White Lung (band)

White Lung
Background information
Origin Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genres punk
Years active 2006 (2006)–present
Labels Deranged
Hockey Dad
Website whitelung.ca
Members
Mish Way
Kenneth William
Grady Mackintosh
Anne-Marie Vassilou
Past members
Natasha Reich

White Lung is a Canadian punk rock band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2006, currently signed to Deranged Records. The band is in rotation on CBC Radio.[1] Exclaim! has named the band's first full length album It's the Evil as 2010's punk album of the year.[2] The band also was nominated for Punk/Hardcore Artist/Group of the Year at the 2011 Canadian Music Week Indie Awards.[3]

Contents

History

Origin

White Lung is a Canadian punk rock band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2006.[4] They first gained recognition as one of the standout acts involved with the Vancouver Emergency Room scene.

Band members

Former

Current

[6]

Discography

Singles

"Local Garbage" (HDR 18)

  • Released: September 2007[7]
  • Format: 7" Vinyl 45 RPM
  • Label: Hockey Dad Records
  • Tracks: "Local Garbage", "Breaking Boxes", "Amy White Out"[8][9]

"Magazines" (DY 131)

  • Released: 18 May 2008
  • Format: 7" Vinyl 45 RPM/DD
  • Label: Deranged
  • Tracks: "Magazines", "Therapy", "Backhouse"[10]

"Atlanta" (DY 163) from the album It's the Evil

  • Released: 21 May 2010
  • Format: 7" Vinyl 45 RPM/DD
  • Label: Deranged
  • Tracks: "Atlanta", "D.O.I.", "80,000 Times"[11]

Various artists compilations

"Therapy" (GROSSMOD07 / NOMI002) from the album The Emergency Room Vol. 1

  • Released: 24 June 2008[12]
  • Format: LP/DD
  • Label: Grotesque, Modern/Nominal
  • Tracks: "Burning Light" Defektors, "Kick First One" Defektors "Rat Face" Petroleum By-Products, "Grossest Thing" Petroleum By-Products, "Sex Stain" Vapid, "Die" Vapid, "Therapy" White Lung, "Instinct" Mutators, "VvV" Mutators, "Trinity" Twin Crystals, "Safety" Twin Crystals, "Graceland" Nu Sensae, "Don't Panic" Nu Sensae, "Peter Tripp" Nu Sensae, "The Commuter" Sick Buildings [13]

Albums

It's the Evil (album) (DY 172)

  • Released: 15 June 2010
  • Format: LP/CD/DD
  • Label: Deranged
  • Tracks: "Viva La Rat", "Atlanta", "Sleep Creep", "Two Seen", "Elf / 546 Kids", "Psychoholic", "Shoot", "Loose Heels", "Like Dad", "Tale", "Wild Failure"[14]

Footnotes

Citations

  1. ^ "White Lung Artist Page". radio3.cbc.ca. CBC Radio 3. http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/White-Lung. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  2. ^ Villeneuve, Nicole (December 2010 / January 2011). "Punk - Year in Review 2010". Exclaim!. www.exclaim.ca (Toronto: 1059434 Ontario Inc.): p. 30. ISSN 1207-6600. http://exclaim.ca/Features/YearInReview/punk_year_in_review_2010. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  3. ^ "2011 INDIES NOMINEES". www.indies.ca/nominees-winners. Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & The Arts. http://www.indies.ca/nominees_winners/. Retrieved 25 March 2011. 
  4. ^ "White Lung Band Profiles". www.punknews.org. Punknews.org. http://www.punknews.org/bands/whitelung. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  5. ^ Hughes, Josiah (July 2010). "Interviews White Lung's Second Coming". Exclaim!. exclaim.ca (Toronto: 1059434 Ontario Inc.). ISSN 1207-6600. http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/FromTheMagazine/White_Lungs_Second_Coming. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  6. ^ McCutcheon, Jody (14 September 2010). "Music Review White Lung - It's the Evil". Chart. chartattack.com (Toronto: Chart Communications). ISSN 1198-7235. http://www.chartattack.com/reviews/2010/sep/14/white-lung-%E2%80%94-its-the-evil. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  7. ^ "Discography". hockeydadrecords.com. Apple Inc. iTunes.ca Store. http://www.hockeydadrecords.com/discography.html. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  8. ^ "Local garbage (sound recording) / White Lung", www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/all (Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada), AMICUS No. 33565255, http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-02-18T00%3A35%3A52Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=33565255&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus, retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  9. ^ Hughes, Josiah (November 2007). "White Lung > Local Garbage > Reviews > POP & ROCK > Nov 2007". Exclaim!. www.exclaim.ca (Toronto: 1059434 Ontario Inc.). ISSN 1207-6600. http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/PopAndRock/white_lung-local_garbage. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  10. ^ "White Lung - Magazines". www.discogs.com. Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/White-Lung-Magazines/release/1879436. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  11. ^ "White Lung - Atlanta". www.discogs.com. Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/White-Lung-Atlanta/release/2165759. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  12. ^ "Emergency Room Vol. 1 (Vinyl) Various Artists". itunes.apple.com/ca. Apple Inc. iTunes.ca Store. 24 June 2008. http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/emergency-room-vol-1-vinyl/id284247055. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  13. ^ "RELEASES V/A EMERGENCY ROOM VOL 1 LP+BOOK GROSSMOD07 / NOMI002". recordsnominal.com. Nominal Records. http://www.recordsnominal.com/defektors.php. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  14. ^ "It's the Evil (sound recording) / White Lung", www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/all (Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada), OCLC 682869564, AMICUS No. 38049962, http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-02-18T00%3A38%3A40Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=38049962&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus, retrieved 6 March 2011. 

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