Slint,
PJ Harvey,
Thirty Ought Six,
Death Cab for Cutie,
MY MOM, Talk Talk,
Sunny Day Real Estate,
Low, Hot Snakes, The Faint,
Sebadoh, Stevie Wonder,
Blonde Redhead,
Skip James, Elliott Smith,
Mogwai, Queens of the Stone Age,
LOVE,
Sigur Ros,
Bjork,Team Dresch, Lali Puna,
Led Zeppelin,
Boards of Canada,
Versus, Mars Volta,
The Smiths,
Unrest,
Unwound,
FRIENDS.
A veteran of the Vancouver music scene, Laura Lee (LL) Schultz gained a plethora of experience playing in bands such as NEW YEARS RESOLUTION, the SKINJOBS, SINGLESEVEN and QUEAZY. Having a career that sparked in the early ‘90s gave LL the opportunity to play with bands such as Pure, The Rose Chronicles, Propagandhi, Minus the Bear, Pansy Division and Xui Xui . Being involved with and having 4 full length albums under her belt, LL welcomes the extra notch with Down the Lees' The Guest Room. The new album was engineered and produced by LL in her home studio, Off White House Studios, in the summer of 2008. Drums and additional bits here and there were recorded by Shawn Penner (Hot Hot Heat, Mother Mother) and boasts performances from members of Portico, Wintermitts and New Years Resolution. Songs roam from full on rock out epics ‘The Lullaby’ to acoustic ditties about love ‘On a Lie’ to poppy regretful
friendships in ‘Talk is Not Cheap’.
LL caught the music bug early while growing up in Calgary: in junior high, she snuck in after school to play drums in the band room, and was the organ solo champion in 1984. Dreams of riding around in a Lamborghini with a keyboard in the dash became a reccurring theme. By age 13, she moved on to guitar, learning Blackbird and Stairway to Heaven -- much to her guitar teacher's delight... or possibly chagrin.
In the early '90s, LL moved to Vancouver and started her first band, Queazy, a 3-piece that got regular rotation on MuchMusic and released the full length album Hurk that created a buzz and was well received. Before they had a chance to rake in the millions, the band broke up.
Years passed, in and out of music projects including Singleseven (a 3-piece that had the chance to play with Ujme Doma), all the while holing up in a bachelor apartment with a crappy 4-track recorder. These demo's eventually turned up on the first Down the Lees full length album 360 1/4 Degrees. Blair Calibaba (NomeansNo, Propaghandi) took on the role of engineer. A long tracking process didn't hinder LL from releasing the first solo effort, completely written and performed by her.
Around the same time as recording 360 1/4 Degrees, LL was involved with influential queer punk band The Skinjobs as drummer. The band was legendary for bringing alt punk to queer communities via over-the-top live shows complete with go-go dancers. Their album Burn Your Rainbow was released in 2003, and a split 7” with Pansy Division was released on Mint Records the same year.
Next up? Vancouver favourites New Years Resolution. “White belt, dance and be sad”. This still-lamented band released one full-length album, Bullets of Love, recorded at The Hive by Jesse Gander. Once again, the band broke up before they could make the cover of Rolling Stone.
Left to her own devices, LL decided to learn more about the technical aspect of sound. After receiving an Electronic Musician certificate from
the Art Institute, she focused on scoring and editing films, including local indie productions Alice and Martha, Hero of Our Time, and her own
directorial debut, Chronicles of Daydude.
Her appetite still not satiated, she decided to start musical side projects EP Island and Project Ahead.
Writing and recording with these bands at her home studio, Off White House Studios became a focus. The studio eventually churned out the
record label Off White House Records which has EP Island’s Good’ish and now The Guest Room for Down the Lees on its roster.
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Hi guys, this is dan from BEND SINISTER here. We are taking part in this MUSIC BC/PEAK radio station contest right now for a chance at a 150,000$ grant towards our musical career which as you know would be a huge help for any artist to continue making a living touring and recording. The contest is based on online votes and it only takes a second to vote for us in the contest. We are falling behind and could really use your support so if you have a second please vote at:
and if your interested, we have our new website up and we are offering free downloads of 10 our of favorite tracks from all three of our records. They are available here:
new video & new song ♥
the video is from the opening song of the release concert on september 9th, and the new song is called "again".
...if you have a free moment, please stop by and check them out, I'd love your opinion.
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hello my friend,
I hope your are well, happy and sunkissed!
I just posted a new track "By the River". If you have the time, I'd love your opinion...
have a great weekend,
love & enjoy,
Birte
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Oh I completely agree...I usually like bands' first albums the best, but I do have an affinity for "take on me" and "don't try suicide" from captain my captain. Have you ever seen the film that the album's name came from? I thought it was kind of a drag at the beginning, but none the less it was interesting to see where they got the idea from.
-T
p.s. I'm super jealous of your interview in curve!!! That's so cool, lol.
Thanks for finding us! Please let us know if you're heading through Toronto, we'd love to play at show with you, I think our groups would sound pretty great together!
Yeah I dig the tunes, very early 90's Indie ssounding. Which of course is the best Indie Rock <3 I love most Indie rock new and old. Hopefully you can come done to do a show in Los Angeles :)
nice to meet you, too. yes it's my band cool to hear that you like. so have a very nice day to collect a lot of new ideas for a lot of new beautyful songs!! for sure that I can listen to them ;) ...
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