![]() ![]() “The Barettas have been resurrected and are back from the grave… and we’re aiming right in between the music industry’s eyes! Bang Bang, baby.” Speaking of New York City, they’ve been there as well, playing shows in Manhattan and Detroit Rock City where the crowd sang along to the their music. These Steel City firecrackers (guitarist/vocalist Katie Bulley, bassist Justine Fischer and drummer Lauren Small) have played electrifying shows that range from the unsung music halls to festival dates opening for The Diodes and the New York Dolls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok The Barettasįounded in 2008, The Barettas exploded out of lockdown with 2021’s All Is Fair In Love and Rock & Roll. Catch Tynomi Banks on Season 1 of Canada’s Drag Race on Crave (Canada), LogoTV (USA) and BBC3 (UK). Then in February, she partnered with Black Lives Matter Canada to create and sell a line of merchandise where partial proceeds went to dismantle all forms of anti-Black racism, liberate Blackness, support Black healing, affirm Black existence, and create freedom to love and self-determine. In 2021, Banks was the only drag performer to be featured in a Super Bowl ad other than RuPaul herself. Banks became the first Drag Entertainer to be the trophy bearer at the seventh annual Canadian Screen Awards. She has since partnered with Sephora, Shoppers Beauty, Amazon, Absolut, Netflix, Crest, and Ikea to name a few. In just one month, during Pride 2018, she became the first Drag Entertainer to work with Hudson’s Bay Company and the only Queen to partner with Spotify for a featured playlist, which also resulted in a billboard over Dundas Square in Toronto during Pride. Her hustle lead her to become the first Drag Entertainer to perform in Toronto’s Dundas Square during World Pride 2014. Recognized best for her full-production performances, Banks dominates a stage while radiating a powerful, but playful energy. With over a decade of experience, Tynomi Banks is a world-class drag entertainer. Expect to hear bangers vs deep cuts all night long floating between funk, soul, dance, rock and more in a battle of all decades and eras of awesome music. Nurtured and musically educated via ongoing family karaoke parties, Sunday “guests are coming” record playing, ’70s radio and VHS tapes only begin to explain their musical influences. Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Spotify | Apple Music A Side / B Side Exclaim! hailed the group’s music as “the perfect summer soundtrack,” while Rolling Stone Germany swooned for their “country bliss” and “pub-rock enthusiasm,” and the CBC’s Grant Lawrence proclaimed them “the best Canadian band I have heard in a while.” Recorded with producer Thomas D’Arcy (Neko Case, The Sheepdogs) and mixed by studio wiz Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Whitney, REM), Born Losers marks Altameda’s first release since relocating to Toronto, as well as their first collection as a duo. Dates with Sam Roberts Band, The Trews, Dan Mangan, and SUSTO followed, as did an even more ambitious sophomore effort, 2019’s Time Hasn’t Changed You, which was met with continued praise on both sides of the Atlantic. Launched in Edmonton, Altameda first found their stride as a hard-touring four-piece and garnered early acclaim with their 2016 debut, Dirty Rain. The music here is more subtle and nuanced than ever before, with raw, candid performances arriving wrapped inside gorgeous, gently atmospheric arrangements, and the lyrics showcase a similar leap in scope and maturity, grappling with our dueling desires for connection and escape through visceral, cinematic imagery that finds meaning in the mundane. Written in the midst of deep personal tragedy and dramatic emotional upheaval, Altameda’s stunning new album, Born Losers, is a meditation on change, loss, and growth, but more than that, it’s a reckoning with mortality, a call to live while we’re still alive. ![]()
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