photo by Kati Jenson
Vancouver's Catlow, released a new single this week (with a video), titles "Scrapes", which will be on their recently announced new LP Main of Nowhere, out on June 8th!
The band will be performing as part of the inaugural "D.O.A. Fight Back Festival" at the Rickshaw on July 8th - for more info on the event, click here.
Check out the video for the single below!
The good news is, Frog Eyes released a brand new album last week called Violet Psalms.
The bad news is, it is going to be the last ever Frog Eyes album.
Along with the new album, on Friday the band released a brand new video for "A Strand Of Blue", featuring Mercer's distinctive haunting voice soaring over the sprawling indie rock.
The final tour includes a stop here in Vancouver at the China Cloud this Saturday, and I hope to see you there.
As we get closer to the release of Critical Hit, Yukon Blonde is teasing us with yet another new song from the album.
Inspired by Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the pulsing 80's tinge of "Too Close To Live" is more proof that it might be their most eclectic album yet. Check it out below!
Okay, stay with me here. La Force is the new solo project from Ariel Engle, that spun out of AroarA, which consisted of her and her partner Andrew Whiteman, who is also the Apostle of Hustle and one of the 42 members of Broken Social Scene, along with Engle.
Got it? Doesn't matter, because all you need to know is that the "You Amaze Me" is a great song. A love song written for Whiteman, the song highlights her enchanting voice, and lies almost directly between the haunting electro-pop of AorarA and the lush indie rock of Broken Social Scene. Have a listen for yourself below!
Photo Credit: Dwayne Larson
New Mobina Galore is exactly what I needed today! Something loud to get me through the rest of this very long day I'm about to have.
The band's new single, "Fade Away", is officially out on the 18th, but we have a video for it right now (below), and the duo is still out on tour with dates in Ontario, the states, and the Prairies listed so far. Fingers crossed they add another Vancouver date to the mix.
If you've been following Chersea (as you should be), you may recognise this song. She first released "Murphy's Law" as her entry into the CBC Searchlight competition a few years ago, making it through the first few rounds.
But now she's officially released the song as the new single from her upcoming album In Limbo, perhaps a fitting title as it's been a spell since her last release. The song is a pop banger with kind of dark undertones, but you can check it out for yourself below on spotify!
For Esmé's new album Righteous Woman is only a few weeks away from it's release on May 25th, and we got another single last week called "Small Talk".
The song came with a music video, and according to the band it "is a movement based visual exploration of the spaces and places in the world where a woman feels free to be truly herself".
They've released some tour dates, including an album release show in Toronto, but we'll have to wait and see if there's a Vancouver one on the docket.
photo by Calm Elliott-Armstrong
Well this is convenient timing, Toronto's Little Junior, who are in town tonight, opening for Born Ruffians at Fortune (click here for event), just released a new single: "Crooked Tooth".
Their debut album, Hi, comes out on May 11th, so you're sure to hear a whole bunch of songs from the album tonight! In the meantime, preview "Crooked Tooth" below!