Vern Nicholson (bass, vocals) Vince Nicholson (guitar, vocals) Dee Horvath (drums) Formed in 1989, Sour Landslide was a power pop trio from Toronto, Canada and wore their influences (everything from The Replacements and Elvis Costello to Hüsker Dü and Flop) on their sleeve, yet stay true to their own distinctive sound. Their 1994 debut CD,'Friends Of Dracula', was a follow-up to their three independent cassettes. It received airplay on CFNY-FM, Niagara Falls' "The Planet" and campus stations a...
Formed in 1989, Sour Landslide was a power pop trio from Toronto, Canada and wore their influences (everything from The Replacements and Elvis Costello to Hüsker Dü and Flop) on their sleeve, yet stay true to their own distinctive sound.
Their 1994 debut CD,'Friends Of Dracula', was a follow-up to their three independent cassettes. It received airplay on CFNY-FM, Niagara Falls' "The Planet" and campus stations across the country. Also that year they opened for The Lowest Of The Low on their North American tour.
Sour Landslide went on to appear at MusicWest, Canadian Music Week, North By Northeast, and Edgefest. Their highly-touted live shows led them to be personally selected to play with such artists as Art Bergmann, Thrush Hermit, The Refreshments, Universal Honey, Weeping Tile, Suckerpunch, and Cadillac Tramps.
In 1996, "Guns Of Navarone" was selected as the lead-off track on Impact Magazine's new music sampler, and "Human Rain Delay" appeared on CFNY's New Rock Search. Material from their 1997 CD, 'They Promised Us Jobs', made a favourable impression even before the release of the disc itself.
Since its, 'They Promised Us Jobs', has received glowing reviews in magazines such as Chart and The Record with the first single, "Human Rain Delay", having received significant airplay on campus and commercial radio across Canada.
The single made Chart's weekly Top 50, while the album made several "Top 10 of 1997" lists, including those at Exclaim, The Vancouver Sun, The Record, and CBC Radio 2, where Manfred Sittmann picked it as the Number 1 Album of the Year. The band capped off the year with a national TV appearance on Global Television's lunch-hour showcase 'First Up'.
Armed with an even bigger and better sound than before, a deal with Shake The Record Label, and a new hard-hitting album, Sour Landslide seemed poised to cause quite a stir, but do to the economic and competitive pinch of the Canadian music industry Sour Landslide decided to fold the band in July 1998. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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