Poledo
{{short description|Canadian alternative rock band}}
{{for|the song by Dinosaur Jr.|You're Living All Over Me}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Poledo
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| origin = Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
| genre = alternative rock, noise rock
| years_active = {{start date|1994}}–{{end date|1998}}
| label = Sonic Unyon, Squirtgun
| associated_acts = Hayden, Kid Lunch
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| current_members =
| past_members = Joshua Malinsky
Mitch Roth
Dave Capogna
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Poledo was a Canadian alternative rock band based in Thornhill, Ontario, consisting of vocalist and bassist Joshua Malinsky, vocalist and guitarist Mitch Roth{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/21464361.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+21%2C+1995&author=By+Lenny+Stoute&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Holy+Poledo%2C+it%27s+loud+Lenny+Stoute&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131193903/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/21464361.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+21,+1995&author=By+Lenny+Stoute&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Holy+Poledo,+it's+loud+Lenny+Stoute&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |title=Holy Poledo, it's loud Lenny Stoute |newspaper=Toronto Star|date=December 21, 1995|accessdate=April 2, 2016}} and drummer Dave Capogna, Their music is characterized by loud, heavily distorted guitar riffs and screamed lyrics.[https://archive.org/stream/thevarsity117/thevarsity117_djvu.txt "Noiseniks Poledo don^t believe the hype"]. The Varsity, May/June Edition 1995 by Stuart Berman
History
Poledo was formed in 1994 in Thornhill.{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130115091818/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/P/Poledo.html Poledo]}} at canoe.ca's Pop Music Encyclopedia]. the band released two independent cassettes, Buzz Muffin and Let Up, before signing to Sonic Unyon.
They released the full-length album There, You on Sonic Unyon in 1995,"Sonic Unyon wafts to greatness". Toronto Star, December 19, 1996. and shared a split 7-inch single, Lunar Landing Confirmed, with Hayden on Toronto's Squirtgun Records in 1996.[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hayden-mn0000564944/biography " Hayden"]. AllMusic, Biography by Peter J. D'Angelo Both releases charted on Canada's campus radio charts in 1996. The band performed as far west as Vancouver that year.[http://dropd.com/issue/18/ShallowNorthDakota/ "The Garden of Hardcore Sprouts Three Sonic Unyons"]. Dropd Magazine, July 25, 1996, Review by P. Freako
In March 1997, the band recorded some new songs, which were envisioned for their second album (which never materialized) with Hayden as engineer, which the band would later end up releasing as The Poledo Demos, in 1998.https://www.discogs.com/release/6204943-Poledo-The-Poledo-Demos Two of these tracks were re-recordings, originally released on 1994's Buzz Muffin.The band broke up in December 1997; after performing one final show on January 25, 1998 at Club Shanghai in Toronto,https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/poledo/1998/club-shanghai-toronto-on-canada-735b2639.html Malinsky and Roth both joined Hayden's touring band.Stuart Berman, "Kid Lunch resurrects homemade indie-rock". Eye Weekly, June 10, 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/hayden/artist.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416002411/http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/hayden/artist.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 16, 2008 |title=Hayden - Full Biography |publisher=MTV |date= |accessdate=2012-02-18}}
The tracks "Just Don't Care", originally released on 1995's There, You,https://www.discogs.com/release/3293500-Poledo-There-You was re-released on Sonic Unyon's 1998 Now We Are 5 compilation,https://www.discogs.com/release/3367220-Various-Now-We-Are-5?srsltid=AfmBOormlZ1l2AINxDWZSQALbMbvSmDN8OJb7btcHp6L6wck0oZXh3bZ and the April 29, 1996 recorded track "Herskin", recorded at the same session as "Two Words" (from Lunar Landing Confirmed)liner notes which list date on back of release, 1996, https://www.discogs.com/release/2310306-Poledo-Hayden-Lunar-Landing-Confirmed was released on Squirtgun Records' More of Our Stupid Noise in 1996,
Malinsky subsequently went solo under the name Kid Lunch, releasing an eponymous CD on Teenage USA in 1999."Don't forget about the tunes". Toronto Star, March 2, 2000. Malinsky released a second album under the name Kid Lunch, in 2020, titled Volume 2.https://kidlunch.bandcamp.com/album/volume-2
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Category:Musical groups established in 1994
Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1998
Category:Musical groups from Toronto
Category:Canadian alternative rock groups
Category:1994 establishments in Ontario
Category:1998 disestablishments in Ontario