Uniter Fiver
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Keeping it fun
Baseball Hero is a relatively new band to Winnipeg, but their laid-back, honest approach to songwriting has brought them quickly into the spotlight.
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Everything old is new again
Mister K a.k.a Kevin Roy is looking to the past to bring something new to pop music.
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Falling into place
Coming of age provides a deep well of emotion from which to draw artistic inspiration. According to Dinner Club, their hard-hitting, driven punk songs feature a touch of it all.
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Keeping it close
House Handshake is a band that believes in togetherness. Most of them share a home as well as a musical journey.
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WINNER: Like ”sitting in the shower”
Bassist Alex Braun and guitarist Nick Lavich played in a band together in high school. That band was called Cataract.
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Uniter Fiver 2019
Welcome to this year’s Uniter Fiver!
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A recipe for grooving
Dizzy Mystics is a local rock-inspired band with funk, jazz, folk and ’70s metal influences.
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A Cawnversation with Two Crows For Comfort
Cory Sulyma, one-half of local folk duo Two Crows For Comfort, shies away from categorizing the band’s music
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Giant Skellies rattling bones with upcoming EP
Their name might suggest otherwise, but the Giant Skellies are anything but bare bones
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Overcoming fear with honesty
Singer-songwriter Taylor Janzen is a self-proclaimed Julien Baker Evangelist, crediting the artist with inspiring her to open up emotionally within her own writing.
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Getting all the small things right
Pop-punk trio The 1221 take being close with your bandmates to a whole new level.
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The 2018 Uniter Fiver
For this year’s Uniter Fiver, we switched up the order of things a bit and had readers vote on the grand winner of the top five rather than all of the submissions.
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What’s up with last year’s Fiver bands?
The Middle Coast // Deep Dark Cave // Adam Hanney & Co. // Fox Lake // Ashley Bieniarz
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Tusk
If there’s a more quintessential origin story than TUSK’s, it would be tough to find it.
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Rosebud
The duo behind Rosebud took a rather casual approach to forming the two-person band, and that’s how they continue to operate.
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June Killing Stones
June Killing Stones is a locally grown band united in their value of community and positivity. Brothers Joshua and Jake Letkeman were working on their craft for years before putting together a group.
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Awaiting the Answer
Awaiting the Answer has come together with the common goal of bringing a new sound to Winnipeg’s metal scene.
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Kakagi
Kakagi (pronounced ke-KA-gi) is a new band whose name is derived from a small lake in northwestern Ontario.
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The 2017 Uniter Fiver
Choosing just five new local bands to showcase in our annual Uniter Fiver contest is a pretty tall order. This year, we started with 16 amazing submissions and put them to readers and local music lovers to choose the final five.