It's 5am in Phoenix, Arizona - Warped Tour 2001. The world is still except for Dr. Rocco and Dr. Dynamite - they've just been kicked out of their makeshift laboratory (the last after-hours bar they could find) and are now in a back alley, confident that they are on the verge of one of their best discoveries ever. It's been a night of astute theoretical discussion and mastermind contemplation. As they round the corner they indeed stumble upon a grand discovery. Both of their tour buses have left! In a flash Dr. Rocco and Dr. Dynamite morph back into their stage entities, Todd Morse and Cone McCaslin. Todd tries to call his tour manager and the other members of H20, Cone desperately dials his three faithful compadres from Sum 41. Alas - no one will answer their calls.

293 miles, 6 hours and 32 minutes later - Todd and Cone emerge from a taxi to join their band mates in Las Vegas, Nevada. They shake hands before they part, looking at each other with an intense stare because they know that what happened the night before will rear it's ugly head again. The doctors will make their rounds - The Operation M.D. will be born! Ah yes... this smells like SCIENCE!

At least that's the story the two of them told me over drinks when I sat down to interview them about the new side project they have on the go. Outcasts amongst their peers, bass player Cone McCaslin and guitar player / singer Todd Morse were destined to find each other and concoct the music that makes them The Operation M.D. The music is not what you'd expect based on their pedigree. The songs on their debut album "We Have An Emergency" are a magnificent blend of street-indie and pop. It's like The Violent Femmes getting beaten up by The Hives and making friends with Tom Petty.

Montreal's Lindsay Robins first made an impact on young music fans across the nation with the single/video, "What Would You Do," when she was selected to perform the theme song for MuchMusic's highly successful VJ Search reality series. Now the 19-year-old singer-songwriter is releasing a whole set of raw rock songs entitled Dirty Chemistry, on Aquarius Records.

The video for the first single, "Freaks," directed by Sean Michael Turrell (Sum 41, Billy Talent, Hedley), will surely connect with even more people. With her outrageous performance and lyrics like "we're all weird in our own way", the song is Lindsay's testament to individuality.

"I'm always trying to figure out who I am and I share that on this album," says Lindsay. "Some tracks are darker and angrier, and my music is a way to express that side of my personality. I also love to shock people and make them laugh."

Determined to spend her life making music, at 13, Lindsay began recording pop demos. Soon, she discovered her own aggressive vocal style and started writing more personal angst-driven songs.

Empowered by this transformation, she cut a demo, which eventually led her to songwriters Christopher Ward (Alannah Myles, Hilary Duff, Amanda Marshall) and Fred St-Gelais (Randy Bachman, Marie Mai, Ryan Malcolm, and Andrée Watters). From these collaborations came her full-length debut, Dirty Chemistry, produced by St-Gelais and Ward.

Inspired by such tell-it-like-it-is females as Pat Benatar, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith and Alanis Morissette, Lindsay's music now has the edge she was looking for in her early years.

"Dirty Chemistry was fun for me. It was also an incredible learning experience as a singer and a writer," says Robins. "I really feel like I was given the chance to say exactly what I wanted and put myself into every track on this record."

With the release of "Freaks," her tongue-in-cheek anthem for individuality, Lindsay has certainly found her voice and Dirty Chemistry is a raw and real expression of her defiance and, ultimately a statement of personal evolution.

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Since the release of 2002's Does This Look Infected?, Sum 41 has played more than 200 live shows worldwide and has performed on notable staples such as Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brian and Mad TV.

In June of 2004, Sum 41 was in Congo filming the half-hour MTV documentary ROCKED: Sum 41 in Congo. The documentary, about the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, describes the band's ten day trip with War Child, a Canadian charity that provides humanitarian assistance to children affected by war. The documentary also tracks the band's much publicized evacuation from Congo, assisted by a UN Canadian peacekeeper Chuck Pelletier, who saved the lives of the band and 40 other civilians. Sum 41 later named its latest album, Chuck, in his honour.

Jorane is a talented and unique artist whose performances combine voice and instrument to create a sound that is truly mesmerizing. She is a master of the cello and illuminates the stage with her pixie-like look, captivating her audience while weaving a sonic and visual dreamscape for the listener and observer.

On her most recent album, The You and the Now, Jorane explores new musical territory by embracing the power of words. For the first time, she has collaborated with songwriters in order to deliver a deeply personal and introspective body of work to both her fans and to those new to Jorane's music.

Last year, Jorane garnered twelve nominations at ADISQ (including Songwriter of the Year and Artist Most Recognized Outside of Quebec) and two Juno nominations.

Jeremy Fisher is a Canadian singer-songwriter currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia and previously based on Vancouver Island, B.C. Fisher has a Newfoundland connection; his mother is from the province. Fisher's work is heavily influenced by folk and blues music, and his songs feature accompaniment by acoustic guitar, slide guitar and harmonica.

To support his 2001 independent debut album, Back Porch Spirituals, Fisher spent six months touring from Victoria, across Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia by bicycle. The tour, dubbed "One Less Tourbus", traveled 7500 kilometers, included 30 performances, and worked with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy to raise funds for the "Tour des Femmes," promoting access to bicycle transport and to education for girls in Africa. Fisher has also performed as a sidewalk busker.

Let it Shine, his first album on a major label (Sony BMG Music Canada), was released on October 12, 2004. "High School", the second single from the album, won wide airplay on Canadian commercial radio and music television in early 2005.

In February and March 2005, Fisher toured Canada with Sarah Slean, and in April, he was a featured performer in the Canada Performing Arts Program at Expo 2005 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

In 2006 Jeremy toured with Xavier rudd and opened for Rex Goudie on Rex's Outports Tour 2006. Jeremy Fisher dueted with Canadian Industrial super group Jakalope on the track 'Unsaid' from their Born 4 album released in 2006.

Jeremy recently signed with Aquarius Records in Montreal where he is set to record his follow up to Let It Shine with producer Hawksley Workman.

Danko Jones has been building an astonishingly solid base for a decade. 'Rock by rock', the band has proven that it is the loudest, proudest, most suave, sexiest, heaviest, heartiest power trio in the world.

Danko Jones' second album, 2003's We Sweat Blood , was just the rock n' roll explosion the world needed. With their injection of pure, unabashed rock n' roll, the man and the band helped resuscitate the dying rock scene all across the world. An NME scribe once declared, "They sound mighty, like Status Quo raised on Minor Threat". The explosive, exhilarating nature of Danko Jones' live show sent ripples through the universe and garnered intrigue into this somber yet articulate group of artists. This intrigue resulted in a series of spoken word shows in Europe, as documented in 2004's The Magical World Of Rock. Just when you think you've caught up with Danko Jones, the band unleashes album number 3, Sleep Is The Enemy, a record laden with catchy hooks and anthemic choruses that cry about love, lust and all the "Sticky Situations" (the album's first single) they inevitably create. Danko Jones is keepin' on keepin' on, year after year, using every moment to wake up the world, and leaving no doubt that Sleep Is The Enemy after all.

For the many thousands who've been lucky enough to witness Crowned King onstage, "mayhem" is the only possible way to describe what happens when the band throws down.

Since 2003, when the band's sophomore album Break The Silence was first released on Aquarius Records/EMI, Crowned King has played over 350 shows in North America, each live display more insane than the last. Each Crowned King show inevitably pumps new meaning into the term "high energy," leaving the band members bloody and scarred and the audience frantically begging for more.