X-Traordinary X-Mas X-Travaganza

Ever since the inception of Canary Mine, we've talked about making a Winter Holiday's Record. Some of our favorite Xmas folk include David Bowie and Bing Crosby. Boris Karloff and Burl Ives. Scrooge McDuck and Canadian Tire.

You are welcome to download our music and blare us at your next X-mas shindig. Please leave a comment in return. Don't forget about our X-traordinary X-mas X-travanganza on Saturday Dec. 8th at Rancho Relaxo in Toronto.

'Tis the season to hustle and bustle. But it's not all about mall cues and traffic. It's about how one feels when surrounded by friends and family, safe in the warmth of a loving home.

Downlaod Album by "Clicking Here". All 4 songs in Zip File.


Live Tear From The Palindrome

On a lazy Sunday afternoon in September, us Canaries drove down to the University of Waterloo to play a live-to-air broadcast on CKMS. 

Taken from two sessions, one on-air, one off, we put together a greatest hits of Canary Mine songs, as they sound in a live setting.  Each song was recorded in one take, live off the floor in the Palindrome studio.

Preview Hell's Angel
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MAYBE YO' MOMMA
was pressed just in time for CM's July 2005 tour, but western Canada loved it so much, it sold out! So, friends... we cooked up another second batch and you can order it by "Clicking Here".

This new album reflects the band's own evolution into a supercharged, upbeat live show, while keeping with the same character, humour and variety that fans love. MAYBE YO' MOMMA has attracted media attention from the likes of View Magazine, Echo Weekly, and radio stations such as CFMU 93.3 FM, where the album debuted at number 1!


Click here to preview two new tunes (opens in a pop-up)
the uber-dancey hip-hop title track Maybe Yo' Momma
and the hard rock headbanger My Boyfriend


"It's always important to have a good first impression, and the opening salvo of Canary Mine's debut album, Bitter, Better, Happy ,Horny, certainly accomplishes that."
-The Record (Kitchener, Ontario)

"The disc traffics in humourous rap-based tunes which layer harmonies atop an almost scat-like base."
-Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)

Bitter, Better, Happy ,Horny

Released in May 2004, this first album is the perfect amalgamation of gangsta rap and romance. The tracks include traditional folk-hop crowd-pleasers The Toast and Canadian Strip, drunken love songs Randy and Wrong In Taiwan, "memorably expletive-laden" Rock Song, "almost operatic" Tech-E and more. Bitter, Better, Happy ,Horny is an honest portrayal of the early Canary Mine sound, the sound that carried the band on its first successful tour across western Canada, winning great new friends and new audiences.

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LIVE from a suburban basement

LIVE FROM A SUBURBAN BASEMENT!
is James' adventure in recording Canary Mine rehearsals live off the floor from his parents' basement in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. This cd is a greatest hits compilation of old Canary Mine faves and new tunes in their most primitive, pre-Maybe Yo' Momma forms. The album was available free at live shows for a limited time, so if you've got one, you're a lucky duck!

MP3 DOWNLOADS
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Come On Over To Our House For Christmas (2007 Premix)
Hells Angel
My Boyfriend
Maybe Yo' Momma
The Toast
Canadian Strip



photos by WILLIAM BLEICK
original layout by KATHY ADAMS
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