Writing songs from the back of an ambulance during his late-night shifts as an EMT, pop-punk-pretty-boy august brodie is fuelled by a mission to get out of his small town and onto a stage where he belongs. Hailing from Thunder Bay ON, brodie has JUST the right amount of piss & vinegar to bring you back to that college breakup ur still mad about. Being called “the new nostalgia” his sound touches on emo, pop & punk, w/ unexpected nods to hip hop. With 2.5M streams & an MTV world video premiere under his belt, august brodie is perfectly primed for his label debut, the ridiculously catchy “Hated You All Along”.

Recently signed to Wax Records, august takes inspiration from nearly all forms of music especially the screamo revival wave being a young fan of acts that would play his hometown such as Taking Back Sunday, Underoath and Alexisonfire. 

“Hated You All Along” was inspired by reflecting on a toxic ex and getting over it with a “fuck you attitude”

As a DJ, S-ONE knows how to control a party. He’s dominated the night club and party scene from the east to west end, the Greater Toronto Area and is continuing to grow his audience beyond the city and the country as he tours and shares his love of music with crowds everywhere. When other children his age were playing with toys, S-ONE was drawn to his father’s records and expensive sound equipment. As a boy he became known for sneaking and manually spinning records on the needles of his father’s turntable so that he could hear the faint melodies trapped in the grooves of each record.Just in time for the summer S-ONE teams with 23Dreamz on the seductive single “Lil Bit”.A melodic dance floor anthem inspired to help people “find a lil bit of love in our loveless world” 

Melina Coolen is a Canadian songwriter, producer and audio engineer and producer. Her retropop influence is undeniable in her carefully self-produced sound and sophisticated songwriting style. After years of formal classical training and receiving the RCM Silver Medal in piano, she pursued her love for pop and jazz songwriting in college and university.

Her song “Nothing At All” is a true blue retropop bubblegum tune. It features the voice of Linda Vilela, whom Melina thought was a perfect fit to complete the song when she discovered her on Airgigs. 

Athena Park is an award winning actress who has starred in multiple film and television productions in Canada and the United States. Currently studying at the University of Toronto, she is continuously working on new music and film projects. Following up on her debut single, “Tuatara,” Athena’s latest release is the bitterly honest “Heathen.” 

Inspired by the feelings of falling in love with someone who doesn’t truly value you, “Heathen” encapsulates when someone gives themselves up completely for somebody who doesn’t even care to notice.

The symbolic visuals for “Heathen” were shot by OfTheSaint Productions and are dear to Athena’s heart. Being behind bars represents feeling caged – like you can’t escape your feelings. 

Fans of independent Canadian music will likely recognize the name Shane Ghostkeeper from his namesake project GHOSTKEEPER, a band that has been responsible for some of the more thrilling music to emerge from Alberta during the last 15 years. But while his parent band trades in a highly unique, left-of-centre approach to indie rock, this new project is a deeply reverential tribute to the music he absorbed while growing up in the Northern Alberta Métis communities of Paddle Prairie, High Level, and Rocky Lane.

The vocal melodies on “V Chill” were inspired by the need to soothe and entertain Shane’s teething baby boy. After hours of bouncing him around the house, lyrics started to form as fatherly advice and blessings.

“‘V Chill’ was coined by my producer and big brother, Lorrie Matheson,” says Shane. “An appropriate play on my son’s name, Vittal Chillawee Ghostkeeper.”

The Femme Fatale of Folk known as Sarah Segal-Lazar currently splits her time between the busy streets of Montreal and the red shores of PEI. She shares her own special blend of folk and country, wherever the wind may take her. Her latest album, produced by Canadian folk luminary Matthew Barber, comes out later this year.

There’s a farmer in the small community where she’s from on PEI. This older fella lives alone in the home where his family has lived for generations. The locals have speculated whether or not he’s always been a bachelor, or was once married. One day, when Segal-Lazar was visiting, she noticed a room with women’s clothes still hanging in the closet. They looked like they’d been hanging there for years, maybe decades, untouched.

Segal-Lazar didn’t feel like she could intrude with a question, for fear of bringing up painful memories. Instead, she let her imagination take her on a journey, and wrote the song “This Old House” for him – and all the older folks whose stories we don’t always get to hear – incorporating personal details like his grandmother’s rug, faded family photos, and the embroidered tapestries. 

“I started writing this song because I was going to be leaving PEI for a while, and I wanted to write a song about my relationship with the island,” explains Segal-Lazar. “I wanted to write a love song or a breakup song or an ‘it’s complicated’ song about us. But as I started noodling around on the guitar, it turned out that I didn’t actually have much to say about myself – what came out was a song about someone else.”