How can you not immediately fall in love with a song that not only begins with "I want to punch your fucking face"... but then escalates from there?
"Uh Oh" is the latest video from Jessicka, and the title track to her new EP, out October 13 on Light Organ Records. And just a warning, it'll be stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
It's always fun watching a Canadian band go from writing songs about the town they grew up in, to writing songs about towns they tour in around the world, and the "stoke folk" band from Fernie, Shred Kelly, have combined those two sentiments in their latest release.
The new song is called "Archipelago", and tells "the story of a night spent in the archipelago near Stockholm, Sweden where we had recently visited on our last European tour. We spent a night in a cabin by the sea on the coast of a European country but we couldn't believe how similar it was to Canada; drawing similarities to Northern Ontario. By the time we had left, we had seen a moose, the northern lights, and had been struck with the realization that ‘it was not all that different in the archipelago’."
Also, if you watch the video, there's a brief clip of a karaoke version of this very song, and I am really hoping that was a real thing they are going to release.
Get ready for the most intense seven minutes and forty seven seconds you'll experience today with the brand new song from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. "Undoing A Luciferian Towers" is off their new album Luciferian Towers, which is out September 22, and nothing I can say will be better than the statements the band themselves made, so...
About the album, they said "this, this long-playing record, a thing we made in the midst of communal mess, raising dogs and children. eyes up and filled with dreadful joy – we aimed for wrong notes that explode, a quiet muttering amplified heavenward. we recorded it all in a burning motorboat."
And for the song itself: "look at that fucking skyline! big lazy money writ in dull marble obelisks! imagine all those buildings much later on, hollowed out and stripped bare of wires and glass, listen- the wind is whistling through all 3,000 of its burning window-holes!"
Check it out below, on Bandcamp!
I've been eagerly anticipating new music from The Rural Alberta Advantage for a while now, and now we get a taste with a fantastic animated video for the first single "Brother"
The song is off their upcoming album The Wild, which is due out October 13, and they'll be touring with Yukon Blonde (what a pairing!) including here in Vancouver at the Commodore on November 24!
In a time where every other band is turning synth, it's nice to see Elliott BROOD stick to their roots (pun fully intended).
"Dig a Little Hole" is a jaunty tune that masks some pretty dark lyrics, and you'll be able to find it on their upcoming album Ghost Gardens, out September 15 via Paper Bag Records.
It's been a while since we've heard from Old Man Canyon, but we were just delivered a new music video for the song "In My Head" from the last album Delirium.
The press release also said that 2017 tour dates will be announced soon, so we'll have to keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, watch the video below.
JP Maurice has released a new lyric video for his song "Standstill", off of the latest release Girls.
The song has a big Vancouver footprint, being co-written with The Matinee, produced and mixed by Russell Broom, with strings by Alex Hauka + Devon Kroeger, and the lyric video itself was done by Johnny Jansen.
Your next chance to see JP live is at a charity concert for Big Brothers of Vancouver at the Blue Light Studio on September 24th - click here for all the details and tickets.
Stop everything you're doing right now and watch/play this new video from PUP for their song "Old Wounds".
It's a choose your own adventure-style video where you help make decisions on what the band members should do after the show.
You can see PUP in Vancouver in September as part of the Westward Festival - click here for info.