Novillero is a Canadian indie pop band formed in 1999 in Winnipeg , Manitoba . Their musical style has been dubbed "mod-pop".
13-481: Novillero was formed in 1999 by keyboardist Roberta Dempster, guitarist Sean Stevens, and keyboardist-guitarist Scott Hildebrandt, who were former members of the Winnipeg lounge pop band Transonic , with the addition of Rod Slaughter (Duotang), Dave Berthiaume (Bulletproof Nothing), and Rusty Matyas ( The Waking Eyes ). The band's first touring effort in late 1999 was cut short when a traffic accident destroyed much of
26-532: A Canadian indie pop duo based in Winnipeg , Manitoba. The project consisted of multi-instrumentalist Rusty Matyas, formerly of the Waking Eyes and a sometime collaborator of the Weakerthans , and vocalist Marti Sarbit. Matyas and Sarbit began collaborating in 2010. That year, they played a few live shows and began to record tracks for an album. In 2011, they continued performing, at first serving as
39-466: A Canadian rock band from Winnipeg and Steinbach , Manitoba . The band formed after the break-up of two other Manitoba bands, The Pets from Steinbach and Novillero from Winnipeg. In 2002 The Waking Eyes released a full-length album, Combing the Clouds . In 2004 The Waking Eyes followed up with a second album, Video Sound . The album won a 2005 Western Canada Music Award. Shortly before
52-696: A cover of Barry McGuire 's " Eve of Destruction ". In season 2, episode 10 " The Art of Carrying On ", a track off of Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives was featured. After disbanding in 2010, the group came together again in early 2016 to perform at the Winnipeg Big Fun Festival. The group came together again in 2023 at the Burt Block Party in their hometown of Winnipeg The Waking Eyes The Waking Eyes were
65-484: The Paperbacks , began playing live shows as a vocalist and instrumentalist formally in 2007. Novillero has been featured in several television shows, including Monk and Eureka . In Monk , Novillero appears in the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert" and they play the songs "The Laissez-Faire System" and "Gaining Ground/Losing Sight". In season 1, episode 6 of Eureka the band can be heard playing
78-691: The US as an opening act for Pixies . Imaginary Cities performed at a number of pop festivals, including the 2013 NXNE, and gained a following in Germany. The band released their second album, Fall of Romance , in May 2013. Fall of Romance was produced, engineered, and mixed by Howard Redekopp , who has also worked with Tegan and Sara , the New Pornographers , and Mother Mother . In 2014, they collaborated with Porter Robinson on his song " Hear
91-462: The album was released, bassist Russ Dufault left the band, temporarily replaced by The Meligrove Band 's Michael Small (for a short tour and the "Watch Your Money" music video), before Joey Penner was introduced. The band went on several tours, traveling across Canada, as well as into the United States and to overseas locations including Germany for POPKOMM's "Kick it like Canada". In 2005
104-475: The band's equipment. The band released The Brindleford Follies on Endearing Records in 2001, toured moderately in support of its release, and then separated in early 2002. After nearly a year apart, Slaughter, Stevens, Berthiaume and Matyas reunited to play a one-off show with new songs. The music then was heading in a new direction, relying less on spacey psychedelia and more on keyboard-driven pop hooks while retaining enough of their mod influence to bridge
117-481: The gap. They added Grant Johnson when Matyas scaled back his input to focus on his other band, The Waking Eyes. In 2005, the band released its second album, Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives . and toured to support it. The Globe and Mail 's music critic hailed the band's 2005 show at the Winnipeg Folk Festival as one of the best Canadian rock concerts of the year. Jack Jonasson, formerly of
130-607: The group was nominated for a Juno Award for New Group of the Year but lost to Alexisonfire . The Waking Eyes spent the better part of 2006 holed-up in their Winnipeg jam space, writing and demoing songs for an album. Pre-production took place in Winnipeg during February 2007. The band recorded the follow-up to Video Sound in a Winnipeg studio in May 2007 with producer/engineer John Paul Peters (formerly of The Undecided ). The Waking Eyes' record, Holding on to Whatever It Is ,
143-456: The members of The Waking Eyes. Peters continues writing, recording and/or producing in the Winnipeg area for/with The Liptonians, Slattern, Demetra, Ruth Moody, This Hisses and Triunfo do Gato. Milk is a joke hip-hop act featuring Matyas and Peters, and Racket (pronounced "Racket in Brackets" is a Ratatat-like dance act fronted by Peters. Imaginary Cities Imaginary Cities was
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#1732791974195156-557: The opening band for more established groups. Their debut album, Temporary Resident , was released in 2011 on the Hidden Pony label; it went on to top Canada's campus radio charts. That year, the band won a Western Canada Music Award for Best Pop Album of the Year and was subsequently named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize . To support the album, they played several dates in Eastern Canada and
169-811: Was released digitally via iTunes in July, 2008. The band released the record on vinyl in September, and CD copies became available in November. The album won a Western Canada Music Award for best independent album. In July 2010, The Waking Eyes went on hiatus, allowing the members of the band to concentrate on other musical projects. Matyas formed a soul-pop band, Imaginary Cities , with Winnipeg singer Marti Sarbit; he also performed solo as Terrier and with Ewan Currie as The Mothers Brothers Band. Peters' 2010 album by his band, Royal Canoe , titled "Co-Op Mode," included collaborations, co-writes and performances with all of
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