30 Day Alberta Music Challenge

[Mazrim]

I came across this on bandcamp searching by Calgary located artists. I liked it!
https://hellomoth.bandcamp.com/album...mes-between-us

EDIT: And an interesting local DnB album too:
https://johnrolodex.bandcamp.com/alb...around-corners

[undercoverbrother]

This thread is gonna be a great resource at the end of the 30 days

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Here was Tariq. My bro played for him. This song had some play on the radio waves. I think he was a CBC host for a while afterwards.

Nicest guy you’d ever meet. He’d come over and make butter chicken for my white as fata parents. He destroyed any sort of racism that may have lingered in them prior.

It’s foreign food Honey

Chevrolet Way.

https://youtu.be/icIR-KHLKS0?si=zxE8CpxyeyAwaKYQ

Man, this takes me back. I loved Tariq back in the day when he was part of the Calgary music scene. Bought both of his albums at the time (Splat, Basement Songs). I completely lost track of him after that, but your post inspired me to do some digging, and it turns out he's been living here in Vancouver for quite a while now and is still making music and touring occasionally.



Here's his Bandcamp page in case anyone is interested.


https://tariqmusiq.bandcamp.com/

[Amethyst]

Here's a few:

https://kinjoyoung.com/music

https://justinevandergrift.com/music

https://www.johnworthannam.com/

https://annvriend.com/pages/av-and-the-inner-city-1

https://marcustrummermusic.com/

[troutman]

https://www.musiccalgary.ca/artists.html

[TheIronMaiden]

I've been really busy these last few days, still only listening to Alberta based music. I found a few gooders I look forward to sharing.

For now, I want to share an EP my two friends released yesterday, ( full disclosure I helped produce/ publish this so I wont rate it or anything because I love my friends and everything they do is 10/10 in my eyes) It's not for everyone, its pretty artsy and grainy stuff, but if you're into that check it out!

https://open.spotify.com/album/2bQPgL3314ajZFTj11ISNB

[CactusJack]

It’s definitely not suitable for work but you have to include Garry Lee & Showdown. Best know for The Rodeo Song but they have some other good ones as well. I like Awww and Ethel Pump even more than The Rodeo Song. Somebody uploaded their entire 1982 album on YouTube and those three songs are at least worth a listen!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQkho4ngwM&t=424s

[Engine09]

Close down the thread, lock it up.

There is disinformaion out there about British Columbia or some nonsense but I definitely have a faint memory of a possible Calgary connection. I think, yeah these little superstars lived in Alberta at one time.

[TheIronMaiden]

Okay, finally finished.

I have to admit, it was less of a music discovery journey towards the end and more of a fasting on music. A sort of Alberta music Ramadan. I basically just started listening to what I already Liked.

The Bad: while there are heaps of super talented musicians, the majority of music coming was from the Country Western Genre and there is an endemic problem Fake Southern Drawls. I don't know why everyone is out there trying to sound like 19 year old Taylor Swift but it is grating and takes away from a lot of stuff I would otherwise recommend.


The Good: there is a ton of really interesting experimental music, I think we are entering a golden age of bedroom Daw Producers.


Interesting Western Music

The Demin Daddies are probably the most interesting country western band coming from alberta. There newest EP Northen Goods is really good but you kind of need to forgive the drawl problem.

Tim Hus I'm not sure I love his records, but he plays a mean show well worth it to see him live

Ian Tyson is better than I thought he would be, definitely has that 80s 90s country shine, but he is a true poet. I think time is going to be really fair to his music

Wilf Carter, look you either love yodeling or you don't



Albums I listened to the #### out of

DIMOND JUBILEE BY CINDY LEE. Holy #### this is a masterpiece. SOO Good



Other artists worth a mention

https://avensvictoria.bandcamp.com/a...lk-is-feathers
https://womenband.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-2007-2010
https://chadvangaalen.bandcamp.com/
https://mindmoldca.bandcamp.com/album/erosive
https://riotcityofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://pubeprovisionalsociety.bandcamp.com/
https://carterfelker.bandcamp.com/al...y-ones-are-sad


Final thoughts. Was it worth it? Yes and No. My enthusiasm definitely faltered. But at the same time I was listening to Rod Stewart this morning and I was like god damn this is good, so maybe it was a good cleanse?

Anyways hope this thread lives and folks promote any local music they find.