May 2013
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Montreal's SPREAD Magazine features new Indian...
A chorus of gyrating nudists lead the charge as we dive headfirst into Indian Handcrafts‘ last album “Civil Disobedience for Losers”. But this is only two guys? The sporadic funk of this album bleeds into the room as you are instantly transfused into the stale air of the studio. You can smell the folded beer caps. These are creative beings returning to earth at very angry speeds...
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VICE NOISEY: Video premiere of Indian Handcrafts...
Here’s a sweet exclusive: the gritty new video for Indian Handcrafts’ latest single, “Bruce Lee.” As an homage to their late hero’s sick Kung Fu skills, the Canadian duo pretty much kicks the crap out of each other with high kicks, uppercuts, and nunchucks, plus that ultimate display of testosterone-fuelled masculinity, the staring contest. All of this is set to a...
Indian Handcrafts announced to play Heavy MTL Fest...
April 2013
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The Star: Reasons To Live this Week
Indian Handcrafts, Civil Disobedience for Losers (Sargent House). Given the amount of airtime the likes of Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu and Big Business enjoy in perpetuity chez Reasons to Live, it constitutes a criminal sin of omission to have neglected calling attention to Barrie duo Indian Handcrafts’ late-2012 sophomore LP until now. Suffice it to say, though, that if the...
February 2013
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Indian Handcrafts announce headline shows before...
Indian Handcrafts will headline a run of their own Canadian shows with Black Mastiff joining them before they head off to the arenas where they will be opening for Billy Talent . So, Canada get in early and get your dose of the Craft…
SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS HERE INDIAN HANDCRAFTS , BLACK MASTIFF Mar 7, 2013 - Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid Cabaret Mar 8, 2013 - Regina, SK @ O’Hanlon’s...
Verbicide Album Review
Canadian hard rock duo Indian Handcrafts take a whirlwind of sonic goodness and meld it into a rock-solid collection of hard and heavy tracks that will melt speaker wires and headphones into puddles of electronic goo. The whole sound is a tour de force of shredded riffs pulled out of ’90s grunge with electronic influences from Death from Above and Prodigy, to modern metal like The Dillinger...
January 2013
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2012 TORO GARAGE SESSION AWARDS: Indian Handcrafts...
The Loudness Award - INDIAN HANDCRAFTS We’ve had a few heavy acts in our intimate studio, none as punishingly loud as the duo Indian Handcrafts. While it may not be apparent from the video their sound created an almost physical experience for our crew, who scrambled around for ear plugs and noise-canceling headphones to beat back against the decibel levels. It was worth it, and I don’t believe...
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Indian Handcrafts featured in The Quietus' Metal...
Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers
(Sargent House)
Y’know when you’re sat there late at night watching The Wartime Farm or a very old episode of Columbo in the sign zone, does anyone else get the distinct impression that the person doing the signing is sometimes taking the piss as they’re signing the dialogue? Noticed that one guy who seems to do a sarcastic...
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NOW Toronto: Top 10 Local Albums - Indian...
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Exclaim! TV: Indian Handcrafts "Zombies" Live...
Back in November, Barrie, ON’s noisy rock duo Indian Handcrafts set up in a tiny corner at Toronto bar Unlovable, where they ripped through a version of “Worm in My Stomach” from their debut album, Civil Disobedience for Losers. Enjoy that video here. A quick look through the Exclaim! TV vaults unearthed another performance, too. The band riff heavy and loud on...
December 2012
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Surviving The Golden Age: Album Review
Indian Handcrafts: Civil Disobedience for Losers Rating: 9.3/10 There’s a fantastic rock band from Japan called Guitar Wolf, maybe you’ve heard of them? They may not have invented rock and roll, but by god if they don’t embody its elements perfectly. Rock is about excess, about partying, about not giving a shit about tomorrow, and most of all about having the time of your life. So many rock...
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Indian Handcrafts Hit the Arenas with Billy...
Indian Handcrafts have been tapped to open all the shows on the Billy Talent & Sum 41 Tour as well as Hollerado. So Canada get in early and get your dose of the Craft… BILLY TALENT, SUM 41, HOLLERADO, INDIAN HANDCRAFTS 2013 Mar 14, 2013 - Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum Mar 16, 2013 - Kamloops, BC @ Interior Savings Centre Mar 18, 2013 - Dawson Creek, BC @ Encana Centre Mar 19, 2013 -...
A.V. Club LOUD: Top 10 Metal Albums of 2013 -...
8. Indian Handcrafts, Civil Disobedience For Losers There’s something to be said for loud, fun party records—the kinds of albums that fill the background in concert with the clkk-swooosh of tall cans cracking open. And as party records go, Civil Disobedience For Losers is a great one, crammed with wall-to-wall bangers. - John Semley for Loud’s best metal, punk and hardcore of 2012 - SEE...
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SLUG: Album Review
Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience for Losers Sargent House Street: 10.30.12 Indian Handcrafts = The Sword + Tweak Bird Indian Handcrafts invite you to a celebration in which they blow up a super giant star. This two-piece outfit makes enough noise to make a banshee run for her earplugs. Aside from the comparisons to acts such as Electric Wizard, Black Mountain and Queens of the Stone Age,...
Fan Made Video of Indian Handcrafts "Coming Home"
Thanks to whoever made this cool video to Indian Handcrafts track Coming Home. Nice work!
November 2012
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Something Else! Album Review Indian Handcrafts
“Civil Disobedience for Losers is a bloody awesome rock record, no question about it. Indian Handcrafts swing for the fences and nail it, providing an experience that really is all killer, no Nickelback.” With a mighty swarm of guitar riffs and funky-as-hell vocals, Indian Handcrafts takes to Civil Disobedience for Losers with an attitude that is all too rare in today’s...
That Metal Blog Reviews Indian Handcrafts' Civil...
Indian Handcrafts: Civil Disobedience For Losers – Like Bumper Nuts For Your Ears!
Right off the bat, the thing we find truly awesome about INDIAN HANDCRAFTS is that it’s literally just two guys making all that beautiful noise: Brandyn James Aikins on drums and vocals and Daniel Brandon Allen on guitar and vocals. Based in Canada, these guys have been rocking for a couple of years now but their...
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Subba Cultcha: 5 Things You Need to know about...
Canadian duo Indian Handcrafts are poised to release one of the sleeper highlights of the year in debut album ‘Civil Disobedience For Losers.’ A juggernaut of chaotic, riff-heavy irreverence it’s a real must hear: so we’ve put together this bite-sized introduction. You can thank us later.
1.They’re hardcore.
During the recording sessions for ‘Civil Disobedience For Losers,’ guitarist Dan...
EMUSIC Review
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MV Remix Reviews: Civil Disobedience for Losers
Canadian grunge band Indian Handcrafts are comprised of Brandyn James Aikins- the drummer and contributing vocalist- and Daniel Brandon Allen- Handcraft’s guitarist and co-vocalist. With the biting power of early Mars Volta, the duo pummels through a variety of colorfully titled songs including “Centauri Teenage Riot” and “Worm in my Stomach”. Based in Southern Simcoe, Ontario, Indian Handcrafts...
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MTV: Music Monday Featured Band is Indian...
MTV in Canada still plays Music! Indian Handcrafts will be featured on their Music Monday show on November 19th, 2012. Unfortunately this is only viewable in Canada.
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TORO Magazine: Live In Studio Session "Coming...
Indian Handcrafts are the loudest act we’ve ever hosted in our TORO Garage. The session also proved to be one of our most memorable — check out their powerful performance of “Coming Home,” from the album Civil Disobedience for Losers.
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EXCLAIM! TV Live Video / Indian Handcrafts / Worm...
When Barrie, ON duo Indian Handcrafts roll through town, you can expect things to get loud. The noisy rock duo recently rolled through Toronto on their current tour, where Exclaim! caught up with them to film a live session. Below, watch Indian Handcrafts pummel through “Worm in my Stomach,” a track from their latest LP, Civil Disobedience for Losers, in cozy Toronto bar Unloveable....
COS: Rdio Playlist by Indian Handcrafts
The Ontario duo Indian Handcrafts are riding in the cab of their suped-up album Civil Disobedience for Losers, a riff-metal funk-blasted gem. Brandyn James Aikins Daniel Brandon Allen (that’s five first-names for the two of them) offered up this playlist of wicked peaks (Indian, Celtic Frost) and some surprising valleys (that Horseback song just sprawled itself all over my “calm the hell down”...
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Terrorizer Magazine Review: Indian Handcrafts...
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GRISL'S UNDER THE NEEDLE: November Best Albums...
Civil Disobedience For Losers by Indian Handcrafts
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AV Club's LOUD Top 5 of October: Civil...
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COS: Album Review "Civil Disobedience for Losers"
In the back of Algebra class somewhere in a flyover state, a pimply kid with fake plastic rivets on his fake leather coat is doodling the coolest shit in the back of his notebook: frothing hulks driving hot-rods and shooting missiles at aliens; secret science labs with faceless doctors sticking worms down the throats of helpless test subjects; blood, bones, and guts everywhere. It’s 2012, he’s...
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Steel For Brains: What’s Coming For You - A...
Such delicacy in a band name that, once listened to, seems like a winking exercise in false advertisement at its best. That’s Indian Handcrafts. Two guys and a battering ram of sound that’s both accessible and multi-faceted in tandem - Indian Handcrafts are no laughing matter, at least from a compositional standpoint. Otherwise, they seem like brilliant pranksters who know how to toe that...
October 2012
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TORO Magazine: Album Review of Indian Handcrafts
INDIAN HANDCRAFTS: Civil Disobedience for Losers
Sargent House Rating: 4/5 I will say, with great certainty, that Indian Handcrafts are the most important and exciting band to ever come out of Barrie, Ontario. The town, where I also grew up, is the kind of place where if you don’t leave as soon as possible, you stay for the rest of your life. Not surprisingly, it has outsourced most of its...
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Alarm Magazine: Best New Albums Of The Week -...
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Album Promo Video II Bruce Lee
Indian Handcrafts behind the scenes footage was shot by Brad Conrad while in the studio with Toshi Kasai and on the road. The track is Bruce Lee from the new album Civil Disobedience For Losers out on October 30, 2012 on Sargent House. (No cats were harmed in the making of this video).
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CBC Music Canada: Q&A Audio Interview with Indian...
The much buzzed-about duo Indian Handcrafts is set to release its debut LP, Civil Disobedience for Losers, on Oct. 30 on Sargent House, and you can stream it HERE
Indian Handcrafts is drummer Brandyn James Aikins and guitarist Daniel Brandon Allen and, if you’re unfamiliar with their edgy, punk/metal-infused rock, prepare to have your mind blown by Civil Disobedience for Losers. Actually,...
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Louder Than War's album review: Indian Handcrafts...
Indian Handcrafts – Civil Disobedience for Losers (Sargent House) CD/DL/LP Out October 30, 2012
Indian Handcrafts are two guys from Canada that make some of the biggest noise I have heard this year. That there are only two of them is jaw-dropping enough but when you consider that the album was recorded when the guitarist had a broken hand it becomes truly awe inspiring.
They sound like...
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Rock A Rolla Magazine: Album Review
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Rolling Stone: Indian Handcrafts "Red Action"...
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SPIN: Full Album Stream of Indian Handcrafts...
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Kingston Music Review: Indian Handcrafts Live in...
“…Up next which had to be for me one of the best “Where the fuck did that band come from” moments this year as Indian Handcrafts took to the stage. I was with pretty much everyone else when I figured the duo of Brandyn Aikins and Daniel Allen were going to be another ska/reggae/punk band, holy hell were we ever wrong. It took the matter of the opening riff in their first song for...
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The Sludgelord Speaketh: Indian Handcrafts Album...
Indian Handcrafts are a hugely talented Rock Duo who blend Sludge, Stoner, Noise, Punk and Doom to highly original effect. We at Sludgelord are big fans of this band and their amazing new album – Civil Disobedience For Losers. An 11 song and almost 40-minute blast of amazing sounds, noises and riffs that pays homage to great bands past and present. The album is expertly produced by Toshi Kasai...
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Sonic More Music: Album Review "Civil Disobedience...
Indian Handcrafts-Civil Disobedience For Losers
It’s usually a reviewer’s job to listen to the record then sit down and write this long boring diatribe about this and that, their influences, who was on the record, blah blah blah…but when it came to Indian Handcrafts second album ‘Civil Disobedience For Losers’ I figured it was much more useful to everyone reading just...
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COS: Premiere of Indian Handcrafts " Red Action"
Just before recording his band’s latest album, Indian Handcrafts guitarist/vocalist Daniel Brandon Allen broke his hand. “The doctor said if you go and record that’s your problem if it gets worse,” Allen explained What was worse than any fractured bone, though, was the pressure of deciding whether to go on with the process. After self-releasing their eight-song debut in 2011, the Canadian...
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This Is Book's Music Review: Indian Handcrafts...
The moment someone mentions Indian Handcrafts, it will lead to discussions of heaviness, music that will floor you like a safe crushing your bowels. However, another word thrown around with these guys is groove. Some of the best hard rock and heavy metal bands have a sense of groove that is often overlooked, but Indian Handcrafts know why it is a necessity: the best rock music is also the best...
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ech(((o)))es and dust Review: Indian Handcrafts...
I’m lucky enough that I’ve been following Indian Handcrafts since I first saw their name on a flyer for a show and checked out their now discontinued debut. When they signed for the ever-reliable Sargent House I was hardly surprised but excited all the same and now after their initiation into the House of Sargent the time has come for the first release since signing. ‘Civil Disobedience For...
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Mojophenia Review: Indian Handcrafts' Civil...
“Everything about Canadian power-duo Indian Handcrafts seems to defy possibilities: a two piece that’s louder than a hundred bands, kicking out one of the year’s most riff-rollicking albums that was recorded while the guitarist had a broken hand! They’re two friendly, soft-spoken Canadian guys sounding like the Funkadelic Mothership crash landing on top of the Planet Caravan in Interstellar...
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Steel For Brains Album Review: Civil Disobedience...
Shtick is the new cool, for sure. That and black metal, I suppose. Safe to say, however, that when you have two people in a band everyone oohs and ahs over the “insanity” of such a thing. You get the White Stripes references, then you get the Black Keys references. That’s all good and well, and kudos to those artists for doing what they do, but then you have Indian Handcrafts - a band so...
INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Announce Ontario Dates & Tour...
Ontario’s own Indian Handcrafts have announced a string of Ontario dates this month prior to hitting the US with Red Fang and Black Tusk. This mini tour will kick off in Kingston and end with an album release show in Toronto on November 2nd at The Horseshoe Tavern, so be sure to check it out! Their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Civil Disobedience For Losers’, is out on October...
September 2012
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PRE-ORDER: Civil Disobedience For Losers Vinyl &...
Hit up the Indian Handcrafts store to pre-order the new album Civil Disobedience For Losers on Vinyl (with free download card) or CD and or grab a T-Shirt Bundle deal. Album comes out on October 30, 2012. Pre-Orders will ship a few days earlier than that and this store ships all over the world.
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Decibel Live Review: Indian Handcrafts at...
Indian Handcrafts from Toronto were Fucked Up’s direct support and the duo filled Soprano’s with a forceful roar that was as thunderous as it was groovy. Both guitarist Daniel Brandon Allen and drummer Brandyn James Aikins did vocals (sing? not really) and they just exploded through a set heavily drawn from their latest album for Sargent House, Civil Disobedience For Losers. Highlight for us was...
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Indian Handcrafts "Red Action" Live from The Verge...
Indian Handcrafts performing “Red Action” from their new album Civil Disobedience For Losers out on Sargent House on October 30th. Recorded at the Verge Music Lab at the Music Mansion. Video courtesy of The Verge: XM Radio, Channel 151. TOUR DATES FOR INDIAN HANDCRAFTS
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Pitchfork Premieres: Indian Handcrafts' "Terminal...
Indian Handcrafts new track premiere on Pitchfork now. Pre Order the new album Civil Disobedience For Losers and get two tracks right away. Album comes out on October 30th on Vinyl, CD and Digital everywhere. Don’t miss Indian Handcrafts on Tour with Red Fang & Black Tusk.
INDIAN HANDCRAFTS 2012 Sep 14 - Victoria, BC @ Rifflandia Music Fest @ Soprano’s w/ Fucked Up Sep 21 -...
