Black Mountain

Since forming in 2004, Black Mountain has released three LPs, Black Mountain (2005), In the Future (2008), and Wilderness Heart (2010), and two EPs, Druganaut (2004) and Bastards of Light (2008) on the Jagjaguwar label. The "Stormy High" single was released in 2006 on Suicide Squeeze Records.

Their self-titled album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005. In the Future was a finalist for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize and was also nominated for "Best Alternative Album" in the 2009 Juno Awards. The song "Stay Free" from In the Future was featured on the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack.

Leader Stephen McBean also heads another similarly named band, Pink Mountaintops, who are the more experimental side of McBean's musical abilities. Black Mountain is the front line band for Black Mountain Army, a collective of musicians, artists and friends in Vancouver. In an interview the band said "Black Mountain is just the five of us. The Black Mountain Army… which has kind of gotten blown out of proportion, it was kind of just a joke, because everybody thought we were this hippie collective, like we all lived in one house. But it’s basically just our friends at home in Vancouver, just our extended family of creative people that we know."

Welcome!

This site is just something I'll be doing for fun in conjunction with Spreading The Jam.  I, as you probably know, love music.  I love to soundtrack my life.  And, while I could do this entirely to Pearl Jam, I often like to throw something else in the mix just to keep things interesting.

Pretty much anything from the 90's is a good bet to keep me motivated throughout my long nights at work.  But, every now and then, something new comes my way and it opens up a whole new world of artists and bands that I would have never heard before had it not been for a band, or a song, or whatever that drifted into my ears.

This site, I hope, is intended to be used as an information depot for your ears.  I won't be just posting anything here.  As the blog title suggests this is for Canadian Rock only.  Don't despair visitors from other countries, Canada has a very diverse musical culture especially in the genre of rock.  We have had everything from grunge, classic, alternative, metal, prog, stoner, and just striaght up melt your speakers rock.

So whenever I get the chance I will post some info about a band or an artist I have come across or I think you should listen to, or take a second listen too if you've heard them before.  There is no regular schedule for updates, like I said this is kind of side project to Spreading The Jam so when I have down time from there (which means PJ is not touring) this site will be updated.

And one more thing.  Each post I make will contain musical goodies, but for some reason I fear legal action (LOL) so all downloadable content is for preview only, if you like what you hear go out to your local HMV or record store and buy an album to support some great artists.  All downloads can be found in the comment section of each post.

Thanks for stopping by... eh.
Jordan