Girls Union.
The track Sarah Hiltz sings on with FL3P is called ‘Just’ and can be heard here.
FL3P Music : http://www.myspace.com/fl3p
FL3P Band
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Julie Ross You know her from the Nest every Tuesday. Everyone loves her. She sang at my wedding. That made my wife extremely happy.
Her Music: http://www.myspace.com/julesross
Julie Ross performing at our wedding.
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Ruthless C*nt Killers Music: http://www.myspace.com/ruthlesscuntkillers Yep, they called it a day. I went to show Bob & Keegan some love by attending their last show as the R.C.K. at the KBD Hall in Chatham a month ago.
It was good to catch more good local underground bands on the bill, like Davis Block & 100 Proof.
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