roachboy

uh yeah...i dont know what this category means from a consumer viewpoint.
"indie" seems like "alternative" seems like "other"...
but if you're trying to get your own music out, the categories are useful in that they give you a space to work in order to get exposure.

same thing obtains for stranger music--when i think about "experimental" i dont think it designates anything--and this is supposed to me the genre i work in. best i can figure, it basically means "strange..."
which i suppose is better than "other" but not by much.

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besides, bands like melt banana have been around for a while and are really quite cool and seem to have nothing in particular to do with "indie"--but hey, who really cares? they're a fine noisy band, tight as hell, and what difference does it make what people pretend they are or call them so long as more folk get to check them out?

o yeah--for fine lovely canadian bands, a couple additions to charlatan's list:

shalabi effect
le fly pan am

there are tons of them, tho. personally, i think the proliferation of canadian bands is in part about the fact that canada actually funds the arts.

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