Hard Drugs

Citing affects as diverse as Richard and Linda Thompson, the Replacements, and Hedwig & the Angry Inches, Canadian/American indie rock and roll collective Hard Medicines were shaped in the past due 2000s by Brooklyn-based (and Vancouver indigenous) Jeffry Lee, his wife Jenni Lee Nelson, Shira Blustein, Colin McKill, Kevin Give, Pete Dionne, and Jason Dana. Constructed around Lee’s gritty indie rock and roll opera from the same name, Hard Medicines — plus a little military of players, stars, and assorted individuals — documented and released the ambitious eponymous double-LP debut in ’09 2009 on Staygold Information.