Band Directory

Here is a quick directory of active local musicians who write their own music, create their own vibes, play their own shows – some within Windsor-Essex county limits and sometimes to cheers and laurels of ears from other far off cities. Most of these bands still reside in Windsor-Essex, some have chosen other residences to pursue their craft. But no matter the address, they are all a part of Windsor’s music scene and heritage.

These are all links to the musicians’ Facebook page. Once there, you will find many have musical soundbites you can sample, most will have dates for future appearance (in town and out of town), several with have links to more thorough websites and all will have photos of them fueling their passion on some form of stage.

Enjoy and cruise this magical highway. You don’t think Windsor has a good music scene? Spend an hour or so surfing these links and I guarantee you’ll find more than a few local artists will touch your soul and make you fall in love with music all over again.

If you are in a band and would like to be included, please leave a comment! But keep it polite. This is a big list that’s constantly changing. 

Rock/Pop

• Alex Carruthers & The Rhythm Brothers
• Area 51
• Ashes of Soma
• ASK
• Awake To A Dream
• The Beijing Bike Club
• Between Blinks
• Big Sugar
• Blasternaut
• The Blue Stones
• The Brilliancy
• Bullet Tooth Tony
• The Classix
• Cloverjoy
• The Crown Viktorias
• The Dance Floor
• Diesel Junkies
• Dr. Altenhof
• Drop Dead Famous
• Explode When They Bloom
• The FourJury
• Frontiers
• The Guitar Army
• Heavy Suns
• The Hypnotics
• Inoke Errati
• Intra Meridian
• James O-L & The Villains
• The Locusts Have No King
• Luna Borealis
• Menos Mal
• Meters to Miles
• Michou
• The Mud Lions
• The Nefidovs
• Neverending White Lights
• Nuclear Sunrise
• One Man’s Opinion
• Olympia
• The Nefidovs
• Planet World
• Jody Raffoul
• The Rheostats
• Seven Year Riot
• SixtyFirstSecond
• Sophist
• StateSideSin
• StereoGoesStellar
• Surdaster
• The Tea Party
• Ten Indians
• This Is War
• The Thrash Brownies
• The Tragedy of Miriam
• 2Fish
• Two for the Cascade
• The Tyres
• Vultures?
• Waker Glass
• Water/Heart
• Eric Welton
• Weirdonia
• Years of Ernest
• Your Not So Friendly Neighbours

Heavy Metal/Hardcore

• After Ashes
• Anonymous Bosch
• Aquila
• Arkayic Revolt
• Assassinate The Following
• Betrayer
• Blackheart
• Blackthorn City
• Blastphemy
• Burn The Path
• Cellos
• Cyreene
• Devilz By Definition
• EVL
• Faithful Unto Death
• Falling With Glory
• Fiftywatthead
• Final Stage
• Goliath
• Grand Marais
• Gypsy Chief Goliath
• Hammerdown
• The Heat Seeking Moisture Missiles
• The Jet Trio
• King Misfit
• Legions
• NeanderTHRALL
• Perpetuate
• Pitch Union
• Poughboy
• Reasons Lost
• The Sean Connery Supergroup
• Seven Out
• Shinje
• Sledgehammer
• Solidarity
• Supermansion
• This Ghost
• TON
• Tyburn Tree
• The Vaudevillianaires
• Voodoo Mafia
• Weapon of Choice
• Which Witch

Hip Hop

• Central Slang
• Jay Braaks
• Jae Cyphe
• J. Reno
• Kayyce Closed
• MicLordz & Sauce Funky
• Solow
• Trilla
• Wade Willsun

Jazz/Lounge/R&B/Soul

• Joan Charette
• Huladog
• The Swillingtones
• Trish Wales & Co.

Blues

• Dusty
• The Original Buzzard Band
  

Punk

• Aurelia
• Brass Knuckles
• Hellraiser
• Orphan Choir
• Pulp City Inn
• Repetitions
• The Line Drawn
• The Rowley Estate
• Shared Arms
• Shortcut to Last
• Silent Movie Type
• Valerie Page
• We Can Be Heroes
• With Glowing Hearts

Electronic/Experimental/Instrumental

• Citywide Vacuum
• 87 Things for the Future
• FURS
• KERO
• Laughing Casket
• Ontario Plates
• Phantom Death
• Red Red Run
• Red Rows
• Space Vampire
• Star Trek: The Band
• Tone Artisans
• Trevor Malcolm Jazz Trio
• Vex Dstruct.O
• What Seas, What Shores
• (WH)Y.M.E.(??)

Folk/Singer-Songwriter

• Acousticfire
• Mary Rose Allan
• Leighton Bain
• Monique Belanger
• Christina Bell
• The Birds of Paradise
• The City and The Sky
• Tony Coates
• Crissi Cochrane
• Den-igan
• Kevin Echlin
• Efan!
• Field Assembly
• Fresh Breath Band
• Clinton Hammond
• Michael Hargreaves
• Rayven Howard
• Andrew MacLeod
• Kenneth MacLeod & The Windsor Salt Band
• Daniyal Malik
• Jamie Reaume
• ReGael
• Travis Reitsma
• Jackie Robitaille
• Dave Russell
• Same Latitude As Rome
• Shrimp Yogurt
• Tara Watts
• Johnny West

County/Roots

• Crystal Gage
• Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe
• The Hung Jury
• Lonesome Lefty

Ex-Patriots (Windsor Musicians living elsewhere)

• Ben Brandes/The Unsettlers (Montreal)
• The Bulletproof Tiger (Toronto)
• Dean Drouillard (Toronto)
• Elliott Brood (Toronto)
• Christine Fellows (Winnipeg)
• Craig Gloster/Fjord Rowboat (Toronto)
• David Gold/Woods of Ypres (Sault Ste. Marie)
• Daniel Keeler (Ottawa)
• Lee Gaul (Toronto)
• Grady (Austin)
• Ron Leary (Toronto)
• Dustyn Lucas/The Unsettlers (Montreal)
• George Manury (London)
• Perilelle (Toronto)
• The Reason (Hamilton)
• Pat Robitaille (Toronto)
• Salt of the Chief Cornerstone (Los Angeles)
• Songs From A Room (Toronto)
• This Is Me As A Woman (Toronto)
• Ryan Yoker/Bombs (Toronto)

The Vault (Past Windsor Bands/Musicians)

• Anarchy Army
• Anneke’s Star
• Bloemfontein
• Bloodshoteye
• Blurt
• Brown Water
• Calamity Jane
• The Chantones
• Classroom Zero
• Closed Casket Funeral
• Clusterfuxx
• Corprophemia
• The Dead Kings
• Dorothy Collins
• Dead Heat
• The Dead’s Elite
• Death or Comber
• The D.E.D.
• Destroy Thy Will
• Dirty Harry
• Dismata
• the doLLies
• Dreams Destruction
• The Dry Heaves
• Elephant
• Fetal Pulp
• Flange
• Flesh Columns
• Foreign Film Star
• Full White Drag
• Jimmy Bronco
• Godhead
• The Golden Hands Before God Conducts Incredible Magic Band & The Spirits
• Green ‘Round The Gills
• The Hard Liquors
• The Hard Tops
• Helsinki Go
• High Mother
• The Hitmen
• itzjunk
• Kanada
• Lager Lads
• Lodown
• Lone Locust
• The Low Tones
• Lunacy
• Luxury Christ
• Machines
• Magic Hall of Mirrors
• Majority D
• Measured in Angles
• Merseysippi Collectif
• Missiles
• Monolith
• The Movies
• Nine Days Since
• Over The Falls
• Paradigm Shift-X
• PFOD
• Plastic Gary
• Pleasure
• Porcelain Mary
• Portia
• The Posers
• Prehistoric Cave Strokers
• Problem to the Solution
• The Redstripes
• Repeat Until False
• Royal Dose
• The Scarecrows
• searchingforchin
• Second Nature
• Sewing With Nancie
• Shot Down Stars/Kill List
• The Skin Thieves/Racecar
• Solidstate
• Somatose
• Soyl
• Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence
• Spit Funnel
• The Spy’s
• Teaze
• Ten Year Drought
• Theory of Everything
• TOAST
• Trailer Park Sex Cowboys/Angels of Addiction
• Transvestite
• Trixter (not the 80’s hair metal band)
• Tulaine Blacktop
• Village Idiot
• Vultures!
• Way Too Gigalo
• What Heart
• The Windsor Dukes
• Yellow Wood