Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy's laid back yet powerful voice no doubt has its beginnings from his roots in Lanikai, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. While Sean’s style has been influenced by artists such as Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson and Bob Dylan, Sean Murphy is in a league all his own in today’s cookie-cutter, lip-syncing industry. Sean’s raw and sincere lyrics captivate a broad audience, and are already gaining high visibility in Japan (he is Top 5 in the charts), Canada, the Netherlands and Australia.



Sean’s passion for music began at an early age, always keen to take advantage of any performance opportunities that came his way. When he was only eight years old, Sean began guitar lessons and before long was performing with local bands, eventually choosing a solo path. . His songs deal with such relevant issues as emotions, relations, children, poverty, and the environment. His visions are well spoken through his melodious, meaningful sounds and lyrics.

Eventually Sean’s love of singing and songwriting lead him to an interest in playing a number of instruments including guitar, drums, piano, and sitar (a plucked stringed instrument mainly used in Hindustani classical music). His newest single, “Lonely Soldier” is out and the sound is awesome, soft, yet deep in lyrics and texture. Another single, “Us”, is off of his most current CD, “One Life”. This song was written after he had his first serious breakup with a girl. This tune truly speaks from the heart and honestly expresses what he felt at that time. His emotions and life experiences carries him through the creative process in hopes that others who hear can identify with his messages. Sean had an impressive ability to write lyrics that were fueled by emotion, and could easily articulate his message through his music.


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Shotgun Rules

Hailing from the forest city, London, Ontario . Shotgun Rules talks to theMOVEMENTZ about the music scene, and the creation of their identifiable brand of aggressive rock.



Loud pulsating drums and bass, heart-wrenching guitar riffs,and distinguishable blaring vocals. Those are the sounds created by John Mackenzie, Ric and Dustyn Mattingley, Corry Van Spronsen and Zach Pero. Together, they make up the five-piece band that has been tearing down venues with their volume and high-energy performances.

The London-based independent band has been reaching more and more ears ever since the release of their latest album, Fugitives and Refugees. Though on hiatus for the past few months, they are looking forward to starting up their live shows once more, and this time with a collection of entirely new material.

Corry Van Spronsen, guitarist, gave us an inside look at Shotgun:

On the birth of Shotgun Rules

Me and the other guitar player, Ric, we were in a different band together, a pop/punk band called Hoodini. We started really clicking together writing-wise, and we started writing stuff that the rest of that band wasn't so much into.

So then we just said that we were going to do our own thing.So for close to a good year, it was just Ric and I writing music in my basement...We picked up Ric's brother, [Dusty] on drums. Shortly after we picked up John, the singer, and that was just through word of mouth from a friend who auditioned for us, and said, "You know what, I would love to do this, but I know a guy who would suit you guys a lot better than me" .Almost immediately [after his audition] we thought, ‘this guy's gonna work out good', so we kept him...

...Joe [the former bassist] left us before the start of the last tour. Zach came to mind, because I'd seen him play with bands like The Joys. I asked him if he could do it and learned all of the songs for our tour. By the time we got back we saw that he fit with the group pretty well, and he's really good musically. So we just kept rolling with him.



On the latest album, Fugitives and Refugees

The album was written over a large span of time. We went into the studio and said we were going to record everything that we had. A couple of the songs that we thought were going to make the album, ended up not really working on tape. They didn't carry over the way we thought they would.

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Empire ISIS at NXNE

NXNE is a chance for artists to showcase their talents, share their music with fans and colleagues and get their message out there. I was lucky enough to have a sit down with one such artist, Empire ISIS, and believe me, her message is definitely worth hearing.



I met up with Empire ISIS and her crew at the Hyatt, in Toronto, where the conference was being held, and my first thought was, wow, is she ever tall. However, it wasn't her physical height that made her seem so daunting, but the way she carried and presented herself. She was strong, she knew who she was and how she wanted to be perceived. “I'm so sure of my energy that I'll burst into any room, anywhere, with anyone in it... and be myself. Look into people's eyes, give them my vibe, feel their vibe, feel what they're about, ask the specific questions that can help me understand who I'm around right now, where they're from, what's their experience.”

And she has to be in order to make a name for herself in a genre that is so male dominated. She's had to constantly prove herself no matter where she goes, be it Caracas, Rio or right here in Montreal. But despite the road blocks, the difficulties and the up hill battles that it has taken her to get this far, Empire ISIS is not one to be meek and back down, especially since getting her message out there is so important to her.

Brought up by a Ugandan stepfather and a British mother in French Canada, Empire ISIS quickly learned the value of personal identity and cultural fusions. In her own words, “my whole life has been about cultural mash up and trying to learn to see past who we are and how we've been brought up, to understand the person next to you.” To do this, she set out in 2001, camera in hand to film documentaries in Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela and many other Latin American countries, to try to “crack the social code”, figure out why people say the things they say, why it's ok to use certain words in some countries but not in others. And everywhere she went she would invariably end up singing.


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