Premiere: Bug Crusher - Bad Winner

Written By Jeff MacCallum

The Cups N Cakes Network is excited to premiere the first EP from Bug Crusher, a solo project from Dilettante’s Julia Wittman. We included Dilettante’s self-titled LP as a Pick of the Week back in August 2022, where write Fel Gammara praised the band’s “technicolor sounds, dreamy melodies and fantastic double harmonies”. Bug Crusher’s new EP has all that and more, with six fiercely danceable songs with influences ranging from St. Vincent to the Talking Heads.

In the words of Bug Crusher themselves, the band “mostly lives underground”, so there are currently no live performance plans for the EP, but it will be available to stream anywhere you stream your music, and can be pre-ordered and purchased on Bandcamp here.

Jeff MacCallum

Jeff MacCallum is our founder. He created Cups N Cakes simply because he had a love of local music. Soon the platform grew beyond the confines of his scene in Edmonton to include all of Canada.

"I did it all very DIY. Everything you see was me learning on the fly. I'm a carpenter not a musician, or a journalist, or a publicist... I'm a carpenter and a weird crazy music fan that thought he could do something fun that might benefit something I care about"

Over the years, MacCallum's commitment to elevating Canadian music earned him a spot as a Polaris Prize Juror, a WCMA Juror, a consultant for music festival curation, and a dear friend to independent music in Canada.

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