Outside Music
Encyclopedia
Outside Music is a Canadian
record label
and distributor, founded by Lloyd Nishimura in 1995
. In 2007, it expanded to include an artist management division which counts Jill Barber
, Matthew Barber
, One Hundred Dollars and Sunparlour Players
as management clients.
Outside has released countless albums over the years; the first being Tremendous Efforts in 2001 by the The Sadies
. Additionally the label also released Billy Bragg
's infamous Don't Try This at Home and Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy
. As well as the soundtrack to the Canadian mockumentary The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
. The diverse roster also includes Tinariwen
, a group of Tuareg-Berber
musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Their albums Aman Iman
and Imidiwan
have received critical acclaim.
International independent artists, such as Aimee Mann
, Oneida
and Billy Bragg
, have also distributed material in Canada through Outside Music.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
and distributor, founded by Lloyd Nishimura in 1995
1995 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
. In 2007, it expanded to include an artist management division which counts Jill Barber
Jill Barber
Jill Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter formerly based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Biography:Born and raised in Toronto, she is sister to singer-songwriter Matthew Barber...
, Matthew Barber
Matthew Barber
Matthew Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His music has been classified as indie pop and pop rock with folk and alternative country influences....
, One Hundred Dollars and Sunparlour Players
Sunparlour Players
Sunparlour Players are a Canadian alternative/folk rock band. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Andrew Penner on lead vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, organ pedal, and kick drum, Dennis Van Dine on bass, keyboard, clarinet, banjo, glockenspiel, percussion and backing vocals, and Michael...
as management clients.
Outside has released countless albums over the years; the first being Tremendous Efforts in 2001 by the The Sadies
The Sadies
The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
. Additionally the label also released Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
's infamous Don't Try This at Home and Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy
Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy
Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy is Billy Bragg's first studio album, released in 1983.The original album played at 45 rpm rather than the more usual 33.3 rpm, contained only seven songs and lasted for only 15 minutes and 57 seconds...
. As well as the soundtrack to the Canadian mockumentary The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico is a Canadian mockumentary film, released in 2005. Written and directed by Michael Mabbott, the film stars Matt Murphy, a musician previously associated with the bands The Super Friendz and The Flashing Lights, as Guy Terrifico, a country singer releasing...
. The diverse roster also includes Tinariwen
Tinariwen
Tinariwen is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s...
, a group of Tuareg-Berber
Berber languages
The Berber languages are a family of languages indigenous to North Africa, spoken from Siwa Oasis in Egypt to Morocco , and south to the countries of the Sahara Desert...
musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Their albums Aman Iman
Aman Iman
Aman Iman is a 2007 album by the Malian group Tinariwen, produced by Justin Adams.- Track listing :...
and Imidiwan
Imidiwan
Imidiwan: Companions, released 29 June 2009, is the fourth studio album by Tinariwen. The album saw the band reunite with Jean-Paul Romann, the producer of their 2001 album The Radio Tisdas Sessions. Some editions of the album include a DVD featuring a 30-minute documentary about the band.-Critical...
have received critical acclaim.
Notable mentions and awards
- 2007 Jill BarberJill BarberJill Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter formerly based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Biography:Born and raised in Toronto, she is sister to singer-songwriter Matthew Barber...
won Female Artist of the Year as well as Best Album of the Year for For All Time at the East Coast Music Awards.
- 2008 Jill BarberJill BarberJill Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter formerly based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Biography:Born and raised in Toronto, she is sister to singer-songwriter Matthew Barber...
was nominated for New Artist of the Year at the Junos.
- 2009 Jill BarberJill BarberJill Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter formerly based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Biography:Born and raised in Toronto, she is sister to singer-songwriter Matthew Barber...
won two East Coast Music Awards for her album Chances; Jazz Recording of the Year and Female Solo Recording of the Year.
- 2009 Sebastien Grainger & The MountainsSebastien Grainger & The MountainsSebastien Grainger & The Mountains is the second studio album and first LP by Sebastien Grainger. The album was originally released in 2008.-Track listing:#"Love Can Be So Mean" – 3:26#"Who Do We Care For?" – 2:28...
was nominated for Indie Video Of The Year category at the Much Music Video Awards for "Who Do We Care For?"
- 2010 TinariwenTinariwenTinariwen is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s...
album ImidiwanImidiwanImidiwan: Companions, released 29 June 2009, is the fourth studio album by Tinariwen. The album saw the band reunite with Jean-Paul Romann, the producer of their 2001 album The Radio Tisdas Sessions. Some editions of the album include a DVD featuring a 30-minute documentary about the band.-Critical...
: Companions took the prize for best album in the 2010 http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=13&title=%20Uncut%20Music%20Award Uncut Music Award. Managing to beat out the likes of Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
for best album.
- 2011 The SadiesThe SadiesThe Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
album Darker CirclesDarker CirclesDarker Circles is a 2010 album by Canadian alt-country group The Sadies. It was released on April 27, 2010, on Yep Roc Records.The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize....
was nominated for Best Album and Best Roots Band at the Indie Awards, part of Canadian Music Fest. Additionally Black MountainBlack Mountain (band)Black Mountain is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band is composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.-Overview:...
was nominated in the Best Rock Album category for Wilderness HeartWilderness HeartWilderness Heart is the third album by Black Mountain, released on September 14, 2010.The album received a nod from Exclaim! magazine as the No. 18 Pop & Rock Album of 2010...
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- 2011 Polaris Music PrizePolaris Music PrizeThe Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label...
Long List nominees included label roster artists Black MountainBlack Mountain (band)Black Mountain is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band is composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.-Overview:...
- Wilderness HeartWilderness HeartWilderness Heart is the third album by Black Mountain, released on September 14, 2010.The album received a nod from Exclaim! magazine as the No. 18 Pop & Rock Album of 2010...
, Little Scream - The Golden Record, One Hundred Dollars - Songs of Man, SloanSloan (band)Sloan is a Toronto-based alternative rock quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs , two EPs, a live album, a "best of" collection and no less than thirty singles...
- The Double CrossThe Double CrossThe Double Cross is the tenth and most recent studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. The title of the album is a nod to their 20th anniversary. At a length of 34:02, it is Sloan's shortest album to date...
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Current artists
- Jill BarberJill BarberJill Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter formerly based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Biography:Born and raised in Toronto, she is sister to singer-songwriter Matthew Barber...
- Matthew BarberMatthew BarberMatthew Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His music has been classified as indie pop and pop rock with folk and alternative country influences....
- The SadiesThe SadiesThe Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
- SloanSloan (band)Sloan is a Toronto-based alternative rock quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs , two EPs, a live album, a "best of" collection and no less than thirty singles...
- The Besnard LakesThe Besnard LakesThe Besnard Lakes are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, two of their three albums have been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize.-History:...
- Black MountainBlack Mountain (band)Black Mountain is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band is composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.-Overview:...
- Sebastien GraingerSebastien GraingerSebastien Alexandre Grainger from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the dance-punk duo Death from Above 1979 and the singer and guitarist for his current band, Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains...
of Death from Above 1979Death from Above 1979Death from Above 1979 are a Toronto-based Canadian dance-punk/noise rock duo. Their album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011.-History:...
fame - TinariwenTinariwenTinariwen is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s...
- Sunparlour PlayersSunparlour PlayersSunparlour Players are a Canadian alternative/folk rock band. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Andrew Penner on lead vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, organ pedal, and kick drum, Dennis Van Dine on bass, keyboard, clarinet, banjo, glockenspiel, percussion and backing vocals, and Michael...
- Oh Susanna
- Rebekah HiggsRebekah HiggsRebekah Higgs is a Canadian indie rock singer, songwriter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She released her debut self-titled album in September 2006, recorded in Toronto with producer Thomas Payne of the Canadian band Joydrop. The album was written and performed entirely by Higgs and Thomas and is a...
- The Wailin' JennysThe Wailin' JennysThe Wailin' Jennys are a Juno Award-winning Canadian folk trio from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and New York, and they consist of soprano Ruth Moody, mezzo Nicky Mehta and alto Heather Masse. In previous years, the Jennys have also toured with fiddler and mandolinist Jeremy Penner, who is from Ruth's...
Former artists
- Daniel PowterDaniel PowterDaniel Richard Powter is a Canadian recording artist. He is known for his hit "Bad Day", which spent five weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. Powter became the only act to register the #1 hit of the year but chart no other Hot 100 hit.- Life and career :Powter grew up in Vernon, in the...
- King Cobb SteelieKing Cobb SteelieKing Cobb Steelie is a Canadian Indie rock band formed in 1991 from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The band's most successful single was 1997's "Rational", from the album Junior Relaxer. Their music fuses elements of punk, funk, jazz and dance.-History:...
- Blood MeridianBlood Meridian (band)Blood Meridian is a Canadian alternative country band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band consists of singer and songwriter Matt Camirand, guitarist Jeff Lee, keyboardist Shira Blustein, bassist Kevin Grant and drummer Joshua Wells...
- Fred EaglesmithFred EaglesmithFrederick John Elgersma , known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter, one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager Eaglesmith hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and...
- Woolly Leaves
- Ivana SantilliIvana SantilliIvana Santilli is a Canadian R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist, who has recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the 1990s R&B/pop combo Bass is Base. Santili is presently signed to CP Records.-Early life and career:...
- Cuff The DukeCuff the DukeCuff the Duke is a Canadian band from Oshawa, Ontario. They play a blend of traditional country and folk music with indie rock influences, and can be categorized as an alt-country group.-History:...
- Rock Plaza CentralRock Plaza CentralRock Plaza Central is a Canadian indie rock band. After a pair of glowing reviews from the influential music website Pitchfork Media, they have come to prominence as a major indie rock band...
Labels distributed through Outside
- Dead Daisy RecordsDead Daisy RecordsDead Daisy Records is a Canadian independent record label, owned and operated by singer-songwriter Emm Gryner. Artists who have released material on the label include Gryner, In-Flight Safety, Daniel Ledwell, Hot One, Andrew Spice, Royal Wood and Noah's Arkweld....
- Mint RecordsMint RecordsMint Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based independent record label founded in January 1991, by friends and campus radio enthusiasts Randy Iwata and Bill Baker....
- Three Gut RecordsThree Gut RecordsThree Gut Records was a Guelph, Ontario, Canada based independent record label. It was founded in 1999 by Lisa Moran and Tyler Clarke Burke as a vehicle for releasing albums by their friends; it became an influential player in Canadian music with the breakout success of the Constantines'...
*Teenage USATeenage USATeenage USA Recordings is a Canadian independent record label, founded by Phil Klygo and Mark DiPietro in the fall of 1997 on the back of Klygo's Skull Geek record label and fanzine.... - Warp RecordsWarp RecordsWarp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....
- Sub PopSub PopSub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...
- Boompa Records
- Ninja TuneNinja TuneNinja Tune is a London-based independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke. The label has a strong leaning towards mostly Electronic Music...
- Fat Possum RecordsFat Possum RecordsFat Possum Records is an American independent record label based in Oxford, Mississippi. At first Fat Possum focused almost entirely on recording hitherto unknown Mississippi blues artists . Recently, Fat Possum has signed younger rock acts to its roster...
- Saddle Creek RecordsSaddle Creek RecordsSaddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Conor Oberst and Justin Oberst in 1993 . Conor soon turned over his role in the company to Robb Nansel...
- Vice Records*Yep Roc
International independent artists, such as Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...
, Oneida
Oneida (band)
Oneida is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their influences include psychedelic rock, krautrock, electronic, noise rock, and minimalism, but the overall structure and intent of their music cannot be easily traced to any of these styles...
and Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
, have also distributed material in Canada through Outside Music.