Aug 11, 08
GAMIQ Awards 2008

Signed By Force and Semprini Records have racked up a whopping five nominations at this year's Gamiq Awards. Please take a minute to fill out the online application and support Montreal's underdog labels at www.gamiq.ca

Punk Album Of The Year
Dare To Ride The Heliocraft – Trigger Effect

Rock’n’Roll Album Of The Year
Black Blood – Bionic
Cold Burns – Starvin Hungry

Breakthrough Artist Of The Year
Pas Chic Chic

Indie Rock Album Of The Year
Au contraire – Pas Chic Chic

Jun 11, 08
NXNE News!

More NXNE activity in what is becoming a busy week for the SBF bands at the Toronto festival.

STARVIN HUNGRY will performing live at Sonic Boom Records, 512 Bloor St. west at 5PM this Saturday, June 14.
They will then pack up and move their cabooses across the street for a 10PM stage time at Lee's Palace.

TRIGGER EFFECT will performing live at Sunrise Records on Friday June 13 at 4PM during the NXNE festival. Sunrise is located at 336 Yonge St just north of Dundas. They will then be moving over to the Bovine for a 10PM set time sharing the stage with The Nymphets, The Real Mackenzies and The Sainte Catherines

BIONIC have added a second show at the NXNE Festival in Toronto.
They will be performing with SWERVEDRIVER with a stage time of 11PM at Lee's Palace on Friday June 13.
Bionic will then quickly pack up and head over to the El Mocambo where they will share the stage with Pride Tiger, Brant Bjork and more. Stage time 2AM.

Apr 30, 08
Label Life: Signed By Force

Signed By Force is featured in Exclaim!'s Label Life. Label owner Ram Borcar talks about "going against the grain".

Apr 4, 08
Bang Bang TV - Starvin Hungry

À la veille de partir en tournée d’un mois à travers le Canada Bang Bang TV sont allé voir le groupe Starvin Hungry dans leur LOCAL DE PRATIQUE.

Mar 31, 08
CBC Radio 3 - In Conversation w/ Starvin Hungry

Lisa Christiansen from CBC Radio 3 got a chance to sit down with John Milchem and Scott Mucklow to talk rock and about the fun of getting a bad review...for a show you never even played.

Mar 28, 08
Trigger Effect Interview: Thou shall piss in the sink

  Mike from WWW.HARDTIMES.CA interviews Trigger Effect in the Katacombes bathroom.

Mar 6, 08
What's on Ramachandra Borcar's iPod – Expanded Edition

Tcha Dunlevy from the Gazette was curious to know...

Mar 2, 08
Panpot.ca - Signed by Force: Label Profile

Panpot's Eric Theriault swindles about and focuses his attention on Montreal’s newest sonic reducer, Signed by Force.

Feb 18, 08
Trigger Effect live show recording @ Club Soda courtesy of CBC Bande Apart radio

Check out the live show recording on the Bande A Part website of theTrigger Effect, Grim Skunk and The Sainte Catherines show that took place @ Club Soda on November 1st, 2007.

Feb 13, 08
No No Zero blog up and running!

No No Zero's Pius Praipus has joined the blogosphere to keep you up to date on all things No No Zero and whatever else sparks his fancy....
heck, you may even learn something (or not).

Feb 1, 08
Bionic live tracks

Listen and download Bionic's January 24 CISM live session, who burned through a selection of songs from Black Blood and a powerful cover of 'Penetration Of A Centerfold'.

Feb 1, 08
Starvin Hungry live tracks available

Check out Starvin Hungry's live session on CISM, which you can also download for free as podcast courtesy of the nice folks at CISM. The band played 11 songs, including two news ones yet to be released, 'New Slime' and 'No'. The lads also brushed up on their French in a mostly francophone interview.

Jan 29, 08
Signed By Force records: a must check!!!

says Jose Magno from Noizeland Records in Madrid Spain.

Jan 15, 08
Video: Interview with Trigger Effect

We interview punk rockers Trigger Effect. Their album "Dare to Ride the Heliocraft" was recorded on 2 overnight sessions, their music is not for the faint of heart.

Jan 15, 08
Video: Starvin Hungry on watchmojo.com

Watchmojo had a chance to talk to the frontman of Starvin Hungry John Milchem. He was more than happy to take a little time out to answer a few of our questions about his rock and roll band.