Toronto band the Fast Romantics have signed to Vancouver label Light Organ Records. With this announcement also comes a new single "Why We Fight", as well as a politically-charged lyric video.
The track will be part of a new LP from the 6-piece, which is set for release sometime this spring.
Timber Timbre's announcement of a new record has come at just the right time. Inspired by the American political climate during 2016, Sincerely, Future Pollution, is going to be a "document of this generation's degeneration and disarray".
Of the album, lead singer Taylor Kirk says this:
“2016 was a very difficult time to observe. I hate to admit that normally I express more sensitivity than concern politically, but I think the tone and result on the record is utter chaos and confusion. When we were recording, the premonition was that the events we saw unfolding were an elaborate hoax. But the mockery made of our power system spawned a lot of dark, dystopic thoughts and ideas. And then it all happened, while everyone was on Instagram. The sewers overflowed.”
Speaking of sewers overflowing, here is the first single, "Sewer Blues".
Photo credit: Maggie MacPherson
I had a busy week last week, and have been playing catch up and clean up around my house/office. When the new song "DDPP" by Vancouver's Five Alarm Funk landed in my inbox, my productivity went up rather high and cleaning turned into a "Dance Dance Party Party".
The band has a new album (appropriately titled Sweat) coming out on March 3rd, (and a Canadian tour announcement soon) but in the meantime, check out the new single below!
Only three weeks in to the new year and I've already got what's sure to be one of my favourite songs of 2017, thanks to Whitehorse.
"Boys Like You" is a back-and-forth between two characters; the overly cocky Luke Doucet and the bitingly acerbic Melissa McClelland. The press release says This one’s not for the drunk sad bastards, but for those who have to deal with them, and I couldn't describe it better myself.
Photo Credit : Lindsay Duncan
The father & son duo of Bill & Joel Plaskett have another tease of their upcoming album with "The Next Blue Sky" which is a song about greener pastures.
“Go west, they say,” says Joel in the press release. “That's been the story out east for years. Chasing some work, a safe haven, or the next blue sky. Or maybe just to get out from the shadows cast by the glassy trade centre they dropped on Argyle Street. The march of progress is no parade.”
Solidarity is out February 15, and catch them on tour later in the year, including a date in Vancouver at the Vogue on April 1st!
The Rural Alberta Advantage have released another single, this one titled "Beacon Hill" and inspired by the wildfire in Fort McMurray.
Frontman Nils Edenloff is originally from Fort McMurray and had much to say about the town and inspiration for the song. Have a listen to the track, and check out the statement below as well.
"On May 1st 2016, a wildfire started just southwest of Fort McMurray, a city where I’d spent most of my teens growing up. While wildfires aren’t totally uncommon in the region, the dry and above average conditions at the time quickly made the situation unmanageable. By that evening, several neighborhoods were being evacuated and by May 3rd the entire city of more than 80,000 people was being evacuated.
I remember the evening of the evacuation, watching the images on the CBC’s news reports. Beacon Hill was one of the hardest hit areas and some of the footage that came out of there made it look just biblical- real fire and brimstone sort of stuff. The next day I actually heard rumours that the high school I attended burnt down (it didn’t) but because the city was empty, no one could really confirm anything. Everyone feared the worst.
Now, like a lot people who grew up in Fort McMurray, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the place. Growing up there, I knew it wasn’t the last stop for me but my life has become inexorably tied to the place and it’s shaped my life in more ways that I could have ever anticipated.
It’s been a number of years since I’ve been back to Fort McMurray and if I never go back then that will be my choice, but I knew the city would always be there. The idea that maybe there might not be anything to go back to one day wasn’t something that I’d ever prepared myself for.
Oddly enough, after the fire threat had passed and before the evacuation order had been lifted, there were two unrelated explosions one day apart which destroyed several houses and damaged a number of others in the area. Of the three places that I called home while living up there, I lived a stones throw from both of those explosions."
I am SOOOOO excited about this new Japandroids album, especially after hearing much of it live a few months ago in Vancouver.
We've got another new song, "No Known Drink Or Drug" to keep us satisfied for a little while longer, until the whole record comes out on January 27th.
I did the long drive to Fernie yesterday, and you better believe this was on my roadtrip playlist!
