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About Me

Sharing your name with a long-standing funeral home can have its advantages; F&M just never discovered any of them.
Once the charm of adopting the grisly namesake “Fosters & McGarvey” had worn out, the band swiftly employed a name change to diffuse the confusion and lighten the verbose title all at once.
“Let Every Light Shine” is a return, a re-birth, or a re-start even. Following the release of “We Don’t Talk To Robots...” (shr 2002) the group eventually encountered an identity crisis. The original plan of using a rotating cast of musicians under a darkly humorous moniker dissipated under the stresses of time, studies, and gigging. Something had to give.
Five years later F&M has emerged with a renewed identity and charm. Firmly planted as a duo, the songwriting team of Ryan & Becky Anderson have assembled a stunning album of diverse and profound songs. The self-proclaimed “lo-fi apostles” have cleaned up enough for you to bring home to your parents, but don’t have to get changed before going out with your friends later. Charming, serious, and very, very cool.
“Let Every Light Shine” navigates through a blend of genres and volumes - an F&M trademark. Delicately delivered folk have haunting moments (‘Miracle’, ‘I Pray For Fog’, ‘Jonathan Is Lonely’). Raw indie-rock tracks (Amsterdam, Marquee, Macronomics) trade off with accessible, straight-ahead roots-rock selections (Dial “H” For Help, Leaving A Small Town). And somewhere in the middle are Russian homages and piano ballads.
For F&M, the release of “Let Every Light Shine” may have completed the ironic journey of death to life.
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Member Since: 9/2/2006
Band Website: fandmtheband.com
Band Members:

F&M is: B-Rock (vocals, sad guitar), Becky (vocals, accordion, keys, whatever she can get her hands on)

F&M is happy to have the following players join them: Miot (guitar), Kev (bass), Chad (drums and percussion)****LEAVE COMMENTS!! WE LOVE COMMENTS!****

Influences: Will Oldham (and all his sordid incarnations), Smog, Hillary Duff (Stuff by Duff), Cat Power, Silver Jews, Jeremy Enigk, Pink Mountaintops, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Tricky, Public Enemy, Tindersticks, Lenny Cohen, The films of Wes Anderson, Captain Beefheart, Beat Happening, Pavement (and all Malkmus projects), Ryan Waye, Iron & Wine... umm did I say Stereolab yet? Trainsleeper, Bright Eyes, AC/DC, Royal Trux, (Becky's gonna say Thom Yorke... it's the lazy eye) Magnetic Fields, Jacques Brel, Battlestar Galactica, Modest Mouse, you gotta say Miles Davis, Coltrane, The early work of Avril Lavigne (Ha! just kidding... I prefer the later work... sk8er boy was genius though!), The Boss, Smiths, ummmm let's see... ummm early REM, Kino, Neutral Milk Hotel, Litterbug, lambchop, Luna (note the alliteration), B&S, Blue, White and Red (mainly Blue).... some classical, early mowtown... now I'm just saying stuff to impress you... I sure wish I could delete stuff. Whatever we like stuff... we like you.We really are influenced by you going to ITunes and buying our first album "We don't talk to robots...".
Sounds Like: Fog.

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BUY IT: F&M "Let every light shine"
In Edmonton: Listen Records, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Megatunes, Southside Sound

In Vancouver: Zulu Records

In Victoria: Ditch Records

Onliine: iTunes, CD Baby, etc.
Record Label: shamelessrecordscanada
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SEE Magazine - Lullabies for Adults

New article and reminder to come out to The Black Dog January 26 (4-6) No Cover!:SEE Magazine June 24/08LOCAL DUO F&M DEALS IN NIGHTMARES, FUNERAL HOMES, AND FRINGE CHARACTERSFor the Edmonton-based du...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:35:00 PST

Saskatchewan let’s F&M shine

F&M had a great time playing Saskatoon and Regina. Some highlights are:* the support of CBC Saskatchewan - who did a wonderful interview with Ryan that pulled in a lot of new listeners! (I have reques...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:05:00 PST

VUE Weekly article and Video podcast!

The whole band got together last week to play at the new recording studio at VUE Weekly. The staff were welcoming and Ryan kept his humour in check. See the video podcast in this week's issue! I will ...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:28:00 PST

Celebrating friends and music!

With sadness, F&M will soon be saying good bye to our bassist Cris Fehr. In mid-August, Cris will be moving to Vancouver for studies. Cris not only played bass for F&M, but was a great source ...
Posted by F&M on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST

Edmonton Journal Review... positive? OR Negative? You decide!

Hey the Edmonton Journal reviewed our album... and we can't tell if it's positive or negative. Can you let us know with comments! But we've never been considered "superficial"... which is kinda cool...
Posted by F&M on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:35:00 PST

VUE Weekly Prevue

We are happy to see our goofy grins in VUE Weekly today! The following is from today's weekly (Thanks Eden!): F & M PREVUE / FRI, JUN 29 (8 PM) / WITH EMM GRYNER, WINSTON / VELVET UNDERGROUND, $10...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:40:00 PST

JUNE 29th!!!! CAN'T WAIT!

Hey Y'all,we've played a few small (non-no-play clause violating) shows and got some really great reaction to the new band and new songs! We're now officially stoked beyond belief! PLEASE attend the...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:54:00 PST

They're here!!!!

Hey Everyone in Internet land... the new CD's arrived today... they look great (thank you Glen of Shameless!!!) and should be on shelves very soon! VERY EXCITED! Ryan
Posted by F&M on Tue, 29 May 2007 04:11:00 PST

lightning...

CD'S are being shipped as I type... this is how I feel in this video!!!!Why no to stand under a tree when it's lightning. Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:20:00 PST

The 25 Saddest songs ever recorded... or so they say...

Hey All,So spinner posted their 25 most exquisite saddest songs... there are some great picks, shit picks and meh picks... I LOVE sad songs, we all do! Check it out... http://www.spinner.com/2007/05/...
Posted by F&M on Thu, 10 May 2007 08:26:00 PST