r/CanadianMusic

As someone who is interested in getting into the indie music scene, I had a couple of questions. I have always thought that reaching out to bands or anyone in the music industry is a little intimidating so sorry if I come across as naive or ignorant.
- How do bands usually find gigs to play? How do you manage the bookings

- How do you find locations that would be good (as in how do you rate those venues)?

- Do you always need a band manager to help book shows and venues? or does all the logistics/bookkeeping happen without the need for a manager?

- What are your favorite locations to play at (I play rock music mainly)

- What are things I need to watch out for when reaching out to venues for bookings.

Took a sick day and ended up at Dead Dog Records talking local music, DIY records and why your favourite new band might literally live down the street from you.

Also dropped off the first batch of Spin Class Local hype stickers — little markers for locally made records in shops. If you’re putting out music and want stickers for your releases, DM me and let’s get them onto some albums.

Featuring local recommendations, record store lore, and accessibility notes.

- @spinclasslocal

To be honest, I'm canadian and yet don't know anything about the musical scene in the country. So I'm curious to discover what's going on right now.

Shoulder was Bry and Doug's 90s-emo band, before The Constantines. In the early 2000s, I had bootleg MP3s of their discography, and tragically lost them.

Do you have those MP3s? Please let me know.

Enjoy

Is it just me, or is the new SOCAN layout absolutely unusable? I've spent too much time trying (and failing) to do the basic tasks like reporting live performance that used to take a couple minutes with the old website. Plus it's so ugly (almost 0 contrast between background and text fields), has a ton of redundant links, and lots of terms that mean nothing and aren't explained anywhere else.

I'm honestly convinced that it's some sort of AI slop, vibe-coded hack job. For having spent the past few years in development, whoever made it should be ashamed (assuming they didn't just plunder a ton of contract money for this shit heap of a site).

Just bought The Jitters debut album on vinyl for $8! Love "Last of the Red Hot Fools", what you peeps think.