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“It’s remarkable that something so good can come from feeling so bad. As is the case of most great art, Toronto trio the Cliks have dredged the emotional mire of the past two years to create Dirty King, a rich rock extravaganza showcasing a sonic expansion for the band. With music as textured and layered as the deeply varied emotional terrain it treads, feeling bad never sounded so good.

Composed from a place of deep turmoil, lead singer Lucas Silveira began work on the Cliks’ second album following the highly successful tours behind sophomore release Snakehouse. The band’s incendiary live shows became the calling card by which they were known, and in short order, musical heroes Ian Astbury of the Cult and Cyndi Lauper hand-picked the band for their respective tours. Late-night bookers were listening too, and soon the Cliks found themselves on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, not to mention a very special performance Lucas did with Cyndi Lauper on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The band picked up momentum and fans when Logo awarded them the NewNowNext Artist On the Brink Award which ultimately led to an appearance on teenybopper mecca TRL to discuss their plans for the future.

Though critically lauded and publicly adored, Silveira returned road weary and emotionally shattered.
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  • BackBrace wrote:
    last month
    could everyone please tag this band as "male vocalists" in an effort to beat the other cissexist tag out?

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  • misohead wrote:
    November 2011
    Yep, Lukas IS a male vocalist. He's male. So why on earth would he be a female vocalist...? Oh I know, because you're a transphobic asshole. It IS an important social issue to treat trans people as the genders we are, ok? Half of us are suicidal, why do you think that might be?

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  • ripoffmerchant wrote:
    November 2011
    Point is that this isn't a female-fronted band...

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  • iamvee wrote:
    November 2011
    Oh, and to the point of complaining about the tag "female vocalist," get over yourself. There are female vocalist and male vocalist. If it's not a male vocalist than it must be female. Is your life so meaningless that you have to complain about stupid issues like that? Cause let me tell ya, there are no more important social issues at hand than whether or not a female fronted band is labeled as such. smh [2]

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  • Negrak wrote:
    October 2011
    L.O.V.E

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  • Sawnfiddle wrote:
    October 2011
    Oh, and to the point of complaining about the tag "female vocalist," get over yourself. There are female vocalist and male vocalist. If it's not a male vocalist than it must be female. Is your life so meaningless that you have to complain about stupid issues like that? Cause let me tell ya, there are no more important social issues at hand than whether or not a female fronted band is labeled as such. smh

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  • Sawnfiddle wrote:
    October 2011
    Is the prerequisite for being in bands like these that you have to be a dyke or fag?

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  • cebe102 wrote:
    October 2011
    Female vocalists? Really? Fucking cissexist bullshit. FOR REAL.

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  • Jafarath wrote:
    September 2011
    я когда их слушаю пытаюсь забыть о том кто вокалист этой группы))

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  • someholdtherope wrote:
    August 2011
    Female vocalists? Really? Fucking cissexist bullshit.

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  • oxymoroniic wrote:
    August 2011
    Complicated <3

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  • mmmellifluous wrote:
    August 2011
    I'm glad to see others have also complained about the mistagging of the lead singer as "female vocals" and in a way more articulately than I think I could have. Basically exactly how I feel except for the whole wishing-death-upon-others thing...: "The 'female vocalists' tag is sexist, sex-essentialist, and completely pointless, since it doesn't provide any actual information as to the type or sound of the music bearing the tag. All arguments that Lucas' voice is female are based on bullshit assumptions that conflate gender with sex as well as the essentialist notion that all people with a certain kind of body will have a certain kind of voice, which is patently false. There is no logical recourse for the idea that Lucas has a 'female voice;' it falls prey to the No True Scotsman fallacy."

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  • OlgaRHCP wrote:
    July 2011
    amo esta banda :)

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  • Krakataoman wrote:
    July 2011
    ... awesome band and done...

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  • AqualungBats5th wrote:
    June 2011
    "Also: I continue to hope that everyone who tagged this artist thusly will choke to death on their own aspirated vomit. " Right there with you. Whatever his voice sounds like, tagging him with "female vocalist" is misgendering and douchey. No one tags Wayne Newton "female vocalist" (look him up, children) and that dude sounds like a woman any day of the week.

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  • malvacoco wrote:
    May 2011
    fucking love this band. specially lucas, he sings awesome as shit.

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  • MoonchildKeita wrote:
    May 2011
    Lucas is amazing! I love his voice!

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  • VegaVegVegus wrote:
    May 2011
    who cares what jessefivey answers? [3]

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  • Nee_na wrote:
    April 2011
    who cares what jessefivey answers? [2]

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  • MonicaXIII wrote:
    April 2011
    nice.

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Lucas Silveira Performs at CAPACOA Conference November 6th, 2011

2 Nov 2011 | from www.thecliks.com

Hey Kids, Come out and support Lucas for a 2 set show for the CAPACOA (Canadian Arts Presenting Association) at C’est What (67 Front St.) in his home town of Toronto, Ontario He hits the stage …

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