FemBots - Calling Out

Friday, October 17th, 2008

There’s a truly spectacular class of independent music coming out of Canada, and it’s so frustratingly genre agnostic and post-everything that to even bother labeling it is an exercise in futility. Toronto duo FemBots are often lumped into some quasi-fictitious indie-folk genre, and that’s an absolutely uncomfortable fit. The duo of Dave MacKinnon and Brian [...]

Audio: FemBots

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Everything I’ve ever heard from the FemBots has been wonderfully smart and classy. They take the whole post-Neil Young Canadian indie-folk thing and modernize it without loosing that rustic appeal. Anyone who saw the band’s principles touring as part of the expanded-Weakerthans this past year hopefully arrived early to catch their own set, because it [...]

It’s always a horsie

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

So Paul McCartney likes the Sex Pistols. Weird, but whatever. 10 points go to Macca. Anyways…
I hit up two shows in the past months that were among the highlights of my year. The earlier show being the FemBots, Constantines and The Weakerthans in Guelph. It was actually in the basement of my University centre, which [...]