This!
The Elwins released a new music video for their song "Show Me How To Move", and it's just the best. Who doesn't love awkward dad dancing (not that my dance moves are much different than this).
Watch/listen below and be sure to come to the Fox Cabaret tonight to see The Elwins live, with Rich Aucoin performing as well.
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Tomorrow is Friday The 13th, so today's playlist is full of luck (good and bad, and artist-name), superstitions, and even Friday itself.
I'm not sure if you believe in Friday the 13th being bad luck, but I will forever remember the year in middle school where I had an entire fountain pop fall into my lap at lunchtime. And there's nothing worse luck-wise to a teenage than being embarrassed at school.
Tell us your Freaky Friday stories in the comments or on our social media pages, and if you have a good addition to the playlist (click here to listen), let us know as well and we'll add it in.
Avoid those ladders, and don't open your umbrellas inside!
photo by Falling Tree Photography
This will definitely wake you up today and get you out of bed and want to dance even before you have your first hit of caffeine.
A Tribe Called Red has released a new track called "All Day" which features Kool A.D. and Chippewa Travelers, as they gear up to head out on an Australian tour.
They said the song was a summer jam, but missed a NA release, so while we enter into winter, and they're heading towards summer, picture yourself on a beach somewhere while you listen.
Once a week, until I leave for France, I'm going to pick a Song Of The Day from some of the bands performing at Trans Musicales in Rennes.
Like I said in my initial announcement, I wanted to see this band based on the name alone, Steve'N'Seagulls, and then I saw what they performed: metal & rock songs, folk-ified.
Who doesn't want to hear "Thunderstruck" performed on a banjo!?
When researching them, I even found a cover they did for the A.V. Club of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage"! But my pick for the SOTD is their cover of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" because they play hockey against the Finnish Women's team in the video. Check it out:
While CAIRO may be based out of Toronto, lead singer Nate Daniels is actually from Vancouver. It just so happens that their new video for their song "With You" was shot just outside of our fair city, and if you listen to the lyrics he mentions his "first love in British Columbia".
The video and song are beautiful and sad at the same time, and also makes me want to go on a fall roadtrip on a motorcycle.
Check it out below:
Old Man Canyon has a new album titled Delirium set for release on January 15th in 2016, and has just released the lead single "Back To The Start".
In the meantime they'll be touring with Australia's The Paper Kites, which includes a show here in Vancouver on November 18th at The Imperial.
The song melds folk and electronic sounds and is danceable, yet dreamy. Take a listen below:
PHOTO CREDIT: ISIS ESSERY
Jason Collett is back with a brand new song, the title track to his upcoming album Song and Dance Man. The song peels back the curtain at what it takes to make it in modern music, everything from the growing importance of social media ("If you can tweet something brilliant, you got a marketing plan") to the hardships of touring ("If we just sell some t-shirts, we could pay for the gas"). Basically summed up by the chorus: "You got to do what you can when you’re a Song And Dance Man"
Song and Dance Man comes out February 5th, and was produced by Collett's pal and sometimes collaborator Afie Jurvanen, aka Bahamas.
It's my birthday and I'll pick the Song Of The Day if I want to!
I don't know if you guys were watching the We Are The City live stream of their album recording...I looked at it the first day and it looked like a room from the movie Hostel, so I got creeped out and turned it off. Kirk alerted me to THIS going on the last day, which I still think they were "punking" us.
Anyways, the good news is that another song has been released: "Kiss Me, Honey".
The album (titled Above Club) will be released next week on November 13th and the band will set out on tour in the States, then Europe, and in Canada in 2016. Check out the new track below: