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Ox
Indie / Ambient / Garage

Now Booking UK Tour, October 2009!



Sudbury, Ontario
Canada

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   Ox: General Info
Member Since3/29/2005
Band Websitewww.oxmusic.ws
Band MembersMark Browning, Brian Dunn, Max Myth, Shawn Dicey. ARCHIVE: Jeremy Smith, Cosmic Dave, Ryan Bishops, Rose Murphy, Mark Koetsier, Josh Turnbull, Nathan Lawr, Chon, Jesse Zubot, Ruby Loves U, Matt Foy
InfluencesJulian Cope, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Neil Young, Bonny Prince Billy, Songs: Ohia, Pink Mountaintops, Woody Guthrie, Sun Kil Moon, Frank Zappa
Sounds Like"Beck with elements of Springsteen, Velvet Underground and Americana roots... Punk meets hillbilly. The sound is raw, honest and glorious. American Lo Fi is an instant classic." David Reed, Intelligencer, CANADA
Record LabelWeewerk (CA)/ Arctic Rodeo (GER)/ 4th Street (UK)
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
May 30 2009 8:00P
Adanac Sudbury, Ontario
Oct 9 2009 8:00P
Folkhouse Bristol, Southwest
Oct 10 2009 9:00P
The Chattery Swansea, Wales
Oct 12 2009 9:00P
Le Pub Newport, Wales
Oct 16 2009 9:30P
Moon & Sixpence Glossop/Manchester, Northeast
Oct 19 2009 8:00P
The Bell Bath, Southwest
Oct 22 2009 9:00P
Luminaire London, London and South East

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   About Ox
As soon as we hear Mark Browning’s drawling vocals creak on the opening song “Miss Idaho” we instantly know that Ox has delivered an album of stature. Dope-soaked, derelict and wired, “American Lo Fi” features 11 songs that give a nod to Velvet Underground meets Bruce Springsteen, trading New Jersey urban fairground for Pacific interstate moonscape. Ox's long awaited follow up to the seminal alt-country, indie hybrid classic, 'Dust Bowl Revival', fuses weary with vicious, punk with hillbilly, the farmer in the city with the electro-magnetic aura of tape hiss and amp crackle. ”American Lo Fi” was recorded in the manic confines of Vancouver's Profile Studios (aka Upstairs Sound Laboratory) amid the plume of smoke, sweat and heavy Pacific laced air. Ox began in Vancouver amid sessions for a Mark Browning solo record titled, 'Harvester'. The record went wrong... crossed between Neil Young's Reactor and a Journey record... and was scrapped. The beginning was a collaboration with Nathan Lawr (then of Guelph/Toronto's Royal City) on a Julian Cope song, 'Promised Land' and grew into an album session for what became, 'Dust Bowl Revival'. Upon release in 2003- independent and driven behind the scenes by Browning as agent, manager, radio tracker, and publicist, the record was embraced by an industry who'd universally passed prior to release. Soaring to #1 across Canada on Earshot's and Chart's Canadian Campus Radio Charts- it was to be the first independent Canadian record to reach top spot in decades. What followed is the saga of a band on the road... Browning recruited fellow hometown Sudbury Ontario songwriter, guitarist/pianist Ryan Bishops and a host of guests over subsequent years and toured endlessly- the US coasts- the UK 5 times, Ireland 3 times, Germany and Holland twice, and of course Canada- back and forth from coast to coast 7 times over the course of 4 years. Maintaining a grass roots approach- Ox has done it the hard way- thousands of miles in cramped mini-vans... countless nights spent bedding down on floors, couches... pool tables... bad food, stale beer- blown tires, road kill. Ox's sound is the sound of the open road- from not far above it. Songs like El Camino, Country Music Promoter, Awkward Beauty, Miss Idaho are the sound of gravel skimming fender crossed by overdriven tubes and tremolo... Halloween crossed with Christmas Eve spent in a bus station diner.

   Ox's Friend Space (Top 16)
Ox has 1933 friends.
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 Neil Young 


 Neil Hamburger 


 United Steel Workers of Montreal 


 Cat Power 


 Bill Murray 


 maia davies melody club sessions 


 Holy McGrail 


 the epstein 


 Julie Doiron 


 Renée 


 ian love 


 (weewerk) recordings 


 Lone Pine [now booking acoustic shows] 


 Laura-Leigh 


 Jim Bryson 





Ox's Friends Comments
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Tom Moore





Jul 12 2009 5:09 AM

are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again: www. work4surveys .com i guess we'll talk later, i want me some food!
This Great White North





Jul 3 2009 1:40 PM

Just a reminder to listen to OX on THIS GREAT WHITE NORTH. It's an ALL CANADIAN music show FRIDAYS 4:30-6pm CST on 91.7 KOOP FM in Austin, Texas. You can listen online at www.KOOP.org.

Cheers!
Doug The Canuck
Tom Moore





Jun 21 2009 12:13 PM

Hey i love that profile song you have!!!! The video to it is pretty sweet. Yea Yea I been working Ive been pretty tired Ill call you when i get home today lil lis loves his daycare you should see the stupid badge with my picture on it I have to wear lol. but its all good, he loves the daycare, and its kewl that i can help out paying for it, know what im sayin? the extra money we made from taking those paid surveys online helped out so much!! you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. surveyblingbling .com La Te Da love ya talk to you laterzzzzzzzz O by the way Ill have more pictures to post before the lil lis's and my b-day uhhhh sometimes i feel so oldddddddd lol
Tom Moore





Jun 16 2009 3:46 AM

exactly. im going to see how much money i get for my b-day... which probably won't be much lol. and then i'll see where to go from there. hehhehe im excite! ethan's excited cuz we'll have the same phone. we're such dorks, i know; anyways, yeah i know exactly what u mean i need one too but yeah its the only way to move forward and hey if its true love let it go and if it comes back then ull know for sure!!! and OH I am so jealous that you got to go to Savannah! maybe i'll get to go soon too! i've been saving up my money that i've been getting from taking those survey things online. i'm up to $243 (heh, weird number, i know) so far, so i figure once i hit like a thousand, i'm goin on a va-ca, baby! do em, too! they're like soooo easy. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. blingforwork .com hit me up!!
Tom Moore





Jun 14 2009 4:46 AM

exactly. im going to see how much money i get for my b-day... which probably won't be much lol. and then i'll see where to go from there. hehhehe im excite! ethan's excited cuz we'll have the same phone. we're such dorks, i know; anyways, yeah i know exactly what u mean i need one too but yeah its the only way to move forward and hey if its true love let it go and if it comes back then ull know for sure!!! and OH I am so jealous that you got to go to Savannah! maybe i'll get to go soon too! i've been saving up my money that i've been getting from taking those survey things online. i'm up to $243 (heh, weird number, i know) so far, so i figure once i hit like a thousand, i'm goin on a va-ca, baby! do em, too! they're like soooo easy. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. workforblingsurveys .com hit me up!!
AUX





May 28 2009 5:05 PM

New Volume feat United Steel Workers of Montreal! http://www.aux.tv/video/Volume113Complete/
Rook and The Ravens


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Apr 27 2009 1:40 PM

Alright Guys,

Looking forward to seeing you again at the moon and six in glossop later this year.

Let us know how long you're over in the UK for and I'll see if I can get you any good gigs during that time.

Joe
RATR
The Phoenix Underground www.thephxug.com





Apr 26 2009 12:19 AM

Whenever you do a show in the Phoenix AZ Area you can put it up for free at www.ThePhxUG.com so everyone can see when it is! No sign up just post it! Hope to see you out doing your thing!
NEM-IZ





Apr 23 2009 1:47 PM

2 ALL MY FANS AND SUPPORTERS THE TIME HAS FINALLY ARRIVED. CHUNKY MONKEY AND, MY ALBUM (MR. WORLD PREMIER) ARE NOW AVALIBLE ON I-TUNES, AMAZONMP3 AND, NASPSTER MUSIC STORES! ALSO IF YOU BUY THE ALBUM AND, SEND PROOF OF PURCHASE TO MY EMAIL (WRITERSBLOKKMEDIA@YAHOO.COM)
I WILL PERSONALLY SEND YOU A "PERSONALIZED" AUTOGRAPH PICTURE TO YOU SHOWING MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

REMEMBER NEM-IZ DOES WHAT OTHER ARTIST WOULDN'T DO FOR HIS FANS! MUCH LOVE TO MY SUPPORT SYSTEM (SUPPORTORS AND FANS!) TAKE CARE, GOD BLESS

P.S. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!

NEM-IZ
Email Nem-iz @: Writersblokkmedia@yahoo.com
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!
NEM-IZ





Apr 14 2009 5:18 PM

2 ALL MY FANS AND SUPPORTERS THE TIME HAS FINALLY ARRIVED. CHUNKY MONKEY AND, MY ALBUM (MR. WORLD PREMIER) ARE NOW AVALIBLE ON I-TUNES, AMAZONMP3 AND, NASPSTER MUSIC STORES! ALSO IF YOU BUY THE ALBUM AND, SEND PROOF OF PURCHASE TO MY EMAIL (WRITERSBLOKKMEDIA@YAHOO.COM)
I WILL PERSONALLY SEND YOU A "PERSONALIZED" AUTOGRAPH PICTURE TO YOU SHOWING MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

REMEMBER NEM-IZ DOES WHAT OTHER ARTIST WOULDN'T DO FOR HIS FANS! MUCH LOVE TO MY SUPPORT SYSTEM (SUPPORTORS AND FANS!) TAKE CARE, GOD BLESS

P.S. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!

NEM-IZ
Email Nem-iz @: Writersblokkmedia@yahoo.com
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!
NEM-IZ





Apr 14 2009 5:05 PM

2 ALL MY FANS AND SUPPORTERS THE TIME HAS FINALLY ARRIVED. CHUNKY MONKEY AND, MY ALBUM (MR. WORLD PREMIER) ARE NOW AVALIBLE ON I-TUNES, AMAZONMP3 AND, NASPSTER MUSIC STORES! ALSO IF YOU BUY THE ALBUM AND, SEND PROOF OF PURCHASE TO MY EMAIL (WRITERSBLOKKMEDIA@YAHOO.COM)
I WILL PERSONALLY SEND YOU A "PERSONALIZED" AUTOGRAPH PICTURE TO YOU SHOWING MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

REMEMBER NEM-IZ DOES WHAT OTHER ARTIST WOULDN'T DO FOR HIS FANS! MUCH LOVE TO MY SUPPORT SYSTEM (SUPPORTORS AND FANS!) TAKE CARE, GOD BLESS

P.S. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!

NEM-IZ
Eye was an Ion





Apr 13 2009 12:33 AM

Hello there, our 8 song Ep is now available on iTunes, AmazonMp3, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic and more! If you are interested please stop by and check it out.<br /><br />Thanks so much<br />Eye was an Ion
Bears Of Winter





Apr 4 2009 5:08 PM

New shirts available from Bears of Winter!

Check out our myspace for more details on how to get yours!
Andre & Linda





Mar 30 2009 9:50 PM

Thanks for the Add.
Ally





Mar 22 2009 8:39 PM

Just showing some love xxx
Adam Fisch





Mar 8 2009 7:06 PM

thanks for the add! love the new song, cant wait for more.

-adam
Ralf Dee





Mar 8 2009 1:03 PM

Thanks for the Add! All the best, Ralf Dee
jonathan inc.





Jan 11 2009 1:41 AM

hey mark - just stopping by. this new song sounds great. can't wait to get the record. j
bitterapplephotography





Dec 26 2008 3:41 AM

... ox/mark ...

all the very best for the festive season and for the forthcoming new year ...

listening to dust bowl revival in the darkness, brings back the memories of the nights at the casbah ... top nights. top memories.

very best wishes

mark
bitterapplephotography
(ex casbah promoter)
Jay Brayshaw





Dec 24 2008 1:13 AM

Hey there, thanks for the add! A friend of mine in Brisbane (Australia) sent me a link to your MP3 site. I became a fan almost immediately. Great songs, Ox. Peace to you - Jay (Melbourne, Australia)
Meadowlark Lemon / Meadowlark Five





Dec 14 2008 6:19 PM

Oxmas should be sweet
Ally





Dec 2 2008 7:28 PM

Thanks for adding me, love your style xx
Ox





Dec 2 2008 5:52 PM

hey everybody,

i'm afraid our new EP album is being delayed!

whats happening is, Ox is building a studio in our hometown- so henceforth we'll be able to make records any time we like... which means A LOT more in the coming years as, we've got a backlog of songs.

its taking most of 2008 so in effect, we've been on a sabbatical all year!

the new 'EP' is finished- its just a matter of us not having time to do a proper release because we're so busy building he studio. Spring of 2009 looks realistic for us so, from May or so onwards expect tour news and release news.

THANKS for your patience!

Ox

mark b. / Ox
Meadowlark Lemon / Meadowlark Five





Nov 29 2008 7:06 PM

The world needs more Ox. You guys need to start playing more. Any gigs in the works?
Tequilabarbie





Nov 1 2008 5:05 AM

It is an honour and a pleasure to be a part of your "friends" network . . . thank you soooo very much for the add!!

Peace & Love,
Barbara
aka Tequilababs
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