People who think we don’t suck
Tragic Romantic Mocku Fantasy
"Suck on this, it's awesome!"
- Matt Schichter, Music Director, 90.3 FM AMP Radio Calgary, AB
I Don’t Care
2009 Finalist – Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting contest – Best Newcomer
Hey There Iginla
Five star rating
125,000 views, reaching...
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“One of the best...”
- Sarah Miller, National Post
“Great lines”
- Randy Sportak, Calgary Sun
“Side-splitting lyrics”
Pluto Rocks
“When people come to me and say, where are the great songs coming from... I will remind them that there is a song with a lyric that goes, “so smart and so smug so proudly pedantic...” You don’t get songs with lines like that. That’s classic. It’s like a rock group for the science club.”
- Peter Anthony Holder, Holder Tonight, CJAD 800 AM Radio, Montreal, Quebec
“Fabulously funny.”
- Jonathon McDonald, News Editor, The Province Newspaper, Victoria, BC
“You rock!”
- Geoff Scott, Rock 94.5 FM, Spokane, WA
“A great idea”
- Virginia Jones, Australian Broadcast Corp, Canberra, Australia
“A catchy beat...”
- As It Happens, CBC National Radio, Toronto, ON
“Insisting that the recently-demoted planet Pluto got a bum deal, an Alberta rock group has released a song to raise earthly awareness of the distant celestial body and money to reinstate it to its former planetary glory.
The Calgary indie band SubPlot A has written and recorded the song Pluto Rocks in defense of the most distant known satellite in the solar system.
The International Astronomical Union decided last month to demote Pluto to “dwarf planet” because it was smaller than other objects in the solar system that didn’t qualify as planets. The move prompted reactions ranging from bemusement to outrage in the scientific and the amateur sky-gazing community alike.
That hasn’t been lost on the rockers in SubPlot A.
“Well, if they wanted to screw a planet, they should have picked Uranus,” the group said today in a prepared statement.
In response, SubPlot A “decided to misdirect their end-of-summer angst into recording a protest song.” Band members calculate that if traveling at the speed of sound from a car stereo, the song will reach Pluto in 411 years.
“Make no mistake. Pluto Rocks is not Dark Side of the Moon,” the band says. “It’s not even Drops of Jupiter. But it does let the world know that Pluto is our family, Pluto is our history, and Pluto is a dwarf to nobody (except myopic, pedantic, and misguided pocket-protected astronomers).”
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the song will go towards lobbying to “grandfather” Pluto as a full planet.”
- Edmonton Journal, Edmonton AB
Saturday Night
2006 Finalist – Best Newcomer
- Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting contest
Misc.
“Don’t quit your day job.”
“Daddy, now can we listen to The Wiggles?”
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