Expanda Fuzz at the The Palomino Smokehouse: By Michael Grondin for BeatRoute (AB)
A huge thanks to Sled Island for having Expanda Fuzz along for your incredible bash this year!
Thanks also to Mike Bell for putting us on his Theyyscene's TOP 5 LIST for Friday at Sled...what an honour to be named alongside these incredible acts: http://theyyscene.com/2018/06/22/mike-bells-top-5-sled-island-2018-picks-for-friday/
Until next time, Calgary!
Expanda Fuzz at Sloth Records. Photo by Arif Ansari
Expanda Fuzz: by Petr Maur
Ottawa Explosion is just around the corner and we kick of the fest this year on June 13th playing the 27 Club.
DETAILS:
The 27 Club Ottawa - 27 York St, Ottawa
8:30pm / $10 or wristband
Expanda Fuzz
Fruit and Flowers
Foam
The Heavy Medicine Band
Right after OXW winds down, we're off to Calgary to play Sled Island!
We've got two shows:
Thursday, June 21st
SLOTH RECORDS PRESENTS
Slow Tide - 1pm
Bad Buddy - 2pm
Expanda Fuzz - 3pm
The Garrys - 4pm
Friday, June 22nd
PALOMINO (upstairs)
Expanda Fuzz - 11:30 pm
Expanda Fuzz at the Ship & Anchor in Calgary
Hey friends!
On Saturday May 19th we return to the stage, raging full of new fuzz-up freak-outs from our new LP (which we'll be announcing soon...be sure to sign up to our newsletter to get details first!)
We join Chris Landry and the Seasick Mommas for a fun show that also includes legendary lounge lizard and lover of hot dogs, THE Remi Royale!
It's Chris Landry's big 4-0, so come out and celebrate with us at Irene's, 9pm.
Facebook details are here.
Photo from Sled Island 2017, by Arif Ansari.
We psyched to announce we're playing two of our very favourite festivals again this summer.
June 13th, we kick off Ottawa Explosion at the 27 Club in Ottawa.
Explosion was our very first show 2 years ago and we're thrilled to be a part of this amazing, underground DIY fest again this year.
You can get early bird tickets from the Ottawa Explosion site here.
The following week, from June 20 to 24, we're at Calgary's Sled Island!
Home of our friends at Saved By Vinyl, we're so happy to be heading west again this Summer.
Watch for our show updates at Sled coming soon!
This limited cassette comp is streaming on Episode 109 over at Cups now!
We're thrilled to be a part of this - our first compilation!
Cups N Cakes have been such great supporters during the early days of the Expanda Fuzz journey, so we're excited to contribute an unreleased track to this sexy, cool looking cassette!
In fact, the track is one of the very first songs we ever wrote and recorded. Expanda Fuzz history, folks!
Find out more about the comp here.
You can order it from Cups N Cakes now. And we'll also have a very limited handful for sale at our Ottawa Explosion show on June 13 at the 27 Club...more details on that show coming soon.
This week we've got two shows on tap with our pals Miesha and the Spanks!
Thursday March 22
Montreal: Barfly (4062A St. Laurent Blvd)
9pm
Friday March 23
Ottawa: Bar Robo (Ottawa Showbox presents!)
692 Somerset St W
9pm
Expanda Fuzz photo Petr Maur!
Next up we play #MEGAPHONO2018!
If you haven't been before, this is a great indie festival that showcases incredible underground artists from near and far, while showing off our thriving-sometimes-frozen Ottawa music scene hot🔥bed to international delegates.
We play Friday, February 9th at House Of Targ!
DETAILS:
Michael Rault
http://www.megaphono.tv/2018/michael-rault
Expanda Fuzz
That's us, natch!
SUNSHINE & THE BLUE MOON
http://www.megaphono.tv/2018/sunshine-and-the-blue-moon
Queen Of Swords
http://www.megaphono.tv/2018/queen-of-swords
at House of Targ
1077 Bank Street
$10 advance / $12 doors
Free with MEGA PASS or FO’SHOWS wristband.
Advance tickets available in stores at The Record Centre, Vertigo Records, both locations of Compact Music, and online here.
Doors at 9:00 pm
19+ / licensed
Get your passes here: TICKETS!
Here are the artists: ARTISTS AT MEGAPHONO 2018
Our first show of the new year...bringing the PSYCH GARAGE POP SLOP to 2018!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our friends, regardless of what and how you celebrate this time of year!
We put together a playlist of some of our holiday favourites ... WAY OFF the usual beaten track of festive songs.
Grab a spiked lait du poule and share this playlist with your friends!
xo
Expanda Fuzz photo by Petr Maur
It's fundraising time for CHUO and our pals there are putting on a series of shows in November, starting with us and Deathsticks this Thursday November 9th.
Details:
The Record Centre
1099 Wellington St W.
Doors at 6 pm - show ends at 9pm.
PWYC - Support the bands!
All Ages!
Facebook event is here
Support CHUO!
Let’s celebrate!
We make great radio all year long and rarely take the time to stop and appreciate what we do so we are throwing parties four Thursdays in a row at The Record Centre! Other parties will feature Fire Queen, No Mistakes in Space, So Sensitive, Plant Legs and more!
We have a unique community powered, listener supported approach to radio. CHUO 89.1 FM provides hyper-local, independent, and diverse programming unparalleled in the city. We are an independent bilingual, community station broadcasting on the FM airwaves since May 31st, 1991. We are a small not-for-profit organization with two full-time, one part-time and three student staff members. Broadcasting in over 10 different languages and playing many different styles of music: indie rock, hip-hop, soca, reggae, jazz, funk – you’ll hear it all on CHUO. We have our finger on the pulse and we love spreading the word about what’s happening in our city.
Get our first album Bleuets here:
"This two-piece would be equally at home playing to the beard-strokers at a Warhol Factory Party as they would be ignoring their neighbour’s angry knocks for making too much racket in the garage". - Sled Island
"Sometimes some stripped back rock'n'roll is just enough, add in the darker garage edge, and that's enough boxes ticked for me!" - Beehive Candy
"Expanda Fuzz may be my new favorite band." - Brent Oliver, Artistic Director, Up + DT Festival, on Twitter.
About:
Expanda Fuzz was conceived attempting to rip apart a Pink Floyd song with a distorted bass and a fuzz-driven guitar through a ripped speaker cabinet...while playing to a Roland 404 sampler. The result of that experiment can be heard on the duo’s new record ‘Bleuets’, where they showcase their brand of catchy, droney, post-punk songs that hook heavily into a psych-garage sound.
Think Kim Deal fronting the Velvet Underground, or Mary Timony jamming with Suicide. And while that initial Pink Floyd cover has yet to surface, many more Expanda Fuzz releases are planned for 2017.
Photo by Andrew Carver
Photo by Andrew Carver