WAKESTOCK 2007 BANDS
Check out who's playing on the TELUS Main Stage and the Indie stage presented by Underground Operations and Skate 4 Cancer.
| FRIDAY, JULY 27 | SATURDAY, JULY 28 | SUNDAY, JULY 29 |
| UO/S4C Indie Stage | TELUS Main Stage | TELUS Main Stage |
| PROTEST THE HERO | DEFTONES | STORY OF THE YEAR |
| FROM FIRST TO LAST | GOLDFINGER | LUPE FIASCO |
| TEN SECOND EPIC | DE LA SOUL | ILLSCARLETT |
| I HATE SALLY | DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN | EVIDENCE |
| SAINT ALVIA CARTEL | MONEEN | THE JUNCTION |
| THE FLATLINERS | SOCIAL CODE | CADENCE WEAPON |
| THESE SILHOUETTES | ||
| LIGHTS | UO/S4C Indie Stage | UO/S4C Indie Stage |
| BRASSMUNK | JOELL ORTIZ | |
| F#*#ED UP | SHAD K | |
| THE END | MACHETE AVENUE | |
| TRU-PAZ | CRUSH LUTHER | |
| DIE MANNEQUIN | DODGER |
Band Bios
Deftones
Textural, haunting and evocative, the long-awaited follow-up to 2003’s Deftones is deceptively tuneful and alarmingly heavy, see-sawing between melancholy reflection and jaw-clenching frustration like a manic depressive refusing his meds. “We really wanted to test ourselves with this record,” explains drummer Abe Cunningham. “It’s an album that explores a whole spectrum of sound rather than just switching between heavy stuff...
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Goldfinger
Music trends, like fashion, seem to come and go. The best thing Goldfinger has done in its rambunctious 11-year career is, go…as in “on tour.” Through the course of 10 CDs and multi-Platinum sales worldwide, this southern California rock kamikazes used the 1995 hit, “Here In Your Bedroom,” to launch what has been a never-ending barnstorming of concert stages from one end of the globe to the other, riling up the natives...
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De La Soul
At the time of its 1989 release, De La Soul's debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed as the future of hip-hop. With its colorful, neo-psychedelic collage of samples and styles, plus the Long Island trio's low-key, clever rhymes and goofy humor, the album sounded like nothing else in hip-hop. Where most of their contemporaries drew directly from old-school rap, funk, or Public Enemy's dense sonic barrage...
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Story Of The Year
Here’s the Story Of The Year: rock ‘n’ roll – real, raw and revealing -- is back. It’s a newsflash straight from the heartland of St. Louis, Missouri, where the creative chemistry of five committed young musicians first reached critical mass five years ago, exploding with an original sound that pushed the stakes for pure punk energy, hard-edged live performances and dangerous fun to the limit...
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Lupe Fiasco
It’s not easy being a best-kept secret, especially for an artist who has so much to say. Lupe Fiasco, a 24 year-old Chicago native, who has been highly regarded and coveted by many top-level executives and industry insiders for the past three years, has remained relatively unknown in the public eye. Until now. With the release of his Atlantic Records debut, “LUPE FIASCO’S FOOD & LIQUOR,” Lupe Fiasco is sure to take the entire music industry by storm.
Del The Funky Homosapien
Hailing from Oakland, California comes Del the Funky Homosapien no doubt a true innovator and legend in the world of underground Hip-hop. Del got his start rapping behind his cousin, Ice Cube, as a member of his back up band and crew. After parting ways, Del ventured out as a solo artist, making music that immediately gained attention. Del’s music offered a fresh new outlook on an otherwise gangsta rap controlled...
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Moneen
Working on their latest album The Red Tree, Moneen had a new awakening. For a band that is accustomed to touring extensively and taking only a month off to write an album before going back on the road, having real time to work on their songs was a concept they weren’t used to. The process was both refreshing and painful, but the frustration that came from continually analyzing their work turned into determination...
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Social Code
Travis Nesbitt - vocals, album art designer, humor. Logan Jacobs - bass, ball caps, dedication. Ben Shillabeer - drums, encyclopedic knowledge of rock 'n' roll trivia. Chris Ruddy - guitars, flexibility. Honesty. No one seems to care about it anymore. Politicians constantly lie. Pop starlets pretend they can sing and even everyone’s favourite diva in drag, Cher, can't tell us the truth about her farewell tour...
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Protest The Hero
All the way from Whitby, Ontario comes PROTEST THE HERO, a new face of fast, hard music. The 5-piece band is comprised of Rody Walker (lead vocals), Tim Millar (guitar, vocals), Luke Hoskin (lead guitars, vocals, piano), Moe Carlson (drums), and Arif Mirabdolbaghi (bass guitar, vocals). Protest The Hero was created when the school friends were just 14-years-old and realized their mutual passion for music...
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Ten Second Epic
Describing any concept, art work or song as a ten second epic is an oxymoron, and makes one ask exactly what the hell a ten second epic is? Patrick Birtles, drummer for Canada’s TEN SECOND EPIC has a quick and straightforward answer, “You don’t need to wait years for something epic to happen in your life, you can make it happen in the next 10 seconds. You can start to make anything you want to happen right now”...
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The Junction
Toronto trio The Junction’s self-titled full-length is a masterful rock offering from a band that doesn’t put parameters on its music. There are short songs under two minutes (“The Curtains!!! They Call” “In The Realm”), long songs approaching seven (“Remember Love,” “The Darkest Night”), ripping rock songs (“Station Me”), jangly rock (“Put The Hammer Down”), atmospheric instrumentals (“The Curtains!!! They Call”)...
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Brassmunk
"In life the only constant is change". These are the words said by BrassMunk during the intro to their song 'Total Recall'. Truer words could not reflect the group any better. After their third nomination for 'Best Rap Recording' in April at the 2003 Juno Awards (Canada's answer to the Grammy's) , BrassMunk has made some BIG changes for their fall release of their second full length album, 'The Fewturistic'...
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I Hate Sally
Since the very humble beginnings, I Hate Sally has shared the stage with nearly every band ever. They have played 1 important wedding, 2 unimportant weddings, have gone through 4 vans (only one burned), and have received 37 noise complaints. During more recent shows, full-scale riots have broken out, with locals grabbing their heads in disbelief, sane people going insane, the dead coming back to life...
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Joell Ortiz
In the summer of 2006, while New Yorkers were debating the identity of the city’s next big rapper, Joell Ortiz was excluded from the discussion. He was in the lab making records. Unlike many of the city’s other contenders, who’ve flooded the music biz with mixtapes, Ortiz limited his hustle to just one, Who The F*ck Is Joell Ortiz? “You can’t get nowhere with industry buzz,” Ortiz reasons. “You don’t get hot from record...
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Shad K
Shad (Shadrach Kabango) is a bright, up-and-coming emcee from the unlikely city of London, Ontario. Throughout 2006, he proved that there is good reason for all eyes to be on him, as he gets set to record his second album. Shad emerged emphatically onto the Canadian music scene, winning 1st prize at 91.5 FM’s annual Rhythm of the Future unsigned talent competition. Esteemed representatives...
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F#*#ed Up
A band like F#*#ed Up doesn't translate easily onto paper. The newest addition to the Bedlam roster, the hardcore/punk band, formed in 2001, is made up of 10,000 Marbles on lead guitar, Father Damian (aka Pink Eyes) on vocals, Mustard Gas on bass, Gulag on rhythm guitar and Guinea Beat (aka Mr. Jo) on drums. If their names aren't meant to keep you guessing, perhaps their track record of releases is...
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The End
"THE END is demented like Dillinger Escape Plan, metallic like Mastodon and noisy like Neurosis...angular rock sneers in a way that hasn't been heard in quite some time." - CMJ. A seamless marriage of manic ferocity and indescribable density, THE END craft startlingly intense, memorable songs that demand repeated listening. Formed in the early spring of 1999, Canadian quintet THE END (Aaron Wolff - vocals...
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Tru-paz
To define Tru-Paz is to define what Hip Hop is: Hip Hop today is the epitome of Pop, the style and the music. Hip hop is also the epitome of street expression. Some view this dichotomy as a paradox, Tru-Paz views it as an opportunity. Akim, Boozy, and DJ Unknown are looking to bring up-tempo, energizing music with a conscious message into the ears of the people. Blending the good feelings...
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Dodger
After releasing demos and touring extensively, this rock-reggae quintet attracted the attention of Juno award winning producer Jag Tanna. Tanna offered to sign the band to his label ‘Upper Left Side Music’, and began recording the band’s first full length record.
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Machete Avenue
In 2004 ‘Machete Avenue’ was born in London Ontario when lead singer, Chad Micheal Smith, of the long standing canadian screamo band ‘Blue Skies at War’ shocked the national music scene and quit his position in the band. His reasoning was that he wanted to contribute to a “more creatively rewarding project” and that he had been working on something new of his own for quite some time featuring...
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The Saint Alvia Cartel
The Saint Alvia Cartel is Burlington Ontario’s latest contribution to [good] music…. And these guys are no strangers to the music scene as they have all enjoyed stints with former and current projects including: Boys Night Out, Jersey, The Video Dead, and hardcore legends Grade.
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The Flatliners
Since the release of “Destroy To Create” (2005 Stomp Records/Warner Music), THE FLATLINERS have toured 9 Canadian provinces and 28 states, alongside such notable acts as: Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, The Suicide Machines, Death By Stereo, Big D & the Kids Table, None More Black, I Am The Avalanche, The Loved Ones, Catch 22, The Voodoo Glow Skulls, Bigwig, including dates on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour…
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Die Mannequin
Toronto indie rock threesome Die Mannequin is fronted by 20-year-old Care Failure. After leaving home at 16 and getting caught up in drugs, Failure found initial success as a part of the band The Bloody Mannequins. In spring of 2006, she started Die Mannequin and created the four-track How to Kill EP. which was produced by MSTRKRFT. Along band members bassist Tony Useless (a.k.a Sparkles) and drummer Pat M. (a.k.a Ghostwolf)...
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