cultureDef
Following up their 2010 6-song EP *Chrysalis, the band is about to release of their first full length album Tin Tabernacles on May 01 2011. They recently created a music video in partnership with Kodak for album track, Broken and are currently in producing a video for Calling All Fallen Angels, both songs featured on Tin Tabernacles.
Other achievements include winning track of the day on Garageband.com for Really Feeling Something, placing 2nd in pop videos on Ourstage.com for music video Chrysalis, and touring with Swollen Members through BC. The band are savvy bloggers/social networkers and have +16,000 fans o n ReverbNation, 2200+ Facebook friends, and over 400,000 profile views on MySpace.
cultureDef has been working with Randy Bachman as a producer and mentor and are published through Bachman’s Write Songs – Will Travel. Bachman’s work with the band’s primary songwriter Zufo, has engrained the ‘rules of pop music’ into the writing and production formula the band follows. All styles of pop music benefit from time-tested arrangements and structures and Bachman’s track record of
selling over 40 million records plus 13 songs on Billboard’s top 20, bears some cred with the band and the results can be
heard in cultureDef’s songs.
cultureDef has recently joined the ranks artists working with Live Vision Macro Management who has taken on the role of the
band’s PR arm to promote the new album through shows and tours, and grow awareness through their well-developed networks. Live Vision is working with Bachman’s publishing company to licence cultureDef’s music to film, video games, TV shows. The band came together in the wake of the dissolution of Zufo & the White Martians, a sci-fi power punk recording project that was the partnership of
Zufo and Graham Ronne. Z&WM produced 40+ songs as a studio project that never performed live and came to an end at the end of 2007. After a year-long hiatus, cultureDef was formed and the band began performing actively throughout British Columbia,
focusing primarily i n Vancouver.
The band’s line up is:
Zufo – lead vocals/guitar
Graham Ronne – guitar and vocals
JC Thompson – bass
Mike Horntvedt – drums
