theTurn combines infectious, addictive hard rock anthems
with terrific vocals and great musicianship. With superb
stage presence and energetic performances, their music
is best experienced live, but that didn’t stop them from
getting plenty CFOX airplay and charting, first with “Cut to
Pieces” entering at 5 but two days later clinching the 2 spot,
and second with their second single “The Innocence you Fake”
coming in at 3.


They also shot a video for “Cut To Pieces” which was added
to the Much Music web site AXS and now sits in their “Top
Rated Videos”. The Turn has become something of a fixture
on the Vancouver airways performing acoustic versions of
their songs for the Fox on the 6 O’clock rock report on many
occasions. The response was so great; they released some
of the tracks on myspace page for download.

http://www.myspace.com/theturnmusic

"The band originally formed with the intention of playing only one set, so they wrote a full set of songs. They adopted the name 'Theset' for this reason. The band members originally included Kyle Dark (guitar), Jory MacKay (guitar), Dean Rode (bass guitar), and Tristan Tarr (drums). Dark asked Martin MacPhail (singer) to sing for the band's set, and he did. The first show was a success, generating many young fans for the new band, so Theset decided to continue making music. When Dark left the country, he was quickly replaced by Elliot Carter (guitar), who had previously played in local band "Lythic Blue" with MacPhail." - Theset wikipedia article

http://www.myspace.com/thesetband

Punk / Metal / Rock

Six or Seven years of grinding it out in a moderately successful punk-metal outfit from the nations humble capital will teach you a few things about life and rock n’ roll: American beer is cheaper than water. Disillusion runs thick in this business. Camping is free. The fans really do make it all worth while. Showers are not necessary. Money is to be burnt. And if you show up at a venue that has more urine on the rest room floors than tiles, and more stickers on the walls than free space, it's probably going to be a good gig. And unavoidably, you learn that change will occur. We must not fear change. An accumulation of influence is embraced. And with music and in life, what was once simple is now complex. A song is created, sometimes in a single evening, yet it lives forever. It should be able to stand alone, and take you on an audio voyage. After all, let's put image, marketing, branding, and industry elitism aside, and be what it is that we always have been - song writers, performers, artists, humans following their chosen paths and loving it. At some point in fall ’05 we fell in love with that wonderful woman named the road. She’s some kind of lover. We’ve experienced 10 provinces in Canada and 8 of the U.S. states in our ’88 Chevy Beauville, logging thousands of road clicks. We dig the rock, and the rock digs us. However, periodically you are home and you work, sheepishly. You adjust to normality, then enter the madness, and repeat.

Not a lifestyle for the meek, we’ve had our first lineup change with original bassist Justin Jarvo leaving the band in fall ’07 prompting an unexpected performing hiatus. After much deliberation, and 13 auditions, we invited a charming Nova Scotia lad named Peter Zdravko Dimov to slay the bass and join our clan. With the line-up finally solidified once again we’re back on the gig circuit and busy writing, recording demos and preparing to lay down a new album. With a handy $5000 winnings from local radio - LIVE 88.5fm, our next recordings are being healthfully supplemented...! Excellant! As well, we’re putting major focus on getting organized to resume our road wanderings in ’09 because we like to wail, party, travel, experience, create & inspire. Let’s sum it up. We’ve got 2.5 albums behind us, over 300 shows logged, 12 000 cd’s in circulation, and a strong buzz building on the internet with over 100 000 plays; we have now released our new online sampler “Gnarwhal”, and we’re fully stoked with how it came out. There are so many more songs simmering on the back burner just waiting to be recorded. Additionally, our newest video “Hollywood Horror Show” is really awesome and gnarly and you should tell those swell folks at Much Music to give it a spin. We’ve been saying it for a while, so we can’t stop NOW, there is just NO OTHER WAY. “There’s always a shred of hope. We’ll go on with our lives one day at a time.”

–NOW

http://www.myspace.com/nootherway

Metal / Progressive / Rock

Vancouver based quintet Incura formed in the winter of 2005 in Southern Alberta and has since garnered serious attention from the press and audiences alike. The word "genre" thrown around to categorize bands is rarely applied to Incura, as they cross between numerous styles and take influence from every musical moment they hear. Incura has never been subject to the confines of any single musical style or genre and their live performances are always met with critical acclaim.

Lead vocalist Kyle Gruninger was born to perform on the stage. Involved in hundreds of performances as a jazz theater actor and choral singer, his unique operatic tenor voice gives the group a biting distinction that separates Incura from all the other bands. His idol and largest influence on style is the great Freddy Mercury of "Queen" and playwrights such as Andrew Lloyd Webber. Kyle is the unique front man and face of Incura who is the driving force and unforgettable operatic performer that leads this band.

Kyle is backed by a very talented band that draws out the complex metal framework that is Incura:

Jim McLaren (keyboardist, samples and bandleader) is a music theory master who holds a degree in Physics and Music Education who also plays guitar, Chapman stick and bass at a studio level. Jim scores all the ideas of the songwriting process in the studio and assumes the role of the bandleader during rehearsals. On stage he takes on the role of the stage director of the band and has the central role of triggering all the samples and effects that add the required layers to the show. He is also in charge of the behind-the-scenes electronics such as the click track and the other important roles that make the show the musical experience that it is.

Gatlin Fitzgerald (guitarist) is the principal composer of Incura who draws inspiration from Japanese composers and animation. Gatlin spends hours tirelessly in his room creating the demos that become Incura songs and cites Final Fantasy musical composer Nobuo Uematsu as his principal influence. He is known for changing between multiple tunings frequently and crafting melodic riffs (many of which take years to develop and perfect). Gatlin is always recording demos and has an archive of hundreds of scratch tracks that will eventually form the next Incura record.

Jon "Jono" Olson (bassist) has an unforgettable stage presence as one who weaves in and out of all the complex time signatures and tempo changes effortlessly. Jono and Gatlin have been a songwriting duo since he first picked up the bass, giving the two the tightness and solidarity impossible to find in other groups. A noted perfectionist in the studio and in rehearsal, Jono is always listening very closely to every piece and making positive that every bass drum note and guitar harmony is perfectly in sync.

Phil Gardner( Drummer) holds the role of meshing all the different styles together and hammering out the time signatures to give the songs fluidity and rhythm. This is no trouble for the drummer who is highly skilled in the areas of hip hop, rock, metal, funk, reggae, and latin. Playing since the age of two, Phil's musical influences include drummers Carter Beauford and Tony Royster Jr. Marching band is where his inspiration and ideas come from and why he is praised for his precision, stick control, rudiments, and self-discipline when writing and performing.

These five talented individuals are no strangers to the studio setting, having recorded numerous studios demos such as "A Way Out" (2003, Tonesmith Studios, Lethbridge, Alberta) and "Is Everyone Ready to Face what we are Fighting For?" (2005, Sundae Sound Studios, Calgary, Alberta).

2007 marked the release of their debut effort "Swords.Souls.Secrets" recorded at the acclaimed Greenhouse Studios with producer Jay Evjen (Hot Hot Heat, Wide Mouth Mason, Todd Kerns) in Vancouver, Canada.

2009 release “The lost Ep” marks a stepping stone for INCURA. With powerhouse music industry veterans, such as producers Brian Howes (Hinder, Hedley) and Jeff Dawson (State of Shock, Daniel Powter), The mixing magic of Mike Fraser ( Metallica, AC/DC) INCURA's latest efforts are proving to exceed all industry expectation.

In August of 2008, INCURA won the coveted CFOX SEEDS 2008 Platinum award sponsored by Vancouver's top rock radio station CFOX. INCURA beat out over 5000 bands to reach this goal and with this honour, was awarded an opening slot with Sloan and Stone Temple Pilots among other industry advantages.

With management through “Coalition Entertainment” (Finger eleven, Our Lady Peace) and “The Agency Group” backing this 5 piece rock act, they're ready to take on anything that is placed in their path.

A favourite in their current town of Vancouver, an Incura show is always filled with fans who can't seem to get enough of their unique live performance as well as seasoned musicians taken a back by a performance with such high emphasis on musical complexity and style mixing. Deemed "operatic metal" or "math rock" by critics, no genre will entrap Incura as every future recording and performance will keep audiences and critics guessing.

-Incura

http://www.myspace.com/incura

Instrumentation

Kyle Gruninger - Vocals

Jim McLaren - Keys

Jon Olson - Bass

Gatlin Fitzgerald - Guitar

Phil Gardner - Drums

Discography

INCURA EP - is everyone ready to facewhat we're fighting for? 2005

INCURA FULL LENGTH - SWORDS.SOULS.SECRETS 2007

99.3 THE FOX SEEDS 2008 Complation CD-Platinum winners INCURA

"The lost Ep" 2009