What is Deadmau5? Turns Out it's Exactly as Weird as You Think.

We all know who Blue Rodeo and Nickelback are, but if you're anything like me (and for your sake, I really hope you're not because I think I might be mildly insane) then you're getting a little glassy-eyed trying to identify some of the folks who will be at the Juno's this Sunday. Well never fear, for I have the power of Google and I'm here to help you wind your way through the maze. Join me, won't you, as we learn about some of the Canadian musicians that we might not be all that familiar with.......yet........


City & Colour

At first glance, you would assume this is the name of a band. That's what I thought anyway. But nope -- it's just one guy. His name is Dallas Green. Get it? City & Colour. Dallas Green. Clever. And his music's pretty good. Plus, he has a crap-tonne of tattoos:

Classified

That is his name. I don't mean that his name is classified information -- I mean that is his name: Classified. I don't think that's his birth name. Hold on -- I'll go ask Google...................

.......................I'm back. His real name is Luke. I figured his mom didn't name him Classified. That would be pretty weird. He's a rapper from Nova Scotia. And he has an album called 'Handshakes and Middle Fingers.' He wears his hat crooked a lot.


F****d Up

I hope these guys win an award, because it will make me laugh when the person announcing the winner has to say "And the winner is........F****D UP!!!!!"

They are a hardcore punk band, which explains why I've never heard of them before.

F****d Up played at a music festival in 2009 in a village called F***ing, Australia. I am not making this up. This is real. It was called the Festival of the F*** Bands, and featured such musical acts as Holy F***, F***, and F*** Buttons. Seriously. I am not making this up.

I would put a picture here of them, but I'm afraid of what I will find if I do a Google picture search for 'F****d Up.'


JRDN

I feel bad for JRDN, because he does not have any vowels. Or maybe he did have some, and he lost them. Or maybe he had irritable vowel syndrome, and he had to have them removed.

I just looked up a picture of him. Here, look at it:

He's very good-looking. So good looking, that I don't even care what kind of music he sings. I just wanna look at him for a while.


Deadmau5


For a long time, I insisted on calling this guy "Deadmau Five." I figured if he wanted to spell his name weird, then I was gonna say it weird.

It is actually pronounced "Deadmouse." Morbid. Also, I had a dead mouse in my basement once and not even one person wanted to some see it, so I don't know why he thinks this is a good name.

His real name is Joel, and he's from Niagara Falls. He does the music that has records that get spun around and go "wokka wokka scratch scratch." And he wears a big mouse head on his real head.

I don't get it. And I'm going to have nightmares where that is coming after me.