For those who were wondering what years of conservative oppression sounds like when it explodes out of a sleepy southern Alberta city, come and you shall hear.
Yes, the Bridge has exploded, and indie/punk/garage/noise bands have gone screaming out in all directions. My home town of Lethbridge has come along way in terms of music since I rolled in as a freshman attending the University of Lethbridge (note: I didn’t technically grow up there, but I was born there and spent many formative years under the bridge).
It would be unfair to shower one band or person with all the akolades, but recently Paul Lawton and his start-up label Mammoth Cave has been making a lot of noise and really pushing for a genuine scene in Lethbridge. Long has the Lethbridge music scene been relatively under the radar, recent appearances by Lethbridge acts in Beatroute, FFWD Magazine and even in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight has proven that people will pay attention if you simply scream loud enough.
Being a tight knit community, Endangered Ape shares strands of DNA with other Lethbridge bands. I’ve seen Paul play in more bands than I have fingers to count them on, Lead singer Adam is the king of Karaoke in town, and one of the guitarist Kent has even played in a short lived band with myself (when we were sure that the world needed another Screamo Band). Sadly, I am not in Lethbridge anymore and haven’t been keeping the close tabs on the band that I once did. With a roster of a few new members, Endangered Ape has increased it’s gene pool and has been dragging it across this fair country for the past few weeks.
While it’s still snowing in Southern Alberta, Endangered Ape will be at Squalor House with Ottawa’s The Sedatives, Montreal’s The O Voids, and Regia SK’s very own Hot Blood Bombers. It should be quite a kicker!
