Artist description Song-based, melody-driven Power Pop with keyboards and sampled loops.

Music Style Power Pop with keyboards and sampled loops.

Musical Influences Melody, structure, innovation, arrangement.

Similar Artists Jimmy Eat World, Get Up Kids, Weezer, Discount, Josie and the Pussycats, That Dog, Anna Waronker, The Rentals

Artist History Sixty Stories: female fronted hard pop. Sixty Stories leans heavily on their indie and punk rock influences while introducing strong vocal and keyboard melodies. Sixty Stories formed in the fall of 1999 with Paul Furgale (ex Painted Thin) on drums and back-up vocals, Jo Snyder on guitar and vocals and Kelly Martin on bass. The following spring the group self recorded and released a four-song demo tape, Care and Work, and toured Western Canada to promote the release. In the next eight months Sixty Stories were asked to open for Propagandhi on their 2001 Eastern Canadian tour, and were also lucky enough to open for some of their favorite bands such as Samiam and Fugazi, In the spring of 2001 Sixty Stories signed with Smallman Records, and recorded 7 new songs for the split CD., Different Places to Sit / A Loveless Kiss. The CD also featured 5 songs from Paul Furgale’s previous band, Painted Thin, a now defunct punk band also featuring Steve Carol (The Weakerthans, Hopeless Records/G7 Records). The record was released in the fall of 2001 on Smallman Records (North America) and The Company with the Golden Arm (Europe). In conjunction with this release, Sixty Stories toured across Canada, through the north-midwest USA and throughout Germany. The obvious highlight of the tour was the month spent touring Germany. This tour was launched in Trier playing with Propagandhi (G7/Fat Wreck Chords), and continued on for twenty-six more shows with their new favorite friend, Atom and His Package (Hopeless Records). January 2002 brought Sixty Stories exciting new prospects and an exciting new bass player—Sarah Sangster. Sangster, a graphic design college graduate, enhanced the band’s dynamics with distorted bass and charming back-up vocals. In the spring of 2002, Sixty Stories went into the studio with Ian Blurton (Weakerthans, Blurtonia) and recorded 11 new songs and a signature ‘jingle’. The album, entitled “Anthem Red”, was released in Canada on October 8, 2002 and in it’s first week of release reached #23 on the Canadian National College Radio Charts. Sixty Stories has just completed their second tour of Europe, and will be touring across Canada and USA until early Spring 2003, when they will return to Europe.

Group Members Jo Snyder, Paul Furgale, Sarah Sangster

Instruments Guitar, Bass, A Computer, Drums, Electric Triangle

Albums Different Places To Sit, Anthem Red

Location Winnipeg, Manitoba - Canada

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