On January 25th at Dickens Pub, CJSW presents Vancouver garage legends Dead Ghosts, Toronto prog jazz geniuses Badge Époque Ensemble, & local hip-hop icon Tea Fannie for CJSW’s 40 Years of Serious Business party.

Doors open at 8PM, bands to follow at 9PM, with CJSW DJs playing between bands.

CJSW knows how to throw a party, so get your tickets early before they sell out! They’re $30 and include a special limited edition CJSW enamel pin to pick up at the door.

Brought to you by CJSW Radio and Last Best Brewing and Distilling

Artist Bios

Dead Ghosts is a Vancouver-based band that started in 2008, known for their gritty blend of garage rock and surf punk. With a lo-fi aesthetic and a sound reminiscent of the ’60s and ’70s, they deliver reverb-drenched guitars, catchy melodies, and haunting harmonies. Renowned for their energetic live performances, Dead Ghosts continues to make waves in the Canadian music scene, captivating audiences with their raw sound.

In 2024, the band self-released their latest album, Hippie Flippin, marking a significant evolution in their sound. The new record showcases a richer, fuller texture, incorporating horns and enhanced percussion that elevate their signature style. With this album, Dead Ghosts explores new sonic landscapes while maintaining their catchy melodies and evocative lyrics, offering fans a fresh yet familiar experience.

Badge Époque Ensemble is a group of eclectic Toronto musicians, recruited by bandleader Maximilian Turnbull to play original compositions. Over the course of 4 albums, an EP, and a few compilation/archival releases (mostly on Toronto’s Telephone Explosion label) the scope of their work has come to include contemporary updates to library music, 70’s style jazz-funk, psych’d out soul, prog and esoterica. They have also released collage works, constructed by Turnbull (as well as a remix album in collaboration with Lammping) out of refashioned stems and loops of their own previous recordings. Taken as a whole, their catalog bears reference to a master beat digger’s crate of funky oddities. Fittingly, BÉE most recently collaborated with the rappers Boldy James & O.C. Other vocalists they have collaborated with include Jennifer Castle, Meg Remy, Dorothea Paas & James Baley. They have toured with artists such as Bill Callahan & U.S Girls, and have been long-listed twice for the Polaris Prize.

Chameleonic rapper Tea Fannie has proven to be an unstoppable force in the music scene here in Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary. In just 5 short years she has been featured on Sirius XM, Virgin Radio, iHeart Radio, Edmonton Journal, Global News, Big Kitty Magazine, Downtown Arts Calgary, The YYScene, The Block on CBC, Key of A on CBC, Xtra Magazine, The Yellowknifer, Hamilton newspaper, with many more to come! All of that has been through DIY marketing until now and mostly from recording herself, while working on an album with Junia-T in the background. With her project, It’s All Love, funded by Canada Council, set to release September 27, 2024, she is sure to continue forging her own path in this industry.  She has had the opportunity to work with a grammy nominated producer (Lord Quest), and has opened for Planet Giza, Begonia, Super Duty Tough Work, Princess Nokia, Homeboy Sandman, etc.

CJSW would like to acknowledge the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. We would also like to note that the University of Calgary is situated on land adjacent to where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, and that the traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Moh’kins’tsis”, which we now call the City of Calgary.

CJSW expects all attendees to follow CJSW’s Community Standards at this event. You can review these here.