'Formed early 2012, Birmingham four-piece Bipolar Bears are just emerging on to local music scenes, with debut demo 'Guilty' proving a popular crowd pleaser and the band set to release there first EP in the coming months, the band are geared up for a big year. 

All big supporters of Blurs declaration that modern life is rubbish. The driving force behind the brummie four piece is a mutual dissatisfaction with the way things just ‘are’. Harking back to the bipolar connotations, their words gap the bridge between the hopeful and the hopeless while the sound pendulum swings from chirpy, melodic whimsy to the lowest ebbing Indie.

Whilst proud of their trade the boys shrug in the face of earnestness and like the polar bear slumped on top of their logo, manage to have a sense of humour about the whole thing even in the face of global meltdown.'

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Arbutus is an artistic community based in Montréal, where punk ethos and pop music collide. Beginning as a DIY loft space, Arbutus Records developed to cultivate and promote the music associated with the space with a strong emphasis on friendship and collaboration.

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