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Early History
FIRExFIRE (pronounced: fire by fire) is a Toronto rock band that officially formed in late January, 2011. The band features Chris Graham on vocals and guitar (The Framework, the Chris Graham Band), Brynn Winter on keys, Scott Winter on bass (The Framework, Ketch Harbour Wolves), and Jon Fedorsen on drums (The Framework, Crash Parallel). Fedorsen also played drums with Graham in the Chris Graham band.

The band started out as a duo in the fall of 2010, with Chris Graham and Brynn Winter working on new synth-based material that Graham had written outside of his current band, The Framework. After a few months, the duo wanted to try the songs live and began a search for musicians whom they had not worked with before, however in the end they added Scott Winter on bass, as he had recently quit The Framework. The band then also rehearsed with drummers, one even providing the band's name (based on a T.S. Eliot poem) during his short stint, but they eventually settled on Jon Fedorsen who was available after the breakup of The Framework.

FIRExFIRE's first gig was at the El Mocambo on February 24th, 2011, opening for youtube sensation Atomic Tom, which featured former Framework drummer Tobias Smith. This first set was a combination of new material, as well as material that Graham had written while in The Framework, but had either not been performed or had gone unreleased.

Signals Era (2012)
The band self-released their self-produced, debut album "Signals" as Fire X Fire on August 14th, 2012, with a release party at The Garrison in Toronto. The album was mixed by Dan Weston (Shad), and mastered by Harris Newman (Arcade Fire). Artwork was by Gigo Elmoselhi and photos by Brendan George Ko. They then embarked on an eastern-Canadian tour in support, receiving press and play on campus radio along the way. FIRExFIRE was first described by Chris Carriere of PostCity as "a muscular, synth-heavy, power pop band...they're determined, they're ready, and they've got plenty of experience cramming songs with hooks until they piñata-burst."

The lead single for the album "Signals", was the track "We Didn't Know". Commenting on this track on his blog, Alan Cross said, "There’s just a really good power to this song – a little like lift-off." . On December 1st, 2012 the band also released the video for this song.

Press
The band's live performances have garnered positive reviews, with TorontoMusicScene saying they "cram numerous hooks into their well-written songs, and their Jimmy Gnecco-like vocalist never misses a note...these guys may as well already be selling out much larger venues." . The band played at Canadian Music Week in 2012, and at North By Northeast Festival, TorontoMusicScene blog upon seeing them for the first time, said "Greatest @nxnefest find thus far".

Singles

 * "We Didn't Know" (2012)

Videos

 * We Didn't Know (2012)