photo by Ryan Nolan
Donovan Woods has released a new video for the song "They Don't Make Anything In That Town" off of his Polaris Prize nominated album Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled.
The musician is taking his show on the road this summer, but won't be in Vancouver until November (11th at the Fox Cabaret).
Check out the video and song below and be sure to give the album a listen too.
photo by Nelson Mouëllic
If you've seen Skye Wallace perform live in the last little while, you may have seen her cover Timber Timbre's "Lay Down In The Tall Grass". In fact, I saw her play a solo set this past weekend for Car Free Day, where she admitted the song almost made her new upcoming album, but it was cut because she was recording with the drummer from Timber Timbre, and that may have been a bit weird.
Anyway, you can hear the cover below in a session she did with Southern Souls, or you just might be able to hear it tomorrow (Sunday) night at the Rickshaw Theatre, where Skye is playing a show with David Newberry!
photo by Bill Acheson
They're back! It's been a couple years since we heard new music from Royal Canoe, but the Winnipeg band is set to release a new album called Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit, on September 16 via Nevado Music.
And to give us a taste, they've released a video for the first single "Somersault". The song is a catchy and danceable indie-pop tune, and the video is really something else. Directed by Nathan Boey and choreographed by Kaja Irwin, it features some fantastic dancing from the band -- or more accurately, their "puppeteers".
Just give it a watch.
I am a little late on this, because:
A) the song came out a month and a half ago, and
2) as of a couple days ago, it's officially no longer springtime.
But neither of those are going to stop me from posting "Springtime Devil", the first single from the debut LP from Les Deuxluxes.
I heard the song on CBC Radio 3 the other day and immediately stopped what I was doing to check who this gritty, fiery blues rocker was by. Turns out it is the Montreal duo of Anna Frances Meyer & Étienne Barry, and the album will be out through Bonsound this September.
Yesterday I posted the 24 hour stream that sigur rós were broadcasting of their drive around Iceland. The video was scored by a "constantly evolving soundtrack based around elements of new song "óveður""
Well, right after the stream, they released the new video for that very song. It's their first new music since Kveikur in '013, and starts off as a soaring sigur rós song before breaking down into a kind of madness.
And the video, well, let's just say you may not want to watch it at work. Or if you are squeamish, maybe just listen in a background tab. It's equal parts captivating and visceral, and like the song, dips into some insanity near the end.
Today's Song of the Day is a little unique, in that it's not really a song at all. Icelandic post-rock band sigur rós is currently in the middle of a 24-hour ‘slow tv’ event, which is being broadcast live on Iceland’s national television and streaming globally on youtube. The stream is set to a constantly evolving soundtrack based around elements of new song "óveður"
It started last night at the summer solstice and will be continuing throughout the longest day of the year, a 1332km journey the whole way round Iceland's coastal ring road.
“In a day and age of instant gratification and everything moving so fast, we wanted to do the exact opposite,” says sigur rós’s jónsi birgisson. “slow tv is counter-active to the world we live in, in that it happens in real time and real slow.”
Vancouver's Jay Arner released a new record last week titled Jay II, and with it came a new video for the single "Crystal Ball".
The release is well timed with a big cross-Canada summer tour with a few Vancouver dates including: July 11th at the Lido with Supermoon, and a TBA show on August 12th!
Keep and eye out for dates near you, and check out the song/video below.
It may be a bit of a heavy watch for Father's Day, but it was no mistake that the video for "Solid Ground" -- off David Vertesi's recent album Sad Dad Cruise Ship -- came out earlier this week.
The song features Danielle McTaggart of Dear Rouge on vocals, and the video shows the story of a family coming together after the death of a loved one, and was actually filmed in Vertesi's family home (the pictures that you catch a glimpse of are from his family).
Plus, you might also be able to spot Gary.