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All Purpose Voltage Heroes
12+ albums
saw liveEdmonton
about
Back in 2001, Kevin Cherney and brothers Dan and Zack Poole picked up every forgotten pawn shop keyboard they could get their hands on, and became the All Purpose Voltage Heroes. Dan hopped on the mic and pinned down a sampler, Kevin and Zack grabbed the keyboards, and drummer Connor Mayer was brought in to fill out the rhythm. There were no guitars and no turning back. The music is all their own. It's pop tinged, rock styled, rap touched, dance minded, and punk sprited. It has made constant appearances on campus radio across Canada, peaking at a number far to small to count on the Earshot-Online charts in 2004. Their first album, Decorate Your Monster Shirt, was made with fifty dollars and Dan's limited recording knowledge. It's raw and confrontational, yet was surprisingly embraced by the people. There's another one, The End Of Daniel Johnathan Poole, and it's a little different. It's a damaged pop album, a tiny epic. It's a record of the APVH finding their sound. The new EP is called "Already Haunted". It's the band's strongest and shortest release to date. There's five songs, with the fifth being a cover of the music from classic Nintendo game "Mike Tyson's Punch Out". The live shows, with costumes, stage props, theatrics and the like, are an integral part of the APVH experience. It's all energy, all the time. Legend says they once performed in pink pants, rocked shirtless with lighting bolts scrawled across their skinny chests, turned the stage into a breakfast nook,
