Inside the Music with StereoRuss

Lisa La Rocca is the Director of Operations at Sonic Unyon Records in Hamilton, Ontario. She is an experienced music industry professional, artist manager and festival planner with over a decade of expertise in grant writing and live event coordination. Lisa joined Inside the Music today to talk Supercrawl, a music and arts street festival on James Street North happening from Sept 13-15 2024.   So...

Darcy Mitchison is a singer songwriter born and based in Hamilton Ontario. He grew up learning piano but it wasn’t until he hit the streets of Dublin, Ireland at the age of 18 that he began singing, quite literally for his supper which sometimes consisted of a few pints of Guinness. He graduated from Centennial College with an advanced diploma in music industry arts and performance dabbling in Fun...

Robb Cappelletto started Double Red as 'The Robb Cappelletto Group' in 2011 with their first release in 2012. Playing instrumental r&b/jazz, the group in its current lineup started to take shape in 2015, and put out two releases - Ostriches (2017) and Double Red (2019). After a pandemic fuelled hiatus, Robb took two years off focused exclusively on working with his other band, re.verse (we rel...

Mattie and Mike Leon are singers/songwriters hailing from Hamilton. Mattie (guitar and piano) and Mike (guitar and drums) refuse to leave the past behind. Their sensibilities are informed by the songwriting of the sixties and seventies. Their voices, whether soaring or soulful, are their own. The result is a fresh take on a classic form; familiar but unmistakably new. Songs from Episode: Can't Wai...

Rick "The Temp" Campanelli is a Canadian television and radio personality best known for his work as a VJ and host for MuchMusic and for co-hosting ET CANADA.  In 2024, he joined CHFI-FM as an afternoon host. Songs from Episode: Let's Dance - David Bowie In Bloom - Nirvana   Follow Rick Campanelli: https://www.instagram.com/rick_campanelli/   Follow Inside the Music: https://www.instagram.com/ster...

Ego Death Trip is a Hamilton, Ontario based band that infuses groove-laden, hypnotic psychedelia with sounds from around the globe. The band is on a mission to create a new musical vocabulary that reflects the diasporic roots of the band while engaging deeply with musical forms like funk, folk, and psychedelia. The band was forming in the winter on 2023, and it consists of Anan Rahman on vocals, g...

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nolan Gibson creates music that is grounded, yet embraces growth and curiosity. At 14 years old Nolan began sitting in with a number of Norfolk County blues and roots bands, most notably The Shoeshine Boys and Jesse Murphy Trio. Nolan has since branched out performing in a bluegrass duo with Eric Brousseau, a folk/soul/roots duo Amber Banks, and a number of oth...

FFCS is a music collective from Hamilton, Ontario. Songs edited from episode: Supa Scoopa and the Mighty Scoop - Kyuss Green Eyes - Chris Cohen Maybe - Ingrid Michaelson Wizardly Jam - FFCS   Follow FFCS: https://www.instagram.com/ffcs_4_life/   Follow Inside the Music: https://www.instagram.com/stereoruss/ https://www.tiktok.com/@stereoruss https://www.youtube.com/@stereoruss

Superstar Crush formed about two years ago and play power pop. Sam (guitar/vocals), Marzieh (vocals), and Truaxe (drums/vocals) became friends in middle school and met Chloe (bass) in high school and started performing original music at the end of grade 12. They all go to different universities but rock in the summer and on breaks. They have a dynamic stage energy that is not to be missed!  Songs...

Jocelyn June hails out of Hamilton, now residing in Brantford, Ontario with a natural talent in music. Her sound is a Janis Joplin meets Amy Winehouse, sprinkled with Alanis Morissette. Over the years Jocelyn has studied privately in classical and jazz vocals, guitar with Gord Lewis, and piano with various privet teachers. She has fronted the Hamilton All Star Jr. Jazz Band, funk band 'Skirtcheck'...

Peter van Helvoort is the bassist for The Glorious Sons and is a solo artist under his own name, the singer in Darling Congress, and the singer/guitarist in Teenage Kicks. Song from Episode: Houselights - Glorious Sons Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers Baby You're So Rich - Teenage Kicks   Follow and Listen to Peter van Helvoort: https://www.instagram.com/petervhmusic/ https://linktr.ee/petervanhe...

Bend It Like Beck is Frank Koren and Chris Wheeler as main writers/guitarists. Started as a charity tribute for Jeff Beck and the chemistry was undeniable so it quickly morphed into an original music project. Members are some of Hamilton’s finest including Miles Evan’s-Branagh on keys, Andrew Marshall on bass, and Matt Burns on drums. Songs from Episode: Wonky Wednesday - Bend it Like Beck Big Smo...

From touring the country as a song-writer to expanding the minds of music students of all ages, music has been the through line to Max's entire life, allowing him to connect with people world-wide.  Max Wray is a Hamilton based musician, teacher, songwriter, show promoter/producer - all the hats!   Songs from Episode: Always - Daniel Caesar Good Enough - Your Boy Tony Braxton Consider Me - Allen S...

Canadian musician Keegan Powell makes songs that explore the mystery of pain, the release of demons and how through it all, life actually may be some kind of miracle. Start with the lofi experimental EP’s from 2019 ‘Is+Was’ and ‘Headspun’, doused in reverb, guitar solos and electronic drums. Lines from songs like ‘All That Is and Ever Was’ describes the mundane process through one’s day ‘Can’t qui...

Meet AOIFE, the moniker of Irish-born, Hamilton-based singer-songwriter Aoife-Louise Doyle. A mixture of folk ethos, rock inflection and pop melodicism influences the surface of AOIFE’s soulful musical makeup. Her passion can be traced to an upbringing filled with family acapellas, later to be followed by a postsecondary trajectory as a vocal major. This paved the way for a vast array of experienc...

Moondoggy is an alternative rock band formed in 2019 in Collingwood, Ontario. Members Jakob Matanowitsch (vocals), Jonny Contini (guitar), Ben Matanowitsch (saxophone), and Victor Carrillo (drums) have spent the past 2 years playing shows in Ontario and Quebec while recording and releasing their debut studio album, “Mad and Noisy”. At present, Moondoggy is preparing for the release of their follow...

DANI was born in Colombia and raised in Mississauga, where she moved when she was one. As a teenager, she played guitar in church. She competed alongside her high school acapella group, winning first place at Dufferin Peel's Music Festival senior year and finishing as a finalist in regional singing contests.  During her time at the University of Edinburgh, DANI's passion for storytelling through s...

Jamie Shea & The Gentle Reminders tell it like it is and break it to you gently, reminding you of what truly matters before sending you home inspired. Their sound is dark and cool like when you're walking in the woods with the pedal steel shining through the pines to the rhythm of your footsteps. We are all proud Hamiltonians. Writing and performing as a solo act for many years, I wanted my so...

With over 20 years of experience on the wheels of steel, DJ Donna Lovejoy has built a rock solid reputation in the Hamilton Music Scene, along with a pretty awesome vinyl and digital music collection. First inspired by the DJs at the underground raves of her youth, Lovejoy learned the art of mixing and blending records to create soundscapes to suit just about any type of party. Her success lies in...

Pushing through the wooden doors of the Black Swan, peanut shells crush under your feet as you stare through the lamp-lit entryway and into the back room bar. A band on stage is strumming a tune that sounds strangely familiar yet you can’t quite put your finger on it. Taking a seat on the worn red couch, you listen closer. There’s a strat reaming through countryish Waylon-like guitar runs and bass...

Kristen Prince is a Port Credit based saxophone player and singer. She has performed with many artists including the Arkells, Canadian legend Andy Kim (Sugar Sugar), Lowest of the Low, Suzie McNeil, My Son the Hurricane, and 4-time Juno nominee Tom Barlow. Kristen stays active in the music scene doing live performances,  writing and producing original music and videos, and doing session recordings...

Mickey grew up listening to records that were fast, loud, and tastefully different. Like the city of Hamilton itself, his approach tends to showcase the raw individuality of the bands he works with, often leaving their rough edges intact. In 2014, he was brought into BTown Sound under Justin Koop (Silverstein, Grade, Walk Off The Earth) and has been fortunate to have worked on sessions with numero...

Bernadette Connors stops by to discuss her newest project "From Janis to Alanis" ...Because "Female Artist” is a genre. #FromJanistoAlanis is a live tribute band highlighting emerging Canadian female artists. Songs from Episode: Kosmic Blues - Janis Joplin It's Too Late - Carole King You Learn - Alanis Morissette Blame Me - Bernadette Connors   Follow From Janis to Alanis and Bernadette Connors: h...

Champagne James Robertson is a guitarist from Hamilton, Ontario. He is in C&C Surf Factory, a surf/garage Rock Instrumental band featuring Colin Cripps and Champagne James Robertson on electric guitar, as well as Moonriivr a musical duo integrating various soundscapes and textures. Songs from Episode: Takeshiesque - C&C Surf Factory One Way Ticket - C&C Surf Factory Perfect Landing - C...

Band leader of Nezqwik as a funk fusion band, formerly with horns and a vocalist, since then it has evolved into the current rhythm section quartet format for the past 5 years. Started out as a fully Hamilton band, and then expanded to include some members from Humber College's Music Program. Aleef is an artist relations representative for FBass Songs from Episode: Sant Esteve - Bill Laurance &amp...