Artist description Born out of the soil of suburban turmoil, the West Island is the Best Island Records aims to represent the 1%.

Music Style Rock N' Roll, Yardcore, Punk Rock, Soul Music for the Suburbs.

Musical Influences The Music and the People.

Similar Artists The West Island is the Best Island is a single, unique, self-contained rock n' roll explosion that defies comparison...heh...Refused, Trick Woo, Thrush Hermit, Joel Plaskett, RFTC, Tortoise etc

Artist History The label started as nothing more than an inside joke between seven friends, M.A.S.S.S.J.R., but quickly became the reason of being for two of them. Ice Cube says: "The West Island is the Best Island"...You wouldn't disagree with Cube, would you?

Group Members Shawn "Shawny" Petsche, Ryan "Ultratank" Petsche, A Vertical Mosaic, Fistful of Nature Death, Adam Brown, Blue Collar Madness, Crutch Glide, RJ's Boom Boom Saloon (Beat Box Revue).

Instruments Heart and soul...the sound of one hand clapping...

Albums A Vertical Mosaic : Not Even the Creator of the Universe Knew What the Man Was Going to Say Next, Blue Collar Madness: The Yardcore EP -- Punch In To Rock Out, Crutch Glide: The Construction Through Destruction EP

Press Reviews Montreal Mirror, Umbrellamusic, Reelporn, Montreal Hour.

Additional Info Increase the Peace and Spread the Word, Not the Peanut Butter

Location Montreal, Quebec - Canada

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