Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace performing in Kitchener, Ontario, 2006
Background information
Origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)	Alternative rock Post-grunge [1]
Years active	1992–present
Label(s)	Columbia, Sony BMG
Associated acts	Fair Ground, Pedestrian
Website	www.ourladypeace.com
Members
Raine Maida Jeremy Taggart Duncan Coutts Steve Mazur
Former members
Mike Turner Chris Eacrett Jim Newell

Our Lady Peace, often abbreviated OLP, is a Canadian alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida (vocals, rhythm guitar), Duncan Coutts (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jeremy Taggart (drums, percussion), and Steve Mazur (lead guitar, backing vocals). Co-founding member Mike Turner was a member of the band from 1992–2001, and cited "creative differences" as a reason for leaving the band. During their career they have sold over five million albums worldwide,^[2] won four Juno Awards out of twenty nominations, and won ten MuchMusic Video Awards, including the People's Choice Award in 1997, 1998 and 2000. They have the most awards won by any artist or group at the MMVA's.^[3] This article is about the Canadian province. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... Post-grunge is a very diverse subgenre of alternative rock music that emerged in the mid-1990s immediately following the downfall of grunge music as an offshoot. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in G tersloh, Germany. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Pedestrian is an alternative rock band based in Los Angeles, California. ... Raine Maida, full name Michael Anthony Maida (b. ... Jeremy Taggart (2005) Jeremy R. J. Taggart is the current drummer for the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... Duncan Coutts (2005) Duncan Coutts is the current bass player of Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... Steve Mazur (2005) Steven Theodore Mazur (born December 21, 1977 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA) is the current lead guitarist in the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... Mike Turner Mike Turner is a musician/producer. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... Raine Maida, full name Michael Anthony Maida (b. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... Rhythm guitar is a guitar that is primarily used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment for a singer or for other instruments in an ensemble. ... Duncan Coutts (2005) Duncan Coutts is the current bass player of Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... A backup vocalist is a vocalist that sings in harmony with the lead vocalist, with other backup vocalists, or alone but in the background of a song. ... Jeremy Taggart (2005) Jeremy R. J. Taggart is the current drummer for the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as a cowbell, wood block, chimes or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... Steve Mazur (2005) Steven Theodore Mazur (born December 21, 1977 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA) is the current lead guitarist in the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... Lead guitar refers to a role within a band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. ... Mike Turner Mike Turner is a musician/producer. ... The Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands. ... Michelle Trachtenberg at the MuchMusic Video Awards preshow, 2004 The MuchMusic Video Awards (or the MMVAs, as they are also known) are annual awards presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic to honour the years best music videos. ...

History

Formation and debut (1992–1995)

Mike Turner placed a "musicians wanted" ad in Toronto-based Now Magazine in 1992. Michael Maida, a criminology student at the University of Toronto, was the first to reply. The two formed a band called As If with Jim Newell playing drums and a friend of Mike Turner's, Paul Martin, playing bass. Having played a number of gigs in Oshawa with sets containing a mix of original and cover material, Turner's friend departed and the band placed a "musicians wanted" ad for a replacement bass player. Chris Eacrett, a business student at Ryerson University, replied and was accepted after the audition. During that time, Turner and Maida attended a music seminar where they met songwriter and producer Arnold Lanni, the owner of Arnyard Studios. The band, with Lanni, commenced writing new material and recorded some material under the As If name. Mike Turner Mike Turner is a musician/producer. ... Categories: Newspaper stubs | Toronto media | Canadian alternative weekly newspapers ... Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Arnold Lanni is a Canadian record producer and former member of Frozen Ghost. ...

To better reflect the new musical direction, the name of the band was changed to Our Lady Peace, and with encouragement from Arnold and his management team, they performed some gigs in Eastern Ontario and Montreal with the assistance of D.J. Williams (a Ridley College alumnus and classmate of Michael Maida, also a Ridley College alumnus), in conjunction with The Tea Party. During this time, Maida began using the name Raine to reduce the confusion of having two Mikes in the band. An independent video of the song "Out of Here" was also created during this time period by Sam Siciliano, a Ryerson University film student and friend of Mike Turner, who produced, edited, and directed the video. The video was aired on MuchMusic on their Indie show. The Tea Party was a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock and Middle Eastern influences. ... MuchMusic (often referred to only as Much) is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel owned by CTV Limited; a division of CTVglobemedia dedicated to music, music-related programs and youth culture. ...

After returning to Arnyard Studios to continue writing and recording material, Jim Newell departed the band. Writing and recording continued with session drummer John Bouvette. With Coalition Management (Rob Lanni and Eric Lawrence) representing the band, and temporary drummer Jody Wilson, short showcases were arranged with Warner Canada, EMI Canada, and Sony Music Canada. Sony Music Canada head of A&R, Richard Zuckerman, liked what he heard and along with Sony president, Rick Camilleri, Mike Roth and Gary Furniss (both with Sony Music Publishing), saw the potential of the producer, the band, and band management, and made an offer. The band commenced writing additional material for a first album, as well placed a "musicians wanted" ad for a drummer. Jeremy Taggart answered the ad, and on the strength of his potential, the producer and band asked that he join the band. Mike Roth is an award-winning A&R man, notable for discovering and developing numerous famous Canadian bands including Our Lady Peace[1], Chantal Kreviazuk[1] [2], Amanda Marshall[1], The Philosopher Kings[1], Prozzäk[1], Junkhouse[1], Hemingway Corner[1], and Edwin[1], among others. ... Jeremy Taggart (2005) Jeremy R. J. Taggart is the current drummer for the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ...

After additional material was written and recorded, with the continued assistance of John Bouvette on several tracks and guitarist Phil X contributing a solo on "Denied," Our Lady Peace released its debut album Naveed in 1994 on Sony Records. The record was later picked up and released in the United States in 1995. Following the release of the album, the band toured with fellow Canadian acts I Mother Earth and 54-40. Touring continued on into 1996 with time spent touring with Canadian Alanis Morissette. The title track, "Naveed," became a hit in Canada, while "Starseed" became a hit in both Canada and the United States. "Starseed" would later be featured on the Armageddon film soundtrack. After touring as the opening act for Van Halen through the summer of 1995, and as the band began writing material for their follow-up album, Chris Eacrett and the band parted ways due to musical differences. Rob Coutts (a Ridley College alumni and classmate of Raine Maida) joined the band as Duncan Coutts on bass. Naveed is the first album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... Sony Records is a record label courtesy of Columbia, Epic and American Recordings. ... I Mother Earth, or IME, is a Canadian alternative rock band consisting of Brian Byrne (vocals), Bruce Gordon (bass), Christian Tanna (drums), and Jagori Tanna (guitar). ... 54-40 is a Canadian alternative rock group from Vancouver, British Columbia, whose literate and melodic music is frequently compared to that of R.E.M. The band takes their name from the slogan Fifty-Four Forty or Fight, coined to express the expansionist agenda of James K. Polks... Alanis redirects here. ... The album cover Armageddon is a 1998 disaster film/science fiction film about a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers who are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. ... Duncan Coutts (2005) Duncan Coutts is the current bass player of Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ...

Success (1997–2001)

Their second album, Clumsy, was released in 1997. It features the hit songs "Superman's Dead," "4AM," "Automatic Flowers," and the title track "Clumsy." It is widely considered the group's best effort. It established Our Lady Peace as a leading band in the Canadian rock scene, and provided them with an international presence. Clumsy is Our Lady Peaces second album. ... Supermans Dead was the first single to be released off of their second album Clumsy. This has become one of Our Lady Peaces most popular songs in both Canada and the U.S., and even many other parts of the world. ... 4 A.M. was the fourth single to be released from alternative rock band Our Lady Peaces second album Clumsy. ... This article is about the song by Our Lady Peace. ...

In 1998, Our Lady Peace founded the Summersault festival, that toured across Canada in 1998 and 2000 with lineups that included Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle and The Smashing Pumpkins. Summersault was a music festival organized by the band Our Lady Peace in 1998 and again in 2000. ... This article is about the band. ... A Perfect Circle (often referred to as APC) is an alternative rock supergroup formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ... The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago in 1988. ...

In 1999, the band released their third album, entitled Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. The album included such hits as "Thief," a song about a young girl, named Mina Kim, the band met who had cancer, as well as "One Man Army" and "Is Anybody Home?" Legendary jazz drummer Elvin Jones was featured on the song "Stealing Babies". Jamie Edwards, a multi-instrumentalist, was brought in on the sessions for Happiness... in 1996 and remained an unofficial member until 2001 when he was asked to officially join the band to finish the album Gravity. Shortly after the completion of the record Jamie chose to leave the band, returning briefly to stand in for Mike Eisenstein during the Canadian tour of Gravity. The band also played an eleven song set at Woodstock 1999. Happiness. ... Thief is a song written and performed by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace and released in 1999 under the album Happiness. ... Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was a jazz drummer. ... Gravity is Our Lady Peaces fifth album. ... Woodstock 1999, held July 23-25, 1999 was the second music festival, after Woodstock 94, that attempted to emulate the success of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. ...

In 2000, the band released Spiritual Machines, a concept album inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines. During the recording of this album, drummer Taggart was sidelined with an ankle injury. Good friend Matt Cameron, Pearl Jam's drummer and former member of Soundgarden played drums on "Right Behind You (Mafia)" and "Are You Sad?" in his place. Spiritual Machines sold below expectations. This album featured the singles "In Repair," "Life" (which found a soundtrack listing for the Canadian sports comedy film Men with Brooms) and "Right Behind You (Mafia)." In December 2001, after commencing work with producer Bob Rock, Mike Turner left the band citing creative differences. According to the band members the separation was amicable. Turner later joined Fair Ground. In April of 2002, Steve Mazur was announced as the new guitarist for the band. Spiritual Machines is the title of Our Lady Peaces fourth album. ... In popular music, a concept album is an album which is unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical (Shuker 2002, p. ... Dr. Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic musical keyboards. ... Time periods between key events in human history shrink expotentially in a chart by Kurzweil depicting his Law of Accelerating Returns, explained in the book. ... Matt Cameron (born Matthew D. Cameron, November 28, 1962, in San Diego, California) is an American musician renowned for being the drummer, back-up vocalist and occasional songwriter in the grunge rock bands Soundgarden (1986-1997) and Pearl Jam (1998-present). ... This article is about the rock group. ... Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. ... Men with Brooms (2002) is a Canadian movie, and among the most successful English Canadian films on a Canadian subject ever. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Steve Mazur (2005) Steven Theodore Mazur (born December 21, 1977 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA) is the current lead guitarist in the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ...

Changes in direction, near break-up (2002–2005)

Some critics and fans contended that with their fifth studio album Gravity, the band's music changed, adopting an increasingly mainstream sound and softening the music considerably. Many of these critics blamed new producer Bob Rock for pushing the band in this direction. Raine Maida later agreed that it was Rock who encouraged the changes, and said that the change in OLP's music is something that he struggles with. Gravity is Our Lady Peaces fifth album. ... For the Christian heavy metal singer, see Rob Rock. ...

Despite such criticism, the album's chart-topping first single, "Somewhere Out There," became the band's biggest international hit to date. The second single released off the album was "Innocent." "Made of Steel" was also a hit across North America. Somewhere Out There, also known as Gravity, is a 2002 single by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace from the album Gravity. ... Made of Steel is a single released by alternative rock band Our Lady Peace from their album Gravity in 2002. ... North American redirects here. ...

In August 2005, the band released their sixth and final studio album to date, Healthy in Paranoid Times, which included the tracks "Angels/Losing/Sleep," "Will the Future Blame Us," and "Where Are You?" Shortly after recording the album, the band disclosed that during the making of the album, they nearly broke up.^[4] According to Rolling Stone, it took 1165 days to create it, and its twelve tracks were chosen from forty-five that the band had written and produced. Maida has since criticized the album, saying that "(the) record was total excess, total bullshit in the sense of, we finally had succumbed to a label: making us record that many songs, trying to find the right singles for American radio and MTV.".^[5] Healthy In Paranoid Times is Canadian rock band Our Lady Peaces sixth studio album, released on August 30, 2005. ... Angels Losing Sleep, also written as Angels/Losing/Sleep, is a 2005 single by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace from the album Healthy in Paranoid Times. ... This article is about the magazine. ...

For the Healthy in Paranoid Times tour, the band added a fifth stage member, Joel Shearer (of the band Pedestrian), which saw them stopping in several North American cities between April and May of 2006. Pedestrian is an alternative rock band based in Los Angeles, California. ...

Greatest hits compilation (2006)

In November 2006, their greatest hits compilation entitled A Decade was released. There are two new songs on the album, "Kiss On The Mouth" and "Better Than Here;" Steve Mazur wrote in a blog on the band's fan club that the new songs on the disc are two unreleased songs from the Healthy in Paranoid Times sessions. 67 die and about 300,000 people are affected by floods in Ethiopias Somali Region of Ogaden after the Shabelle River bursts its banks. ... A Decade is Canadian rock band Our Lady Peaces greatest hits album, set for release on November 21, 2006. ... Healthy In Paranoid Times is Canadian rock band Our Lady Peaces sixth studio album, released on August 30, 2005. ...

The collection also includes the Top 10 tracks: "Where Are You," "Clumsy," "In Repair," "Somewhere Out There," "Innocent," "Thief," "Naveed," "Starseed" and "4 A.M." A Decade also includes a bonus DVD containing live concert footage and exclusive interviews at the Massey Hall concert. The single "Kiss On The Mouth," the first off A Decade, has received play on radio stations across Canada. This article is about the song by Our Lady Peace. ... 4 A.M. was the fourth single to be released from alternative rock band Our Lady Peaces second album Clumsy. ...

Forthcoming album (2008)

The band has stated on their official website that they have been working on a new album since February 2007.^[6] The new album's sound has been described as somewhat of a return to the sound of the band's first album Naveed by Raine Maida in a March 2008 interview with the Montreal Gazette. Raine commented that he will be the sole producer of the new album as he is trying to get the same energy in it as he put in his solo record.^[5] The album is expected to be complete sometime in 2008, or at latest early 2009. A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... February 2007 is the second month of the year. ... Naveed is the first album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... The Gazette is a major English-language daily newspaper produced out of Montreal, Quebec. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

Discography

Main article: Our Lady Peace discography

Since 1994, Our Lady Peace discography has amounted to six studio albums, a live album, Live, and a compliation album, A Decade. ... The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Naveed is the first album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. ... Clumsy is Our Lady Peaces second album. ... Happiness. ... Spiritual Machines is the title of Our Lady Peaces fourth album. ... Gravity is Our Lady Peaces fifth album. ... Live is Our Lady Peaces first live album. ... Healthy In Paranoid Times is Canadian rock band Our Lady Peaces sixth studio album, released on August 30, 2005. ... A Decade is Canadian rock band Our Lady Peaces greatest hits album, set for release on November 21, 2006. ...

Band member timeline

References

1. ^ [1] Biography of Our Lady Peace on All Music Guide
2. ^ "Our Lady Peace Get Well", Rolling Stone, August 1, 2005. 
3. ^ .MuchMusic.com > MMVA06 > REWIND > 97, 98, 00. MuchMusic. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
4. ^ "Our Lady Peace Get Well", Rolling Stone, August 1, 2005. 
5. ^ ^{a b} [2]
6. ^ Our Lady Peace by Rich and Shelley ( ourladypeace.cc )

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External links

• Our Lady Peace official website
• Clumsy Congress official message board
• OurLadyPeace.net official fan club
• Our Lady Peace at MySpace
• Raine Maida official website