2024 Round-up
Weyt-kp Happy New Year buds! 2024 was pretty action-packed with festivals and awards, and it wrapped up the release cycle for ‘Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi’ – our 2023 full album released by our buds over at Mint Records. The first single from that album ‘Dig Me Out’ dropped way back in April 2022 so we […]
CADA: The Storytelling Podcast
Miesha Louie fell in love with punk/garage music when she was a self-described angsty teen living in Invermere, B.C. She sought out like-minded kids in school who shared her interest, forming bands and booking community hall shows. She eventually brought her talent and ambition to Calgary, where she honed her craft and is now mentoring others.
“It’s really freeing, being onstage and sharing your art and your music and your experiences, and having that reflected in the audience,” she says. “And so there’s just this reciprocal energy going back and forth and getting bigger, there’s really just nothing like it. It’s a super special experience.”
RANGE: Music Video Premiere “Bear Kids”
With the release of their sixth single off latest album Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi, Calgary-based garage rock duo Miesha and the Spanks wrap up a highly successful album cycle that saw the veteran band reach new heights. “Bear Kids” is the most personal track on the album, highlighting some of band leader Miesha Louie’s strongest songwriting to date as she explores the death of her father and subsequent birth of her twins four years ago.
Photog Music – Live at Dominion Tavern
From the moment they kicked off their set, it was evident that this wasn’t going to be just another gig; it was going to be an experience. The venue pulsed with an electric energy as Miesha & The Spanks unleashed their signature brand of rip-roaring, loud garage rock. The duo’s performance was nothing short of mesmerizing, transporting the audience to a sonic realm that was both exhilarating and intoxicating.
WCMA Nominations + Festival Announcements
Lots happening! Lots to share! We’ve got award nominations for the Western Canadian Music Awards, some new festivals to announce for this summer, we just got home from our first weekender in Ontario (with Thunder Queens!), and we still have two more mini-tours to go this month — starting in the Prairies with Dump Babes, and then further east to Montreal, Ottawa, and Kingston for Spring Reverb Festival.
Tour Announcement!
Unbelievably stoked to announce (most of!) our May tour dates! Coming to you in a series of weekenders we’re spreading out our time between the good ol’ Prairies and some of our fav stops in Eastern Canada! Wednesday May 1 – Hamilton ON – The Casbahw/ Mad Ones, Thunder QueensThursday May 2 – Windsor ON […]
Year-end review: Eric Volmers’ favourite local albums of 2023
Miesha Louie has been fronting various incarnations of this duo for more than a decade but may have hit a peak with this multi-layered rock album that showcases both a deepening song craft and some of the best live-wire guitar riffs you will hear this year.
New Music Vid + Spanks For The Memories, 2023…
Our music video for latest single Heart Is On Fire is a homemade memory reel of our busiest year yet! It’s compiled of BTS phone footage, high quality performance footage, and basically whatever could be pieced together to truly do justice to 2023.
Watch performances from Reclaimed Presents: ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl Come Toward the Fire
The musicians and dancers took the stage in Vancouver to celebrate Indigenous talent. Mixed Secwépemc singer Miesha Louie’s band, Miesha and the Spanks, was this year’s Outstanding Indigenous Artist in CBC Music’s Searchlight competition. The rock duo performed their winning song “Dig Me Out.”
CBC Music’s Searchlight 2023: the winners
Outstanding Indigenous artist: Miesha & the Spanks from Calgary with ‘Dig Me Out.’ Miesha Louie, a mixed-Secwépemc artist living in Treaty 7 territory, and percussionist Sean Adams form this guitar-driven duo, which has supported bands including Queens of the Stone Age and Death From Above 1979.
