Joel Plaskett Emergency from Nova Scotia leads the pack with seven nominations, two more than the five awarded to Wintersleep. Three artists received four nominations each and two of those artists are from P.E.I. — Chucky Danger and Nathan Wiley ...
Wintersleep was named in five categories, followed by Chucky Danger, Nathan Wiley and Jimmy Rankin, each with four. Award nominees are chosen by juries of industry professionals from all five regions of the East Coast Music Association: New Brunswick ...
Wintersleep, a Halifax indie rock band, earned five nominations including recording of the year, best group recording and best rock recording for their 2007 album Welcome to the Night Sky. Wintersleep vocalist Paul Murphy, guitar and keyboard player ...
In 2005 alone, they have showcased at NXNE, toured across Canada with Wintersleep and Uncut, have an upcoming tour with Controller Controller and will be performing at Pop Montreal. The attention the band has received has also driven them back into ...
And then broke up. Wintersleep, Welcome to the Night Sky (2007). A daunting step up to "next big thing" status from these pals of Holy F--- main man Brian Borcherdt. Complex and noisy as all hell, but tuneful enough to get "Weighty Ghost" on ...
Wintersleep. Canadian indie rock is alive and well outside of Montreal and Toronto. Halifax's Wintersleep makes very pretty, existential songs with lush leanings on its new album, Welcome to the Night Sky. They play tomorrow at Club Lambi, 4465 St ...
Wintersleep, Montreal, Lambi. - Dropkick Murphys, The Briggs, The Tossers, Montreal, Metropolis. - Clipd Beaks, Quebec City, Le Bal du Lezard. - Patricia Barber, Quebec City, Palais Montcalm. - Treasa Levasseur, Sutton, Auberge Des Appalaches. Nov. 17 ...
THT has toured Eastern Canada extensively with the likes of Wintersleep, The Joel Plaskett Emergency, and Cuff the Duke. Now, Two Hours Traffic have completed their second EP, Isolator. Having triumphed over the dreaded sophomore slump, the band ...
There's a good reason why a little-known band named Wintersleep is selling out shows as they tour across Canada. Simply put, the five-man rock outfit from Halifax makes fantastic music. It's the kind of music you can get lost in. It's neither ...
Wintersleep frontman Paul Murphy is, by our watch, a perfectly sane individual. Then how is it that the singer-guitarist sounds so convincingly in despair on his band's otherworldly new single, Weighty Ghost? Chalk it up to artistic licence, says ...