Hot Little Rocket

HOT LITTLE ROCKET are one of the longest running and most beloved bands ever to emerge from the Western Canadian rock and roll scene. For over ten years, their unforgettable songs and jarring live performances have stuck in the ears and hearts of indie rockers all across the country.



Hot Little Rocket - Smelski, Andrew Wedderburn (singer), Matt Swann (bass) and Joel Nye (drums) - have piled up road experience like some kind of loud, skinny hockey franchise. Touring back and forth across Canada more times than they can count, the Rocket’s have shared stages along the way with Modest Mouse, The Weakerthans, and Spoon to name a few. They’d even packed themselves and their guitars across the Pacific Ocean for a two and a half week residency in Beijing, including playing to tens of thousands at the MIDI Music festival. Until someone claims otherwise, they're calling themselves the "first Canadian indie band to ever play China for two and a half weeks".



After the initial release of the "Laika" EP in 2000, their first album "Danish Documentary" (2001) reached 17 on the Earshot national charts. Their second album, "Our Work And Why We Do It" (2003) marked their first entry into Earshot's Top Ten and peaked nationally at 9.



“[Our latest] sounds the way we sound. Nothing was manipulated,” comments Wedderburn, who has been insistent on staying true to the classic rock combo instrumentation, despite many indie rock bands venturing out into new forms of instrumentation with string sections and synthesizers.



On "How To Lose Everything", that signature “Albini sound" finally captures the strength of Hot Little Rocket's gob-smacking and energetic live show like never before - leaving the listener with the overwhelming sensation that the band is about to tumble out of your speakers and continue to rock in your very own living room.



Hot Little Rocket's "How to Lose Everything" is available nationwide via Canadian independent label File Under: Music.



In March 2009 Hot Little Rocket went back into the studio with 2 of Calgary's finest (Lorrie Matheson: producer and Dave Alcock: co-producer and engineer) and have recorded what they describe as "the best thing ever".



The new album was recorded at Sundae Sound Studio and Arch Audio Studio using what they learned to be the best techniques from their past recording histories; "less is more" and "more is louder" and "louder is better". The new album has 12 brand new tracks and will simply be titled "Hot Little Rocket".



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