Penticton Music Scene Archive

Last updated Jan 2024.
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Aaron Goodwin / Acronym /Alpha Baby / Alpha Decline / Bill Stathers / Buttwax / Catastrophists / Hardball



Aaron Goodwin

 

Local Penticton folk legend. Note that this album is missing several tracks.

 

Draw A Line (2004)

1.      Don’t Flatter Yourself

2.      Sweetchild

3.      Draw A Line

4.      I’ve Died

5.      My Mistakes

 

 

 

 

Acronym

 

Penticton Highschool band from the early 2000s that later changed their name to Push For Protection.

See also Push For Protection, and the Science Fiction Addiction.

 

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Unknown Recording (2003?)





1.      Imaginary Girlfriend

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alpha Baby

 

This Kelowna band relocated to Vancouver and became Yukon Blonde. Their only release as Alpha Baby seems to have been scrubbed from their catalog.

 

You Gentle Crustacean (2006)

 

 

 

 

 

1.      The No Places

2.      Run

3.      Do You Ever Wonder

4.      Mothers Union

 

5.      You Gentle Crustacean

6.      Rue Eyed Blue Girl

7.      The Yes Places

Unknown Live Recordings (2007?)

 

 

 

 

 

1.      Streets Are Frozen

2.      Sunshine

 

 

 

Alpha Decline

 

A short-lived Penticton band from the early/mid 2000s that morphed into Ruckus.
See also Ruckus, Kabonge, and the Science Fiction Addiction.

 

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Unknown Recordings (2006?)

 

 

 

 

 

1.      Marble Sauce

2.      New Core Beach

3.      Shotgun Wedding Shotgun

 

 

Bill Stathers

Our dear friend Bill’s renditions of two of Head First’s songs. Recorded in the Pen-high band room.

 

Untitled
(2003?)

1.      Walking

2.      Girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buttwax

 

Somewhat of a joke band that preceded Hardball.

See also Hardball.

 

Live – Pen High Battle Of The Bands
(2001)

 

 

 

1.      School (Nirvana)

2.      Depressed Song

 

 

 

 

 

 

Untitled
(2003?)

 

 

 

 

 

1.      Fight Club 2 Theme

2.      The Soap Opera

 

 

Catastrophists

 

An eclectic group of musicians centered around a former art-space in Penticton known as the Forge.

 

At The Forge
(2009?)

1.      Intro

2.      Time Bomb

3.      Eulogy Writer

4.      Proud Mother

5.      Joel’s Blues

6.      Eyes In The Morning

7.      Wrong Side Of Town

 

 

8.      Mark’s Room

9.      T2 Banjo

10.  1st Song

11.  Rapped Up

12.  Somer Adam

13.  Rolled Up

14.  Jazzy Joel

 

 

Hardball

 

A long-standing Penticton punk band who formed in the mid 2000s.

See also Buttwax.

 

Live – Rocktoberfest
(2004)

1.      Malfunction (Cro-mags)

2.      Ian’s Song

3.      Snow

 

 

4.      Fever

5.      Gray

6.      Sleep

 

 

 

 

2003 Demo
(2003)

1.      Gray

2.      Raker McGee

3.      Liquor Stores